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Tuesday, 27 February 2018

We regret to inform you that you do not mirror the Holy Family
(Patrick Hornbeck, Religion Dispatches)

Will Iraq's Sunnis get own political-religious authority?
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Iranian interference in Iraqi election stirs anger among Iraqis
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Clergy christen church relocation from Baghdad to Erbil
(Rudaw)

Bible burning in southern India shows depth of hostility toward Christians
(Morning Star News)

Catholic Church considers married priests to ease Amazon clergy shortage
(Luciana Magalhaes and Francis X. Rocca, The Wall Street Journal)

State interference prevents Armenian church in Turkey from electing new patriarch
(Middle East Concern)

Unconfirmed number of persons killed in Nigera town Muslim-Christian clash
(John Shiklam and George Okoh, This Day)

Christian displays removed from elementary school classroom following atheist complaint
(Heather Clark, Christian News)

GA senate passes bill exempting faith-based adoption agencies from working with gay couples
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

The draft Copenhagen Declaration: ‘New ways’ to ensure a ‘srengthened dialogue’?
(Lize R. Glas, Guest Blogger, Strasbourg Observers)

Blog Seminar: The Draft Copenhagen Declaration – Food for Thought
(Janneke Gerards and Sarah Lambrecht, Strasbourg Observers)

The draft Copenhagen Declaration – Process-based review and subsidiarity
(Leonie Huijbers, Guest Blogger, Strasbourg Observers)

The draft Copenhagen Declaration - Comment Series II
(Antoine Buyse / Lize R. Glas, ECHR Blog)

The draft Copenhagen Declaration: Comment series I
(Antoine Buyse / Janneke Gerards and Sarah Lambrecht, ECHR Blog)

McCrudden, “Litigating Religions”
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum, Center for Law & Religion, St. John's University)

Let's talk about Christians and politics
(John Stonestreet, The Christian Post)

WA state bill would force religious employers to pay for drugs that could cause an abortion
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

University of Sydney says it is powerless to stop violent hazing of students
(Naaman Zhou, The Guardian)

Four far-right plots thwarted last year, says counter-terrorism chief
(Jamie Grierson, The Guardian)

Women should not have to dress modestly
(Pipa Monjardino and Jill Rooney, The Guardian)

Vatican, Versace and Vogue team up for Met’s spring exhibit
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)

Gucci's turban at Milan fashion week angers Sikhs for cultural appropriation
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)

Holy alliance: the Catholic church’s best fashion moments
(Lauren Cochrane, The Guardian)

What the movie 'Black Panther' teaches us about religion
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

Colosseum lit up red to honor religious persecuted Christians
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

Billy Graham set a record on Gallup’s ‘Most Admired Man’ list
(Yogita Patel, Religion News Service)

Opinion: Billy Graham should not lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)

Billy Graham was more like white America's surrogate savior than "America's pastor"
(Peter Laarman, Religion Dispatches)

#MeToo and the problem with 'The Billy Graham Rule'
(Sara J. Moslener, Religion Dispatches)

Report: Anti-Semitic incidents soar by 57 percent in 2017
(Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press)

Battle over religion in public schools waged in one of America’s fastest-growing cities
(Bobby Ross Jr., Religion News Service)

Cultural disintegration
(Martin E. Marty, Sightings: Religion in Public Life (University of Chicago Divinity School))

The right of appeal against refusal of a residence card: where are we up to?
(Jonathan Metzer, UK Human Rights Blog)

Female execs and filmmakers advancing interfaith understanding & peace gather in Seoul, South Korea
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

EVENT, 27-28 February 2018: (Conference on Gene Editing) Playing GOD? - the science, theology, and societal issues on gene-editing
((held in Paris), Conference of European Churches)

Monday, 26 February 2018

Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre shut in land policy protest
(Y Net News)

Iranian women said 'at risk of long jail terms' for protesting hijab
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)

Supreme Court blocks Trump administration's effort to end DACA in March
(Rhina Guidos, National Catholic Reporter)

German bishops’ head urges greater transparency in diocesan finances
(Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, La Croix International)

Has Pakistan's top judge failed Asia Bibi?
(Zahid Hussain, La Croix International)

Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31
(Documents and Articles in the case, SCOTUSblog)

Janus v. AFSCME and Catholic Social Teaching
(Michael Moreland, Mirror of Justice blog)

Oral arguments (and more) in the Janus case
(Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice blog)

What makes Chief Justice Roberts lose his cool?
(Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal (paywall))

Supreme Court hears fiery arguments in case that could gut public sector unions
(Nina Totenberg, NPR)

Don't let 'Janus' case axe root of American labor
(Michael Sean Winters, National Catholic Reporter)

Empty USCCB amicus brief in public-sector union dues case
(Ed Whelan, National Review)

Opinion: Ed Whelan uncertain about facts of labor union case
(Michael Sean Winters, National Catholic Reporter)

Chaput on "Things to Come: Faith, State, and Society in a New World"
(Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice blog)

Things to come: Faith, state and society in a new world
(Archbishop Charles Chaput, Catholic Philly)

February 25: Sexual orientation discrimination suits, the Olympics, Billy Graham and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)

Indonesian Muslims protest against Islamist extremism: The Ansor Declaration on Humanitarian Islam
(Kent Hill, Religious Freedom Institute Blog)

Hong Kong Catholics condemn China-Vatican deal
(Suzanne Sataline, Voice of America)

Atheist group wants Bible verse mural scrubbed from Ohio city hall
(Caleb Parke, Fox News)

Why LGBT rights groups are worried about Georgia’s Keep Faith in Adoption and Foster Care Act
(Kashmira Gander, Newsweek)

Israel is the world's only democracy with religious law so instilled in its military
(Haaretz)

Arizona Senate passes bill to allow teachers to post 'God enriches' in classrooms
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Religious freedom for all?
(Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Mennonite World Review)

Refugees, Christianity and Europe: Christian responses to the migrant crisis have been radical and traditional
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Without Christianity, we wouldn’t debate conflicts between church and state
(Joy Pullmann, The Federalist)

Tajikistan: Almost 2,000 mosques closed in 2017
(Forum 18 News Service)

Pentecostal pastor tries to collect damages from prosecutor's office
(Vladimir Ozolin, Religiia i Pravo)

Malaysia still on the wrong path on women’s rights
(David Hutt, The Diplomat)

Is the Church fundamentally political – or spiritual?
(Nicholas Senz, The Catholic Thing)

In Donald Trump, Evangelicals have found their president
(David Brody, The New York Times)

This Jewish grandmother was sentenced to death in Iran. Holland won’t grant her asylum
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Iraq court sentences 16 Turkish women to death for joining ISIS
(Ahmed Rasheed, Reuters)

Israeli rabbinic group challenges Chief Rabbinate’s kosher monopoly
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

In France, Caritas helps asylum seekers sleeping in Calais woods
(Melissa Vida, Catholic News Service)

Congo’s bishops: Two killed during protests against ‘dictatorship’
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Euthanasia in hospices ‘a serious error,’ says Vancouver archbishop
(Catholic News Service)

After genocide: Searching for reconciliation in the Balkans
(Thomas Albert Howard, Commonweal)

Tens of thousands at Jerusalem funeral of influential rabbi
(Associated Press)

Polish Holocaust rescuers call for Polish-Israeli dialogue
(Vanessa Gera, Associated Press)

Catholic bishops cut ties with Texas anti-abortion group
(Associated Press)

Judge rejects scrapping law barring cemetery headstone sales
(Associated Press)

New Jersey limit on activities of religious cemeteries is upheld
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Church officials: Holy Sepulchre to remain closed
(Josef Federman, Associated Press)

Jerusalem church leaders shut Holy Sepulchre church to protest Israeli move
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Appeals court upholds ruling against B&B owner who refused room to gay couple
(Jobeth Devera, Hawaii News Now)

State appeals court rejects religious defense by B&B that rejected lesbian couple
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Wheaton College wins five-year battle against HHS mandate
(Press Release, Becket Law)

Wheaton College's courageous stance leads to religious liberty victory
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)

Court says enforcing contraceptive mandate against Christian college violates RFRA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Seriously sick child and distraught parents – where to draw the line
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)

Civil Rights Act protects gay workers, appeals court rules
(Benjamin Weiser and Alan Feuer, The New York Times)

New York: US anti-discrimination law covers sexual orientation
(Larry Neumeister, Associated Press)

China’s leader, Xi Jinping, will be allowed to reign forever
(The Economist)

Persecution to continue as China nixes leader term limits
(UCANews)

Law and religion round-up – 25th February
(Frank Cranmer)

The UN, CEDAW and abortion law in Northern Ireland
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Northern Ireland Court of Appeal to consider same-sex marriage challenge
(Martin Downs, UK Human Rights Blog)

Nearly 50,000 baptisms registered in China in 2017, says Vatican agency
(Herald Malaysia)

Six Pakistani Christians charged with blasphemy for allegedly insulting Islamic poetry
(William Stark, Persecution: International Christian Concern)

Peace deal after Pakistani Christians flee blasphemy mob
(Kamran Chaudhry, UCANews)

EU says Christian woman's release will determine future trade with Pakistan
(Cara Bentley, Premier)

Boko Haram kidnaps 110 schoolgirls; Nigerian president declares 'national disaster"
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

In an age of anger and cynicism, let me make the case for worthiness
(Claire Armitstead, The Guardian)

Who in Scotland will now defend the virtues of religious observance?
(Kevin McKenna, The Guardian)

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