Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Michigan official stands by call for killing of all Muslims
(Associated Press)
Voice and authority of religion is key in fight against extremism, says UN chief
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Bulgarian Foreign Minister: 'The state and the church have a common responsibility to educate in understanding, tolerance and love'
(Novinite Sofia News Agency)
Metropolitan Hilarion is sure that Putin's meeting with Trump will help save lives in the Middle East
(Interfax-Religion)
Imams to combat TB in Kyrgyzstan
(Interfax-Religion)
Ukrainian parliament tries new approach to Russian church
(RISU, Russia Religion News)
Russia: Jehovah’s Witnesses banned after Supreme Court rejects appeals
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Ukrainian Orthodox alarmed by law proposed in Kiev
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Police chaplains take a stronger role in community policing
(Associated Press)
Abbas’ Fatah party calls for ‘day of rage’ following Temple Mount clashes
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Vatican nominee tells Senate panel Trump wants to be ‘environmental leader’
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Rohingya villagers tell media of abuses during army crackdown
(Simon Lewis, Reuters)
Philippine rebels: Peace pact ‘best antidote’ for extremism
(Jim Gomez, Associated Press)
Bishops of India host meeting to combat threats to secularism
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Religious freedom research project Summer 2017 fellowship reports
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The moderates’ dilemma: Obstacles to countering violent extremism (Religious freedom research project Summer 2017 fellowship reports)
(Kerry Persen, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Prophetic models, Islamic jurisprudence, and the question of blasphemy (Religious freedom research project Summer 2017 fellowship reports)
(Matthew Anderson, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Watch the House committee debate over defunding IRS enforcement of the Johnson Amendment
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
USCIRF issues report on women's rights and religious freedom
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pro-life pregnancy centers challenge Hawaii law requiring health facilities to promote abortions
(Jardine Malado, Christian Times)
Suit challenges Hawaii's notice mandate for pro-life pregnancy centers
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
High school students sue after anti-abortion club rejected
(Associated Press, US News & World Report)
How the social gospel movement explains the roots of today’s religious left
(Christopher H. Evans, The Conversation)
Son of 'Da Vinci Code'? 'Symbols' in Vatican-linked political blast cry out for translation
(Mark Kellner, GetReligion)
Not all evangelicals are white (true). What about Democrats who don't like religious groups?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
In Niagara Falls, a 'church for atheists' – and everyone else
(Anne Neville, The Buffalo News)
Party members told to give up religion for Party unity or face punishment
(Liu Caiyu, Global Times)
Mayawati accuses BJP of caste, religion-based politics
(Business Standard)
Militancy rising due to poverty, misinterpretation of religion
(Ashraful Islam, Prothom Alo)
Jesus is king for Poland's new rulers
(Marek Strzelecki and Dorota Bartyzel, Bloomberg Businessweek)
Church opposes new plans to regulate religious practice in South Africa
(Russell Pollitt, S.J., America, the Jesuit Review)
Is religion at work still taboo? Not everywhere
(Francesca Fontana, The Wall Street Journal)
Interfaith forgiveness conference meets in Jerusalem
(Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel 21C)
What is common for churches, BJP, a former top cop and High Court in Kerala?
(Anusha Ravi, One India)
Global religious harassment increases
(Eleanor Cain, The Daily Universe)
Saudi woman who wore skirt in viral video has been arrested, state television reports
(Adam Taylor, The Washington Post)
Monday, 17 July 2017
The will to fight: Two documentaries probe Myanmar’s religious strife
(M.C., The Economist)
British doctors’ union stages a vote to decriminalise abortion
(Peter Saunders, MercatorNet)
Irish Supreme Court indirectly recognises polygamy
(Angelo Bottone, MercatorNet)
Hinduism and its complicated history with cows (and people who eat them)
(Wendy Doniger, The Conversation)
Catholic nuns in Pa. build a chapel to block the path of a gas pipeline planned for their property
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)
Mormonism’s Russia dilemma: How to grow a fledgling faith with missionaries who can’t do missionary work.
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Vatican UN envoy: recognizing religion’s public dimension can combat extremism
(Catholic Culture)
Eugene Peterson, RNS and gay marriage: Wave good-bye to clarity and objectivity
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
The survival of a Southern Baptist who dared to oppose Trump: Russell Moore was the most prominent anti-Trump voice in his denomination. It almost cost him his job.
(Chris Moody, CNN)
Thinking about the past: CNN reporter follows his own roots into SBC's Russell Moore wars
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
IDs for Muslims? a Philippine town's response to terror says a lot about interfaith relations
(Amir Mawallil, South China Morning Post)
CAN calls for more religious dialogue to curb conflicts
(PM News)
DICID to work with Liberia Embassy
(The Peninsula)
Why religious freedom and diversity flourished in early America
(Meilan Solly, Smithsonian.com)
In Argentina’s religious freedom row, politics makes strange bedfellows
(Ines San Martin, Crux)
India’s religious, spiritual leaders urge rule of law to restore peace and communal harmony
(Vatican Radio)
Anti-Semitic crime at highest recorded level in British history, study finds
(JTA)
British survey of anti-Semitic crime finds overall increase for 2016, but fewer violent crimes
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Kansas court says no appeal on vaccination order for children in state custody
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Prejudice? Lawsuit claims Bay View religious requirement is discriminatory
(Arielle Hines, Petoskey (MI) News-Review)
Suit challenges Christian-only ownership rules in Chautauqua cottage community
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Québec: may a Jew be compelled not to work on Saturdays?
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Jewish hairdresser who was fired over Sabbath spat wins legal case
(Vicky Fragasso-Marquis, The Canadian Press)
Quebec tribunal finds discrimination when Jewish owner enforces Jewish practice on Jewish employees
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Arlene’s Flowers owner wants U.S. Supreme Court to review discrimination ruling
(Kristin M. Kraemer, Tri-City Herald)
SCOTUS review sought in florist's refusal to sell for same-sex wedding
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
California can’t duck Hindu students’ claim of educational bias
(Nicholas Iovino, Courthouse News Service)
Establishment Clause challenge to portrayal of Hinduism in California schools may proceed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Christian refugees to U.S. outnumber Muslim refugees so far in 2017
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ministerial exception applies to Catholic school principal, 2nd Circuit rules
(Andrew Denney, New York Law Journal)
2nd Circuit: Ministerial exception requires dismissal of sex discrimination claim by Catholic school principal
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks at the 2017 Hate Crimes Summit
(U.S. Department of Justice)
Attorney General Sessions speaks at hate crimes summit
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Appeals court tells Rowan County to find another way to pray
(Michael Gordon and Lavendrick Smith, Charlotte Observer)
4th Circuit en banc: Rowan County's invocation practice violates Establishment Clause
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sunday, 16 July 2017
July 16: Jeff Sessions speaks to Alliance Defending Freedom, more Christian refugees admitted
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
Latino Muslims find home at mosque led by Cambodian refugees
(Caitlin Yoshiho Kandl, NBC News)
EVENT, 16-21 July 2017: 'What *should* religious freedom entail?'
(XXVIIIth World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Lison, Portugal (16-21 July 2017))
Law and religion round-up – 16th July
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The Sufis: Islam’s anti-terrorists
(Robert Carle, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
Saturday, 15 July 2017
Church, State and Social Science in Ireland review: a welcome addition to JH Whyte’s groundbreaking study
(Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times)
Chilean victims of ex-Nazi’s cult of horrors may finally get some answers
(Kyle Swenson, The Washington Post)
Church community rallies around North Carolina pastor seeking sanctuary from deportation
(Edgar Zúñiga, Jr., NBC News)
Satanic monument in Belle Plaine prompts weekend rallies of protest, support
(Erin Adler, Minneapolis Star Tribune)
“Mainline” churches are emptying. The political effects could be huge
(Lyman Stone, Vox)
Cuban pastor punished with 1-year heavy labor for homeschooling his children in evangelical faith
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post)
House rejects controversial study of Islam
(Rachael Bade and John Bresnahan, Politico)
Meet the Greeks who call Mount Olympus spiritual home
(Derek Gatopoulos and Costas Kantouris, Associated Press)
After 500 years, an Italian Jewish rebirth
(Michael Ledeen, Wall Street Journal)
Guam's Catholic church could sell 41 properties to settle clergy abuse cases
(Haidee V Eugenio, Pacific Daily News)
Sudan church council leader summoned before Criminal Court
(World Watch Monitor)
EVENT, 15-16 July 2017: 2nd Berlin Interfaith Music Festival - "Berliner Festival der Religionen" Werkstatt der Kulturen
(Faiths in Tune)
Download Free! The Collective Dimension of Freedom of Religion: A Case Study on Turkey
(Mine Yıldırım, Routledge)
One year after coup attempt, Turkey is still battling terrorism
(Ömür Budak, The Boston Globe [paywall])
The Post-Secular City and Varieties of Religious Musicality: Two Lectures by Paolo Costa at the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Vienna
(Center for Religious Studies of Foundation Bruno Kessler)
Hopes for the Estonian Presidency of the European Union
(Mgr Philippe Jourdan, Europeinfos: Christian perspectives on the EU)
Europe needs a rethink!
(Friedhelm Hengsbach SJ, Europeinfos: Christian perspectives on the EU)
The passing of Liu Xiaobo
(Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice)
Obituary: Liu Xiaobo, China’s leading human-rights campaigner
(The Economist)
The Latest: US appeals travel ban ruling to Supreme Court
(Associated Press Top News)
Federal government asks Supreme Court to clarify order in travel ban litigation
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)
Friday, 14 July 2017
Does the burqa have a future in Europe?
(Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic)
Refugees in Greece: Hope in the heart of a morass
(Cécile Deleplanque and Maurice Joyeux SJ, Europeinfos: Christian perspectives on the EU)
Travesty international: Turkey has arrested Amnesty International’s local director
(The Economist)
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