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Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Israeli flags expelled from gay pride parade
(Jim Denison, Christian Headlines)

White House warns Syria may be preparing another chemical weapons attack
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)

Derek Car, NFL's highest-paid player, says he'll tithe, buy Chick-fil-A, help people worldwide
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)

Do California pregnancy centers have freedom of speech? Supreme Court may take up challenge
(Jay Hobbs, The Christian Post)

Supreme Court travel ban decision bad for persecuted, child refugees, bishop says
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Canada 'covfefe' on terrorism: time to tweak Trump's travel ban
(Susan Stamper Brown, The Christian Post)

Gay marriage support among white evangelicals has doubled, but 59 percent still oppose: Pew
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

A survivalist guide to Christianity's new dark age
(Greg Gordon, The Christian Post)

What do Hispanic-American Christians think about Israel?
(Paul De Vries, The Christian Post)

News Corp's Miranda Devine says police are 'hunting Catholics' after George Pell charges
(Amanda Meade, The Guardian)

The census shows there’s a gap in the spirituality market. Is yoga filling it?
(Brigid Delaney, The Guardian)

Xiahe, China's Tibetan monastery town – in pictures
(Roman Pilipey, The Guardian)

Council refuses to back down after Sikh couple denied chance to adopt white child
(Matthew Weaver and Kevin Rawlinson, The Guardian)

Christianity on the wane in Australia, but Pentecostal church bucks trend
(Elle Hunt, The Guardian)

Seven interesting things we learned from the Australian census
(Elle Hunt, The Guardian)

'No religion' tops religious affiliation poll in Australia
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)

Western Wall plan for mixed-gender prayer space put on hold
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)

Why does China have women-only mosques?
(Michael Wood, World Religion News)

Unitarian Universalists elect first woman president
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)

As Anglicans point fingers in sex abuse scandal, George Carey quits honorary role
(Catherine Pepinster, Religion News Service)

Baylor’s first woman president brings fresh start to Baptist university
(Bobby Ross Jr., Religion News Service)

On Java, a sultan blesses his people with alms
(Alexandra Radu, Religion News Service)

Nabra Hassanen’s death offers lessons on how Muslim communities can respond
(Afeefa Syeed, Religion News Service)

Last-ditch effort aims to fill State Department job combating anti-Semitism
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Ten Commandments installed at Arkansas State Capitol; ACLU plans lawsuit
(Laurel Wamsley, National Public Radio)

Ten Commandments monument installed on Arkansas Capitol grounds
(N'dea Yancy-Bragg, Religion News Service)

Arkansas' Ten Commandments monument destroyed live on Facebook
(Tina Burnside and Paul LeBlanc, CNN)

Ten Commandments monument erected on Arkansas Statehouse grounds
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Man destroys new 10 Commandments monument at Arkansas Capitol
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

South African court bars schools from promoting any one religion
(Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo, Religion News Service)

Pope tells new cardinals: Be humble, help poor, fight injustice
(Philip Pullella, Religion News Service)

Pope Francis announces five new cardinals, including first from Mali
(The Guardian)

Australian police charge Vatican treasurer over historical sexual assaults
(Tom Westbrook and Byron Kaye, Religion News Service)

Pope Francis defrocks Italian priest convicted of child sex abuse
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)

The ’Splainer: What is the Blaine Amendment and did SCOTUS kill it?
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)

Six issues to watch in the Supreme Court’s Trinity Lutheran case
(Melissa Rogers, Religion News Service)

The Supreme Court’s school playground decision is a dud
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)

The essential difference between Christianity and Islam
(Michael Brown, The Christian Post Opinion)

How Facebook is like church, according to founder Mark Zuckerberg
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)

‘Change your image of India from a nice backpacking trip to the Taj Mahal!’
(World Watch Monitor)

CAR’s clerics say ‘war must stop’ as killings continue despite peace agreement
(World Watch Monitor)

New trauma centre to help northern Nigeria’s 2.7m conflict-affected children
(World Watch Monitor)

Cyprus signs deal for Europe's largest casino
(AFP)

Church tells Timorese political parties to put people first
(Vatican Radio)

Marawi militants offer prisoner swap for priest
(Amanda Hodge, The Australian)

Evangelical Christians in US have become less opposed to gay marriage, poll finds
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Leadership of St. Petersburg Scientology group imprisoned
(RAPSI, Russia Religion News)

Bigotry against religion won’t stop school choice forever
(Elliot Kaufman, National Review)

Legal radicals don’t want the ‘separation of church and state’
(David French, National Review)

Can a woman refuse to give her husband a Jewish religious divorce? It just happened in Australia
(Josefin Dolsten, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

ADL, religious leaders call on Rex Tillerson to appoint envoy to combat anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

'Not in my name' – Indians protest vigilante attacks on Muslims
(Murali Krishnan, Deutsche Welle)

Supreme Court religious bonus
(Wall Street Journal)

Poll shows a dramatic generational divide in white evangelical attitudes on gay marriage
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post)

Terrorists desecrate Eucharist, destroy Catholic chapel in the Philippines
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)

ISIS-linked Jihadist's desecrate another Catholic church in Philippines
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Kidnapped Philippines priest ‘alive’ but Marawi situation ‘dire’
(World Watch Monitor)

Meeting hints Dems may be open to rethinking abortion orthodoxy
(Charles C. Camosy, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Decapitation defendant claims religious conflict, seeks new lawyer
(Tim Potter, The Wichita Eagle)

Judge denies new counsel to murder defendant claiming religious conflict with attorney
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

In unusual church autonomy dispute, Catholic school can require immunization of all students
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Appeals court: Parochial schools can require immunizations
(News Service of Florida)

Florida enacts student religious liberty law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Florida: SB 436 Religious Expression in Public Schools (PDF download)
(Executive Summary, Florida Department of Education)

Supreme Court remands school aid cases for reconsideration in light of Trinity Lutheran decision
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

The Supreme Court strikes down a major church-state barrier
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)

Supreme Court victory for Trinity Lutheran: And a major win for religious freedom
(John Stonestreet, The Christian Post)

Excerpts from Gorsuch concurrence, Sotomayor dissent, in Trinity Lutheran Church opinion
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Tuesday, 27 June 2017

111 terminally ill patients took their own lives in first 6 months of California right-to-die law
(Soumya Karlamangla, The Los Angeles Times)

Council of Europe commissioner criticizes ban on LGBT Pride march in Istanbul
(Hürriyet Daily News)

Why a church playground matters for religious liberty
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)

Why Turkey chose Qatar
(Aykan ErdemirMerve Tahiroglu, The National Interest)

How to deradicalise someone
(Sarah Marsden, The Conversation)

What effect does religious freedom promotion have on counterterrorism?
(Peter Henne, Religious Freedom Institute: Cornerstone Blog)

Christians and Sikhs protest India's Prime Minister at the US White House
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Pentecostal foreign student treated leniently by court
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)

The long path toward same-sex marriage in Germany
(Kay-Alexander Scholz, Deutsche Welle)

Vatican calls on China to let bishop exercise his ministry
(Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service)

Myanmar cardinal calls for independent investigation of war crime allegations
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

British regulator issues guidance on religious beliefs in pharmacy practice
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Judge rejects lawsuit targeting kosher slaughter of chickens in Jewish ritual in Irvine
(Sean Emery, Orange County Register)

California state court rejects attack on millennia-old Orthodox Jewish ceremony
(First Liberty)

Court says kaporos ceremony not covered by unfair competition law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Georgia Supreme Court rules for tax credit scholarships
(Ty Tagami, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Georgia Supreme Court dismisses on standing gounds challenge to tax credit scholarship program
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

As Supreme Court bites into same-sex wedding cake dispute, how to tell good media coverage from bad
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

Illinois Catholic bishop decrees no Holy Communion, funerals for same-sex couples
(Susan Hogan, The Washington Post)

Why are some journalists head-scratching over, well, a Catholic bishop's Catholicism?
(Mark Kellner, GetReligion)

Slicing up Masterpiece Bakeshop stories (again): It may help to recall that earlier peyote case
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Birth certificate alteration for a married person?
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Census 2016 shows Australia’s changing religious profile, with more ‘nones’ than Catholics
(Gary D. Bouma, The Conversation)

Mission and Ministry in Covenant
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

The Supreme Court will review Trump's revised travel ban. Why that's good news for the President
(John G. Malcolm, The Daily Signal)

The Elijah Interfaith Institute - Sharing Wisdom, Fostering Peace

Make Friends video statement - world's most prominent religious leaders (English subtitles)
(YouTube)

Elijah releases the “Make Friends” appeal with the world’s most prominent religious leaders
(The Elijah Interfaith Institute and letsheal.org)

Monday, 26 June 2017

Wisdom Newsletter | Religious Leaders Across the World Issue a Coordinated End of Ramadan/ Eid al-Fitr Message: Make Friends Across Religions
(The Elijah Interfaith Institute)

Sikhs celebrate B.C. woman's 'inspiring' appointment as first turbaned judge in Canada
(Line Yeung, CBC News | British Columbia)

Faith in action: Religious teaching and action on refugees
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Muslims 'absolutely' the group most victimized by global terrorism, researchers say
(Michael Edison Hayden, ABC News)

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