Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 31 August 2017
After 500 years, Europe’s Reformation scars have all but healed, study finds
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Catholic school who removed statues says 'controversy' was made up
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Religious groups responding to Hurricane Harvey
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
My PhD in hate: Scientologist Bodhi Elfman stands against bigotry
(Bodhi Elfman, World Religion News)
Sean Spicer finally gets to meet the pope
(Jill Colvin and Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
Pope asks world leaders to listen to ‘cry of the Earth’
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
How Houston’s rain became ‘biblical’
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Nigerian clergy demand compensation for churches destroyed by Boko Haram
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Evangelical leaders try to hold the line on gender
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Tajik youth organization ready to combat alien morals and customs
(Interfax-Religion)
Attorneys: West Virginia clerk apologizes to lesbian couple
(Michael Virtanen, Associated Press - U.S. News)
More than 150 evangelical religious leaders sign 'Christian manifesto' on human sexuality
(Holly Meyer, USA Today)
What is the Nashville Statement and why are people talking about it?
(Holly Meyer, USA Today Network - Tennessee)
The oft forgotten story of religion's influence on families and society
(Janet Erickson, The Wheatley Institution)
Explainer: what is antifa, and where did it come from?
(Troy Whitford, The Conversation)
Why so many Indians support men like the recently convicted guru
(Swati Gupta and Vidhi Doshi, The Washington Post)
Pope will put ‘soul’ into Colombia’s peace process
(Inés San Martín, The Tablet)
U.S. Muslims are religiously observant, but open to multiple interpretations of Islam
(Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
As artificial intelligence advances, what are its religious implications?
(Ellen Duffer, Religion & Politics: Fit for Polite Company)
Pagans demand return of church buildings 'stolen' 1,300 years ago
(Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph)
Islamic theology in Germany: Spanning the divide
(Arnfrid Schenk, Qantara.de)
Burkas are political symbols not Islamic ones, Muslim scholar says
(Siobhan Hegarty, Religion and Ethics Report)
Vatican and Moscow are closing up as they are afraid of Europe's Islamization
(Interfax-Religion)
UN committee criticizes Russia for rights violations
(Portal-Credo.Ru, Russia Religion News)
Violence involving Myanmar's Rohingya on the rise again in northern Rakhine
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Members of unidentified religion reject medical aid for daughter
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Protestant church fined because of inadequate signs
(Religiia i Pravo, Russia Religion News)
Peter Henne on religion-state relations and counterterrorism (podcast)
(Research on Religion)
Ukraine readies for record pilgrimage of 40,000 Jews to Uman
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Jews help rebuild Florida mosque burned in hate crime attack
(Daniel J. Solomon, Forward)
Catholic Benefits Association presses Trump to end contraceptive mandate
(Kurt Jensen, Catholic News Service)
Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew to issue joint environmental statement
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Mass returns to Mosul, after the Iraqi city is liberated from the Islamic State
(Catholic News Agency)
El Paso bishop joins Catholic educators in fighting to save DACA
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Streamlined State Dept will retain anti-Semitism office, expand religious freedom ambassador’s role
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Statement by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on military service by transgender individuals
(Press Release, U.S. Department of Defense)
Mattis will take time implementing Trump's policy on transgenders in military
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Transgender ban frozen as Mattis moves forward with new review of options
(Dan Lamothe, The Washington Post)
Plaintiffs to appeal Boyertown transgender policy ruling
(María Salazar, WFMZ-TV News)
Preliminary injunction denied to students opposed to transgender bathroom access policy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Appeals panel sides with Lincoln in religious fliers lawsuit
(Lori Pilger, Lincoln Journal Star)
8th Circuit: OK to ban religious leafleting on plaza of sports arena
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
An unusual prisoner case finds NGE should be held to be a religion
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
7th Circuit: Illinois may apply education laws to Bible colleges
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Turning point for India: Supreme Court’s triple talaq judgment sets the country on course to a uniform civil code
(Baijayant 'Jay' Panda, The Times of India)
How corporate CEOs found their political voice
(Jerry Davis, The Conversation)
Sex-trafficked Nigerian teens: Why so little reporting on religious roots of this tragedy?
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
An indispensable man (Mike Cromartie did more to ensure that American political journalism is imbued with religious tolerance, biblical literacy, historical insight, and an ecumenical spirit than any person alive)
(Carl M. Cannon, Real Clear Politics)
Memory eternal! DC loses Michael Cromartie, who loved both sides of the First Amendment
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
‘Let Muslims practise their religion in prison’
(Donstan Bonn, Daily Express)
Rex Tillerson's State Department is scrapping key Obama-era religious programs
(Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon, Huffington Post)
State Department to keep anti-Semitism envoy but scrap many others
(Mark Kellner, Religion News Service)
Cardinal Wuerl joins interfaith leaders in urging president and members of Congress to support DACA program
(Catholic Standard)
Interfaith leaders declare cigarette haram, argue for price increase
(Ardi Wirdana, Indonesia Expat)
As Sudan seeks sanctions relief, U.S. presses religious freedom
(Lesley Wroughton, Reuters)
NDPers tying themselves in knots to defend the niqab: DiManno
(Rosie Dimanno, Toronto Star)
A Church Near You – Update
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Evangelicals’ ‘Nashville Statement’ denouncing same-sex marriage is rebuked by city’s mayor
(Samantha Schmidt, The Washington Post)
Hungary extends state of emergency due to migrant crisis
(Associated Press International News)
A Nazi eagle inflames a heated debate in Uruguay
(Leonardo Haberkorn, Associated Press Religion)
Former loyalists lose faith in Myanmar’s democracy icon
(Denis D. Gray, Associated Press Top News)
Japan’s deputy prime minister retracts Hitler comment after criticism
(Asia Times)
Cambodian clampdown yields a deafening silence
(David Hutt, Asia Times)
Where are the condemnations of Harvey as God’s punishment?
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Germany's Merkel admonishes other European nations for not accepting more refugees
(Erik Kirschbaum, The Los Angeles Times)
The liberal endgame
(Elliot Milco, First Things)
Scandal erupts over the promotion of ‘bourgeois’ behavior
(Heather MacDonald, National Review)
PTL and the history of American evangelicalism
(John Wigger, OUPblog Religion)
Treaty Interpretation and The Child in International Refugee Law
(Eirik Bjorge, EJIL: Talk!)
Consistory court evidence or “Call My Bluff”: Episode 1
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Turkey purge in the past 30 days: 922 dismissed, 1711 detained, 998 jailed over coup charges
(Turkey Purge)
Tuesday, 29 August 2017
Foster-care and “the religious background of the child”
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Supreme Court Preview: Blockbuster cases likely to deliver a contentious, consequential fall term
(Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle, National Law Journal)
Religious liberty congress passes resolutions, honors advocates
(Libna Stevens, Adventist News Network)
The left is alienating its allies by shutting down free speech
(Debra W. Soh, CBC News | Opinion)
Lantos Foundation successfully lobbies to keep anti-Semitism envoy
(Katrina Lantos Swett, President, Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice)
Religious freedom and holocaust envoys escape State Department cuts
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Diaspora Jews now have their own religious pre-military academy
(Anna Ahronheim, Jerusalem Post)
Israeli Arab 'Christian convert' asylum-seeker in UK did not know about Easter, judge says
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Kazakhstan: 22nd known 2017 criminal conviction
(Forum 18 News Service)
Tuesday round-up (Including mention of Arlene’s Flowers and Masterpiece Cakeshop)
(Andrew Hamm, SCOTUSblog)
Police raid Jehovah's Witnesses' picnic in south of Russia
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Israeli ministry drops opposition to adoption by same-sex couples
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
NY judge blocks demolition of historic Brooklyn synagogue
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Hungarian monument to Jewish Holocaust victims smashed
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
‘Hitler was a good man!’ attacker targets Orthodox girls in London
(Ari Feldman, Forward)
Bishop apologizes for procession of Hindu deity in a Catholic church
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
L.A. Archbishop: ‘Deportation alone is not an immigration policy’
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Poll finds majority of Australian Catholics back same-sex marriage
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Focusing on inclusion: Dr. Luiz Loures, UNAIDS
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
DOJ argues Trump Executive Order on Johnson Amendment lacks meaningful impact
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Why Muslims celebrate Eid twice a year: 6 questions answered
(Ken Chitwood, The Conversation)
Non-pork meals must be available for school lunch, rules French court
(Kim Willsher, The Guardian)
French court says school must offer Muslim children an alternative to pork at lunch
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
ACLU challenges Trump administration’s transgender military ban
(Justin Jouvenal, The Washington Post)
Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN sue President Trump to reverse transgender military service ban
(Lambda Legal)
Suit challenges Trump ban on transgender individuals in military
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Trump implements continued ban on transgender enlistment in military
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pressure mounts to remove Confederate symbols from Episcopal institutions
(David Paulsen, Episcopal News Service)
Chile: the long road to abortion reform
(Cordelia Freeman, The Conversation)
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