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Friday, 23 June 2017

U.S. bishops launch 2017 Fortnight for Freedom with new video
(Catholic News Agency)

Catholic bishop says troubled Somali refugees still need acceptance, help
(Fredrick Nzwili, Catholic News Service)

Zambia bishops, faith leaders warn of crisis if dictatorship results
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service)

Churches would need to raise $714,000 per year to fill in the gap from Trump’s poverty program cuts
(Jack Jenkins, Think Progress)

Union busting for God: Catholic colleges invoke "religious freedom" to violate Catholic teaching
(Kaya Oakes, Religion Dispatches)

Study: when it comes to detecting racial inequality, white Christians have a blind spot
(Tara Isabella Burton, Vox)

Madonna di Alvenia sect comes to Seborga
(Davide Ghiglione, Financial Times)

Police officer Mohammed Ayub Pandith lynched outside Srinagar's Jamia Masjid
(Peerzada Ashiq, The Hindu)

Christian-style weddings remain popular in Japan, but allure is more about optics than religion
(Dave Hueston, Japan Times)

In mosque's factional dispute, Ohio court orders dissolution and reincorporation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Refusing service to gays? Is pollster asking the right question? Journalists should inquire
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

Destruction of mosque ‘heralds end of Isis’
(Richard Spencer, The Times)

Nonprofit tracker smears dozens of conservative organizations as ‘hate groups’
(Rachel del Guidice, The Daily Signal)

Islamic State claims a historic mosque in Mosul was destroyed by a U.S. airstrike — but video evidence suggests otherwise
(Adam Taylor, The Washington Post)

Is it a hate crime? Washington Post offers strong coverage of Muslim girl's D.C.-area slaying
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

Are Southern voters really different? Washington Post political desk avoids religion, again
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Iraqi tribes sharpen legal tools to root out ISIS - In unprecedented step, sheikhs amend tribal law to use courts, police
(Fred Strasser, United States Institute of Peace)

World Refugee Day 20 June
(The United Nations)

Stemming the tide of hatred with kindness, and finding ‘life itself’
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Video Message on "The Conflict of Social Innovations: Christian Theologies, Empires, and Modern Constructions of Race"
(Prof. Leo D. Lefebure, Centre for Religious Studies of Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

No longer strangers: Conference of experts confirms churches’ role in creating welcoming and integrating societies
(Press Release No: 17/25, Conference of European Churches)

Why protect speech we don't want to hear? We need to hear it
(Gene Policinski, Newseum Institute: First Amendment Center)

Court says Mississippi can enforce LGBT religious accommodations law
(Morgan Howard, MS News Now)

5th Circuit: Plaintiffs lack standing to challenge Mississippi's Anti-LGBT conscience law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Circuit court win for religious freedom on gay marriage
(Ryan Andersen, The Daily Signal)

Barber v. Bryant (Mississippi religious accommodations decision)
(US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)

10th Circuit: Qualified immunity protects officer who told suspect to stop praying
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Court expresses concerns about First Amendment violations before dismissing appeal
(Press Release, First Liberty)

Sause v. Bauer (Kansas qualified immunity case)
(US Court of Appeals for the tenth Circuit)

Female genital mutilation case expands
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Genital mutilation scandal widens to include mothers
(Robert Snell, The Detroit News)

United States v. Nagarwala - FGM case, superceding indictment
(US District Court Eastern District of Michigan)

Is a foreign polygamous marriage valid in Ireland? HAH v SAA & Ors
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Church to debate post-election “state of the nation”
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Supreme Court rules that trademark laws can't discriminate based on viewpoint
(David L. Hudson Jr., Newseum Institute: First Amendment Center)

Guidestar joins the targeting of Christian groups
(Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine)

UK police charge man with terrorism-related murder over van attack by London mosque
(Reuters, Religion News Service)

President Erdogan versus Jan Böhmermann: Do bad poems make bad law? – Reforming the Defamation of Foreign Heads of States under German Criminal Law
(Andreas Zimmermann and Robert Pfeiffer, EJIL:Talk!)

Thursday, 22 June 2017

SPLC: A ‘poverty’ project whose aim is to destroy Christian pro-family groups
(Austin Ruse, MercatorNet)

Beyond Prosperity? European Economic Governance as a Dialogue between Theology, Economics and Politics (download PDF)
(Peter Pavlovic (Editor), Conference of European Churches / Globethics.net)

Beyond Prosperity: Churches bring dialogue on European economic governance to the EU
(Press Release No: 17/23, Conference of European Churches)

Dr. Haynes receives 2017 Mahatma Gandhi Award for promoting pluralism
(Newseum Institute: Religious Freedom Center)

“A Glimpse of the Divinity”: What the Humanities can provide
(James R. Rogers, Library of Law and Liberty)

Enterprising young Egyptians seize Ramadan business opportunities
(Youssra el-Sharkawy, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

Ramadan on the Afghan frontline: after heavy fighting, hunger and boredom
(Sane Engel Rasmussen, The Guardian)

Islamic prayers take place at historic Hagia Sophia
(Press Release No: 17/24, Conference of European Churches)

Canada’s new human rights law: use trans pronouns or else
(Bruce Pardy, MercatorNet)

What the Six-Day War meant for Jews and Christians
(A. James Rudin, Religion News Service)

Gazans denounce claims Hamas is training extremists in Libya
(Ahmad Abu Amer, translated by Pascale el-Khoury, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)

Church of England 'colluded and concealed' bishop's sex abuse, leader says
(Colin Dwyer, NPR)

Saudi Crown Prince's ascendancy gives hope of reform – but it may be premature
(Martin Chulov, The Guardian)

Sami Shah on Islam, Australia and being a 'serial blasphemer'
(Jessica Mudditt, The Guardian)

Euthanasia mindset looms over disabled baby's legal fight, ethicist warns
(Kevin J. Jones, Catholic News Agency)

What you need to know about the church and global terrorism
(Liz Kanoy, Christian Headlines)

The Islamic State and the methods of terrorism
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)

Islamic parties intimidate, fear atheists in Iraq
(Ali Mamouri, translated by Sahar Ghoussoub, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Pro-lifers claim victory in Georgia House vote
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)

Calif. court drops 14 charges against Planned Parenthood investigator
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)

Maintaining faith in the most violent country in Africa
(Elijah M. Brown, The Christian Post)

Four Senate conservatives say they oppose healthcare repeal
(Ryan Duncan, Christian Headlines)

Destroying Great Mosque of al-Nuri 'is Isis declaring defeat'
(Martin Chulov and Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian)

Shock and anger in Mosul after ISIS destroys historic mosque
(Kawa Omar and Ahmed Rasheed, Religion News Service)

Why we need to abolish the Pledge of Allegiance now
(Jake Romm, Forward Opinion)

Islamophobic attacks in Manchester surge by 500% after arena attack
(Josh Halliday, The Guardian)

Israeli airline can't make women move seats for religious reasons, court rules
(Peter Beaumont, The Guardian)

Israeli court stands up for woman in airline gender seat swap case
(Reuters, Religion News Service)

US judge halts deportation of more than 100 Iraqi Christians
(Amanda Holpuch, The Guardian)

Atheist Arizona legislator stands up for secularism
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)

Puri Ratha Yatra, the Indian festival of the chariots
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)

U.S. court lifts injunction on Mississippi law seen as anti-LGBT
(Jon Herskovitz, Religion News Service)

How cultural appropriation became good for the Jews
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS: Martini Judaism)

Bitter rift over Israel hits LGBTQ Jews hard after controversial protest at Celebrate Israel parade
(Ari Feldman, Forward)

Mosque under construction in Mali to honor US teen slain during Ramadan
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Illegal immigrant held in beating death of Virginia teen
(Katrina Willis, The Daily Signal)

Moscow City Hall denies authorization for gay pride parade, rally in support of ECHR decision on law banning gay propaganda
(Interfax-Religion)

Russia doesn't persecute LGBT but bans forcing this orientation on children – Lavrov
(Interfax-Religion)

Aliyev repeals ban on religious activity of citizens trained abroad
(Interfax-Religion)

Aliyev deems social justice to be best protection from religious radicalism
(Interfax-Religion)

Georgian president calls discussion of restoration of monarchy 'strange PR move'
(Interfax-Religion)

Amur Region resident sentenced for hosting meetings of banned religious association
(Interfax-Religion)

Dodon to go to Mount Athos on vacation
(Interfax-Religion)

Sharansky urges Netanyahu to block Baredi conversion legislation
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)

Kazakhstan: Secret trial after six months' imprisonment
(Forum 18 News Service)

Imprisoned and not convicted Jehovah's Witness loses appeal for release
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)

Jehovah's Witness woman penalized on basis of justice ministry's suspension
(Website of Prosecutor's Office of Vladimir Province, Russia Religion News)

State Dept.’s anti-Semitism monitoring office to be unstaffed as of July 1
(Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Condemn Russia’s Jehovah’s Witnesses ban
(Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)

USCCB officials urge Homeland Security to defer deportation of Chaldeans
(Carolyn Mackenzie, Catholic News Service)

Pope Francis meets King and Queen of the Netherlands, returns long-lost stick
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)

Sudan: USCIRF Urges Secretary of State to Maintain Sanctions
(Press Release, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Extremists, ‘X-Men,’ and an ex-governor: A cautionary tale from Jakarta
(David Pinault, Commonweal)

Rueful federal judge rules city park cross in Florida unconstitutional
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Indiana Christian school at center of LGBT voucher debate
(Associated Press)

Denying service to gays is unpopular even among faith groups, survey finds
(Paul Singer, USA Today)

Two Oakland County moms charged with subjecting daughters to genital cutting
(Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press)

Haredi parties threaten to quit government over work on Shabbat
(Kobi Nachshoni, YNet News)

Israeli woman who sued El Al for sexism wins landmark ruling
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)

Israeli court says El Al may not ask women to change seats to accommodate religious concerns of male passengers
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Governor Cuomo signs legislation ending child marriage in New York
(NY.gov)

Child marriage is now officially outlawed in New York
(Aliza Chasan, PIX11)

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