Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 13 July 2017
Court bars removal of Iraqi Christians and Shiites until they get judicial hearing
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge: Federal district court has jurisdiction in Iraqi immigrants case
(Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press)
Hey, kids! What's missing from Los Angeles news reports about Buddha statue's vandalism?
(Mark Kellner, GetReligion)
It would appear first UK 'same-sex Muslim wedding' featured nice clothes and that's that
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Backlash over plans to curtail role of churches in Scottish education
(Daniel Sanderson, The Times)
On land or ship, port chaplains offer comfort to seafarers of the world
(Wendy Cadge, The Conversation)
Death as a social privilege? How aid-in-dying laws may be revealing a new health care divide
(Jill D. Weinberg, The Conversation)
Anglicans OK casual-dress liturgical option: Did The Guardian know this is part of an old war?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Islamic State and the appropriation of the Crusades – a medieval historian’s take
(Jason T. Roche, The Conversation)
Love your enemies: Moral absurdity or genius?
(Audrey D. Thompson, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Respecting humanity ingrained in our religion: JKLF on condemning yatri killings
(Greater Kashmir)
Global Baptists address religious freedom issues in Russia and the USA
(Evangelical Focus)
White House condemns attack on religious pilgrims in India
(Associated Press, US News & World Report)
Ten commandment monuments continue to generate controversy
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))
Alabama among states allowing faith-based foster care agencies to restrict child placement
(The Alabama Baptist)
Journal: Strip religious garb, fundamentalist tones from U.S. political power
(Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service)
Prioritise peacebuilding and reconciliation instead of the militarisation of the EU
(Press Release No: 17/30, Conference of European Churches)
ECtHR Factsheet (updated June 2017): Freedom of religion
(European Court of Human Rights)
ECtHR Factsheet (updated June 2017): Religious symbols and clothing
(European Court of Human Rights)
Churches, NGOs take Canada to court over refugee pact with U.S.
(Michael Swan, Catholic News Service)
Wednesday, 12 July 2017
Statue of Scopes Trial lawyer sparks debate in Tennessee
(Michael Miller, NPR)
Thousands of Christians to take part in national prayer event this Sunday
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Still going strong after 225 years: Our love-hate relationship with the First Amendment
(Lata Nott, Newseum Institute)
Ethics & Religion Talk: Blasphemy is a spiritual matter, not a legal one
(Michigan Live)
ABA committee to consider gender identity protections, additional school locations
(The Indiana Lawyer)
Diocese of Palm Beach loses fight to toss priest’s defamation suit
(Jane Musgrave, Palm Beach Post)
Jeff Sessions addresses 'anti-LGBT hate group,' but DOJ won't release his remarks
(Pete Madden and Erin Galloway, ABC News)
Religious freedom protection in Australia- 2017 update
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Hijabers of Instagram: the Muslim women challenging stereotypes
(Alila Pramiyanti and Emma Baulch, The Conversation)
Modi’s polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
(Irfan Ahmad, The Conversation)
India Supreme Court suspends cattle slaughter ban
(BBC News)
Suit seeking U.S. edit of Qur'an dismissed as frivolous
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Apopka: Pro-business or anti-religion? (Opinion)
(Greg Jackson, The Apopka Voice)
July brings new laws on religion in public schools in Kentucky, Florida
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Israel seeking Saudi flight deal to bring pilgrims to Mecca
(Jonathan Ferziger and Yaacov Benmeleh, BloombergPolitics)
Divine credentials: The never-ending argument over what is “real Islam”
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Ethnic minorities troubled by Malaysian state introducing public cainings for sharia crimes
(Rozanna Latiff, Reuters)
Bangladesh: Inu defends Sec 57 for public security, sanctity of religion amid outcry
(bdnews24)
Gender-based violence concerns 'all of humanity,' say world church leaders
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Atambayev calls on people of Kyrgyzstan to focus on education instead of religion
(Interfax-Religion)
Unidentified believer in far north of Russia found guilty of sharing faith
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Catholic Cemetery vandalized in Goa, India
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Catholic Malta legalizing gay marriage over church objection
(Associated Press)
Maltese parliament legalizes same-sex marriage
(Reuters)
African calls West’s imposition of abortion ‘cultural supremacy’
(Simon Caldwell, Catholic News Service)
Michigan governor signs laws banning female genital mutilation
(Timothy Mclaughlin, Reuters)
Female genital cutting: The Michigan case and beyond
(Berkley Forum, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
FGC: A human rights issue that cuts to the heart of the matter (Responding to: Female genital cutting: The Michigan case and beyond)r
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Ending FGM/C: A survivor's perspective (Responding to: Female genital cutting: The Michigan case and beyond)
(Maryum Saifee, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
A necessary conversation: Debunking religious justifications for FGM/C (Responding to: Female genital cutting: The Michigan case and beyond)
(Arsalan Suleman, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Changing a social norm: Ending female genital cutting (Responding to: Female genital cutting: The Michigan case and beyond)
(Mariya Taher, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
In first months of Trump presidency, Christians account for growing share of U.S. refugee arrivals
(Phillip Connor and Jens Manuel Krogstad, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
Trump Oval Office prayer photo draws mixed reactions
(Juliana Rose Pignataro, International Business Times)
The FAQs: What you should know about the Charlie Gard controversy
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)
South Africa: Every religious practitioner must be registered — CRL Commission report
(Ernest Mabuza, Times Live)
South Africa: Strict laws needed to curb commercialisation of religion
(Sibongile Mashaba, Times Live)
South Africa: Religion report causes a stir
(Rusana Philander, Tamryn Christian and Mariska Joubert, IOL)
Concerns and Objections to CRL Recommendation to License Religion in South Africa
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Watershed judgment clarifies limits of religion in South Africa’s public schools
(Georgia Alida du Plessis, The Conversation)
A shariah-compliant default? The curious case of Dana Gas sukuk
(Bonds & Loans)
UAE company stops payments, saying its wwn Islamic bonds are no longer shariah-compliant
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
UNESCO makes Hebron old city Palestinian world heritage site
(Peter Beaumont, The Guardian)
UNESCO Hebron motion important to all faiths
(Daoud Kuttab, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
UNESCO supports terrorism
(Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute)
Okinoshima: Japan's UNESCO World Heritage Site that's banned to women
(CNN)
Strasbourg upholds Belgian niqab ban: Belcacemi and Dakir
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Europe rights court upholds Belgium burqa ban
(Jurist: Paper Chase)
Europe's top court upholds Belgian full-face veil ban
(Chase Winter, Deutsche Welle)
Belgian face veil ban backed in European court ruling
(BBC News)
Muslim imams march against terrorism in Europe
(Deutsche Welle)
Italy uses imams in prisons to deter extremism among inmates
(Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press Top News)
Survivors of Romania pogrom and ‘death trains’ to receive German compensation
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Peskov denies report of Putin presenting yacht to Valaam monks
(Interfax-Religion)
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
New York mosque calls Jesus painting placed on property a criminal offense
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
UK court sets new hearing in case of terminally ill baby
(AFP/AP, Emirates 24/7)
Charlie Gard's parents given two days to prove their baby should be allowed treatment in the US
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
5 Christian reactions to Church of England's controversial transgender affirming vote
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
The church’s trans epiphany will ease the way for others like me
(Tina Beardsley, The Guardian)
Trouble among America's Gulf Allies
(John R. Bolton, Gatestone Institute)
Coptic Orthodox nuns attacked in Palestine
(Reagan Hoezee, Mission Network News)
Christians in Iran handed lengthy prison sentences
(Reagan Hoezee, Mission Network News)
Pope Francis creates new path to beatification under ‘offering of life’
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
Christians are not victims of discrimination, liberals say after discriminating against Christians
(Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post)
44 percent of liberal democrats say churches bad for America: Pew
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Germany rejects Turkish office's criticism of liberal mosque (from June 23)
(Gier Moulson, Fox News)
Despite threats, woman who opened liberal mosque in Berlin keeps fighting for religious freedom
(Don Snyder, Fox News)
'1984' in Israel and Palestine
(Dmitry Shumsky, Haaretz)
Where Nazis burned books, life-sized temple created
(Reuters, Haaretz)
Jews drive U.S. police brutality against people of color? JVP crosses over into anti-semitism
(Mira Sucharov, Haaretz)
Who are we to tell religious Jews what to do at the Western Wall?
(Irit Linur, Haaretz)
Polls show Zionist Union, under new leadership, surge to second place
(Times of Israel)
Avi Gabbay, a business exec with little political experience, just won Israel's Labor Party primary and hopes to replace Netanyahu
(Chaim Levinson, Amir Teig, and Almog Ben Zikri, Haaretz)
Why American Jews need to lose all faith in Israel's government
(Rami Hod, Haaretz)
Religion, gender segregation and sex education in schools
(Letters, The Guardian)
Pope Francis creates fourth pathway to becoming a saint
(Agnece France-Presse, The Guardian)
Pope Francis is concerned with 'dangerous' U.S. - Russia partnership
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
First Muslim same-sex marriage took place in Britain last month
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
6 year long Book of Mormon video series is now in production
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
When the homeless and mentally ill wander into your church
(David Gushee, RNS: Christians, conflicts, & change)
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