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Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Religious discrimination at the place of work - a comparison of the Italian and British system
(Giambrone Law ILP, Mondaq Advice Centre)

Refusing to watch LGBT video, Houston judge sues employer for religious discrimination
(Meagan Flynn, Houston Press)

Administrative law judge sues over requirement to watch LGBT diversity training video
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Auburn Amish dismiss federal claims against city over animal ordinance
(Justin Story, Bowling Green Kentucky Daily News)

Amish drop suit against city over animal waste requirements
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

In first month, views of Trump are already strongly felt, deeply polarized
(Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy)

1. Early public attitudes about Donald Trump
(Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy)

2. Views of Trump’s executive order on travel restrictions
(Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy)

3. Views of Islam and extremism in the U.S. and abroad
(Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy)

4. Attitudes toward increasing diversity in the U.S.
(Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy)

Letter to the editor: Stand against persecution and exclusion
(Daniel Philpott, The Observer)

Muslim groups raise funds to repair vandalized Jewish cemetery
(Ashley Lisenby, Religion News Service)

Faith, ethniticy, and illiberal citizenship: Authority, identity, and religious "others" in Aceh's border areas
(Moch Nur Ichwan, Contending Moderities)

Exclusive: Myanmar probing police 'cover-up' of deaths of two Rohingya Muslims
(Shwe Yee Saw Myint and Yimou Lee, Reuters)

Coastal New Hampshire paper's nearly pitch-perfect on decline in region's religious stats
(Mark Kellner, GetReligion)

Losing our religion: The rise of secularism on the Seacoast
(Max Sullivan, Fosters Daily Democrat)

Kenyan court forces the country to review its options on Dadaab refugee camp
(Cristiano D'Orsi, The Conversation)

Threats of violent Islamist and far-right extremism: What does the research say?
(William Parkin, Brent Kelin, Jeff Gruenewald, Joshua D. Feilich, and Steven Chermak, The Conversation)

Religious freedom for me but not for thee?
(Paul Crookston, National Review)

Debate over religious freedom returns to Georgia legislature
(Kethleen Foody, Charlotte Observer)

EVENT, 22 February 2017: Upcoming Webinar: RLUIPA Land Use Claims — Latest Litigation Trends and Key Case Law Developments
(Karla Chaffee, RLUIPA Defense)

Malaysia: Syariah Courts Act RUU 355 isn't about religion, but politics, claims Zaid
(Farezza Hanum Rashid, The New Straits Times)

Malaysia: a kidnapping, religious pressure, and Sharia
(Ruth K'lama, Mission Network News)

Egyptian police accused of ‘complicity and apathy’ in case of kidnapped Christian woman
(World Watch Monitor)

Tuesday, 21 February 2017

Saransk Jehovah's Witnesses lose in Supreme Court of Mordovia
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Trump's new security advisor differs from him on Russia, other key issues
(John Walcott, Reuters)

Judge Gorsuch and the Wild, Wild West of religious liberty
(Eric Rassbach, The National Law Journal)

Do we have the faith to change the world?
(Natasha Moore, The Spectator Australia)

Canada's Muslims embrace their country – even when it doesn't embrace back
(Anita Elash, Christian Science Monitor)

IKIM International Conference on Religion and Civilization Sustainability
(Najibrazak.com)

Georgian prosecutors, Church could probe arrested deacon jointly - Patriarch of Georgia
(Interfax-Religion)

Opposite-sex civil partnerships? Steinfeld & Anor in the Court of Appeal
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Disability discrimination: Wolverhampton Gurdwara
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Lavrov on Kiev's decision to block the UN Security Council's statement on the death of Churkin: it's not Christian
(Interfax-Religion)

Why our synagogue became a ‘sanctuary synagogue’
(Michael Adam Latz, Forward)

Five ways human rights help the fight for social justice
(Sian Lea, Rights Info: Human Rights News, Views & Info)

The Vatican: A religious body or holy mediator?
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

The Pope’s divisions (Responding to: The Vatican: A religious body or holy mediator?)
(Robert J. Joustra, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Vatican, Rome’s Jews putting on first-ever joint museum show
(Associated Press, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Bill would require Bible classes in Kentucky public schools
(Associated Press, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Kazakhstan: Imam imprisoned after 10 years' absence
(Forum 18 News Service)

US religious freedom report on India rejected as ‘Hinduphobia’
(Bhavya Dore, Religion News Service)

India: Some people trying to divide society on basis of caste and religion: PM Modi
(Daily News and Analysis)

India: PM drags religion into poll cauldron
(The Tribune India)

India:How minority NGOs are specially targeted in Modi regime
(India Tomorrow)

Neo-Nazi rally held in Bulgarian capital despite municipal ban
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Jewish governor of Missouri, Muslim activists pitching in to repair vandalized Jewish cemetery
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Putin’s holy war
(Marc Bennetts, Politico.eu)

Judge rules Illinois law banning help for homosexual youth doesn’t apply to pastors
(Heather Clark, Christian News)

Illinois conversion therapy ban does not apply to religious pastoral counseling
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Transgender wrestler wins Texas HS regional title by forfeit
(Associated Press, ESPN)

Texas high school rules force transgender male wrestler to compete in girl's league
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

RLUIPA implications of Trump’s immigration executive order
(Evan Seeman, RLUIPA Defense)

The state of religious liberty in America
(House of Representative Judiciary Committee, United States Congress)

Comment on Paposhvili v Belgium and the temporal scope of risk assessment
(Adrienne Anderson, EJIL:Talk!)

21 Jewish Democrats demand Trump observe religious freedom
(Marcy Oster, Forward)

Concerning Trump and anti-Semitism: Scribes offer blitz of views on whether he is or is not
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)

Trump calls recent anti-Semitic incidents 'horrible'
(Jeremy Diamond, CNN)

Trump responds to anti-Semitic incidents in U.S.
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

What Muslim ban? A religious liberty hearing in the Trump era
(Elizabeth Reiner Platt, Religion Dispatches)

Trump talk of terror listing for Muslim Brotherhood alarms some Arab allies
(Declan Walsh, The New York Times)

Exclusion from schools for religious reasons may breach rights
(Carl O'Brien, The Irish Times)

Would-be Dutch Prime Minister: Islam threatens our way of life
(Kim Hjelmgaard, Religion News Service)

Connecticut city settles lawsuit with Freedom from Religion Foundation
(Aaron Berkowitz, Shelton Herald)

The sanctuary movement, then and now
(Judith McDaniel, Religion and Politics Fit for Polite Company)

Catholics and Jews mark history of the menorah with first joint show
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)

Teenage Iranian chess master banned from national team for refusing to wear a headscarf
(Marissa Payne, The Washington Post)

Marine Le Pen refuses headscarf, nixes talks with Lebanese cleric
(Andrea Rosa and Hussein Malla, The Washington Post)

France's Le Pen cancels meeting with Lebanon's Grand Mufti over headscarf
(Deutsche Welle)

Utah, LDS Church join 'friend of court' briefs in transgender bathroom case
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)

Mormon church joins fight against feds’ transgender restroom directive
(Taylor W. Anderson, The Salt Lake Tribune)

Case Page: Gloucester Country Schoolboard v. GG ("Transgender Bathroom Case")
(SCOTUSblog)

SCOTUS sets oral arguments in Trinity Lutheran case for April 19
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Supreme Court schedules case involving church-state dispute
(Bob Allen, Baptist News Global)

Supreme Court, Senate committee, set important hearing dates for spring
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))

Jewish civil rights groups ignore Jewish victim of discrimination
(Joshua Sharf, JNS.org)

In the military: Latest attempt to squelch religious liberty
(Sonny Hernandez, WND)

Heads of Azerbaijan's religious confessions appeal to int’l organizations, ECHR
(APA)

Harris reneged on abortion clinic reform, says Howlin
(Ellen Coyne, The Times)

EVENT, 21 Februay 2017: The Moscow Cathedral Mosque in the life of migrants from Central Asia
(George Washington University, Central Asia Program)

Tennessee: Proposed policy maintains protection of student religious expression
(Cameron Judd, Greeneville Sun)

Britain’s House of Lords begins debating Brexit bill
(AFP, The Guardian - Nigeria)

Lords Brexit debate: Bishop of Southwark
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Bob Jones University regains nonprofit status 17 years after it dropped discriminatory policy
(Nathaniel Cary, Greenville Online)

Bob Jones University to regain tax exempt status
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Monday, 20 February 2017

A Month of Islam and multiculturalism in Germany: January 2017
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)

Anthology of African Christianity highlights the continent where the faith is growing fastest
(World Council of Churches)

Border wall would cleave tribe, and its connection to ancestral land
(Fernanda Santos, The New York Times)

Iran: A cunning plan to break the ban on women at Iranian soccer matches
(Public Radio International)

J is for jihad: How the Islamic State indoctrinates children with math, grammar, tanks, and guns
(Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy)

The right to marriage and divorce for Egypt’s minorities: Tinkering with the issue
(Mai Shams El-Din, Mada)

Malaysians rally for and against sharia law
(Reuters, Bangkok Post)

Russian Church accuses opponents of St. Isaac's Cathedral handover of attempting to "rock the boat"
(Interfax-Religion)

Tower struggle: Inside the row over a mighty Russian cathedral
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Orthodox Church warns Russians against militaristic rhetoric
(Interfax-Religion)

Priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church attacked in the Odessa Region
(Interfax-Religion)

A house divided: As church and society diverge, so do Christianity’s liberals and hardliners
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Emory lawyers win religious freedom appeals court ruling
(Patti Ghezzi, Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University)

Court releases April calendar (including Trinity Lutheran Church v. Pauley)
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)

Jehovah's Witnesses appeal to favorable ruling of Constitutional Court
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)

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