Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 6 March 2017
Nevada: Bills would ban religion exception to birth control coverage
(Alison Noon, US News & World Report)
Sikh man's shooting in Washington investigated as hate crime
(Artemis Moshtaghian, Huizhong Wu and Susannah Cullinane, CNN)
Palace of biblical king Sennacherib discovered under tomb of prophet Jonah
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Scholars debate evidence for Jesus' existence
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Voronezh Jehovah's Witnesses face new charge after successful appeal of old one
(RIA Voronezh, Russia Religion News)
On Jehovah's Witnesses: details are different; outcome is the same
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Roma marginalization 'remains Bulgaria's most pressing human rights problem'
(Novinite Sofia News Agency)
Congress can do more for religious liberty abroad, scorecard finds
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
8 dead, 28 injured in stampede after church advertises free food at prayer meeting in Zambia
(Leondardo Blair, Christian Post)
What's it like to be an 'invisible' child under China's one-child policy?
(Catholic News Agency)
The horror of Ukraine's forgotten famine still casts a shadow
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
Too little stomach for the fight: A troubling sign that the will to combat clerical child abuse is waning
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Tennessee legislative prayer caucus forms to help preserve religious liberty
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Searches carried out at Ingushetia imam's house
(Interfax-Religion)
WWII airman gets Star of David on his headstone 75 years after being shot down
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Supreme Court sends transgender student case back to lower court
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
U.S. Supreme Court sidesteps ruling in transgender rights case
(Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)
Supreme Court won't say if trans teen can pick bathroom
(Mark Sherman, AP News)
Explainer: Why transgender students need ‘safe’ bathrooms
(Alison Gash, The Conversation)
Time to work up those walkups to the Supreme Court’s big transgender moment
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Will international forces enter Gaza Strip?
(Adnan Abu Amer, translated by Sami-Joe Abboud, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Shiite trio competes for power in Iraq
(Ammar Alsawad, translated by Sahar Ghoussoub, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Iraqis defiant as extremists threaten to attack Babylon
(Adnan Abu Zeed, translated by Pascale Menassa, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Will Syrian students be banned from Egypt's universities?
(Khalid Hassan, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Egypt proposes inheritance protections for women
(N.A Hussein, translated by Pascale el-Khoury, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Egypt's Christians are being driven out – will the world notice?
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
The Ivanka/Jared factor: Who's reporting on their clout and the faith connection?
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
New travel ban eases some legal questions, but not all
(Gene Johnson and Sadie Gurman, AP News)
Revised settlement means even strong protection from NYPD surveillance for New York's Muslims
(Hina Shamsi, ACLU)
High hopes for UK’s first Jewish-Muslim women’s conference
(Daniel Sugarman, The Jewish Chronicle)
King Salman praises religious tolerance in Indonesia: Yenny Wahid
(Antara News)
Interfaith rally at R.I. Holocaust Memorial condemns anti-Semitic act
(Tom Mooney, Providence Journal)
Archbishop Lori on new president, new challenges for religious liberty
(Matthew Bunson, Ave Maria Radio)
The right way to amend the Johnson Amendment
(Edward A. Zelinsky, OUPblog)
Curbs on religious freedom among human rights problems in India
(The Economic Times)
Westminster Law School, Law and Religion Cluster launch: The Place of Religion in Secular Society
(Guest Post by Sylvie Bacquet, Law & Religion UK)
Religious freedom and business case studies
(Melissa Grim and Brian Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
In places where it’s legal, how many people are ending their lives using euthanasia?
(Andrew McGee, The Conversation)
No Bivens claim by Vet denied psychological care because of anti-gay views
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Supreme Court won’t hear major case on transgender rights
(Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
Supreme Court sends Virginia transgender case back to lower court
(Robert Barnes, The Washington Post)
Egypt's Catholic church praises 'ordinary Muslims' helping Coptic Christians fleeing ISIS
(Joseph Hartropp, Christian Today)
Supreme Court remands transgender bathroom case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The Rome Treaties, a successful story of friendship and perseverance
(Victoria Martín de la Torre, Europe Infos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Europe and NATO in a changing security situation
(Lt Col Stephan Miller, NATO, Europe Infos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Europe at the Crossroads Justice & Peace Europe’s Concerted Action 2017
(Stefan Lunte, Justice et Paix Europe, Europe Infos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Refugees and Muslim-Christian relations: A call for bridges not walls
(Henry Longbottom SJ, Europe Infos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Asylum reform: Death of refugee protection by a thousand cuts?
(José Ignacio Garcia, SJ, Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service Europe, Europe Infos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Reflections on the Maltese EU Presidency
(Charles J. Scicluna, Archbishop of Malta, Europe Infos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Law and religion round-up – 5th March
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Are we alone? New planets raise old questions
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
ProPublica launches new collaboration project to tract and document hate crimes
(MIchel Martin, NPR)
Florida Jewish community rallies help after Mosque fire
(Quincy Walters, NPR)
Christians turn to podcasts to say things they can't say in church
(MIchel Martin, NPR)
The shrine for Pakistan governor's killer embodies the real danger Pakistan faces from within
(Anam Zakaria, Scroll.In)
Hungry and afraid, Mosul civilians flee
(Agence France-Presse, PRI)
Why some Muslim Syrian refugees are converting to Christianity
(Rebecca Collard, PRI)
Catholic bishops outraged by Congress' repeal of an anti-corruption measure that could support child labor
(Steve Curwood, PRI)
European Parliament strips French presidential candidate of immunity over 'Islamic State' tweets
(Deutsche Welle)
Recent anti-Semitic incidents are pushing local rights groups to stand together
(Sheila Regan, Public Radio International)
Some Egyptians are comparing Trump to an unlikely, Islamist figure
(Salma Islam, Public Radio International)
U.N. human rights experts unite to condemn China over expulsions of Tibetans
(Edward Wong, The New York Times)
Saturday, 4 March 2017
Why the courts were wrong to rule against a florist who declined service to a gay wedding
(Robert K. Vischer, America: the Jesuit Review)
Ecclesiastical court judgments – February 2017
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
National Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity: When Reflective Processes Happen in Parallel within Several Nation-States
(Solange Lefebvre, Public Spirit)
McDonald conference celebates 500th anniversary of Protestant Reformation
(Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University)
Jehovah's Witnesses exonerated in Voronezh
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
New wrinkle against JWs: prosecutor claims programmed literature distribution
(Prosecutor's office of Krasnodar territory, Russia Religion News)
Conservative Jewish groups join interfaith coalition for transgender rights
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Forward)
Europe will be ‘adrift’ if it loses Christian roots, faith leaders warn
(Catholic News Agency, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
President Trump touts Florida school voucher model despite church-state concerns
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Trump emphasizes his call for school choice
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Trump praises students, educators at Catholic school in Orlando
(Steven Lemongello and Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel)
‘False prophet’: Duterte, the Catholic Church and the fight for the soul of the Philippines
(Emily Rauhala, The Washington Post)
Friday, 3 March 2017
India to host Dalai Lama in disputed territory, defying China
(Reuters, China News Daily)
Muslims in Japan launch community outreach program to counter prejudice
(Megumi Iizuka, Japan Today)
Trump reaches out to religious minorities, calls JCC bomb threats "false flags"
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
BiH: Council of Europe’s Anti-racism Commission denounces a lack of political willingness to build an inclusive society
(Europeqn Western Balkans)
Six years on, justice thwarted in case of Pakistan’s murdered Shahbaz Bhatti
(World Watch Monitor)
Gauging support of Islamic law in Malaysia
(Rashaad Ali, RSIS Commentary)
Jewish community center threats: man arrested in alleged cyberstalking plot
(Jamiles Lartey, The Guardian)
A summary of anti-Semitic vandalism and bomb threats around the United States
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Kaur project showcases the strength and resilience of Sikh women
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
New theory suggests that religion may have been responsible for social evolution
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Only 10% of Americans have a Biblical worldview
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
The shifting demographic of faith leaders
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Malaysia's progressive Muslims want a secular future
(Peter Riddell, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in Journalism)
Faith, dialogue and deafness: Religions must speak to the faithless, as well as to each other
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Jehovah's Witnesses headquarters seeks Kremlin intervention
(Russia Religion News)
Communal living and its discontents
(Briallen Hopper, Religion & Politics Fit for Polite Company)
Fundamentalist pastor charged in toddler's pneumonia death
(Associated Press)
Atheists win $40,000 and removal of Ten Commandments monument from high school
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Germany poised to mount more raids on Turkish imams accused of spying
(Jamie Dettmer, Voice of America)
Spanish police seize Catholic group's anti-transgender bus
(Isabelle Gerretsen, International Business Times)
Scientologists 'infiltrate Munich art gallery'
(Ben Knight, Deutsche Welle)
German spies investigate if Scientologists 'infiltrated' major museum
(Jörg Luyken, The Local)
Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
No-fly list abuse could cost FBI agents
(Adam Klasfeld, Courthouse News Service)
UN is condemning China over expulsion of monks and nuns
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
The rise of Hinduism in Australia, will it continue?
(Krati Garg, SBS)
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