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Wednesday, 10 January 2018

How California’s megachurches changed Christian culture
(Richard Flory, The Conversation)

Ruddock's religious freedom review kicks off in Sydney
(James Elton-Pym, SBS.com.au)

Balancing religious freedom with public health: Amish family ordered to use electricity
(Steve Marroni, PennLive)

Old Order Amish family must connect to public sewer, use electricity, Pa. court says
(Matt Miller, PennLive)

Here we go again: When covering campus LGBTQ disputes, always look for doctrinal covenants
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Nebraska: Bill would address longstanding dispute over state psychology regulations
(JoAnne Young, Lincoln Journal Star)

Ruddock religious freedoms review begins as first wave of same-sex couples wed in Australia
(Clair Bickers, The Courier Mail)

A Tunisian synagogue set on fire by Molotov cocktails
(Bouazza Ben Bouazza, Associated Press)

Czech government backs taxation of church restitution
(Associated Press)

Poland’s lawmakers debate proposed changes to abortion law
(Associated Press)

How Mitt Romney could revive Mormon opposition to Donald Trump
(Lauren Jackson, The Washington Post)

Diversity, division, discrimination: The state of young America
(PRRI)

Trump renominates Brownback for international religious freedom post, Kacsmaryk for district court
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

The almost ambassador: The Gray Lady slams Brownback for not leaving his Kansas job
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

Will religiously unaffiliated Americans increase support for liberal policies, in 2018 and beyond?
(David Mislin, The Conversation)

Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Recent queries and comments, 8th January 2018
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Why Iran protests matter for Iraqis
(Ali Mmouri, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Turkey is becoming new hub for Salafist-jihadi exodus from Syria
(Metin Gurcan, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Child poverty increases in Egypt as critical support languishes
(Walt Curnow, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

Israel's betrayal of African refugees
(Akiva Eldar, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)

In 'State of the World' speech Pope Francis pushes for nuclear ban
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)

How to make the world a better place in 2018, according to Pope Francis
(Malaka Gharib, NPR)

Fulani Herdsmen violence surged at year end
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)

PTSD: A refugee child’s learning block
(Beth Stolicker, Mission Network News)

French town bans pork-free school meals in move branded 'anti-Muslim'
(The Guardian)

Funeral arrangements for Thomas S. Monson announced, LDS will name new leader
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

Mazel tov, Mrs. Maisel
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)

Baby Jesus was a Dreamer in Egypt
(Thomas Reese, RNS: Signs of the Times)

Germans debate how to combat ‘imported anti-Semitism’
(Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service)

How mosques are dealing with Muslims’ mental health issues
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Man invokes Rastafarianism to wear hat. Shreveport councilman objects
(Lex Talamo, Shreveport Times)

Israeli Parliament tightens limits to shopping on Jewish Sabbath
(Jonathan Ferziger, Bloomberg)

'Bible literacy' courses in some Kentucky schools are breaking the law, ACLU says
(Deborah Yetter, Louisville Courier Journal)

National group demands Santa Fe remove Ten Commandments statue
(KRQE News)

Holy See highlights digitally conscious media community under Vatican News logo
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Russian Orthodoxy and freedom: An unusual priest’s call for liberty
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Canadian Holocaust denier arrested in Germany
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Children of 'Islamic State' struggle to integrate in Germany
(Uta Steinwehr, Deutsche Welle)

March for Life events planned across the U.S.
(Catholic News Agency)

Pope’s speech to diplomats reflects his Latin American background
(Austen Ivereigh, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to controversial Mississippi law
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Huge Philippine procession secured tightly amid terror fears
(Jim Gomez, Associated Press)

Exiled Iranian royal sees chance to end the Islamic Republic
(Bradley Klapper, Associated Press)

Historic Iron Church in Istanbul reopens after restoration
(Associated Press)

Notre Dame could face legal investigation for flip-flopping on contraception coverage
(Dorothy Cummings McLean, Life Site News)

Notre Dame alums object to university's contraceptive mandate position
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Justices won't review challenges to Mississippi's anti-gay law
(Marcia Coyle, law.com)

Supreme Court refuses review in standing case challenging Mississippi's conscience law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Prisoner’s “My-iBible” RLUIPA claim thrown out as moot
(Evan Seeman, RLUIPA-Defense)

Religious architecture awards go to designs that transform
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)

Is Trump widening a rift between the evangelicals and Mideast Christians?
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)

Justices won’t step into Mississippi gay rights legal fight
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)

Monday, 8 January 2018

Law and religion round-up – 7th January
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Christians need a new right-to-life movement
(Margaret Renkl, The New York Times)

How can I possibly believe that faith is better than doubt?
(Peter Wehner, The New York Times)

Can we learn to believe in God?
(Agnes Callard, The New York Times)

Diplomatic tensions diffused between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)

Pope Francis once against encourages mothers to breastfeed in the Sistine Chapel
(Maggie Penman, NPR)

Evangelicals and Mormons are political allies, but theological rivals
(Tom Gjelten, National Public Radio)

Congo's Catholic cardinal: Crackdown on protesters is 'barbarism'
(Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, NPR)

Washington will allow people to identify as neutral gender
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)

California again approves abortion pill reversal class
(Samantha Gobba, Christian Headlines)

Will Iranian protests cause lasting change?
(Onize Ohikere, Christian Headlines)

New report shows countries where Christian persecution is expected to increase in 2018
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)

Government dividing people on caste, religion: Congress President Rahul Gandhi at Bahrain
(The New Indian Express)

Idaho protects the rights of faith healers. Should it?
(Leah Sottile, High Country News)

Pope urges efforts to rebuild trust in North Korea, Syria
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)

French secularism is in crisis. What does that mean for Muslim youth?
(Karina Piser, The Nation)

Supreme Court upholds Mississippi's anti-LGBT law
(Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)

Chicago-area clergy defend housing allowance as it faces legal challenge
(Manya Brachear Pashman, Chicago Tribune)

January 7: Churches get FEMA funding, Christian refugees replace Muslims, and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)

Putin hails 'eternal Christian values' during Russian Orthodox Christmas celebrations
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Putin offers Christmas greetings to Orthodox Christians
(Interfax-Religion)

U.S. bishops call decision to end El Salvador TPS designation ‘heartbreaking’
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

France’s foremost female rabbi faces flak over Jerusalem stance
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi opposes death penalty for terrorists bill
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Church in Scotland criticized for not meeting abuse victim groups
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Pastor rejects gay musicians from Minnesota Catholic Church
(Associated Press)

Soul freedom: A Baptist perspective on religious liberty
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Trump administration returns to Supreme Court on travel ban
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)

Government seeks Supreme Court review of third travel ban
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Amish couple required to connect property to sewer system with electric pump
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Federal appeals court rules against Baltimore law requiring disclosures at pregnancy clinics that don't provide abortions
(Ian Duncan, The Baltimore Sun)

4th Circuit strikes down Baltimore's posting requirement for pregnancy centers
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

USCIRF mourns the passing of Thomas S. Monson, leader of the LDS Church
(Press Release, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Palestinian Christians attack Greek Orthodox Patriarch to protest land deals
(Samantha Raphelson, NPR)

ChurchClarity.org is back, but Newsweek offers only one side of this crucial LGBTQ story
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Court to government: Stop targeting pregnancy center
(Becket Law)

Abortion freedom of speech battle heading to the Supreme Court
(Robert A. Sedler, The Conversation)

How rural vicars became the last social workers in the countryside
(Catherine Pepinster, The Guardian)

Why Europe’s wars of religion put 40,000 ‘witches’ to a terrible death
(Jamie Doward, The Guardian)

Pope Francis and the ongoing fallibility of (quite a few members of) the mainstream media
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Pope Francis and the media’s ongoing fallibility
(Clemente Lisi, The Media Project)

Christians are at risk of being driven out of the Holy Land
(Patriarch Theophiolos III, The Guardian)

India's highest court to review colonial-era law criminalising gay sex
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)

Hell freezes over: how the Church of Satan got cool
(Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian)

Mosul Christmas Mass hailed a ‘victory over IS’ as Sunni youth install giant Christmas tree
(World Watch Monitor)

India: Kandhamal Christians back in jail after temporary Christmas release
(World Watch Monitor)

Trade is the only religion in Bunder area of Mangaluru
(Anil Kumar Sastry, The Hindu)

Can a Christian use astrology?
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

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