Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 3 April 2017
Words of Jesus to be emblazoned on London buses this Easter in new evangelical campaign
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)
Fact-checking scripture: "those who do not work should not eat."
(Daniel Schultz, Religion Dispatches)
The enemy within: a tale of Muslim Britain by Sayeeda Warsi
(Afua Hirsch, The Guardian)
Churches and charities fill asylum vacuum left by 'lukewarm' state
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
When Marx meets Islam (A Chinese regulation would prohibit online insults based on religion. Some decry it as antithetical to Communist values)
(Mia Tianjie, Foreign Policy)
Muslim group puts up posters supporting Ram Temple, critics point to RSS link
(M Tariq Khan, Hindustan Times)
Would Israeli bill squelching mosque calls violate freedom of religion?
(Joel Greenberg, Christian Science Monitor)
6 Ways author Flannery O’Connor can inspire our modern lives
(Father Michael Rennier, Aleteia)
EVENT, 3-6 April 2017: Religious Liberty Partnership Annual Consultation, Brasília, Brazil
(ANAJURE)
EVENT, 3 April 2017: The Reformation and Law: 500th Anniversary Perspectives
(Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University)
Sunday, 2 April 2017
Law and religion round-up – 2nd April
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Sweeping purge against gays in Chechnya: People killed
(Crime Russia)
Saturday, 1 April 2017
Is Strasbourg law the law of England and Wales?
(David Hart QC, UK Human Rights Blog)
Who is running Ireland – the Government or the Church?
(Opinion, National Secular Society)
Removing obstacles to science-religion dialogue
(Russell Shaw, Catholic Exchange)
Ecclesiastical court judgments – March
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Safeguarding – Elliott Review progress report
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Sufism, a mystical Islam, growing in Los Angeles
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Boko Haram kidnaps 22 girls and women in north-east Nigeria
(The Guardian)
Friday, 31 March 2017
A closer look at ‘The Benedict Option’ yields suggestions worth considering
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)
Take the Benedict Option. Please.
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
The Benedict option
(David Brooks, The New York Times)
Bishop of Llandaff – Further statement
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Ninth Circuit rejects religious bias claim against VA
(Courthouse News Service)
Fired hospice chaplain loses Title VII claim in 9th Circuit
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The Nick Kirstof doctrine: Christians should be Democrats
(Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post)
Treating Christians as racists hurts the homeless
(Eric Metaxas, The Christian Post)
Benham Bros. on HB 2 repeal: 'radical revolution won't stop until privacy, religious freedom eliminated'
(Samuel Smith, Christian Post)
Imprisoned Pakistani Christians offered release if they convert to Islam
(Samuel Smith, Christian Post)
anSecretary of State Tillerson meets wife of US pastor jailed in Turkey
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
‘I wish I could forget’: student survivors of Kenya university attack, 2 years on
(World Watch Monitor)
FFRF protesting unconstitutional $1.1 million NASA grant
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Catholic-majority Puerto Rico celebrates 100 years of U.S. citizenship
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Pope Francis demands help for Iraqi citizens
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
#MuslimWomensDay celebration hit with backlash
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Survey: Evangelical leaders really don’t want to endorse politicians
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
In search of honest, smart, independent people
(David Gushee, Religion News Service)
How a folk saint of death took off among transgender women in Mexico
(Stephen Woodman, Religion News Service)
Terrorist group al-Shabab delivers food relief to drought-stricken Somalia
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Still no sign of leader for White House faith partnership office
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
European Court of h Human Rights Begins investigating Russia's 'foreign agent' law
(The Moscow Times)
Copts, analysts dismiss church claims they can move freely in Sinai
(Heba Afify and Karoline Kamel, Mada)
Texas legislative committee considers child placement refusal bill for religious providers
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
North Carolina governor signs bill repealing and replacing transgender bathroom law amid criticism
(Mark Berman and Amber Phillips, Washington Post)
North Carolina repeals "bathroom law", but pre-empts local regulation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ecclesiastical abstention leads to dismissal of suit by expelled student for priesthood
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Challenge to Boca's zoning for chabad again dismissed for lack of standing
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
News on application of Russia's anti-extremism law to religious groups
EVENT, 31 March 2017: Documentary screening: “An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story”
(Newseum Institute: Religious Freedom Center)
How Utah keeps the American Dream alive
(Megan McArdle, Bloomberg)
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Gorsuch nomination rumble underscores need for religion writers to understand Constitutional law
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
OHCHR expert meeting on “Faith for Rights”
(Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner)
Bishop of Loughborough – clarification for the media
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Dubai student accused of cursing religion at college campus
(Marle Nammour, Khaleej Times)
Legal fight for pupils' say in religion opt-out in Scotland ends as ministers compromise
(Martin Williams, The Herald)
Texas: House panel hears testimony on child welfare religious liberty bill
(Marissa Evans, The Texas Tribune)
Four British imams granted papal audience in bid to build interfaith relations
(Christopher Lamb, The Tablet)
Religious identity hiding under the cloak of white fragility
(Zach Parris, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
After London, a question returns: At what point does terrorist coverage just encourage more attacks?
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Rising force in American politics? Define the 'religious left' and give three examples
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
From deferral to denial: CSW continues to be blocked from the UN by the NGO Committee
(FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Uzbekistan: Police excuses for literature seizure raids
(Forum 18 News Service)
A diaspora’s dilemma: For Iraqi Christians at home and abroad, the road to reconstruction is long
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Scientologists in the Moscow Region were searched in connection with dozen thousand dollar income from adepts attracted in Petersburg
(Interfax-Religion)
Search underway at Moscow region's Scientologist center - source
(Interfax-Religion)
Orthodox bishop warns against sentencing Jehovah's Witnesses
(Klops.ru, Russia Religion News)
Orthodox apologist urges tolerance for Jehovah's Witnesses
(Sergei Khudiev, Pravoslavie i Mir)
Protestant legal experts discuss Jehovah's Witnesses' plight
(Portal-credo.ru, Russia Religion News)
Russian scholar supports Jehovah's Witnesses
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Pastor's suit dismissed under ecclesiastical abstention doctrine
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Hawaii federal district court converts TRO against travel ban to preliminary injunction
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
With God on their side: How Evangelicals entered American politics
(Alan Wolfe, The New York Times)
Just who are these ‘People of Faith’ anyway? Articulating moral consensus in a pluralistic country
(John G. Stackhouse, Jr., Christianity Today)
2 British teens fined by Polish court for stealing Auschwitz artifacts
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Belgium’s Flemish region to impose limitations on ritual slaughter in ’19
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Kosher pizza war simmers on after Brooklyn rabbis rule
(Michelle Honig, Forward)
US judge extends order blocking travel ban
(Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Associated Press)
US federal judge extends order blocking Trump travel ban
(Deutsche Welle)
Congo’s bishops give up on peace mediation
(Catholic News Service, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Peru’s March for Life transforms into aid for flood victims
(Catholic News Agency, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Faith at Angola Prison
(Michael Hallett, Commonweal)
Interfaith action in a tumultuous world
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Post-Christian mobs of yobs
(Raymond J. De Souza, Convivium: Canada's Premier Hub for Faith in Common Life)
Re-seeing religious resentment
(Gideon Strauss, Convivium: Canada's Premier Hub for Faith in Common Life)
US pastor charged for 'illegal' Bible study in Russia appeals to European Court of Human Rights
(Joseph Hartropp, Christian Today World)
Russian ‘counter-terrorism’ law challenged at the European Court of Human Rights
(News Release, ADF International)
Women of Conscience — Third in a seven-part series on international religious freedom
(Mormon Newsroom)
High schooler sues over school's transgender policy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Student sues Pennsylvania school district for sexual harassment, violation of personal privacy
(Press Release, Alliance Defending Freedom)
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
NGOs under attack for saving too many lives in the Mediterranean
(Nando Sigona, The Conversation)
Turkey’s main Islamic human rights organization faces internal upheaval
(Mustafa Akyol, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
What federalism would mean for northern Syria
(Sardar Mila Drwish, translated by Paul Raymond, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Palestinians get 'right to return' — to Jerusalem
(Daoud Kuttab, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
What role should EU have in resolving Syria crisis?
(Ali Rizk, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Saudis jump on Trump bandwagon
(Bruce Riedel, Al Monitor: Gulf Pulse)
Will Christians soon be enrolling at Egypt's Al-Azhar?
(Amr Mostafa, translated by Joelle El-Khoury, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Iraqi federal police forces take on key role in west Mosul
(Shelly Kittleson, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Iraq’s Sunnis eye post-IS future under regional cover
(Omar Sattar, translated by Mohammed Khalil, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Why one Iraqi female MP is calling for law to encourage polygamy
(Wassim Bassem, translated by Sahar Ghoussoub, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
What role will Iran-linked militias play once IS leaves Iraq?
(Hamdi Malik, translated by Cynthia Milan, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
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