Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 18 May 2017
Russia - Islamic World group seeking consultative status with UN
(Interfax-Religion)
Progressive Jewish group brings, reads Torahs at Western Wall despite ban
(Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post)
Couple copes with hatred toward Jehovah's Witnesses
(ReligioPolis, Russia Religion News)
Jehovah's Witness on trial for allegedly criticizing other religions
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Jehovah's Witness arrested for allegedly distributing literature
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Orthodox activist criticizes Jehovah's Witnesses in Russian parliament
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Myanmar is restoring temples to rebuild its heritage
(Mike Ives, The New York Times)
The precarious task of praying with presidents in media age
(Linda W. Perkins, Christianity Today)
Anti-Semitic sentiment fell in 3 European countries, ADL polls find
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Italian Sikh man to move European Court of Justice for his faith's symbol
(Yudhvir Rana |, The Times of India)
House passes bill that would enhance reporting on European anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
French President Macron’s new cabinet is split on Israel
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Pope urges Macron to strengthen France’s Christian roots
(Hannah Brockhaus, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Both Ukraine and Russia violate religious freedom
(Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Since ban, persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses is ‘worse than ever’
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Priest stabbed during Mass at Mexico City cathedral
(Catholic News Agency, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Evangelism from the margins is focus of Johannesburg meeting
(World Council of Churches)
Indian NGO access to foreign funds
(Berkley Forum, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The Hindu BJP and restrictions on faith-based NGOs (Responding to Indian NGO access to foreign funds)
(Darren Duerksen, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
New group in Maryland is recruiting Muslim candidates to run for office
(Ovetta Wiggins, The Washington Post)
Pew Research: To understand the political power of evangelicals, we must look beyond the pulpits
(Jeff Sharlet, New Republic)
How an orthodox rabbi became an unlikely ally of the Christian right
(Michael Schulson, Religion & Politics Fit for Polite Company)
New Jersey cardinal blasts GOP for ignoring immigration reform
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Romania, close to ban on same-sex marriage
(Evangelical Focus)
Australian police closer to deciding Vatican abuse charges
(Associated Press, ABC News)
The Conservative Manifesto and human rights
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Faith, family, and religious freedom: A conversation with Justice Samuel Alito
(Seminarian Casual)
Supreme Court Justice sounds alarm on speech, religious liberty
(Mark Abrams, CBS Philly)
Justice Alito speaks on faith and religious freedom
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Bahamas Constitution protects Muslim military officer from mandatory Christian prayer
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
EEOC sues XPO last mile for religious discrimination
(Press Release, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
EEOC sues over refusing to accommodate Jewish employee's holiday observance
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
1st Amendment requires dismissal of some priest sexual abuse allegations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Organization announces campaign to promote graduation prayer
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Orthodox Christians in Central and Eastern Europe favor strong role for Russia in geopolitics, religion
(Jeff Diamant, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
Religious belief and national belonging in Central and Eastern Europe intertwine
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
New Pew survey notes line between religious identity and religious faith in Central and Eastern Europe
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Do I have a right to choose how my child is born?
(Jem Collins, Rights Info: Human Rights News, Views & Info)
Black clergy decry Trump policies as detrimental to African-Americans
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Patriarch Kirill calls for prevention of adoption in Ukraine of laws aimed against Ukrainian Orthodox Church
(Interfax-Religion)
Putin pledges Russia's support to Islamic world in war on terrorism, settlement of regional crises
(Interfax-Religion)
LGBT organizations' ICC lawsuit attempt to pressure Kadyrov - source close to Chechen govt
(Interfax-Religion)
UN freedom of religion expert hails Albania, but notes unresolved issues from the past
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Uzbekistan: Deportation, fines, Bible and Koran seizures
(Forum 18 News Service)
Moscow court orders expulsion from Russia of rabbi with no work permit
(Interfax-Religion)
Moscow patriarch complains to international leaders about Ukraine
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
On religious freedom, is Russia the next Saudi Arabia?
(Hannah Gais, Public Orthodoxy)
Healing a house divided: An interview with Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
(Marie Griffith, Religion & Politics Fit for Polite Company)
Court in Indonesia sentences gay men to 85 cane strokes
(Deutsche Welle)
Congo militia storms prison, frees self-styled prophet leader
(Deutsche Welle)
More tragedy for CAR’s peacekeeping cleric as son and grandson killed in latest violence
(World Watch Monitor)
Religious freedom and Islamic terrorism
(Ambassador Francis Rooney, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Pope Francis must support Venezuela opposition, or lose credibility
(Father Raymond J. de Souza, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Signs that Egypt may have been a papal trip that mattered
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Egypt: small signs challenging religious intolerance
(World Watch Monitor)
'The Holy Spirit told me': Transcript of juror's removal released
(Anne Schindler, FirstCoast News)
Juror removed for religious satement made in deliberations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Chabad wins animal rights case on Kapparot in federal court
(Jewish Press)
On gender issues, many in Orthodox Christian countries have conservative views
(Ariana Monique Salazar and Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center Fact tank)
Judge rules to protect millennia-old orthodox Jewish ceremony
(First Liberty Institute)
Court dismisses California law challenge to Chabad's Kapparot ceremony
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Can cannabis and Christ coexist? These devout Southern Christians think so
(Alyson Martin, BuzzFeed News)
FLDS town evictions set up a sad spectacle
(Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune)
After a century, polygamists are leaving their home on the Utah-Arizona line
(Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Ex-child bride seeks to collect millions from Utah polygamist leader
(Ben Winslow, Fox 13 Salt Lake City)
Verdict expected in Bountiful, B.C.'s protracted polygamy saga
(The Canadian Press)
Knights of Columbus, cash cow of the Catholic right
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Pope says doubts Medjugorje apparitions are authentic
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
Former chief rabbi of Israel guilty in fake credentials scheme
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Israel appoints first female judge to Sharia Court
(Melanie Lidman, Times of Israel)
India: rise in vigilantism threatens minorities
(World Watch Monitor)
Pakistan: Christian boy, 16, accused of Facebook blasphemy again refused bail
(World Watch Monitor)
Religion in schools breeds good morals, high court told
(Jeanelle Greyling, News 24)
Erdogan’s guards clash with protesters outside Turkish ambassador’s D.C. residence
(Peter Hermann and Perry Stein, The Washington Post)
‘Brutal attack’ on anti-Erdogan demonstrators injures 9, police say
(Nicholas Fandos and Christopher Mele, The New York Times)
Romania: Anticorruption prosecutors want Romanian Archbishop placed under house arrest
(Irina Popescu, Romania-Insider)
A decalogue of moments in America’s history with the Ten Commandments
(Tyler Simnick, OUPblog Religion)
When the Latter-day Saints dump the Boy Scouts, might there be a back story here?
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Eritrea protest vigil 2017
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Christian prayers in the military: Commodore Royal Bahamas Defence Force
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Scattering Ian Brady’s ashes
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Italian Supreme Court bans Sikh migrants from carrying kirpan
(DNA Local)
What does Macron believe about laicity?
(Evangelical Focus)
EVENT, 17 May 2017: The State of International Religious Freedom: USCIRF’s 2017 Annual Report
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
EVENT, 17 May 2017: "Not Another Year" – A call for religious liberty on the ninth anniversary of the imprisonment of the seven Bahá'í leaders in Iran
(The Australian Bahá'í Community and the University of Notre Dame School of Law Sydney)
More on the objection to an episcopal election in the Anglican Church of Canada
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
Ukraine: Parliament fails to consider church-related bills
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Objection to episcopal election in the Anglican Church of Canada
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Sweden gives Bible tests to Christian asylum seekers
(Narjas Zatat, The Independent)
Record few Americans believe Bible is literal word of God
(Lydia Saad, Gallup)
Competing worldviews influence today’s Christians
(Barna Research)
Muslims and Jews break bread, and build bonds
(Sharon Otterman, The New York Times)
Latino Muslims embrace heritage and faith amid Islamophobia, ethnic fears in Trump's America
(Elizabeth Elizalde, New York Daily News)
To ease fears, U.S. Muslim schools reach out to neighbors
(Laila Kearney, Reuters)
On the Reformation’s 500th anniversary, remembering Martin Luther’s contribution to literacy
(Richard Richard Gunderman, Religion News Service)
Printing T-shirts and religious freedom
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Indiana: The promise and peril of school vouchers
(Cory Turner, Eric Weddle, and Peter Balonon-Rosen, NPR)
In-depth NPR analysis of Indiana voucher program mostly gets education, but not religion
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
World opinion favors Jehovah's Witnesses versus Russian state
(FTimes, Russia Religion News)
Official Statement regarding misinformation on the activity of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Russian Federation
(M.F. Kaminsky, O.Yu. Goncharov, Adventist News Network)
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