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Monday, 14 August 2017

Defending the Decalogue (again) in the latest Ten Commandments case at the Supreme Court
(Geoffrey Surtees, ACLJ)

Tunisia takes a big step to protect women from abuse
(Lilia Blaise, The New York Times)

What does Trump think about Putin's war on religion?
(Roman Lunkin, Newsweek)

Seventh Circuit rules no religious discrimination based on sprinkler requirement
(Evan Seeman, RLUIPA-Defense)

Houston sued over possible denial of benefits to gay spouses
(Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press, Star Tribune)

Kaliningrad authorities under pressure from islamophobes refused construction of a mosque
(The MiceTimes of Asia)

Dying with Dignity may challenge Ontario law exempting religious hospitals from offering assisted death
(Laura Fraser, CBC News)

Abolish the oath: moral prejudice against atheists may bias courtroom decisions
(Ryan McKay and Colin Davis, The Conversation)

At a site of Nazi terror, Muslim refugees reckon with Germany’s past
(Isaac Stanley-Becker and Alexandra Rojkov, The Washington Post)

Muslim women: Do their good stories get less news coverage than the bad ones?
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)

'Historic day' as Jordanian parliament repeals rape law
(Zena Tahhan, AlJazerra)

70 years later, survivors recall the horrors of India-Pakistan partition
(Vedhi Doshi and Nisar Mehdi, The Washington Post)

Suit seeks to protect eruv in New Jersey township
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

2nd Circuit: Pregnancy discrimination claim against synagogue can proceed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Judge wrongly relied on defendant's Christian religious background to enhance sentence
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Free Exercise claim against hospital over diet for daughter moves ahead
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

EVENT, 14 -18 August 2017: Migrants, Refugees and Religion: Global and Comparative Perspectives
(Radboud Summer School, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

A thought occasioned by Charlottesville
(Frank Cranmer & David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

LDS Church issues statement denouncing racism
(Deseret News Faith)

Sunday, 13 August 2017

Donald Trump, relativist in chief
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))

Evangelicals, Trump and the politics of redemption
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Column: On Faith and Culture)

What is the fate of foreign IS fighters in Iraq?
(Sara al-Qaher, trans. Sahar Ghoussoub, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

What's behind controversial Iraqi cleric's visit to Saudi Arabia?
(Hamdi Malik, trans. Sami-Joe Abboud, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Saturday, 12 August 2017

A religious procession of boats down a Louisiana bayou
(Associated Press)

Coalition of states files brief in Ten Commandments case
(Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press)

Court refuses to enforce arbitration award in church control dispute
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Devoutly Catholic Guam celebrates Mass amid N. Korea threat
(Associated Press)

McMaster and the challenge of sharia supremacism
(Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review)

Orthodox Jewish group sues town to keep religious markers
(Associated Press)

Religion, land bills passed
(The Telegraph India)

Rights clash looms in same-sex debate
(Konstantin Klein, The Weekend Australian)

The use of nuclear weapons is inherently evil
(Mark Galli, Christianity Today)

Tribal members 'seek justice' for sacred site leveled to widen U.S. 26
(Andrew Theen, The Oregonian)

Ukrainian rebels harass Jehovah's Witnesses
(Informator, Russia Religion News)

Waikato schools flout religion rules
(Donna-Lee Biddle, stuff.co.nz)

Flying Spaghetti Monster flock gets a fair shake in new Deutsche Welle report
(George Conger, GetReligion)

Friday, 11 August 2017

Some flocks grow, while others shrink: Yes, that's a big, complex, religion story. So there!
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Bulgarian imams are left without pay
(Novinite Sofia News Agency)

In Iraq's Former 'Triangle of Death,' a decade of stability: An anniversary of reconciliation in Mahmoudiya shows how peace is possible
(United States Institute of Peace)

Churches plead for dialogue and nonviolent resolution of conflict with North Korea
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Number of Russian Muslims to undertake hajj increases by 3,000, to 23,500 people, this year
(Interfax-Religion)

Jehovah's Witnesses defy ban
(Portal-credo.ru, Russia Religion News)

Catholic Relief Services looks to change concept of world’s orphanages
(Catholic News Service)

Polish Jews call out leading politicians for not fighting anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Israel to probe hospitals heard requiring women to get rabbis’ OK for sterilization
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Minority religious groups suffer in Iran
(Jeff Cimmino, National Review)

Synagogue employee claims she was fired for getting married while pregnant
(Reuters)

President of Canadian bishops calls for action against mining industry
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Houston City employees are fighting to uphold marriage equality in Texas
(Michael Barajas, The Observer)

Federal suit by Houston employees seeks to preserve benefits for same-sex couples
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Court rejects challenge to permit denial for outdoor weddings
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

In the ecosystem of rights, religious freedom foundational: Elder Christofferson speaks in Cambridge
(Mormon Newsroom)

In England, Elder Christofferson says religious freedom creates social, political diversity
(Tad Walch, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)

Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center Factank)

Russia: "Anti-missionary" punishments full listing
(Forum 18 News Service)

EVENT, 11-13 August 2017: The Political Life - First Things Intellectual Retreat in New York City

Thursday, 10 August 2017

Condoleezza Rice on removing Civil War monuments: 'Sanitizing history to make you feel better is a bad thing'
(Mike Miller, Independent Journal Review)

Saudi Arabia engages Iraq after a quarter century
(Bruce Pardy, Al-Monitor: Gulf Pulse)

Iran: Religious prisoner of conscience Maryam Naghash Zargaran released
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Using the ABS to conduct a same-sex marriage poll is legally shaky and lacks legitimacy
(Paul Kildea, The Conversation)

World Lutheran leader to get top German peace prize
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Priest from Yevpatoria asks to set up a nudist beach in Crimea
(Interfax-Religion)

Trial of Bible delayed again
(Portal-credo.ru, Russia Religion News)

Scholars criticize analysis of Jehovah's Witnesses' Bible
(Eduard Burmistrov, Open Russia)

Absurdity of lawsuit to find Jehovah's Witnesses' Bible "extremist"
(ReligioPolis Center for Religious Studies Research, Russia Religion News)

New experts drawn into trial of Bible
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)

Trump threatened ‘fire and fury.’ Here’s why to some that’s perfectly God-like
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post: Acts of Faith)

Newport congregation seeks rehearing in fight over Touro Synagogue ornaments
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Sydney synagogue blocked over terror fears will try again
(Henry Benjamin, Forward)

'Islam is in a transformative process'
(Claudia Mende, Deutsche Welle)

Missouri Catholics say pro-life law ‘most significant in a generation’
(Catholic News Service)

Kenyan bishops urge calm as opposition rejects early results
(Fredrick Nzwili, Catholic News Service)

Chaplain offers Mass aboard ship for Marines killed in crash of Osprey
(Catholic News Service)

Violence escalates in Congo after bishops’ peace deal collapses
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Transgender service members sue over planned ban on trans people in military
(Camila Domonoske, National Public Radio)

Suit challenges Trump's reversal of military policy on transgenders
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Lawsuit filed in connection with alleged 'KKK origami' found at Galveston school
(Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle)

Religious school asserts ecclesiastical abstention defense
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Kentucky man, transgender wife sue Amazon for workplace bias
(David Crary, The Washington Post)

Indian Christians alarmed at violence against religious minorities
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

‘Government has no stand on separate religion status for Veerashaiva-Lingayat community’
(The Indian Express)

Differences crop up over Lingayat religion tag
(Girish Pattaneshetty, The Hindu)

Putrajaya has failed kids caught in interfaith custody battles, say lawyers
(Melati A. Jalil and Yasmin Ramlan, The Malaysian Insight)

The rise of Nashville's interfaith culture
(Katherine Scheu, Tennessean)

After settlement, New Jersey town votes to approve mosque construction
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))

Colorado Sikhs ask for help from schools, Rep. Coffman, to combat bullying and intolerance
(Ramsey Scott, Aurora Sentinel)

Lasing side wants review in fight over oldest US synagogue
(Michelle R. Smith, Associated Press, US News & World Report)

Tech tycoon wants to punish 'wicked' foes of LGBT activism
(Katrina Willis, The Daily Signal)

Queensland’s evangelism ban can’t prevail against law
(Mark Fowler, The Australian)

I won’t back down on abortion, Foster tells pro-life group
(Ellen Coyne, The Times)

Wednesday, 9 August 2017

Could ‘British values’ anti-extremism push jeopardize Catholics?
(Catholic News Agency)

Canadian bishops say TWU case could have “profound impact” on religious organizations
(Deborah Gyapong, Catholic Register)

Pope orders Belgian religious order to stop euthanizing patients
(Simon Caldwell, Catholic Register)

New podcast on radicalisation
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)

Argument: India is weaponizing its spiritual tourists
(Raksha Kumar, Foreign Policy)

Trial of Jehovah's Witnesses' Bible resumes
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)

Does the faith ingredient improve educational outcomes?
(Tony Carnes, A Journey through NYC religions)

It’s idiotic to say a Congressman’s hijab painting violates the separation of Church and State
(Katherine Timpf, National Review)

Brazilian Jewish pol honors Muslim refugee assaulted with xenophobic slurs
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Germany detains suspected 'IS' member accused of war crimes in Syria
(Deutsche Welle)

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