Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
The power of religion
(David Leonhardt, The New York Times)
Bill banning circumcision in Iceland alarms religious groups
(Christina Caron, The New York Times)
Myanmar’s religion ministry must ‘take responsibility’ for rabble-rousing Monks: Interview
(Radio Free Asia)
Patriarch Kirill to visit Bulgaria in March
(Interfax-Religion)
Religious men refuse to join IDF commanders’ course that includes women
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Far-right party’s anti-Semitism audit ‘worthless,’ Austrian Jewish leader says
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Chandler non-profit helps Muslims, Mormons, other faiths find 'what unites us'
(Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Republic)
Scottish archdiocese cancels church closure plan
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Palliative care is pro-life response to euthanasia, panelists say
(Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service)
Scottsdale, Arizona sued for denying Satanist request to deliver city council invocation
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Swiss government: Pope Francis to visit Geneva this summer
(Associated Press)
Mennonite investigator who won’t testify goes back to jail
(Colleen Slevin, Associated Press)
Ethiopian Jews threaten mass hunger strike over Israel move
(Elias Meseret, Associated Press)
Worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles hold commitment ceremony
(Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press)
USCIRF criticizes treatment of Iranian Christians seeking US asylum
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Brazilian court rejects censorship of play depicting Jesus as trans woman
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Atheists raise objection to honoring Billy Graham at U.S. Capitol
(Bradford Richardson, The Washington Times)
Satan's eating habits latest topic of Turkish public debate
(Pinar Tremblay, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Sex trafficking, elderly suicide, and the legacy of China's one child policy
(Courtney Grogan, Catholic News Agency)
Vancouver archbishop critiques euthanasia provision in hospice care
(Catholic News Agency)
Nigerian Christian community mourns Boko Haram kidnapping
(Courtney Grogan, Catholic News Agency)
Pentecostal pastor in India attacked by radicals for sharing faith on bus
(Asia News)
How to reduce religious violence in Nigeria – CAN President
(Evelyn Okakwu, Premium Times)
Forty arrested at Catholic-led DACA Protest
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
What should be the place of religion in public schools?
(Bobby Ross Jr., Christian Headlines)
Jewish activists urge Labour not to reinstate former London mayor
(Jessica Elgot, The Guardian)
Judges told to limit observers if witness has to remove veil
(Owen Bowcott, The Guardian)
Wanted: pagan chaplains for Britain’s prisons
(Alexandra Jones, The Guardian)
Malaysian Federal Court refuses four people their right to affirm Christian identity
(Matt K. George, World Watch Monitor)
Iran: Christians held in notorious Evin Prison ‘will never be the same’
(World Watch Monitor)
How missionaries used the Olympics to gain new members
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Mormon President Nelson speaks out on gun control
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
Why Catholic women could transform America and the church
(WRN Editorial Staff, World Religion News)
Baptists group lifts ban on LGBT hiring
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
A Malaysian animist group gives thanks to spirits of the sea
(Alexandra Radu, Religion News Service)
Mental health and religious rights: Mockutė
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Psychiatric hospital infringed patient’s right to privacy and right to freedom of religion
(Mockutė v. Lithuania, European Court of Human Rights)
Are guns kosher?
(Jeffrey K. Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Graham and American presidents shared personal bonds
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Bill spurred by Nassar scandal concerns Catholic Church
(David Eggert, Religion News Service)
Dozens of nuns, other Catholics arrested advocating for immigrants
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Turkey wants to criminalize adultery
(Riada Asimovic Akyol, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Turkey’s Erdogan wants to make adultery a crime
(Jason Rezaian, The Washington Post)
Ongoing discussion concerning the draft Copenhagen Declaration (ECtHR)
Draft Copenhagen Declaration (full text)
(The Danish Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe)
ECtHR: Opinion on the draft Copenhagen Declaration
(European Court of Human Rights, Adopted by the Bureau in light of the discussion in the Plenary Court on 19 February 2018)
Joint NGO statement following the Danish Chairmanship’s High-Level Expert Conference
(EHRAC with Amnesty International, International Commission of Jurists, European Implementation Network, SOS-Torture Network, European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC))
The draft Copenhagen Declaration – What about civil society?
(Antoine Buyse, Strasbourg Observers)
The draft Copenhagen Declaration - Comment Series IV
(Antoine Buyse / Janneke Gerards, ECHR Blog)
The draft Copenhagen Declaration - Comment Series III
(Antoine Buyse / Leonie Huijbers, ECHR Blog)
The draft Copenhagen Declaration and the Court’s dual role – the need for a different definition of subsidiarity and the margin of appreciation
(Janneke Gerards, Strasbourg Observers)
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
A wolf in sheep’s clothing: Why the draft Copenhagen Declaration must be rewritten
(Alice Donald and Philip Leach, EJIL: Talk!)
The draft Copenhagen Declaration: Whose responsibility and dialogue?
(Andreas Follesdal and Geir Ulfstein, EJIL: Talk!)
The Draft Copenhagen Declaration (Part 1): overview/ its overarching philosophy
(Ed Bates, ukstrasbourgspotlight)
The Draft Copenhagen Declaration (Part 2): towards a stronger ECHR system?
(Ed Bates, ukstrasbourgspotlight)
Today I plan to get arrested
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
National Catholic Day of Action for Dreamers
(PICO National Network)
The state of the blog: On reaching one million page-views
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
(Re-post) Writing on the “graffiti wall of death” – the role of an academic blogSome thoughts on the “Meet the Editors and Bloggers” session at the LARSN Conference
(Posted on 7 May 2016 by David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Disentangling ethics and the law: What's legal isn't necessarily ethical (The American discourse on ethics and law lacks an understanding of how law may be constructed to shield questionable behavior.)
(Karen J. Alter, The National Law Journal (paywall))
USAID trains 8,500 political, religious figures on interfaith dialogue in NIgeria
(The Whistler)
Maulana Salman Nadwi to start inter-faith organization for Ayodhya dispute
(NYOOOZ)
Why these Muslims are now worshiping in a Jewish synagogue
(Cerith Gardiner, Aleteia)
Kuwait advocates tolerance, interfaith peace - official
(Kuwait News Agency (KUNA))
After the niqab: what life is like for French women who remove the veil
(Agnes De Feo, The Conversation)
‘Case is about jurisdiction not about religion’
(Borneo Post)
New general policy guidelines on strengthening equality bodies to combat discrimination and intolerance
(Press Release, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance)
Council of Europe’s Anti-racism Commission publishes conclusions on the implementation of priority recommendations by Greece and Norway
(Press Release, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance)
Fifth report on San Marino: Anti-racism Commission calls on San Marino to strengthen fight against hate speech and racial discrimination
(Press Release, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance)
Fifth report on Spain: Spain should create a strong equality body and improve education of Roma and migrants, says Council of Europe Anti-racism body
(Press Release, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance)
Fifth report on Sweden: Racist and xenophobic hate speech on the rise despite considerable preventive efforts
(Press Release, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance)
Sri Lanka shops, mosque damaged in Buddhist-Muslim clash
(Reuters)
Religious orders and democracy in Turkey
(Maya Arakon, Ahval News)
Opinion: Many ways for SCOTUS to slice the Masterpiece Cakeshop case
(Amin Sadri, Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University)
Tajikistan: Conscientious objection appeal to UN Human Rights Committee?
(Forum 18 News Service)
Police misapplying law in arresting Jehovah's Witnesses
(Tatiana Grigoreva, MBKh Media)
Why Wayne LaPierre’s CPAC speech freaked out Jews and heartened anti-Semites
(Andrew Silow-Carroll, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
In marches around Philippines, Catholics protest threats to life
(Catholic News Service)
Church “on the side of the suffering” in Chad
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Texas bishop says Catholics are shrinking away from death penalty support
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
BJC’s Hollman: Natural disasters don’t justify government funding
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Polish president visits Jewish center amid Holocaust dispute
(Associated Press)
Christian leaders close Church of Holy Sepulcher in protest of Israeli tax and land policies
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Church of the Holy Sepulchre to reopen after tax spat
(Nebi Qena, Associated Press)
Bill spurred by Nassar scandal concerns Catholic Church
(David Eggert, Associated Press)
Churches, radio station sue De Pere over anti-discrimination ordinance
(Fox 11 News)
Religious organizations challenge city's new anti-discrimination law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
IAAB v. Trump Muslim ban plaintiffs file petition with the United States Supreme Court
(Press Release, Muslim Advocates)
‘With respect,’ Justice Breyer blasts immigration ruling in rare oral dissent
(Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal (paywall))
Another 3rd travel ban cert. petition filed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Poland’s Jewish community had rebounded, but now there’s ‘a growing feeling of unease’
(James McAuley, The Washington Post)
The Satanic Temple files discrimination lawsuit against city of Scottsdale
(The Scottsdale Independent)
Satanic Temple sues city over invocation policy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court: US anti-discrimination law covers sexual orientation
(Larry Neumeister, Associated Press)
2nd Circuit en banc: Title VII covers sexual orientation discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
NRA dog whistles? Israeli paper's charges have impacted American Jewish debate on guns
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Students in northern Syria depend on Turkey to complete degrees
(Khaled al-Khateb, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Syria's Eastern Ghouta faces 'another Aleppo'
(Tamar Osman, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Europe wants Egypt to drop death penalty
(Hagar Hosny, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Egyptian men's rights activist sees oppression in female empowerment
(Hagar Hosny, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
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