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Thursday, 14 September 2017

Season of culture unites Jerusalem
(Debra Kamin, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)

The rise and fall of Israel's ultra-Orthodox party
(Mazal Mualem, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Israeli legislator quits in dispute over nephew's gay wedding
(Reuters Staff, Reuters)

Assisted dying laws to be debated in New South Wales and Victoria
(Gay Alcorn and Melissa Davey, The Guardian)

DACA to end March 2018
(Beth Stolicker, Mission Network News)

Hurricane Irma reminds a confused nation of human worth
(Leah Hickman, Christian Headlines)

New film about the Apostle Paul will star James Faulkner and Jim Caviezel
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)

Conservative Christians’ anti-marriage equality lines ‘betray gospel of grace’, says reverend
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)

We need more analysis and less emotion in the marriage equality debate
(Bede Harris, The Guardian)

Fr Tom: Jesus was with me every day I was held captive
(World Watch Monitor)

Over 1,700 meals donated by Scientology volunteer ministers in Florida
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)

Singapore's first female president will be Muslim
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

Stunning destruction of Jehovah's Witnesses' religious rights in Russia
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

Most US Jews oppose Trump but the Orthodox stick with him
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Bahrain and Jewish rights group lead effort to call out extremist clergy
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

“Paths of peace”: The Sant’Egidio interreligious gathering in Münster and Osnabrück, Germany
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Latin Mass fans celebrate 10-year anniversary, without pope
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)

Trump to hold conference call despite boycott by many Jewish leaders
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Services)

Interfaith coalition says ‘no principled basis’ for Trump’s travel ban
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

College of Bishops residential meeting
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

UN experts urge India to act after slaying of journalist who fought Hindu extremism
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

CSLR Fellow Berner discusses educational pluralism on podcast
(Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University)

Fire at Malaysian boarding school kills 24, mostly students
(Russell Goldman, The New York Times)

German police: Antisemitism is possible cause for attacks on synagogue
(Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post)

Russian movie chain won't show Tsar 'affair' film after threats from Christian hardliners
(James Macintyre, Christian Today World)

Russian police ready to curb provocations, ensure security of Matilda film viewers
(Interfax-Religion)

Jehovah's Witnesses ask presidium of Supreme Court to void liquidation
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)

The Senate must act now to save Christianity in Iraq
(Carl Anderson, The Hill)

When the U.S. Government tried to fight Communism with Buddhism
(Joe Freeman, Politico Magazine)

A Yom Kippur tradition in Amsterdam dates back to the invention of electricity
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Animal rights group sues police for not stopping Yom Kippur chicken-swinging ritual
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Leftist Jewish youth groups in Rio boycott Israeli folk dance festival
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Trump invites Orthodox, but not Jewish groups who snubbed him, to High Holidays conference call
(Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Netanyahu to meet with US Jewish leaders
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Muslim group honors Jews for empowering Muslims
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Cardinal Dieudonne Nzapalainga: Religion is misused in Central African Republic conflict
(Christoph Strack, Deutsche Welle)

What's the right way to ask a political candidate about his or her faith?
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)

Discussion focuses on civility, tolerance as key to religious freedom
(Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service)

A discussion with Rokhaya Thiam, midwife and president of a women's dahira
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Law prof’s raise of $666 wasn’t an unconstitutional sign of the devil, appeals court finds
(Karen Sloan, law.com)

6th Circuit rejects law prof's claim that $666 raise was retaliatory as "mark of the beast"
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Archdiocese of Santa Fe publicly names priests accused of molestation
(Andrew Oxford, Santa Fe New Mexican)

Santa Fe Diocese releases list of priests found guilty of sex abuse
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Municipality prevails in dispute over personal chapel
(Evan Seeman, RLUIPA Defense)

A gloss on the BCP
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Anti-Sharia laws exploit Islamophobia in the United States
(Dan Kopf and Annalisa Merelli, Quartz)

Top EU Court says unilateral divorce by sharia must not be recognised
(Vanguard)

After Montana church vandalized with swastika, parish responds with pink hearts, messages of love
(David Paulsen, Episcopal News Service)

Does Orthodox explosion signal doom for Conservative and Reform?
(Steven M. Cohen, Mickey Gussow, and Edieal Pinker, Forward)

EVENT, 14-15 September 2017: Lutherans and Catholics, Then and Now
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

EVENT, 14 September 2017: One-day Conference. The Reformation Revisited: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to Law (keynotes Richard Helmholz and David McIlroy)
(Sponsors Cardiff University, Law & Justice, Center for Law and Religion, Heythrop College, Kensington, London)

EVENT, 14 September 2017: Freedom of Religion or Belief in 2017: A Dream for Unrepresented Nationas and Peoples? Geneva, Switzerland
(Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization (UNPO.org))

EVENT, 11-22 September 2017: OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
(OSCE Office for Democratic Insitutions and Human Rights (ODIHR))

Wednesday, 13 September 2017

Case Commentary on Shayara Bano v. Union of India
(Vedant Churi, GLC Mag)

Indonesian woman caned after adultery conviction in Aceh sharia court
(Samantha Hawley, ABC News (Australia))

Vladimir Putin's Christianity is a facade, says expelled US missionary
(Harry Farley, Christianity Today UK)

Lawyer who lost 1995 gay rights case says Justice Department's reliance in 'Masterpiece Cake' is misplaced
(Maria Coyle, Naitonal Law Journal)

Umayyad Mosque in Syria's Aleppo to be restored with Kadyrov Fund money
(Interfax-Religion)

FJCR building in suspected Molotov cocktail attack
(Interfax-Religion)

Firebomb hurled at Russian Jewish group’s Moscow offices
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Russian Federation’s illegal ban on the Jehovah’s Witnesses
(Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)

Islamic groups in Germany publish election survey for Muslim voters
(Deutsche Welle)

LDS Church, 22 Utah senators back Colorado baker in Supreme Court case
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News Faith)

Another statue of St. Junipero Serra vandalized in California
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Massive drops in migration to Italy bring Libya’s problems to light
(Justin Salhani, Al Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)

For the first time, the papal nuncio to Italy is not Italian
(Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency)

Why are opposing sides in U.S., Europe cheering Pope on immigration?
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

How Pope Francis reframes the politics of being ‘Prolife’
(John Gehring, Commonweal)

Anti-Semitism in Charlottesville
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Charlottesville: Reflections from a Jewish leader and former ambassador (Anti-Semitism in Charlottesville)
(David Saperstein, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

State Dept plan to end Religion and Global Affairs office critiqued by former director
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Lawmakers force Trump to formally condemn white supremacists
(Kyle Cheney, Politico)

Congress sends joint resolution condemning hate groups to President
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Remarks by President Trump and Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak of Malaysia before bilateral meeting
(Office of the Press Secretary, The White House)

Malaysian Prime Minister urges Trump to support moderate Muslim regimes
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

High Court strikes down law that postponed ultra-Orthodox draft
(Times of Israel)

Christian florist: Gay couples have 'every right to live the way they believe,' Christians want the same freedom
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Israel's High Court strikes down 2015 law on draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Haredi Orthodox lawmaker resigns from Knesset after coming under fire for attending same-sex wedding
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Mexican Jews welcome Netanyahu — despite backing for Trump’s wall
(Daniel J. Solomon, Forward)

Netanyahu's son Yair draws fire after posting 'antisemitic cartoon'
(Peter Beaumont, The Guardian)

‘Emerging’ Jewish groups cheer Israeli plan to ease visa requirements
(Sam Kestenbaum, Forward)

Catholic leaders decry Dems’ questioning of judicial pick
(Kevin Freking, Associated Press)

Australian Christian Lobby not worried about marriage campaign vilification law
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)

AP offers reaction piece about the 'loud dogma' story that it didn't cover the first time around
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Trump budget deal funds Planned Parenthood
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)

5 major Christian groups lobbying for Congress to replace DACA
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

The first Brexit was theological: The untold story of Queen Elizabeth I’s alliance with the Islamic world—and what Theresa May could learn from it today
(Jerry Brotton, The Atlantic)

'Attacks on religious liberty' in US increased 133 percent in last 5 years
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

UN: Poverty, abuse of power, push young Africans into violent extremism
(Lisa Schlein, VOA)

Catholic sexual abuse partly caused by secrecy and mandatory celibacy, report finds
(Melissa Davey, The Guardian)

Rights organizations rally to reveal fate of Syria’s disappeared
(Florence Massena, Al Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)

Shiite iconography electrifies Iranians on Syria
(Fazel Hawramy, Al Monitor: Iran Pulse)

Egypt unwavering to US pressure over North Korea
(Amr Eltohamy, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

Why do Sikhs wear turbans? You asked Google – here’s the answer
(Vivek Chaudhary, The Guardian)

In travel-ban case, justices block lower-court ruling on refugee admissions
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)

Supreme Court sides with Trump on key piece of travel ban
(Chris Cassiday, Boston Herald)

Councils must act to combat destitution: Seven Anglican bishops protest against the closure of local welfare assistance schemes
(Letters, The Guardian)

This baker’s Supreme Court case could set tone of religious liberty in U.S.
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)

Texas preacher challenges Christian traditions
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

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