Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
Pope opens free launderette for Rome's homeless people
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
In unusual omission, no Trump-Pope meeting planned during Italy G7
(Philip Pullella, Religion News Service)
Israel’s proposed international Jewish database raises red flags abroad
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
LDS church responding to the needs of the homeless
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
When conservatives oppose 'religious freedom
(Peter Beinart, The Atlantic)
Pope Francis meets British imams at the Vatican
(Associated Press, Catholic Herald)
Monks’ charitable status challenged
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Charity regulator urged to investigate religious organisation behind controversial monk-brewed tonic wine
(http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2017/04/charity-regulator-urged-to-investigate-religious-organisation-behind-controversial-monk-brewed-tonic-wine, National Secular Society)
Strip 'violent wine' monks of charity status, say secularists
(Jonathan Morris, BBC Devon)
Religious education stays on NSW syllabus after review
(Stefanie Balogh, The Australian (paywall))
Monday, 10 April 2017
Erdogan isn't as strong as he looks. That's what makes him dangerous
(Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus)
Ex-mayor of Guatemala town jailed for expelling Hasidic sect
(Marcy Oster, Forward)
For a polygamous sect, homes have gone and ‘apostates’ have come
(Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Church of England, prime minister, lash out after ‘Easter’ dropped from national egg hunt
(Susan Hogan, The Washington Post)
Surveying sex, denying childhood
(Carl R. Trueman, First Things)
Target CEO admits mistake in announcing controversial bathroom policy
(Jardine Malado, The Christian Times)
EU issues ultimatum to Poland and Hungary to accept more migrants
(Jardine Malado, The Christian Times)
Saudis have high hopes for Trump following Syria airstrike
(Bruce Riedel, Al-Monitor: Gulf Pulse)
Is freedom of expression on the rise in Saudi Arabia?
(Fahd al-Otaibi, trans. Joelle El-Khoury, Al-Monitor: Gulf Pulse)
Ireland sees 73% increase in number of non-believers
(National Secular Society)
Law and religion round-up – 9th April
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The Round-Up – chemical weapons and Supreme Court judgments
(Poppy Riminton-Pounder, UK Human Rights Blog)
EU envoy on religious freedom: ‘Indifference, ignorance and fear’ are terror’s greatest allies
(Ann Marie Welser, Matthew Tempest, and Olivier Billot, Euractiv.com)
Palm Sunday at Coptic Churches marred by deadly violence
(Press Release, Conference of European Churches)
Egypt's Coptic churches hit by deadly blasts on Palm Sunday
(BBC News)
Blood splattered palms in Egyptian churches mark latest terror attacks
(Sheila Liaugminas, Mercator Net)
Rage at abandonment by the state as Egypt’s Christians dig graves after bombing
(Amina Ismail, Religion News Service)
Bishop Damian: Egypt terror 'a declaration of war against Copts'
(Christoph Ricking, Deutsche Welle)
Russian Orthodox Church calls ISIL attacks on Christian churches in Egypt on eve of Holy Week common pain
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Muslims pray for recovery of Christians injured in Egypt
(Interfax-Religion)
Pope to show solidarity with Egypt's Coptic Christians in wake of church bombings
(Harriet Sherwood and Ruth Michaelson, The Guardian)
Pope visit to Egypt to go ahead despite blasts but security big concern
(Philip Pullella, Religion News Service)
Despite deadly attacks, Pope Francis will still go to Egypt
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
Egypt’s attacks won’t stop pope’s visit for peace, says Vatican official
(Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service)
Pope's visit to Cairo can have powerful impact on interfaith relations
(Vatican Radio)
A lost American religion
(Fergus M. Bordewich, The Wall Street Journal (paywall))
Judge Neil Gorsuch takes constitutional oath at Supreme Court
(Andrew Hamm, SCOTUSblog)
A new court: Neil Gorsuch takes his seat at the Supreme Court today
(S.M., The Economist: Democracy in America)
Gorsuch sworn in, restoring top court's conservative tilt
(Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)
New Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch will likely have swift impact on church-state law
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Argument preview: Standing for intervention
(Howard M. Wasserman, SCOTUSblog)
Jehovah's Witnesses assemble illegally
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Scholars find trial of Jehovah's Witnesses absurd
(Kavkazskii Uzel, Russia Religion News)
Judge frustrates tactics of Jehovah's Witnesses' attorneys
(Portal-credo.ru, Russia Religion News)
Sympathetic press coverage for Jehovah's Witnesses
(Kavkazskii Uzel, Russia Religion News)
Threat of international tension over Jehovah's Witnesses case
(Izvestiia, Russia Religion News)
Jehovah's Witnesses' claim of exceptionalism alleged to threaten public order
(TASS, Russia Religion News)
How music festivals and religion are intertwined
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Certificate program in Faith and Public Life: "One of the best kept secrets in Washington"
(Newseum Institute: Religious Freedom Center)
It’s Jew vs. Jew as a conservative pol’s popularity rises in Rio
(Marcus Moraes, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Israel condemns Marine Le Pen for denying French responsibility for deporting Jews
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Churches still figuring out how to protect immigrants and themselves
(Adrian Florido and MIchael Martin, NPR)
Disharmony: The religious response to Syria’s travails is prolix and confused
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
After the missiles, we need smart diplomacy on Syria
(Antony J. Blinken, The New York Times Opinion)
Russian Muslims accuse U.S. of aggression against Syria
(Interfax-Religion)
Can a ceasefire in Syria take hold after last week?
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)
Not illegal: But now the hard part begins
(Harold Hongju Koh, Just Security)
Syrian strikes: A singular exception or a pattern and a precedent?
(Abtgea Roberts, EJIL:Talk!)
After chemical attack, Turkey renews calls for Assad’s ouster
(Barin Kayaoglu, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
'The dead were wherever you looked': inside Syrian town after gas attack
(Kareen Shaheen, The Guardian)
As wave of executions draws near, Catholics in Arkansas pray for an alternative
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
South African bishops call on nation's president to consider resigning
(Catholic News Agency)
Governance of English Cathedrals
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Endangered Anglican cathedrals prompt Church of England review
(Catherine Pepinster, Religion News Service)
Anglicans launch rescue bid as England’s finest cathedrals battle a financial crisis
(Catherine Pepinster, The Guardian)
The BBC’s duty to followers of all faiths and none
(Letters, The Guardian)
Putin congratulates Russia's Jewish community on Passover
(Interfax Religion)
Russian society is more tolerant than Western, but 'there is no limit to perfection' - Volodin
(Interfax-Religion)
Humanist congregations expecting a surge in growth for people who don't believe in God
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
How religious female soldiers are transforming the IDF
(Ben Caspit, translated by Danny Wool, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Women building new mosque in CA that's open to all genders
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Nonreligious in India face hostility, danger
(Bhavya Dore, Religion News Service)
Faithful storm out of Mass in Italy after priest criticizes Pope Francis
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Hungary’s Central European University under threat
(Stephen Pogány, Social Europe)
Lantos Foundation Chair calls on Hungary to defend academic freedom
(Mrs. Annette Lantos, The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice)
This is why Hungary is trying to close George Soros’s prestigious university
(Gabor Simonovits and Jan Zilinsky, The Washington Post)
Hungary’s government wants to shut down its most prominent university. That may be backfiring
(Henry Farrell, The Washington Post)
Utah Mormon running for president of Kenya
(Wendy Leonard, Deseret News Faith)
Don’t send a mother who fled drug cartels back to Mexico, archdiocese pleads
(Catholic News Agency, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
British controversy over name of Easter egg hunt
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Exhibit shows how Passover was artistically reinvented through the years
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Tradition! Trump to keep Obama Passover custom alive with Seder Monday
(Eric Cortellessa, Times of Israel)
Mr. Trump hosts a seder
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Trump will host White House Passover Seder
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Imam-E-Kaaba praises Pakistan's initiative to promote interfaith harmony
(Radio Pakistan)
Will Muslim babies rule? Journalists take their shots at dissecting latest Pew findings
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
In Morocco, the apostate no longer faces death: A step taken by the kingdom’s religious scholars is a turning point to curb extremism
(Chiara Pellegrino, Mercator Net)
North Korea: Imprisonment of JW conscientious objectors is arbitrary detention, according to the UN
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
New publication: Procedural Review in European Fundamental Rights Cases
(Eva Brems and Janneke Gerards, Strasbourg Observers)
New ways of responding to extremist Islam
(Giulio Meotti, Gatestone Institute)
EVENT Registration Form, 10 April 2017: Why Religious Freedom? Why the Religiously Committed and the Religiously Indifferent Should Care
(Brett G. Scharffs, Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - European Union Office, Brussels)
Saturday, 8 April 2017
Ending discrimination, working for reconciliation: Statement for International Roma Day
(Press Release, Conference of European Churches)
Churches react to deadly Stockholm attack
(Press Release, Conference of European Churches)
Friday, 7 April 2017
Russia: the impact of terror, a ministry’s response
(Ruth K'lama, Mission Network News)
Sentenced to death for "insulting Islam"
(Majid Rafizadeh, Gatestone Institute)
Mobile's mayor throws weight behind call to raise 'canopy of prayer'
(Lawrence Specker, AL.com)
Florida prosecutor has strong moral basis for renouncing death penalty
(Brian D. McLaren, Religion News Service)
USCIRF to launch extensive list of people imprisoned for their faith worldwide
(Samuel Smith, Christian Post)
Iran’s presidential election: Democracy or theocracy seeking legitimacy?
(Shahriar Kia, Daily Caller)
US leaders tell persecuted believers: 'You are not alone'
(Catholic News Agency)
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