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Tuesday, 7 November 2017

Judge halts California law forcing pro-lifers to advertise abortions
(Jay Hobbs, The Daily Signal)

First Amendment and religious beliefs: questions and answers
(United States Department of Agriculture)

USDA memo gives meat packing plants broad religious speech protection
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

USDA beefs up protections for free speech, religious freedom
(Press Release, Alliance Defending Freedom)

Retaliation is not a right: Indiana appeals court sides with Purdue Calumet in professor’s free speech lawsuit
(Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed)

University's anti-harassment policy upheld over prof's free speech claims
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Quebec's face-covering law heads for constitutional challenge
(Benjamin Shingler, CBC News)

Has Uzbekistan’s repressive government helped radicalise its emigrants and exiles?
(John Heathershaw, The Conversation)

EVENT, 7-11 November 2017: Religion in the Public Sphere, Third Biennial Wheatley Conference, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
(The Wheatley Institution)

EVENT, 7 November 2017: Interfaith Religious Freedom Conference, Detroit, MI
(J. Reuben Clark Law Society Detroit Chapter and Michigan Catholic Conference)

EVENT, 7 November 2017: Legislative & Legal Challenges to Religious Freedom
(Khaled Beydoun, Elizabeth Clark, Christopher Lund, Frank Ravitch, Reuben Clark Law Society Detroit Chapter & Michigan Catholic Conference)

Monday, 6 November 2017

Spiritual but not religious: Tingles of the transcendent don’t always prompt people to go to church
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

The quiet religious freedom fight that is remaking America
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)

Connecticut Chabad wins 10-year legal fight to open Chabad House
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Chabad gets partial win under RLUIPA in long-running suit
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

November 5: Bears Ears National Monument shrunk, Justice nominee litigated religious freedom, and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)

Global churches act together calling COP 23 to deliver climate justice
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

The truth about church shootings
(Daniel Burke, CNN)

Trump sends holiday greetings to Sikhs
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Statement by the Press Secretary on the anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak Devji
(Office of the Press Secretary, The White House)

The birth of an American Christian Democratic Party
(Hunter Baker, Modern Age)

A Buddhist’s call for a middle way in politics
(Dick Allen, Tricycle)

Are Christians supposed to be communists?
(Christine Hauser, The New York Times)

When the ‘dogma lives loudly’ within one — what Judge Amy Barrett can teach us
(Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review)

World Jewry more worried by Haredi than Arab growth in Jerusalem, study finds
(Tamara Zieve, The Jerusalem Post)

Preserving Jewish history in Mexico City
(Alan Grabinsky, The Tablet)

What was the Jewish role in 1917 Russian Revolution? This Moscow museum gives a full picture.
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Court: Muslim boy must attend NRW school's Catholic service
(Ben Knight, Deutsche Welle)

How social workers can advance Catholic social teaching
(Perry West, Catholic News Agency)

U.S. bishop: Congo tensions high; church teaches democratic practices
(Bronwen Dachs, Catholic News Service)

Catholic U offers free tuition to displaced Puerto Rican students
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Happy are the spiritual
(Paul Moses, Commonweal)

Luther goes global
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

Adventists mark Reformation’s 500th anniversary with launch of new book
(Bettina Krause, Adventist News Network)

Critics fear for Turkey’s secular foundations as religious marriage law passes
(Fulya Ozerkan, The Times of Israel)

Law conference highlights atrocities against religious minorities
(Baha'i World News Service)

The U.S. citizenship oath includes 'so help me God' — so a French woman is suing
(Josh Magness, The Sacramento Bee)

Citizenship applicant challenges "So help me God" in naturalization oath
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Ecclesiastical abstention doctrine does not bar school administrator's contract claim
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Gay rebels: why some older homosexual men don’t support same-sex marriage
(Peter Robinson, The Conversation)

Transgender women criticise reform
(Lucy Bannerman, The Times)

Here's my thought for the day: stop sneering and keep the faith, BBC
(Giles Fraser, The Guardian)

Giles Fraser turns up the heat under the familiar debates about BBC and religious faith
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Searching for spirituality in the U.S.: A new look at the spiritual but not religious
(Art Raney, Daniel Cox, Ph.D., Robert P. Jones, Ph.D, PRRI)

Supreme Court ruling clears way for Jumbo ski resort on sacred Indigenous land in B.C.
(Brian Platt, Calgary Herald)

Can anyone stop the tragedy in Myanmar - before it's too late?
(Ben Pauker, Foreign Policy)

In Brazil, religious gang leaders say they’re waging a holy war
(Robert Muggah, The Conversation)

How Nike’s hijab sports gear is taking on Islamophobia and patriarchy
(Nuraan Davids, The Conversation)

'It's Our Right': Christian congregation in Indonesia fights to worship in its church
(Matthew Ozug, NPR)

NPR gets it right about how bad things are for non-Muslims in Indonesia
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

Indonesia's youth share thoughts on religion, identity and dreams
(Ari Shapiro, NPR)

Taking back 'Allahu Akbar'
(Scott Simon, NPR)

Advocacy for Christians returning to Northern Iraq
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)

Traditional meets modern in Israel's ultra-Orthodox art
(Mordechai Goldman, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)

The week in Christian history: Dante exiled, pastor murdered, Martin Luther's birthday
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Millennials and the church, part 1: Should we write them off and wait for the next generation?
(Danita Bye, The Christian Post)

Twitter ding-dong as cathedrals battle to be crowned champions on social media
(Martin Belam, The Guardian)

SingleMuslim.com: how the Yorkshire dating site transformed Muslim romance
(Tim Adams, The Guardian)

'I miss them so much': Myanmar's lost Rohingya children plead for their parents
(Poppy McPherson, The Guardian)

Why are we creating educational ghettoes in 2017?
(Letters, The Guardian)

Glastonbury Dragons' Samhain Wild Hunt festival – in pictures
(Matt Cardy/Getty Images, The Guardian)

The war against Pope Francis – podcast
(Andrew Brown, read by Andrew McGregor and produced by Simon Barnard, The Guardian)

Will a Mars colony need religion for survival? Scientist says yes
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

Using prayer to defeat North Korea?
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

Uproar over church hymn changed as to not offend people
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

Top Israeli newspaper agrees: Biblical creation stories are just fables
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

Why we banned Jonathan Martin from Liberty University
(Jerry Falwell Jr., Religion News Service)

Why I was banned from the campus of Liberty University
(Jonathan Martin, Religion News Service)

Polygamous group slowly loses influence in longtime hometown
(Brady McCombs, Religion News Service)

#SeinfeldTaughtMe - about Judaism
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))

Trump’s neo-Puritan theology of us and them
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)

26 killed in church attack in Texas’ deadliest mass shooting
(Jim Vertuno, Religion News Service)

The worst mass shooting at church in US history
(Jim Denison, The Christian Post)

Texas town revolves around church where shooting occurred
(Jim Vertuno, Nomaan Merchant, and Diana Heidgerd, Religion News Service)

Atheists confronted possibility Texas shooter was one of their own
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)

Gov. Abbott suggests connection between gunman, Texas church
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)

Remembering and forgetting about Christianity and freedom on Luther’s anniversary (Conscience, Reformation, and Religious Freedom Across the Centuries)
(Elizabeth Prodromou, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

CofE policy: investing in extractive industries
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Law and religion round-up – 5th November
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

The Stand (essay on the Reformation)
(The Economist)

How Martin Luther changed the world
(Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)

Martin Luther and Ethiopian Christianity: Historical traces
(David D. Daniels, The University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

500 years after the Reformation, 5 facts about Protestants around the world
(Neha Sahgal, Pew Research Center Fact tank)

University student dismissed for expressing Biblical view on homosexuality
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Saturday, 4 November 2017

Street prayer in Clichy : Radical Islam v. moderate Islam
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

A terrorist's brother—and France—on trial
(Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic)

Unholy row after calls for end to prayers at Northern Ireland council's meetings
(Mark Edwards, Belfast Telegraph)

Muslims in N.J. city fear another backlash after latest attack
(Wayne Parry, The Philadelphia Tribune)

Atheist sues government for having “So help me God” in citizenship oath
(Hemant Mehta, Friendly Atheist)

Mutharika attends Ijtima festival for Malawi Muslims: Call for continued religious co-existence
(Sylvester Kumwenda -Mana, Nyasa Times)

Steps to a secular India
(Dhruv Gaur, Brown Political Review)

Iraqi Shiite militia will fight Islamic State in Syria border town
(Reuters)

House panel advances bill sparked by JCC threats
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Islamization or fairy tale? 'Ali Baba' playground in Berlin stirs controversy
(Chase Winter, Deutsche Welle)

'Defend divinely inspired freedoms,' says LDS apostle in Los Angeles symposium
(Sarah Jane Weaver, Deseret News Faith)

First Nation Canadians, sacred sites and judicial review: Ktunaxa
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Friday, 3 November 2017

House GOP tax overhaul plan would allow churches to endorse political candidates
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)

Canada's Supreme Court rejects aboriginal tribe's religious objection to ski resort
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Presence of Indigenous sacred sites doesn’t bar ski development, SCC rules
(The Lawyer's Daily)

Cross demolition campaign in China
(China Aid)

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