Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 1 September 2017
Turkey charges US pastor as ‘spy’; conviction would mean life in prison
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
Sudan church leader re-arrested, with at least 6 more, over government pressure for property
(World Watch Monitor)
Family imprisoned, tortured for fleeing North Korea – and for their Christian faith
(World Watch Monitor)
Kano, Nigeria: father and son killed, three women and a baby kidnapped
(World Watch Monitor)
Talaq to be part of curriculum in madrassas: Sunni sect Dargah
(PTI, The Indian Express)
Talaq order has implications for Sabarimala rule on women’s entry, says Indira Jaising
(The Indian Express)
All’s well that ends well: India Supreme Court's "triple talaq" decision
(Tahir Mahmood, The Indian Express)
Korean Red Cross president works on humanitarian impact of divided country
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Inter-faith relations: Attitudes to Islam in Europe are hardening
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Russian chief mufti calls on Muslims to pray for Russia's prosperity
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian tourist jailed for 7 months in Myanmar for refusing to take off shoes in temple
(Interfax-Religion)
Over 200,000 Muslims attend Kurban Bayram prayer in Moscow
(Interfax-Religion)
Putin speaks of Muslims' role in social life in Kurban Bayram greetings
(Interfax-Religion)
Will Trump change FEMA rule barring aid to synagogues?
(Josh Nathan-Kazis, Forward)
Israeli government must reinstate Western Wall deal or explain why it won’t, Supreme Court orders
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Berlin Jews don’t get why mayor is on Wiesenthal Center’s anti-Semite list
(Toby Axelrod, Forward)
Turmoil in Venezuela to vie for Pope’s attention in Colombia
(Joshua Goodman and Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Catholic Church and government in Goa, India, exchange accusations
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Florida school district faces allegations of sweeping church-state violations
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
This is what it’s like to be a Jehovah’s Witness in Russia
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Mosque’s men only prayer canceled amid exclusion complaints
(Philip Marcelo, Associated Press)
2nd New Mexico Christian sect leader accused of child abuse
(Russell Contreras, Associated Press)
'Deeply worrying' fears around Muslims and Islam revealed in damning report
(Steven Hopkins, Huff Post UK)
Why aren't Uyghur Muslims in China allowed to go to Hajj?
(Aydin Anwar, TRT World)
Pastors arrested in Sudan as government moves to take over church
(Evangelical Focus)
Illinois Catholic schools set to receive support through new scholarship tax credit program
(Michael J. O'Loughlin, America Magazine)
New Illinois law creates scholarship tax credit program that includes religious schools
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Challenge that blocked first Trump travel ban is settled
(Nicholas Kulish, The New York Times)
Challenge to first travel ban is settled
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Illinois creates Muslim American Advisory Council
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Texas governor declares Day of Prayer in aftermath of hurricane
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Press release of the Wilberforce Foundation (same-sex marriage in Australia) - full text
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
U.S. service members, gay rights groups ask judge to halt Trump transgender ban
(Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post)
Why Turkey’s president cares so much about an 11th-century battle
(Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post)
What language tells us about changing attitudes to extremism
(Josie Ryan, The Conversation)
Kenya targets WhatsApp administrators in its fight against hate speech
(Mercy Muendo, The Conversation)
The mysterious drop in the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean
(James McAuley, The Washington Post)
Religion at state expense: SC verdice in the Gujarat shrines compensation case raises important questions
(Faizan Mustafa, The Indian Express)
Hyperbole, politics, weigh down religious liberty debates
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))
Religious Liberty Advocate says female genital mutilation is not religious freedom
(Matt Hadro, Catholic Online)
Religious practices are protected only as long as they do not run counter to law: HC
(Mohamed Imranullah S., The Hindu)
New Illinois Human Rights Act amendment on religious accommodations: What does it mean for Illinois employers?
(The National Law Review)
As State Department reorganizes, what will be the fate of religious freedom office?
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Evolution and Islam: Turkey's hot back-to-school story and (let's work it in) the specter of jihad
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
On the Nashville Statement, one national newspaper offers less slanted coverage than another
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Spirituality gone awry in India: what is Dera Sacha Sauda, and who is its jailed leader?
(Swati Parashar, The Conversation)
The European Parliament's watchdog on freedom of religion or belief: Bark or bite?
(FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
In Response to Persecution: Essays from the Under Caesar’s Sword Project
(Daniel Philpott and Timothy Samuel Shah, Religious Freedom Institute)
Making a Case For Religious Freedom and America's National Security
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Prison Credentials: A Reflection for Easter 2017
(Christian Van Gorder, Religious Freedom Institute: Under Caesar's Sword)
The Importance of Building and Sustaining a Culture of Religious Freedom: Lessons from Nigeria and Kenya
(Fr. Robert Dowd, Religious Freedom Institute)
Past and Present Challenges to Religious Freedom in Pakistan
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Thursday, 31 August 2017
Will Christianity Survive in the Middle East? A Christian Perspective
(Kent R. Hill, Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy)
Religious education in public schools: joint presentation before the Supreme Court of Argentina
(Migrants, ESCR & Other Rights)
Iraq says Tal Afar ‘fully liberated’ from Islamic State
(Sinan Salaheddein, Associated Press Top News)
Boats carrying fleeing Rohingya sink in Bangladesh; 26 dead
(Tofayel Ahmed and Julhas Alam, Associated Press International News)
Burma: The world’s ‘most friendless people’ are under assault yet again
(Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post)
CHP Justice Assembly serves to undermine FETÖ trials, AK Party says
(Daily Sabah)
India: Religion at state expense
(Faizan Mustafa, Kashmir Monitor)
Pences pray with Hurricane Harvey victims
(Jonathan Easley, The Hill)
Two ISIL members plotting terror attacks in Moscow region on Eid al-Adha
(Interfax-Religion)
Houston mosques open doors to shelter Harvey evacuees
(Doug Criss, CNN)
Masterpiece Cakeshop: Can the State force us to agree with its views?
(Jonathan Scruggs, National Review)
Pork, school lunches and laïcité in Chalon-sur-Saône
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The nuns fighting the pipeline lost their case in court. But they aren’t giving up.
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)
Study: Katharine Hayhoe is successfully convincing doubtful evangelicals about climate change
(Dana Nuccitelli, The Guardian)
European Jewish Congress slams Poland’s ‘lack of concern’ over anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Protesters chant about killing Jews at Netherlands rally
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Lithuania uses concentration camp where 5,000 Jews are buried for military training
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Forward)
Spain's Muslims see hatred spike since Barcelona attacks
(Hagar Jobse, Deutsche Welle)
China: Priests, laypeople injured defending church property
(Catholic News Service)
‘Shalom alechem!’ Pope Francis greets rabbis at the Vatican, praises ‘fruitful dialogue’
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Illinois’ new education funding measure includes tax credits for religious school tuition
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Iceland capital's only Baptist pastor doesn't want Down Syndrome eliminated
(Gunnar Ingi Gunnarsson, Christianity Today)
Court rules Congregational church owns historic cemetery
(William F. Galvin, The Cape Cod Chronicle)
Church, not town, owns cemetery
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Americans United and Fairness West Virginia announce settlement for W. Va. same-sex couple harassed by Gilmer County Clerk
(Press Release, Americans United)
West Virginia county settles suit by lesbian couple who were harassed by clerk
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
More than 1.7 million Muslims gather for start of hajj
(Omar Akour and Ahmed Hatem, Associated Press International News)
Technology is changing Hajj
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Hajj pilgrimage entangled in web of Saudi politics
(Ata Batrawy, Religion News Service)
Iraq’s Sunnis wrestle with militants’ religious legacy
(Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press International News)
So few Muslim women wear the burqa in Europe that banning it is a waste of time
(Nilufar Ahmed, The Conversation)
Torched villages, dead civilians, squalid refugee camps: Myanmar’s Rakhine state is caught in a cycle of horrific violence. Here’s why
(Jonathan Kaiman, The Los Angeles Times)
Taj Mahal is Muslim tomb not Hindu temple, Indian court told
(Amrit Dhillon, The Guardian)
Tajikistan: Conscientious objector's military trial imminent
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Evolving interfaith movement faces new challenges
(David Briggs, Association of Religion Data Archives (the ARDA))
Majority support for minority rights in Pakistan
(Muhammad Akram, Religious Freedom Institute)
Pakistan verdict on Bhutto assassination angers supporters
(Munir Ahmed, Associated Press International News)
China is urging women to quit their jobs, focus on family
(Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch)
Child in fostering row 'should live with non-practising Muslim' grandmother
(Kevin Rawlinson, Jamie Grierson and Graham Ruddick, The Guardian)
Kay Goldsworthy to be Australia's first female Anglican archbishop
(Australian Associated Press, The Guardian)
Churches offer sanctuary to asylum seekers left homeless by Coalition cuts
(Ben Doherty, The Guardian)
Why the rise of the robots could allow humans to flourish again
(Giles Fraser, The Guardian)
Church plans interfaith alliance
(The Times of India)
John Howard says religious freedom should be protected before marriage equality survey
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
Same-sex marriage: John Howard wants more detail on religious exemptions ahead of same-sex marriage survey
(Sabra Lane and Stephanie Dalzell, ABC Online)
The Religious Problem with Religious Freedom
(Robert Joustra, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)
Revealed: who supports marriage equality in Australia – and who doesn’t
(Francisco Perales and Alice Campbell, The Conversation)
England is now more pro-immigrant – but it’s more Islamophobic too
(Phil McDuff, The Guardian)
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