Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 6 April 2017
Despite China's warnings, Dalai Lama has arrived in India for 9-day visit
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
What history reveals about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiments
(Ingrid Anderson, The Conversation)
Pennsylvania monsignor to plead guilty to embezzling $500,000
(David DeKok, Religion News Service)
Government: Does size matter?
(Richard Mouw, Religion News Service)
How feminists have failed Christian women
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Column: On Faith & Culture)
Anthropological confusion, epistemological failure: Mainstream media and moderate, Orthodox Christians
(John G. Stackhouse, Jr., University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Catholics surge in Africa but priest shortages persist in other parts of the globe
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Services)
Pope meets with Catholic-Muslim delegation from Britain
(Vatican Radio)
ESPN doctrine: Politics and 'social issues' are part of sports, but what about religion?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
A year later, Wall Street Journal revisits 'Target's pricey social lesson' on transgender bathrooms
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
How Target botched its response to the North Carolina bathroom law
(Khadeeja Safdar, The Wall Street Journal)
The Changing Global Religious Landscape
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Muslim births projected to outnumber Christian births globally by 2035
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Services)
Jehovah’s Witnesses broke law on extremism — Justice Ministry
(TASS World)
On Video: Experts react to threat of ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia
(Jehovah's Witnesses Russia)
Russia's Supreme Court upholds ban on Jehovah's Witnesses
(Associated Press, ABC News)
Jehovah’s Witnesses banned as “extremists” by Russia (Members found themselves on the country's anti-terrorist watch list)
(John Burger, Aleteia)
"If Jehovah’s Witnesses are extremist, I think we all are.”
(Heiner Bielefeldt, Jehovah's Witnesses Russia)
Russia's Supreme Court upholds ban on Jehovah's Witnesses
(Associated Press, Fox News World)
EVENT: 6 April 2017, Launch of USCIRF’s religious prisoners of conscience project
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
EVENT, 6 April 2017: Geopolitics of Transnational Law and Religion: An Exploratory Workshop
(Fondazione Bruno Kessler, the Center for Religious Studies)
Russia upholds ban on Jehovah's Witnesses in Supreme Court Thursday
(WRN Editorial Staff, World Religion News)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
The three myths of cohabitation
(Andrea Palpant Dilley, Christianity Today)
News ghosts on the march: Thinking about cohabitation and the ties that don't bind
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Death toll rises in aftermath of Syria poison gas attack
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Lyudmila Alekseyeva on the Jehovah's Witnesses ban: “Not just a mistake—I think it is a crime.”
(Jehovah's Witnesses Russia)
High-profile case against Jehovah's witnesses started in Russia's Supreme Court
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Russian court turns down Jehovah’s Witnesses’ bid for ‘victim of repression’ status
(TASS World)
Russia moves to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses as ‘extremist’
(Andrew Higgins, The New York Times)
Russian Supreme Court rejects Jehovah Witnesses' counterclaim seeking their recognition as victims of political repression
(Interfax-Religion)
Summing up first day of Jehovah's Witnesses case
(Deutsche Welle, Russia Religion News)
UN rights experts urge Russia to drop Jehovah’s Witness lawsuit which threatens religious freedom
(Office of the High Commissioner, United Nations Human Rights)
International support for Jehovah's Witnesses
(Portal-credo.ru, Russia Religion News)
Supreme Court begins consideration of case against Jehovah's Witnesses
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
UN experts urge Russia to drop extremism suit against Jehovah's Witnesses
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
American connection used against Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia extremism
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Russia: missionaries in trouble?
(Blasting TV)
More about the Jehovah's Witnesses case in Russia
More about the Jehovah's Witnesses case in Russia
Jehovah’s Witnesses lose appeal to block New Moston inquiry
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
European Commission appoints seven new Special Advisers
(Georgi Gotev, EurActiv)
Special Advisers to the President and Members of the European Commission
(European Commission)
Archdiocese of Bombay honors those who help alcoholics
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
The centenary of The Scofield Reference Bible
(OUPblog Religion)
Justice Gorsuch, a likely echo of Scalia (Responding to: What does Neil Gorsuch mean for civil liberties?)
(Thomas C. Berg, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Muslim women in Sri Lanka still 2nd class citizens – by law
(Munza Mushtaq, Asia Times)
After tolerance caravan leaves Lahore, census officials come under attack
(Shafique Khokhar, AsiaNews.it)
Enter Russia into Myanmar’s armed fray
(Bertil Lintner, Asia Times)
Russia bombing unmasks new jihadist generation
(Reuters)
Twenty tortured, then murdered in Pakistan Sufi shrine: police
(Reuters)
Auschwitz as seen through the ‘lens of faith’
(Tamara Zieve, Jerusalem Post)
Peruvian court: Indigenous communities must be consulted before drilling
(Barbara Fraser, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Listening is key to dialogue pope tells UK Muslim leaders
(Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service)
On Mecca’s front porch: An Indonesian city implements sharia law
(David Pinault, Commonweal)
Texas inmate wins kosher food lawsuit after 12-year legal dispute
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Inmate wins right to kosher meals for Orthodox Jews
(Press Release, Becket Law)
White House officials divided on Islam, ISIS, Israel and Iran
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
Employment Update: Company dress codes, discrimination and personal rights
(Mason Hayes & Curran, Lexology)
9 questions to ask after a terrorist attack
(Daniel L. Byman, Lawforce via Brookings)
LGBT rights are still up for debate inside this Texas courtroom
(Dominic Holden, BuzzFeed News)
5th Circuit hears arguments on Mississippi's conscience protection law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Appeals Court says federal law bans anti-LGB discrimination
(Trudy Ring, Advocate)
7th Circuit en banc: Title VII bars sexual orientation discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
In landmark decision, appeals court finds that federal law bans workplace discrimination against gays
(Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post)
In gay rights 'gamechanger,' appeals court bars employment bias based on sexual orientation
(Ben Hancock, The National Law Journal)
99 religious groups to Congress: oppose Trump plan to let pastors endorse candidates
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Patriarch Kirill prays for those killed in St. Petersburg, calls for violence to be fought
(Interfax Religion)
Buddhist leaders' 'call to action' against policies of the new administration
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
Pope Francis condemns ‘unacceptable carnage’ in Syria
(Inés San Martín, cr)
A critical commentary on the ECJ's judgment in G4S v Achbita
(Robin Bankel, EJIL:Talk!)
The right to religious freedom and the threat to the established order as a restriction ground: Some thoughts on account of the Achbita Case
(Solon Solomon, EJIL:Talk!)
Pakistani prosecutor to Christians: ‘I’ll acquit you if you convert to Islam’
(Asif Aqeel, World Watch Monitor)
Jakarta’s Christian governor reveals repeated sectarian attacks at trial testing Indonesia’s pluralism
(V. B. Sonata, World Watch Monitor)
Indian imam expelled from Singapore over remarks against Christians and Jews
(AsiaNews.it)
Swedish PM condemns gender segregated school bus
(AFP / THe Local, The Local SE)
Freedom of speech, the Prevent duty and higher education
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Mormon leader Thomas Monson, 89, hospitalized
(Mark A. Kellner, Religion News Services)
Report charges cover-up of sexual abuse by traditionalist society
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Anti-terrorism cameras installed in Wenzhou churches (Zhejiang) spark Christian protest
(AsiaNews.it)
No yolk: Cadbury and National Trust say Easter egg row is nonsense
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Cadbury takes 'Easter' out of annual Easter egg hunt ad
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Pope makes appointments amid criticism of sex abuse response
(Nicole Winfield AP, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
EU Envoy Jan Figel calls on Sudan to release two convicted of aiding Czech Christian ‘spy’
(World Watch Monitor)
Bulgarian Justice Ministry proposes banning foreign countries from financing religious groups
(The Sofia Globe)
CIS special services continue cooperation to counter terrorism, religious and political extremism - Russian Foreign Intelligence Service
(Interfax-Religion)
USCIRF condemns actions that would eliminate the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ legal existence in Russia
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Jehovah's Witnesses on brink of catastrophe
(Radio Svoboda, Russia Religion News)
Orthodox church joins debate over Muslim scarves
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Most college head chaplains are Christian. At USC, a Hindu leads the way
(Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times)
Here’s where major religions actually stand on vaccines
(Antonia Blumberg, Huffington Post)
What precedes diplomatic training on religious freedom? Getting religion (Responding to The future of religion and U.S. foreign policy under Trump)
(Andrew Bennett, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
House lawmakers urge increased security funding for Jewish institutions
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Most Jewish British students say they have been targeted
(Marcy Oster, Forward)
Chaldean patriarch supports Holy Week peace march in Iraq
(Dale Gavlak, Catholic News Service)
Health care & the gospel
(Timothy Jost, Commonweal)
Nearly 100 religious organizations oppose repeal of Johnson Amendment
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Laptop and parrot “marriage” case against Kim Davis dismissed
(Liberty Counsel)
Court dismisses fanciful suit designed to discredit same-sex marriage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Case charging HUD with Antisemitism in investigation moves ahead
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
WCC offers prayers for victims of ‘heinous’ bomb attack on St Petersburg commuters
(World Council of Churches)
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