Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Sins of omission – should Catholic confession always be confidential?
(Aida Edemariam, The Guardian)
Christian players frustrated by criticism for anthem protest
(Rob Maaddi, Religion News Service)
Policing themselves? Hate speech watchdog ADL enlists Facebook and others
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Did early Christians believe that Mary was a teenager? It’s complicated
(Christopher A. Frilingos, Religion News Service)
Could it happen here? How churches are preparing for a mass shooting
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Tennessee church sees significant decline in membership following same-sex marriage decision
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Assaults against Muslims in U.S. surpass 2001 level
(Katayoun Kishi, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
10 interesting things to see at the new museum of the Bible: sneak preview
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
The new Bible museum tells a clear, powerful story. And it could change the museum business.
(Philip Kennicott, The Washington Post)
Far from the Museum of the Bible, these artists use the Good Book as their medium
(S. Brent Rodriquez-Plate, Religion News Service)
Yarovaya Law applied nearly 200 times since July 2016
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Egypt: Shubra al-Kheima church cancels prayers after threats
(Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt Independent)
Malaysia: No freedom *from* religion
(Andrea Curcio Lamas, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Members of the Church of the Almighty God victims of state violence: the murder of Ms. Gao Cuiqin in custody
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Want to escape poverty? Replace pictures of Jesus with Xi Jinping, Christian villagers urged
(Nectar Gan, South China Morning Post)
2016 hate crime statistics released
(Press Release, Federal Bureau of Investigation)
School worker was told she could be fired if she offered to pray for someone again
(Tony Perkins, The Daily Signal)
Number of anti-Semitic hate crimes edged up last year, FBI reports
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Hate crimes in the United States increased last year, the FBI says
(Mark Berman, The Washington Post)
FBI: Hate crimes on the rise in the US
(The Hill)
FBI releases 2016 hate crime data
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Words of Violence: “Fear Speech,” or How Violent Conflict Escalation Relates to the Freedom of Expression
(Antoine Buyse, Human Rights Quarterly)
Pakistan: 'Religious Freedom Bill' will help maintain law and order
(Outlook)
Rajasthan minister says Religious Freedom Bill will help curb conflicts
(Hindustan Times)
IHC reverses changes to Khatm-e-Nabuwwat oath, religious parties react
(Abdullah Niazi, Pakistan Today)
The Agency of Agencies: Bureaucracy and the Politics of Religious Freedom
(Richard Amesbury, Guest Post, Law & Religion UK)
New UAE draft law bans unauthorised religious activities
(Jasmine Al Kuttab, Khaleej Times)
CDM Decision and Penalty: Re Huntley (2)
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Washington Post hints at big changes afoot for Tibetan Buddhism. Is there a local story in that?
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
After nearly six decades of exile, some Tibetans in India are slowly letting go of the past
(Vidhi Doshi, The Washington Post)
Crimea: Persecution of Crimean Tatars intensifies
(Human Rights Watch)
Istanbul court exempts child from compulsory religion class
(Hurriyet Daily News)
Ontario court holds Mahr is part of family property in divorce
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
OCA rules on Islamic marriage contract
(Alex Robinson, Law Times)
Bakhshi v. Hosseinzadeh
((Islamic marriage contract case), Court of Appeal for Ontario)
Article on Baka v. Hungary and the Rule of Law
(Antoine Buyse, ECHR Blog)
The Strasbourg Court Meets Abusive Constitutionalism: Baka v. Hungary and the Rule of Law
(David Kosař and Katarína Šipulová, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law (2017))
The Muslim overpopulation myth that just won't die
(Krithika Varagur, The Atlantic)
Israeli parents reject religious indoctrination at schools
(Danny Zaken, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
In guidance to teachers, Church of England targets anti-LGBT bullying
(Rebecca Feldhaus Adams, NPR)
Lebanon possibly pulled from the brink of war
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)
Century-old Russian revolution echoes still today
(Beth Stolicker, Mission Network News)
Religious freedom is the hard work of citizenship, church leader says
(Mormon Newsroom)
Syrian refugees in Lebanon face eviction
(Scott Preston, Al Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)
Turkey’s misguided Middle East policy: From Syria, Iraq to the Gulf
(Cengiz Çandar, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Trump's Middle East peace initiative still on hold
(Ben Caspit, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Islamic jihad raises state of readiness to highest level
(The Jerusalem Post)
Canadian law school case before Supreme Court tests press impartiality – again
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Supreme Court takes case on free speech rights of antiabortion counseling centers
(Robert Barnes, The Washington Post)
Abortion info required at pro-life centers? Supreme Court takes up case
(Catholic News Agency)
Supreme Court agrees to hear antiabortion challenge to California disclosure law for pregnancy centers
(David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times)
Supreme Court to weigh anti-abortion speech restrictions
(Richard Wolf, USA Today)
Supreme Court threatens parental rights of, for example, Jehovah's Witnesses
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Kristallnacht, and our modern-day approach to antisemitism
(Vladimir Sloutsker, The Algemeiner)
Lehigh County, Pa., fights the courts to keep the cross in its seal
(Tyler Arnold, National Review)
Israel’s president plays peacemaker between his government and American Jews
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
60,000 joined a Polish nationalist march. Should Jews be worried?
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Prince Charles blames ‘foreign’ Jews for Mideast unrest in 1986 letter
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Guardian view on homophobia in church schools: let a thousand tutus bloom
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Marriage equality's next fight: is freedom to discriminate a right worth protecting?
(Gay Alcorn, The Guardian)
Protecting religious freedom after “Yes”
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Let’s be clear: Muslims are neither good nor bad. We’re just human
(Farah Elahi, The Guardian)
Turkish marriage law a blow to women's rights, say activists
(Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian)
Ceasefire holds but food shortage threatens Sudan’s Nuba people
(World Watch Monitor)
IS renews threat to Copts as Al-Azhar head says Islam ‘at war with itself’
(World Watch Monitor)
Vatican releases pope’s schedule for visit to Chile, Peru
(Junno Arocho Esteves, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Persistent Fulani violence ‘indicates ethnic cleansing’ of Nigerian Christians
(World Watch Monitor)
Cameroon cardinal says France to blame for ‘Anglophone crisis’
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Can religion help end nuclear weapons?
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Imprisoned Chinese Christian lawyer in recaptured in daring escape
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Texas church holds first service since mass shooting
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Examining the "spiritual, not religious" in America
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Federal court in Texas denies FEMA’s request to halt church funding suit
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
HIAS, JFS partners join class action challenge to Trump Administration's latest refugee ban
(Press Release, HIAS)
New suit challenges latest limits on refugees from 11 countries
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Appeals court lets Trump travel ban go partially into effect
(Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)
Injunction against Trump's 3rd travel ban is lifted in part
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Allegations against Roy Moore roil US evangelical ranks
(David Crary, Religion News Service)
Catholic cardinal condemns ‘forces of division’ and fear
(Rachel Zoll, Religion News Service)
Catholic bishops take on racism in society and the church
(Thomas Reese, Religion News Service)
In the Capitol’s shadow, massive Museum of the Bible readies for opening
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Buddhist light festival shoos away bad luck in northern Thailand
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Mormons in New York City have key opportunity to defend religious freedom in influential city
(Jason Swensen, Deseret News Faith)
A suggestion for younger evangelicals: Lose the label
(Tom Krattenmaker, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 14 November 2017: The Role of Religion in German Right-Wing Populism
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Monday, 13 November 2017
New museum invites visitors to 'engage' with the Bible
(Tom Gjelten, NPR)
C of E guidance on homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The Bible story Roy Moore needs to read
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Roy Moore, Christocrat
(A. James Rudin, Religion News Service)
White evangelicals conflicted by accusations against Roy Moore
(Tom Gjelten, NPR)
Communiqué on the legal status and protection of ‘places of worship’ and ‘holy sites’
(The participants of the ecumenical Conference ‘Places of Worship and Religious Sites in Europe and the Middle East’, Conference of European Churches)
Soviet Union managed to build "a kingdom of justice," church official believes
(Interfax-Religion)
Baptists perceive revival of Soviet times
(Religiia i Pravo, Russia Religion News)
Jehovah's Witnesses leaders rehabilitated
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
An unlikely friendship: The Rabbi among the Mormons
(Ariel Dominique Hendelman, The Jerusalem Post)
Labor leader: the Left forgot what it means to be Jewish
(Gil Hoffman, The Jerusalem Post)
November 12: Worst church shooting in US history, churches battle zoning laws
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
Global church leaders urge climate conference leaders to act as talks' progress slows
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
The unholy excuses of Roy Moore's allies
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
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