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Friday, 14 July 2017

Bastille Day: Macron vows merciless fight against terror
(Associated Press, Daily News)

Special Feature: Summer Symposium on Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project and Trump v. Hawaii
(SCOTUSblog)

An introduction to the travel ban: In Plain English
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)

Youth feed 2000 homeless people every night in Uruguay
(Catholic News Agency)

Trump v. Hawaii
(Documents page, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: Understanding the Supreme Court’s equitable ruling in Trump v. IRAP
(Josh Blackman, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: When (if ever) may we consider religion at the border?
(Chris Hajec, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: The stays – a practical victory, a legal concern
(Lee Rudofsky, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: Overreaching judges imperil national security and weaken the Constitution
(John Malcolm, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: How the acting solicitor general (sort of) saved the travel ban
(Steve Vladeck, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: What would Hippocrates do?
(Frank Trinity, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: The mootness games
(Leah Litman, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: Could this be the end of plenary power?
(Margo Schlanger, SCOTUSblog)

Praying together, staying together: The axis between Russian Orthodox and American evangelicals is intact
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Rights advocates: Russia ignoring principles of the civilized world
(ReligioPolis, Russia Religion News)

Court: Commissioners' prayer practice violated Constitution
(Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press Religion)

Is a robot a person?
(Alessandro Calcagno, Europeinfos: Christian perspectives on the EU)

State policy blamed for negative attitudes toward Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia
(RBK, Russia Religion News)

Jehovah's Witnesses brace for court decision
(Novaya Gazeta, Russia Religion News)

Venezuela bishops accuse Maduro of seeking to install 'military dictatorship'
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Shariah’s winding path into modernity
(Mustafa Akyol, The New York Times)

Jerusalem’s top Muslim cleric detained following deadly Old City shooting
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Jewish mom of 6 jailed for contempt in marathon divorce
(Josh Nathan-Kazis, Forward)

Religious order welcomes gas pipeline opponents to pray at new ‘chapel’
(Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service)

NY ex-principal loses lawsuit, lawyers see win for religious freedom
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

In Ukraine, Vatican cardinal says there’s hope for the future
(Catholic News Agency)

Engage young adults, support Black Lives Matter, bishops told
(Catholic News Service)

House committee votes to keep provision defunding key church protection
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

ABC News: Christians who believe in the First Amendment are a 'hate group'
(Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist)

Here’s the speech Jeff Sessions delivered to Christian First Amendment lawyers
(The Federalist)

Court overturns ruling in lawsuit over inmate kosher diet
(Randall Chase, Associated Press)

AG Sessions speaks to conservative Christian advocacy group
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

District court broadens those still allowed entry under Trump's travel ban
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Grandparents win reprieve from Trump travel ban in federal court
(Miriam Jordan, The New York Times)

Open letter from USCIRF Vice Chair Sandra Jolley to Gulmira Imin on the 8th anniversary of her arrest
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Requiring repair, rather than demolition, for church’s violations of municipality’s property maintenance code may impose a substantial burden
(Diana Neeves, RLUIPA Defense)

Michigan outlaws FGM in package of bills signed by governor
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Gov. Rick Snyder signs legislation heightening penalties for those convicted of performing female genital mutilation
(Press Release, MIchigan.gov)

American doctor to travel to UK in Charlie Gard case
(Caroline Spiezo and Danica Kirka, Associated Press International News)

Charlie Gard: who is best placed to decide his fate?
(Nicholas Clapham, The Conversation)

How U.S. conservatives have changed the fight for Charlie Gard's future
(Kate Samuelson, Time World)

EVENT, 14 July 2017: How to stabilize Iraq after ISIS—and why it matters
(Nancy Lindborg, Ambassador Ekkehard Brose, Joseph Pennington, Sarhang Hamasaeed, United States Institute of Peace)

Liberation from militants leaves devastation in Mosul
(Susannah George, Associated Press International News)

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Intersex athletes: A showdown for rights — but for whom?
(Doug Robinson, Deseret News Sports)

Concert benefits Mormon-Muslim effort to help refugees escape lure of extremism
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)

European Union (Withdrawal) Bill published
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Historic England’s advice on metal theft and its aftermath
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Vatican-approved article criticizes conservative Catholic support of U.S. evangelical political agenda
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Interfaith leaders find common ground promoting Internet freedom
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)

Christian refugees landing in America over the previous decades are now targets for deportation
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

'Justice for all' in Turkey must include Kurds
(Pinar Tremblay, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Bishop lauds bill to fight human trafficking
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)

Resolving Article 140: Settling the issue of Iraq’s disputed territories ahead of an independence referendum for Kurdistan
(Megan Connelly and Matthew Barber, Syria Comment: Syrian Politics, History, and Religion)

How to gauge China’s development in its ethnic minority regions? Watch it light up from space
(Enze Han, The Conversation)

'This is not a good place for religion': China's Uighur Muslims struggle under 'police state'
(FirstPost)

China’s religious revival fuels environmental activism
(Javier C. Hernández, The New York Times)

Muslim refugees to US are declining as Christians overtake them
(Madeleine Buckley, Religion News Service)

Are Chinese Christians persecuted? Not exactly
(Richard Mouw, RNS Column: Civil Evangelicalism)

US Rights Commission holds hearing on religious freedom in Tibet
(Molly Lortie, The Tibet Post International)

Saudi Arabia boosting extremism in Europe, says former ambassador
(Patrick Wintour, The Guardian)

 Luther’s Revolution: The Reformation did a lot more than transform Christianity.
(Elizabeth Bruenig, The Nation)

Trump meets with supportive evangelical leaders
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Trump touts support from evangelicals, Putin friendship in Robertson interview
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)

Why Trump puts his faith in evangelicals
(Daniel Burke, CNN)

Anti-Semitism abroad serves Netanyahu's plan
(Akiva Eldar, translated by Ruti Sinai, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Eugene Peterson backtracks on same-sex marriage
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Column: On Faith and Culture)

Prayer app raises $2 million in funding
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)

The latest company being boycotted: Starbucks
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)

Mexico a ‘case study in government inaction’ as third priest killed this year
(World Watch Monitor)

Terrorist threat forces Egyptian Christians to cancel summer activities
(Jayson Casper, World Watch Monitor)

Sudan sanctions extended for three months
(World Watch Monitor)

The ’Splainer: What is Transcendentalism?
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)

Christian movie studio donates $25,000 to rebuild Ten Commandments monument in Arkansas
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)

Notable Christians who’ve had a change of heart on LGBT issues
(Madeleine Buckley, Religion News Service)

Clergy arrested outside McConnell’s office while protesting healthcare bill
(Madeleine Buckley, Religion News Service)

Northeast cities rate most secular
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Faith and the cosmos: An astrophysicist fields the big questions
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Confidant of Pope Francis condemns US religious right
(Rachel Zoll, Religion News Service)

Pope Francis allies accuse Trump White House of 'apocalyptic geopolitics'
(Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian)

Indonesia’s president signs decree banning radical groups
(Associated Press, South China Morning Post)

Rash of sentences ‘shows government’s fear of growth of Christianity in Iran’
(World Watch Monitor)

CTD ties rise in extremism to proliferation of radical madrasas
(Salis bin Perwaiz, The News)

Jailed Algerian Christian receives partial presidential pardon
(World Watch Monitor)

Murder of fifth Copt in six weeks creating ‘state of fear and terror’ among Egypt’s Christians
(World Watch Monitor)

Kazakhstan: Another jail term, another trial imminent
(Forum 18 News Service)

Not a single instance of harassment against gays reported in Chechnya – Lavrov
(Interfax-Religion)

Investigative Committee fully rules out religious motive in Nemtsov murder case, only motive is financial gain
(Interfax-Religion)

Survey of Russians shows popular agreement with Supreme Court's decision
(Andrei Dubrovsky, Novaya Gazeta)

Conscientious objectors win right to perform civilian service
(Toliatti.Ru, Russia Religion News)

Police told not to arrest Orthodox Jews having shops open Sundays
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Cuban Jewish leaders call on US Jewish community to strengthen ties
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

How Catholic health care is fighting against the campaign for physician-assisted suicide
(Michael J. O'Loughlin, American Magazine)

Muslim ID proposal sparks anger in Philippines Marawi
(Ana P. Santos, Deutsche Welle)

Funding for abortion to become mandatory for Oregon insurers
(Catholic News Agency)

Vatican indicts two ex-officials of children’s hospital for financial crimes
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Venezuelan bishops: End the ‘inhuman repression’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Yemen’s foreign minister says kidnapped Salesian is still alive
(Catholic News Service)

The Democrats’ religion problem
(Paul Moses, Commonweal)

Priest's defamation suit against diocese survives ecclesiastical abstention claim
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Press briefing by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, 7/12/2017
(Office of the Press Secretary, The White House)

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