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Monday, 5 June 2017

The ’Splainer: The ‘gifts’ of Pentecost and Shavuot
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)

Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia intensifies and targets children
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Church to vote on changing marriage doctrine
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

CLE Re-Broadcast, 5 June 2017: Charter School Law
(Hope N. Kirsch, Federal Bar Association)

EVENT, 5-7 June 2017: Multidisciplinary Volume and Conference on "Law as Religion, Religion as Law"
(Benjamin Porat and David Flatto, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

New ECHR Readings
(Antoine Buyse, ECHR Blog)

Statement by Knox Thames, Special Advisor for Religious Minorities in the Near East and South/Central Asia
(U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Spain and Andorra)

Special Advisor Knox Thames attended the International Conference on Victims of Religious and Ethnic Violence in the Middle East
(U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Spain and Andorra)

Sunday, 4 June 2017

Supreme Court sets date for hearing Jehovah's Witnesses' appeal
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)

June 4: Ramadan begins, Trump administration drafts religious exception for healthcare
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)

Saturday, 3 June 2017

50 years after the Six-Day War, Israeli Jews reflect on the victory
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)

CAIR-MN sues UPS, staffing company for firing Muslim workers over prayer
(Press Release, Council on American-Islamic Relations)

Church leaders’ statement in advance of the General Election
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Illinois makes foster care workers support transgenderism
(Catholic News Agency)

India bishops meet ruling party leader for a “casual visit”
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Living next to a cemetery: Tonyuk
(David Pocklington)

Mali’s first cardinal said to foster regional peace, understanding
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Portlanders respond to killings with prayer and eclectic spirituality
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)

Putin takes an Orthodox route to cement power
(L. Todd Wood, Washington Times)

The four reasons people commit hate crimes
(Daniel Burke, CNN)

UPS sued over firing of Muslim employees for prayer breaks
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Friday, 2 June 2017

Denmark scraps 334-year-old blasphemy law
(The Guardian)

Trump's rejection of Paris climate accord lashed by world religious leaders
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

New book from Mark Goldfeder: Legalizing Plural Marriage
(Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University)

Relics and religious diplomacy: In Greece and Russia, the veneration of saintly remains is a huge phenomenon
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Unsolicited advice for Callista Gingrich
(Adam O'Neal, The Wall Street Journal)

How over a million Christians have opted out of health insurance
(Laura Turner, BuzzFeed News)

16 haredim arrested in Jerusalem for intimidating soldiers, police
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Philippines - Black flags and smoke engulf Mindanao
(Thomas Latschan, Deutsche Welle)

Safeguarding creation is religious obligation, Vatican officials say
(Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service)

Vatican should help build bridges between Israel and its neighbors
(Father Raymond J. de Souza, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Depressed or spirit possessed? Reassessing mental health in Bangladesh
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

ISIS militants battered Syria's ancient Palmyra, but signs of splendor still stand
(Patrick J. McDonnell, The Los Angeles Times)

Decades after abuse, Crosiers agree to $25.5 million settlement with survivors, file bankruptcy
(Mary Lynn Smith, Star Tribune)

Trump Administration asks U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate travel ban
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Justice Department seeks Supreme Court review and stay in travel ban cases
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Hebrew teacher's ADA suit barred by ministerial exception doctrine
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

New federal lawsuit in Michigan challenges exclusion from city market
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Farmers' market's exclusion of vendor over same-sex marriages views is challenged
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Leaked regulation: Trump plans to roll back Obamacare birth control mandate
(Vox)

Draft of proposed broader contraceptive mandate exemption becomes available
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Refugees welcome? How UK and Sweden compare on education for young migrants
(Joanna McIntyre, The Conversation)

If we mistake visible aspects of Muslims’ faith for fundamentalism, we risk alienating a generation
(Hannah Smithson, The Conversation)

Big New Jersey religious-liberty case: Did you hear who backed efforts to build a new mosque?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Why Mormon millennials leave the church
(Alyssa Nielsen, The Daily Universe)

Theresa May urged to appoint religious freedom ambassador to fight persecution
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)

Commentary: Why religious liberty trumps free birth control
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)

Religious liberty battle still rages over gay marriage
(Richard Wolf, USA Today)

The battle to unearth Iraq's mass graves
(Eva Huson, Foreign Policy)

Religious leaders emphasise interfaith harmony for “guaranteed long-term peace”
(Anglican News Service)

Indonesian Muslim women engage with feminism
(Dina Afrianty, The Conversation)

EVENT, 2 June 2016: The Cognition of Belief, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

EVENT, 2-4 June 2017: Religion and the Legacy of the Soviet State: A 25-year retrospective, Tbilisi, Georgia
(International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Catholic order files for bankruptcy in settlement of sex abuse claims
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Thursday, 1 June 2017

India arrests Christians for taking kids to Bible camp
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post World)

Church saw sharp rise in clergy sex abuse victims who came forward last year
(Matt Rocheleau, Boston Globe)

Cloistered nuns on Facebook: What’s not to like?
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)

Doing good and doing well: Faith-based investing converts the skeptics
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)

Christian school teaches scions of the elite in atheist North Korea
(Choe Sang-Hun, The New York Times)

Why Jefferson’s vision of American Islam matters today
(Denise A. Spellberg, The Conversation)

New York's High Court hears physician-assisted suicide case
(David Klepper, Associated Press, US News & World Report)

“A chance to live unity in diversity” – GETI’17 students look to Arusha 2018
(Albin Hillert, World Council of Churches)

Arizona man wears colander in driver's license photo in name of religious freedom
(Kaila White, AZ Central)

Police search Chadds Ford church offices after drugs found in priest's name
(Maria Panaritis & Jeremy Roebuck, philly.com)

Archbishop Ieronymos: No rift between Church and State
(Philip Chrysopoulos, Greek Reporter)

Mosque in Swiss city of Winterthur that stirred controversy is to close
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Why is the ACLU targeting Catholic hospitals?
(Stephanie Slade, American Magazine)

Swept up in city tax sales, Baltimore churches at risk of losing property to California investor
(Ian Duncan and Yvonne Wenger, The Baltimore Sun)

Signs tell haredi Orthodox IDF inductees to kill female soldiers
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Dutch national jailed in Ireland for praising ISIS, threatening to behead Jews
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

European Parliament approves resolution to adopt working definition of anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

On triple talaq, Supreme Court must uphold Constitutional values, not religious ones
(Menaka Guruswamy, Scroll.in)

Portland archbishop calls for prayer, action following train stabbing
(Catholic News Agency)

Indian politician suggests ransom fund for kidnapped priest
(Catholic News Agency)

South Korean president seeks pope’s support in reconciliation efforts
(Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency)

Church that suffered under Soviets and rebounded loses its ‘sage’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

The Balance of Law and Freedom — Sixth in a seven-part series on international religious freedom
(Mormon Newsroom)

Supreme Court's protest ban doesn't infringe religious rights
(Tony Mauro, law.com)

Palestinian Authority threatens jail time for breaking Ramadan fast, stoking social media furor
(Jack Khoury, Haaretz)

The disappearance of virtue from American politics
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)

Kurdistan region of Iraq: New USCIRF report on religious minorities in the KRI
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

How attitudes to diversity change after a terrorist attack
(Maria Sobolewska, The Conversation)

Ecclesiastical court judgments – April and May 2017
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Does an employer discriminate by behaving inconsistently with religious values? – Keens-Betts
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

My children have no default religion: 2 Kerala leaders refuse to fill in column in school form
(The News Minute)

Lieutenant governor of Ontario hosts first interfaith Iftar
(AhlulBayt News Agency)

Catholic farmer ousted from Michigan market over same-sex marriage views
(Madeleine Buckley, Religion News Service)

EVENT, 19 May - 1 June 2017: The Global Ecumenical Theological Institute – GETI’17
((Reforming Theology - Migrating Church - Transforming Society)

Pope Francis receives electric car as part of effort to create “carbon free” Vatican
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Bin Laden’s son steps into father’s shoes as al-Qaeda attempts a comeback
(Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet, The Washington Post)

Grooming Jihadists: The ladder of radicalization and its antidote
(Saher Fares, Gatestone Institute)

Today in Kellerism: New York Times reporters offer contraceptive mandate apologetics (updated)
(Mark Kellner, GetReligion)

Trump administration reversing Obamacare’s birth control mandate
(Richard Wolf, Religion News Service)

This farmer won't host same-sex weddings at his orchard. Now a city has banned him from its farmers market.
(Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal)

Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)

Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Leaked birth control rule would broaden religious exemption
(Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press)

White House drafts rule to roll back 'contraception mandate' for health coverage
(Molly Redden, The Guardian)

Muslims protest closure of religious schools in Myanmar
(Kyaw Ye lynn, Anadolu Agency)

Bill seeks to remove religion from civil marriage documents
(CyprusMailOnline)

Town that denied mosque permit to pay Islamic group $3.25M
(David Porter, Associated Press)

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