Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 2 October 2017
Hijabi Monologues: dating, the weather and Islamophobia in frank, funny tales
(Atiha Sen Gupta, The Guardian)
Two dozen of Egypt's Nubians arrested for protesting, face hearing
(Fatma Lotfi, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Will the Jewish archive return to Iraq?
(Saad Salloum, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
The 'good monk' myth
(Joe Freeman, The Atlantic)
The misunderstood roots of Burma's Rohingya crisis
(Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic)
Judge rules against Florida county's prayer policy that bars atheist invocations
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
UK schools removing B.C., A.D. dating to avoid offending non-Christians
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Relief efforts continue in earthquake-battered Mexico
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)
The challenges to constitutional government: a conversation with Michael Greve
(Michael S. Greve, Library of Law and Liberty)
Government anxious to rush through haredi military service exemption law
(Lahav Harkov and Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
Attempt on life of religious figure averted in Ingushetia
(Interfax-Religion)
October 1: Roy Moore nominated for Senate, Trump issues third travel ban [and more]
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
Commuting to Nairobi, the train becomes a church
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Cinematographers discuss their travels in "Sacred" at Sofia Biting Docs
(novinite.com)
U.S. doctors take official stance against euthanasia
(Samantha Gobba, Christian Headlines)
Shooting in Las Vegas deadliest in modern U.S. history
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)
Transcript: President Trump offers prayers and a Psalm in Las Vegas remarks
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
After Las Vegas mass shooting, calls for prayer, action on gun control
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Las Vegas shooting victims: Portraits of the fallen
(Los Angeles Times staff, The Los Angeles Times)
Five justices attend Red Mass with homily addressing immigration, religious freedom
(Andrew Hamm, SCOTUSblog)
Danish Jehovah's Witness loses in Russia court again
(Denis Volin, Orel News)
Austria’s ‘burqa ban’ law comes into force
(Associated Press)
“The Conversation” misleads on impacts of same sex marriage
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Mormon conference (regarding race and same-sex marriage)
(Brady McCombs, Associated Press Top News)
Sukkot services to go on in Barcelona despite violence over Catalonian independence vote
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
India Dalit man killed 'for watching Hindu celebration'
(BBC News)
Germans celebrate first gay marriages
(Deutsche Welle)
Racial superiority 'morally wrong,' LDS leader says Saturday afternoon
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)
Catalonia: Bishops condemn ‘deplorable’ violence during separatist vote
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Federal court says Fla. county board cannot discriminate against non-theists
(Press Release, Americans United)
Invocation policy that excludes non-theists is unconstitutional
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pa. judge rules in FFRF’s favor against cross in county seal
(Press Release, Freedom From Religion Foundation)
Reluctant judge holds cross on county seal is unconstitutional
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Cheerleaders can move ahead with suit over religious-themed run-through banners
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Suicide remains a taboo topic in America's churches: LifeWay
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
This week in Christian history: Saladin, Jim Bakker, and a martyred Bible translator
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Religious leaders are fed up with discrimination against churches in disaster aid
(Catholic News Agency)
Turkish president admits US pastor is political hostage
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
Archbishop of Canterbury unable to give 'straight answer' on whether gay sex is sinful
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Iranian Shia Muslims attend mud-rubbing ritual – in pictures
(Atta Kenare, The Guardian)
Archbishop of Canterbury accused of hypocrisy by sexual abuse survivors
(Justin Welby, The Guardian)
Head of Scottish Anglicans to confront fellow primates over gay marriage vote
(Catherine Pepinster, The Guardian)
Anglican church failed to pay child sex abuse survivor agreed $1.5m settlement
(Christopher Knaus, The Guardian)
Anglican bishops prep for tough talks on same-sex marriage
(Catherine Pepinster, Religion News Service)
Why Pope Francis is reviving a long tradition of local variations in Catholic services
(Joanne M. Pierce, Religion News Service)
Mormon leader Robert D. Hales dies; served on top panel
(Brady McCombs, Religion News Service)
A proposal for Islam
(Mustafa Akyol, The New York Times)
After the massacre, a Las Vegas church seizes the chance to serve
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Sunday, 1 October 2017
Law and religion round-up – 1st October
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Special Feature: Summer Symposium on Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project and Trump v. Hawaii
(Numerous Authors, SCOTUSblog)
LAST CALL, due 1 October 2017: Nominations for Global Business & Interfaith Peace Awards 2018
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
New rules could mean less freedom for China’s Christians
(Reagan Hoezee, Mission Network News)
Saturday, 30 September 2017
Shayara Bano and others v. Union of India and others, Writ Petition (C) No. 118 of 2016
(ESCR-Net)
Africa prepares to host Mission and Evangelism conference in changing continent
(Ecumenical News)
Bulgarian Minister of Defense wants foreign financing of religious communities to be banned
(novinite.com)
Russia: Jehovah's Witness Bible, Jewish, Christian, Muslim books banned
(Forum 18 News Service)
US-Turkish relations: A pastor becomes a pawn in a spat between America and Turkey
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Patriarch Kirill positively evaluates relations between Uzbekistan's Muslims, Orthodox
(Interfax-Religion)
Patriarch Kirill equals insulting believers' feelings to extremism
(Interfax-Religion)
State Duma deputies who watched Matilda see it as movie, give filmmaker right to realize idea
(Interfax-Religion)
18 Jewish House members press Netanyahu on pluralism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
How Yom Kippur fasts became all about the feasts
(Deena Prichep, NPR)
Bring this to synagogue on Yom Kippur
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
What the Yom Kippur fast means to a Ugandan Jew
(Sara Toth Stub, NPR)
Neo-Nazis and anti-fascists clash in Sweden on Yom Kippur
(Deutsche Welle)
Controversial ad campaign promotes abortion as Catholic social justice issue
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Catalonia referendum divides the Church as it does the people
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Brazil to allow religion classes at state-run schools
(La Croix International)
Brazil's Supreme Court upholds denominational religious classes in public schools
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Cornyn has doubts about nominee who said transgender rights were ‘Satan’s plan’
(Kevin Diaz, San Antonio Express-News)
District Court nominee's prior speeches create concern
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
President Trump taps 2 from Louisiana for New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
(Mark Ballard, The Advocate)
Trump nominates religious liberty expert for seat on 5th Circuit
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
EEOC sues Publix Super Markets for religious discrimination
(Press Release, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
Raley’s sued by EEOC for religious discrimination
(Press Release, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
EEOC files two religious accommodation suits
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Columbia nuns vow to appeal after their religious-freedom lawsuit to stop gas pipeline is dismissed
(AD Crable, Lancaster Online)
Nuns lose challenge to pipeline
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
EVENT, 30 September 2017: Our stories shape us: history, faith and practice of the indigenous church in Canada
(Regent College, Vancouver BC, Cardus: Faith in Canada 150)
CALL FOR PAPERS, Response due 30 September 2017: 2018 ACLARS Conference: Law, Religion, and Human Flourishing
(Steering Committee, African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies)
Gerson: Roy Moore’s “zealotry” upends the meaning of the First Amendment
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Should Jews be concerned about Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore?
(Nathan Guttman, Forward)
Kurdish vote won’t slow push to help Nineveh Christians, organizers say
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Some Turks blame US for Kurdish independence vote
(Semih Idiz, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Friday, 29 September 2017
5 things you should know about the Minnesota religious freedom case
(Joe Carter, Christian Headlines)
Judge rules in favor of atheist group, says cross on Penn. county seal must be removed
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Wheaton hazing reveals diseased notions of manhood within church
(Julie Roys, The Christian Post)
Christian aid groups say Trump lowering refugee ceiling to 45,000 is 'absurd'
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Pope's trip to Burma comes amid 'textbook example of ethnic cleansing'
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
Trump administration drops refugee cap to 45,000
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Cardinal Parolin: Iraqi Christians are called to be 'artisans' of reconciliation
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Who started the fight at San Jose Sikh Temple
(Sikh Sangat News)
Iranian parents face difficult decision in child education
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)
When the parents are white, the child is black, and the churches are segregated
(Leah Donnella, NPR)
Meet Pakistan's modern middle class
(Ammara Maqsood, The New York Times)
First Anglican same-sex marriage in UK takes place in Scotland
(Christian Today staff writer, Christian Today)
Australia asks for international prayer to protect marriage
(James Cordon, Christian News Wire)
Is this the beginning of the end for Idlib's jihadi groups?
(Mona Alami, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Iraqi citizens' sentiment may be softening toward Israel
(Adnan Abu Zeed, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Myanmar Rohingya hatred has roots in Buddhist nationalism
(Grant Peck, Religion News Service)
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