Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Beijing bans tours to Vatican amid strained ties
(UCA News)
China bans tours to the Vatican
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
German mayor stabbed in neck for pro-refugee stance, saved by kebab shop owner
(Griff Witte, The Washington Post)
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew calls to stop the war and aggression in eastern Ukraine
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
To find the extremism behind the Egypt terror attack, start with anti-Sufi preachers
(HA Hellyer, The Guardian)
Ofsted accused of racism over hijab questioning in primary schools
(Josh Halliday, The Guardian)
Chinese president wants pictures of Jesus replaced with his photo
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
'The star' brings nativity animals to life in story of Jesus' birth
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Evangelical courtship culture normalizes men dating teen girls
(Kathryn Brightbill, Religion News Service)
The Creation Project: Revealed religion, natural law, moral philosophy, and the ends of the world
(Peter Schwartz, Huffington Post)
EVENT, 28 November 2017: Judaism and AntiSemitism: Jewish Self-Identity in Utah and the United States
(Blair Van Dyke, Utah Valley Universtiy)
Third International Religious Freedom Conference to spotlight persecution of Christians and impending disappearance of Christianity from the holy lands and Middle East
(Religion News Service)
Jurisprudence in the EU: Greece prepares to do away with compulsory sharia in Western Thrace
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Russia - Islamic World group to meet in Saudi Arabia in 2018
(Interfax-Religion)
Monday, 27 November 2017
Vatican to UN: We must eliminate causes of human trafficking
(Catholic News Agency)
‘Pope’s sociologist’ fights human trafficking from the Vatican and in her own parish
(Catherine Pepinster, Religion News Service)
Pope lands in Myanmar for difficult visit amid Rohingya crisis
(Poppy McPherson and Oliver Holmes, The Guardian)
Why kosher butchers in Western Europe are preparing to close shop
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Rights campaigners think up gay persecution issue in Chechnya - Kadyrov
(Interfax-Religion)
Polish NGO set to prosecute owner of Polish guest house which banned Jews
(Tamara Zieve and Ariane Mandell, The Jerusalem Post)
Charges against strange Russian cult
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Taking the Catholic out of Catholic Universities
(Anne Hendershott, City Journal)
Why Muslim extremists attacked this mosque in Egypt
(Amanda Erickson, The Washington Post)
Vatican and the US: Out of balance
(Massimo Faggioli, Commonweal)
The Böckenförde paradox: What a German jurist can teach American Catholics
(Michael J. Hollerich, Commonweal)
Student interfaith reflections on social justice through dialogue
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Why a sleepy New Jersey suburb targeted Hasidic Jews with ‘anti-Semitic’ laws
(Ari Feldman, Forward)
Haredi Orthodox minister resigns post over Shabbat railway work
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Refugees escaping Myanmar hope Pope’s visit will bring peace
(Rishabh R. Jain, Associated Press)
Pope meets generals in Myanmar
(Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service)
Abortion clinic buffer zone upheld
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Islamic anti-terror coalition is not against any country, sect or religion, says commander
(Noor Nugali, Arab News)
First Lady Melania Trump unveils Christmas at the White House 2017
(Office of the First Lady, The White House)
White House unveils this year's Christmas decorations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Chabad sued for allegedly infiltrating Conservative synagogue
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Massachusetts court will hear conservative synagogue suit alleging Chabad takeover
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Male graduate sues Cornell, saying investigator discriminated against him based on religion, ethnicity, sex
(Drew Musto, Cornell Sun)
Pakistan army called on to stop 'blasphemy' clashes in Islamabad
(BBC News)
Pakistan troops clash with Islamic protesters who accuse law minister of blasphemy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Opinion: Pakistan's ignominious surrender to Islamists
(Shamil Shams, Deutsche Welle)
Former Archbishop of Canterbury invites faith leaders to join 16-Days of Activism
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Catholic bishops oppose parts of Senate's tax reform draft
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sufis and the separatist identity
(Tahir Kamran, The News on Sunday)
Christians, Jews, Muslims come together to share traditions
(Muffy Berlyn, Viera Voice)
Dodger Dogs, Mormons and Muslims: One couple's moral authority builds interfaith bridges
(Tad Walch, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)
Indian police ask interfaith couples: Is it love or terror?
(Rupam Jain and Jose Devasia, Reuters)
Boko Haram, pilgrimage, education, others: Churches interrogate religious freedom in Nigeria
(Rita Okonoboh, Nigerian Tribune)
A Muslim's defence of atheists
(Hanipa Maidin, Free Malaysia Today)
'No evidence' Hamilton school board violated dad's religious freedom over sex ed.: judge
(Flora Pan, CBC News)
In our opinion: Religious freedom empowers women
(Deseret News)
Iraq: Bombing in southeast Baghdad kills 11
(Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press)
Georgia 2018: Kemp calls for ‘clean’ adoption bill
(Greg Bluestein, Atlanta Journal Constitution)
In tax debate, gift to religious right could be bargaining chip
(Kenneth P. Vogel and Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times)
Yes, 'evangelical' is a religious term (#REALLY). You can look that up in history books
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Conservative amendments to same-sex marriage bill would make Australia’s laws the world’s weakest
(Brendan Gogarty and Anja Hilkemeijer, The Conversation)
The defender of faith: In contending that secularism is a lie, Yogi Adityanath tragically gets it right
(Faizan Mustafa, The Indian Express)
Coptic church denounces attack on mosque in Egypt's Sinai that kills at least 235
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Egypt raises death toll in Sinai mosque attack to 305
(Maggie Michael and Hamza Hendawi, Religion News Service)
Egypt shows again that Muslims have most to fear from extremist Islamists
(HA Hellyer, The Guardian)
Who are the Sufis and why does IS see them as threatening?
(Peter Gottschalk, The Conversation)
Understanding Sufism and the Sinai peninsula
(Linda Wertheimer, NPR)
Egypt’s Coptic heritage jeopardized due to lack of funds
(George Mikhail, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Alarm spreads in Sikh diaspora at arrest of British man Jagtar Singh Johal in India
(Jasjit Singh, The Conversation)
What Quaker schools can teach the rest of the class about equality, mutual respect and learning
(Nigel Newton, The Conversation)
What the latest FBI data do and do not tell us about hate crimes in the US
(Sophie Bjork-James, The Conversation)
The jihadist plan to use women to launch the next incarnation of ISIS
(Souad Mekhennet and Joby Warrick, The Washington Post)
Government review of abortion clinic protests
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Royal Marriage: Prince Henry of Wales & Meghan Markle
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
What we really mean by ‘common law marriage’?
(John Bolch, Stowe Blog)
Law and religion round-up – 26th November
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Did the Anabaptist Reformers "win"?
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Attention Washington Post: ISIS forced women from several religious faiths into sexual slavery
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
‘Somebody had to tell these stories’: An Iraqi woman’s ordeal as an ISIS sex slave
(Anne-Marie O'Connor, The Washington Post)
Why doctors need to improve the way we discuss assisted dying
(Paul Teed, The Conversation)
UK is out of the International Court of Justice – and it’s hard to not see Brexit at play
(Ben Murphy, The Conversation)
Valuing all God's children
(The Church of England Education Office)
UGC’s audit report on AMU demonstrates its ignorance of law
(Faizan Mustafa, Hindustan Times)
France to take refugees rescued from Libya who ‘need protection’
(France 24 Internaitonal)
Planned Parenthood is in deep trouble with the law
(Marjorie Dannenfelser, The Daily Signal)
America is running out of Muslim clerics. That’s dangerous
(Sally H. Jacobs, Politico Magazine)
The six-month amendment could defeat the purpose of Victoria’s assisted dying bill
(Colleen Cartwright, The Conversation)
Central Asian migrants caught in Turkey's anti-terror raids
(Umar Farooq, Los Angeles Times)
Russia court authorizes seizure of outlawed sect children
(Jonathan Luxmoore, The Tablet)
School head bans prayers, removes photos of pope
(ANSA General News)
Clueless in Seattle: Gay lawyer's lawsuit prompts no serious questions for reporters
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Lawyer who wanted to work at Union Gospel Mission sues after it rejected him for being bisexual
(Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times)
Resist "prayer shaming" this Thanksgiving
(Clemente Lisi, The Catholic Thing)
Your Thanksgiving think piece: How did 'prayer shaming' become a news media thing?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
The dark and divisive history of Americ's Thanksgiving hymn
(Neil J. Young, The Atlantic)
Atheists sue after New Jersey shelter's 'blessing of animals' by generic religious order
(Mark Kellner, GetReligion)
Will lifting sanctions improve human rights in Sudan?
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Pope on migration: Peace isn't possible unless we go beyond polemics
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Vatican to UN: We must work together to eliminate causes of human trafficking
(Catholic News Agency)
Pope Francis becomes first pontiff to visit Myanmar
(Rachel Martin and Thomas Reese, NPR)
Pope arrives in Myanmar, but what will he say about the Rohingya?
(Scott Neuman, NPR)
Pope dives into Rohingya crisis upon arrival in Myanmar
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Top News)
Pope's visit to Myanmar raises fears of violence if he mentions the Rohingya
(Poppy McPherson, The Guardian)
Myanmar open to repatriation of Rohingya refugees
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)
Catholic Church combating human trafficking in Myanmar
(Vatican Radio)
Myanmar cardinal defends Suu Kyi on eve of pope trip
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
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