Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 19 February 2018
Stand up to Erdogan, protect ethnic and religious minorities in Syria
(Diliman Abdulkader, The Jerusalem Post)
Govt. approves recognition of Ethiopian religious leaders
(Lidar Gravé-Lazi, The Jerusalem Post)
Britain’s Labour Party expells Jewish anti-Zionist activist
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Indian government plans to issue ID cards to cows
(Murali Krishnan, Deutsche Welle)
Chaldean archbishop: Time to be ‘honest’ in dialogue with Muslims
(Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service)
Montreal prelate fears “second class citizenship” for people of faith
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Kenya’s bishops urge reconciliation amid disputed presidency
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
4th Circuit: Third Trump travel ban violates Establishment Clause
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Third time’s not the charm for Trump’s travel ban
(Karla Chaffee, RLUIPA-Defense)
Egypt sentences 65 Islamists to jail for incitement
(Associated Press)
Hungarian leader calls Christianity ‘Europe’s last hope’
(Associated Press)
IS claims responsibility for church shooting in Russia
(Associated Press)
Religious protests against gay films show divide in Romania
(Alison Mutler, Associated Press)
Five people killed in Dagestan church shooting
(Marc Bennetts, The Guardian)
Charlotte mom who ignored judge and had daughter baptized begins week behind bars
(Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer)
February 18: #MeToo, Mormonism and the White House, travel ban loses in federal court, and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
Mother held in contempt for ignoring custody order giving father control of religious decisions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
No Free Exercise defense to charge of attending cockfight
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge gives grandparents custody of Ohio transgender teen
(Jen Christensen, CNN)
Ohio court gives custody of transgender teen to grandparents
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Law and religion round-up – 18th February
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
What England expects: The importance of rethinking religious education
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Bolivia: Bishops call for ‘thorough investigation’ of explosions in Oruro
(Catholic News Agency)
China’s Hui Muslims fear Lunar New Year education ban a sign of further restrictions to come
(Michael Martina, Reuters)
Saturday, 17 February 2018
Recent queries and comments, mid-February
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
The limits of Erdoğan’s "nation"
(Aykan Erdemir, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies)
Friday, 16 February 2018
Refugee groups fight Trump travel ban — and for their own survival
(Jack Jenkins and Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Another court finds Trump guilty of religious animus
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
WATCH: The return of religion: Globalisation, belief and the public sphere (Spanish and English)
(Lecture by José Casanova and Nilüfer Göle, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona)
The anti-Christ alt-right: The perverse thought of right-wing identity politics
(Matthew Rose, First Things)
Apex court: Religion no excuse for killings
(Tribune News Service, The Tribune)
Pune techie murder case: Supreme Court pulls up Bombay HC over religion remark
(The Indian Express)
Rouhani lauds Indias diversity, peaceful co-existence of religions
(PTI, India Today)
13 Christians in India sentenced to 6 months in prison under forced conversion charges
(Nirmala Carvalho, Asia News)
India: Catholic bishops warn against Hindu nationalism as religious hate crimes rise
(Anto Akkara & World Watch Monitor staff, World Watch Monitor)
Indian bishops condemn rise in religion-based hate crime
(Christian Today)
Don’t mix politics & religion, Kiren Rijiju tells Nagaland voters
(Pravin Kalital, The Times of India)
Keep politics off religion: Venkaiah Naidu
(The Hindu)
Looking back and ahead for the European Court of Human Rights
(Antoine Buyse, ECHR Blog)
Journal Special Issue: European Court of Human Rights and minority religions
(Religion, State and Society, 2017, 45 (3-4))
Journal Special Issue: European Court of Human Rights and minority religions (links to full texts)
(Religion, State and Society, 2017, 45 (3-4), Grassrootsmobilise - Directions in Religious Pluralism in Europe Examining Grassroots Mobilisations in the Shadow of European Court of Human Rights Religious Freedom Jurisprudence)
Religious discrimination in Canada
(Derek Ross, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
The legal status of religious minorities: Exploring the impact of the European Court of Human Rights
(Effie Fokas, Social Compass - Sage Publishing)
The European Court of Human Rights at the grassroots level: who knows what about religion at the ECtHR and to what effects?
(Effie Fokas, Religion, State and Society, 45 (3-4). pp. 249-267 (LSE Research Online))
Empathy and Human Rights: The Case of Religious Dress (abstract)
(Peter Cumper, Tom Lewis, Human Rights Law Review)
The Whereabouts Requirement: Does the ECtHR protect the right to respect for private and family life of French sport professionals?
(Cathérine Van de Graaf, Strasbourg Observers)
Left, Greens take aim at freedom of religion
(Angela Shanahan, The Australian)
Pilot programme for Muslim chaplains to be extended
(Swiss Info)
Not all Coptic youths on board with church's support of Sisi
(Hossam Rabie, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Forget the terrorists, what about your government, Mr. Sisi?
(Raymond Ibrahim, Coptic Solidarity)
Once barred from practicing religion, North Koreans find faith and family in LA church
(Josie Huang, Southern California Public Radio)
Interview with Rebecca Sommer about Muslim immigrants in Germany
(novinite.com)
Azerbaijan: Extra prison term for Koran micro-discs
(Forum 18 News Service)
Prosecutor uses new approach to restricting Jehovah's Witnesses
(Official Website of the prosecutor's office Kabardino-Balkaria republic, Russia Religion News)
For some Balkan Muslims, a Jewish false messiah inspires interfaith understanding
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Head of Catholic physicians’ group warns of threats to conscientious objection
(Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service)
Ashes cause blistering sores in Philippines Ash Wednesday health scare
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Bishops of Tanzania warn president to stop campaign against media, opposition
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
The scandal of firing LGBT Catholics
(John Gehring, Commonweal)
Religion in the Russian sphere of influence
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Utilitarian symphony (Responding to: Religion in the Russian sphere of influence)
(Cyril Hovorun, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Churches and missions in Eurasia as agents of change (Responding to: Religion in the Russian sphere of influence)
(Michael Cherenkov, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
3 teachers killed in extremist attack in northeastern Kenya
(Tom Odula, Associated Press)
The limits of Erdoğan’s "nation"
(Aykan Erdemir, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies)
Erdogan’s fatal blind spot: The real threat to Turkey isn’t the Kurds. It’s the Islamic State
(Colin P. Clarke and Ahmet S. Yayla, Foreign Policy)
In long-secular Turkey, sharia is gradually taking over
(Soner Cagaptay, The Washington Post)
Has Turkey gone rogue?
(James Kitfield, Breaking Defense)
Handling Turkey’s Erdogan: What Washington can learn from Russia
(Aykan Erdemir, Merve Tahiroglu, The Hill)
Fear, silence weigh on Turkey's Armenians after failed coup
(Ayla Jean Yackley, Eurasianet.org)
Turkey: Why can't Armenians elect a Patriarch?
(Forum 18 News Service)
Turkey’s ‘new nationalism’ amid shifting politics
(Max Hoffman, Michael Werz, and John Halpin, Center for American Progress)
Is Turkey experiencing a new nationalism?
(John Halpin, Michael Werz, Alan Makovsky, and Max Hoffman, Center for American Progress)
Turkey: The systematic persecution of religious minorities
(The Hon. B. Theodore Bozonelis, Public Orthodoxy (A Blog of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University))
Pro-Hezbollah website says group could have 500,000 rockets pointed at Israel in a year
(Jonathan Schanzer, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies)
Turkey's systematic persecution of religious minorities
(B. Theodore Bozonelis, AINA)
5 reasons why you should pay attention to threats against Israel
(Laura Lacey Johnson, Christian Headlines)
Memorial Healthcare sued by EEOC for religious discrimination
(Press Release, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
Hospital sued for discriminating against job applicant who refused flu shot
(Leslie Albrecht, Market Watch)
EEOC sues over accommodation for religious objection to flu vaccine
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
“…and a nave with en suite facilities”
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Religious photos of the week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Disappearing refuge (in the United States)
(Reuters Graphics)
Buddhism and politics in Myanmar: An author interview
(Matthew Walton, Religion Dispatches)
Opinion: GOP education bill would radically rewrite religious freedom and license virtually any form of discrimination
(Patrick Hornbeck, Religion Dispatches)
How the abortion debate turned the Christian right on to liberal arguments... and birthed the religious freedom industry
(Eric C. Miller, Religion Dispatches)
Is Medieval Christianity the solution to the crisis of American Protestantism?
(John D. Wilsey, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
Senator: Extreme EEOC nominee puts religious liberty at risk
(Kevin Jones, Catholic News Agency)
Kentucky school district accused of trying to erase evidence of discrimination against evangelical student group
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Iranian Church among the fastest growing
(Beth Stolicker, Mission Network News)
Pakistan: Ahmed’s lawyer beaten during blasphemy trial
(Beth Stolicker, Mission Network News)
Iraq’s Sunnis want PMU out of their cities as elections near
(Adnan Abu Zeed, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Iranian women must remain united to advance rights
(Leila Alikarami, Al Monitor: Iran Pulse)
The Guardian view on religious education: teach humanism too
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Church banned from its own coffee shop
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
And now, Parkland
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Desiring God, mental health, and the truth about ‘chronological snobbery’
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS: On Faith & Culture)
EVENT, 14-16 February 2018: Freedom of Religion or Belief: Creating the constitutional space for other fundamental freedoms
(Paul Babie DPhil and Neville Rochow SC, Notre Dame University Law School, Sydney and Adelaide)
Thursday, 15 February 2018
'The View' responds to Mike Pence complaining show promotes 'religious intolerance'
(TooFab)
Islamic Revolution echoes 39 years later in Iran
(Beth Stolicker, Mission Network News)
US judge who sought reasonable accommodation over gay weddings wins settlement
(The Christian Institute)
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