Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 10 November 2017
How Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas Party lost its way
(Mazal Mualem, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Tennessee Church may lose voting rights in state Baptist convention because it hired female pastor
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
5 Christian families flee Pakistani village after teen falsely accused of blasphemy
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Considering our options: Deepening religious freedom, witness, and argument in the public square
(Margaret Harper McCarthy, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
4 in 10 Americans say gender is not determined at birth: survey
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Why Christians will still attend church Sunday
(Laura Lacey Johnson, Christian Headlines)
Christian human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng escaped, recaptured
(International Christian Concern, Christian Headlines)
‘It will help future generations’: Muslim schools in north India set to modernise
(Amrit Dhillon, The Guardian)
It’s not all anxiety and division in America
(Maurice Bates, Bruce Paley, Anthony Sweeney, The Guardian)
‘My daughters have no future in the Middle East’
(World Watch Monitor)
Pakistani Christian sent to prison for ‘insulting Islam’ despite mental ill-health
(World Watch Monitor)
First Sikh mayor of New Jersey elected
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Christians deported from China after helping North Korean refugees
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Poland attacks European Union for censoring Christian traditions
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Congressman Jared Huffman: Too much religion in politics
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Holy smoke! Vatican to stop selling cigarettes
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
New book alleges gay sex in Vatican dorm, shady banking
(The Associated Press)
Who decides when we as a country pray and when we act?
(Chloe Breyer, Religion News Service)
5 things Netflix’s ‘One of Us’ won’t teach you about Hasidic Jews
(Menachem Wecker, Religion News Service)
More than 13 million gather in Karbala for Arbaeen
(The Associated Press, The Religion News Service)
A funeral director says many churches (unknowingly) promote a ‘death negative’ narrative
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Column: On Faith and Culture)
Roy Moore and the wages of hypocrisy
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Tensions over Muslim street prayers north of Paris
(AFP)
Life without religion
(Alex Izza, The World Weekly)
Pakistan’s religious parties announce revival of MMA after a deacde
(The Hindu)
NGO seeks leave to appeal spanking judgment
(IOL)
Nepalese Christian leaders demand repeal of law criminalizing evangelism and conversions
(Jardine Malado, The Christian Times)
Pakistan blocks off roads into capital as blasphemy law supporters stage sit-in
(Saad Sayeed, Reuters)
Do Indonesia’s anti-pornography laws protect morals or encourage discrimination and abuse?
(Max Walden, South China Morning Post)
Communism and the eradication of religion
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
After Communism, in the shadow of materialism (and not just in Russia)
(Peter Kopa, MercatorNet)
Religious freedom doesn't let you break our laws, town tells Orthodox Jewish group
(Sara Jerde, NJ Advance Media)
Huffman: I’m a nonreligious humanist
(Will Houston, Eureka Times-Standard)
Cathedral donation prompts debate over separation of church and state
(KCAW)
Muslim World League leader tells World Council of Churches, 'we must combat extremists'
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, Jewish life in Berlin is flourishing
(Andrew Bennett, Forward)
The Orthodox should know better than to embrace hatred of Muslims
(Peter Beinart, Forward)
Hamburg supermarket attacker charged with murder
(Deutsche Welle)
Religious freedom critical to empowering women, Relief Society general president says to European Parliament conference
(R Scott Lloyd, Deseret News Faith)
Cardinal says Vatican wants contact with North Korea to ease tensions
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Ahead of papal visit, Myanmar cardinal warns against hate speech by religious leaders
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
UN nuncio: Peace maintained by ‘mutually assured destruction’ is not real peace
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
NY town votes to let Orthodox enclave Kiryas Joel secede
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
NY voters approve Kiryas Joel becoming separate town
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Suit alleging anti-Semitism at S.F. State stalled while plaintiffs amend complaint
(Rob Gloster, The Jewish News of Northern California)
Judge says suit charging campus anti-Semitism should be refiled with focus on current situation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
School board’s prayer time debated at 9th Circuit
(Nathan Solis, Courthouse News Service)
9th Circuit hears oral arguments in school board invocation case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Opt out of abortion coverage now statewide in Missouri
(Press Release, Thomas More Law Center)
Missouri offers state employees health policies that exclude abortion, contraception, sterilization
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Last Sunday, domestic violence came to church
(Nancy Nason-Clark, Religion News Service)
Pence tells grieving town ‘Faith is stronger than evil’
(Yonat Shimron and Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
The particular horror of church shootings
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
The glue that kept Sutherland Springs together before and after the shootings
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Southern Baptists offered to pay for church victim funerals
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
More than $1 million raised to help Texas church shooting victims and families
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Texas church to be demolished, like other mass killing sites before it
(Yonat Shimron and Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
New bill would provide Veterans with better healthcare options
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Texas church where members were massacred may be torn down; survivors don't want to go back
(Leonardo Blair, Christian Post)
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Greece: Bishops urge resistance to new religion courses at school
(ekathimerini.com)
Ga. school system restricts coaches from joining student prayer after complaint
(Christopher Buchanan, WBIR)
Egyptian lawmaker to propose anti-gay bill as part of crackdown
(Reuters)
Grand Imam of Azhar meets Pope to talk peace
(Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt Independent)
‘People don’t realize what we’re going to lose with the loss of religion’
(Jibran Khan, National Review)
It’s Jew vs. Jew as Congress weighs a new definition for anti-Semitism
(Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
New Jewish Democratic group launched in reaction to Trump
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Groups urge passage of law protecting conscientious objection to abortion
(Kurt Jensen, Catholic News Service)
Vietnamese diocese begins rebuilding church ruined in ’67 U.S. air raid
(Catholic News Service)
Amid political crisis, Kenyan bishops plan national dialogue forum
(Fredrick Nzwili, Catholic News Service)
Amid growing U.S. – North Korea tension, Vatican hosts meeting on nuclear weapons
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Christian leaders in Zimbabwe criticize stifling of dissent by Mugabe regime
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
A change to the tax bill makes “even worse” a section undermining protections for houses of worship
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Marked-up house version of tax bill includes expanded, but time-limited, partial repeal of Johnson Amendment
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Mitch McConnell calls on Roy Moore to exit Alabama Senate race ‘if these allegations are true’
(Michael Scherer, The Washington Post)
Conservatives defend Roy Moore — invoking Joseph, Mary and the Ten Commandments
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Republican Senators call for Roy Moore to withdraw from Senate race after sex charges
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Italian artist charged with criminal blasphemy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
House holds hearing on campus anti-Semitism
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
WA Government seeks legal advice on religious schools’ right to discriminate against LGBTI teachers and students
(Phoebe Wearne, The West Australian)
Same-sex marriage: 'More than a dozen' conservatives prepare alternative bill to protect religious freedoms
(Lucy Barbour, ABC News)
To be really pro-choice, you must protect each doctor's choice to not perform abortions
(Timothy Dolan and Russell Moore, USA Today)
Deus ex Machina (the relationships between religion and science fiction)
(Emanuelle Burton, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Why Muslims of Gujarat are voting for BJP
(Afroz Alam, Wion)
Meet the riders of the Sikh Motorcycle Club of the Northeast
(Teresa Mathew, Buzzfeed)
"Everyone blames me." Barriers to justice and support services for sexual assault survivors in India
(Human Rights Watch)
Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
EVENT, 9 November 2017: Women in Faith: A freedom of religion or belief perspective, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
(European Union Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
The Future of Europe: a value-based and effective Union (The 13th annual high-level meeting with the European institutions)
(Press Release, Conference of European Churches)
Are stunning Saudi corruption arrests about reforms or power? Yes.
(Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor)
Saudi ban: disaster for Yemen
(Ruth K'lama, Mission Network News)
Saudi Arabia: Journalistic whiplash follows a crown prince's political crackdown
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Amid a Saudi purge, women face the test of a lifetime
(Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Policy)
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Papal loyalists become dissidents
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
Archbishop of Canterbury calls for UN climate talks in Bonn to recognize ‘urgent priority’ of climate change
(Religion News Service)
'Pastor to presidents' Billy Graham honored on his 99th birthday
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Catholic official: Bangladesh should apologize to India for nun’s rape
(Catholic News Service)
Togo’s crisis takes religious and ethnic dimensions; country’s bishops are worried
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Tax bill keeps troublesome language weakening the Johnson Amendment
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Despite a key protection in federal law, congregations continue to face costly zoning denials
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Liberty Counsel launches annual Christmas campaign
(Press Release, Liberty Counsel)
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