Law and Religion Headlines
Saturday, 7 October 2017
H.R. 390: Senate Foreign Relations Committee passes genocide bill
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Friday, 6 October 2017
Christian baker Supreme Court hearings set for December
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Primates’ Meeting – Communiqué
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Supreme Court to hear Colorado same-sex wedding cake case in December
(Associated Press)
There should be no religious test for judicial nominees
(Jeff Flake, The Daily Signal)
Memorandum on the HRCommittee General Comment on the right to life [English translation forthcoming]
(Grégor Puppinck, European Centre for Law and Justice)
Defending freedom against the gender ideology
(Priscille Kulczyk, European Centre for Law and Justice)
Political Islam vs a secular state: Struggle for European autochthonous identity – OpEd
(Sadri Ramabaja, Eurasia Review)
Philippines: Church denies trying to undermine Duterte
(Joe Torres, Eurasia Review)
Religious exemption for HHS Mandate – OpEd
(William Donohue, Eurasia Review)
Christian principal stopping community from buying goods from our members: Hindu Mahasabha, Bajrang Dal complain
(Prashant Pandey, Indian Express)
CSI pushes for gender-equal society in India
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Senate panel backs nominee questioned on her religion
(Associated Press)
Global church body to intervene in Ethiopia – Eritrea border dispute
(Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban, Africa News)
Greek Holy Synod warns SYRIZA against separation of church and state
(Tasos Kokkinidis, Greek Reporter)
Full nuclear ban is aim of Nobel prize-winner ICAN
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Turkey, Malaysia and Islam: A Turkish writer’s detention sends a sombre message about Islam
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Godless society will not conquer extremism - Vatican representative in Russia
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian parliament gets bill to protect atheists' rights
(RBK, Russia Religion News)
Historical perspective on Orthodox activists
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
HHS curtails Obama Administration’s persecution of religious employers
(Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review)
Trump eviscerates health insurance birth control mandate
(Sarah N. Lynch, Caroline Humer, Reuters)
Ukraine arrests 3 alleged terrorists accused of targeting Jews in Uman
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Top Vatican official says ‘tragic experience’ on sex abuse helps Church lead
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Attorney General Sessions issues guidance on federal law protections for religious liberty
(Press Release, U.S. Department of Justice)
Trump administration lays out principles for protecting religious freedom
(Catholic News Agency)
A win for freedom of conscience
(National Review)
New religious freedom protections draw praise from experts
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
DOJ memo on religious liberty law oversimplifies some complicated issues
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Iraq after the Kurdistan referendum: What's next?
(Hudson Institute)
Christian funeral home defends right to fire transgender employee in appeals court
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
A cultural Goliah that keeps Christians cowering
(Nathaniel Jeanson, The Christian Post)
Religious freedom cases stacking up
(John Stonestreet, The Christian Post)
How the US can protect human rights in China
(Catholic News Agency)
Religious, secular experts unite in call to protect child safety online
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Pope Francis: 'painful' failures help Church lead in protecting minors
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Pope Francis warns against blurring gender differences: It's 'not right'
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Why ‘thoughts and prayers’ is starting to sound so profane
(Kirsten Powers, The Washington Post: Acts of Faith)
The case for 'thoughts and prayers'- even if you don't believe in God
(Katelyn Beaty, The Atlantic)
How America changed its approach to political Islam
(Shadi Hamid, Peter Mandaville, and William McCants, The Atlantic)
Jeff Sessions issues directive undercutting LGBT protections
(Guardian staff and agencies, The Guardian)
UK pharmacist jailed for showing beheading video to a child
(Josh Halliday, The Guardian)
Church-backed cleaning firm to give staff London living wage and guaranteed hours
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
First Look: Trump talks Israel on Mike Huckabee’s new TBN show
(Jonathan Merritt, Religion News Service)
Controversial religious objection law in Mississippi to go into effect after appeals court declines to rehear
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
AG’s religious objection order undercuts LGBT protections
(Rachel Zoll, Eric Tucker, and Sadie Gurman, Religion News Service)
Religious objection order gives broad leeway to employers to drop birth control coverage
(Jayne O'Donnell, Religion News Service)
Capitalism and the Common Good According to Michael Novak: A Law and Liberty Symposium on First Things
(Michael Matheson Miller, James R. Rogers, Grattan Brown, Michael M. Uhlmann, Jay W. Richards, Library of Law and Liberty)
A Muslim chaplain’s prayer to the U.S. House
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post: Acts of Faith)
Progressives, evangelicals, and presidential politics: What love has, and hasn’t, got to do with it
(Richard A. Rosengarten, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Thursday, 5 October 2017
Review of NT discrimination law
(Alex Deagon, guest blog, Law and Religion Australia)
Baha'is laud 'unprecedented UN resolution' calling halt to Yemen harassment
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Uzbekistan: Extra jail terms, no amnesty
(Forum 18 News Service)
Why researchers and religious leaders in Salt Lake City are concerned about gene editing
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)
Legal dispute over Fulton Sheen’s body continues in court next week
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Tolerance only way to ensure survival of church in China, Jesuit says
(Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service)
Bishop reiterates call to Pentagon to close Guantanamo Bay prison
(Catholic News Service)
Mali church leader voices alarm over insurgent attacks on parishes
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service)
African bishops call on continent’s political leaders to do more to end misery
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
In defense of Islam
(Alexandra Prior, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Uncovering Jewish history in Prague
(Amanda Christovich, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
In confirmation hearing, Brownback pledges to maintain religious liberty focus as ambassador
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Think religiously motivated discrimination can’t affect you? Guess again.
(James Esseks, ACLU Blog)
Religion Watch, October 2017, Volume 32 No. 12
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
Tent Schools offers hope to children in the Middle East
(Reagan Hoezee, Mission Network News)
Indians protest attacks on Dalits for sporting mustaches
(Ritu Sharma, La Croix International)
“Assisted dying” and Article 8 again – Conway v S of S for Justice
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
New bishop in Austria favors women deacons, married priests
(Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, La Croix International)
Pope Francis advised to use 'healthy realism' with Beijing
(Michael Sainsbury, Dili (Timor-Leste) and ucanews.com reporter, Hong Kong, La Croix International)
Iran, sanctions, and developing a heart for the Farsi-speaking world
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)
Erdogan's Iran visit sparks talk of Iraqi Kurdistan as 'new Israel'
(Al Monitor)
Turkey lays out plans for Iraq's Kurds after independence vote
(Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Fourth Nigerian priest kidnapped this year, released when no ransom given
(International Christian Concern)
Sudan: human rights violations, religious persecution abound - US sanctions must stay
(Nathan Johnson, International Christian Concern)
Terrible fate awaits North Korean women escapees in China
(International Christian Concern)
The betrayal of Vietnam's forgotten Montagnard Christians
(International Christian Concern)
Global terror groups set to exploit violence in Myanmar
(International Christian Concern)
Rohingya not the only group persecuted in Myanmar, Christian minorities are as well
(International Christian Concern)
Study shows link between abortion and breast cancer in China
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Iraqi Christians are in 'state of fear' after Kurdish Independence Referendum, bishops warn
(Florence Gildea, Christian Today)
Challenge to the law against assisted dying dismissed by High Court
(Florence Gildea, Christian Today)
Claim UK school failed inspection over marriage teaching 'factually inaccurate'
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
The truth about capitalism is out as Marx’s magic cap starts to slip
(Giles Fraser, The Guardian)
We live in a religious power vacuum
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
More Catholic than the pope
(Thomas Reese, Religion News Service)
North Carolina imam urges Congress to ‘celebrate’ difference
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Testing the proposition that lack of religion leads to violence
(Mark Silk, RNS: Spiritual Politics)
The Dead Sea Scrolls discovery — still riveting after 70 years
(A. James Rudin, Religion News Service)
Christians and Yazidis in Iraq stand on the brink of extinction
(Chris Smith, Religion News Service)
Back from Puerto Rico, the Rev. Gabriel Salguero shares ways to help
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Here he stood: Lutheran pilgrims travel to Germany on Reformation anniversary
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 5 October 2017: Interfaith Prayer Service for Peace, with Bishop Robert Kasun, CSB
(St. Philip Parish, Toronto, Cardus: Faith in Canada 150)
EVENT, 5 October 2017: The Business Case for Religious Freedom
(Washington, D.C., Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
EVENT, 5-6 October 2017: Religion(s) and Power(s)
(Lithuanian Society for the Study of Religions, Latvian Society for the Study of Religions, Estonian Society for the Study of Religions, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania)
Fall religion reading: Heavy-duty edition
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Many countries favor specific religions, officially or unofficially (Islam is the most common state religion, but many governments give privileges to Christianity)
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Age Limit Guidance
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
The SEC, same sex marriage, and the Primate’s Meeting
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Sexual identity, UK: 2016
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Kara bangles at school – again
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
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