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Friday, 10 February 2017

In Pakistan, a shrine to murder for 'blasphemy'
(Asad Hashim, AlJazerra)

Trump urged to name religious freedom envoy to smooth out bumpy Mideast policy
(Julian Pecquet, Al-Monitor)

7 key take-aways from the court’s ruling on Trump’s immigration order
(Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post)

The Archbishop of Canterbury expresses shock over child migrant change
(Anglican News Service)

Faith and money from the Middle East fuelling tensions in the Horn of Africa
(Martin Plaut, The Conversation)

Spiritual but not religious? Leading Buddhist magazine takes a hard look at what that means
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)

Daily life may collide with law: Why do so many religions care what believers wear?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)

DeVos backlash sees parents threatening to homeschool kids
(Jon Schuppe, NBC News)

Information behind DeVos irony: NBC News discovers that liberal homeschoolers do exist
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

How one Bible Belt congregation welcomes refugees: A Godbeat pro offers interesting insight
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

How refugees shaped one East Nashville church
(Holly Meyer, The Tennessean)

Pakistani Christians ‘attacked’ as land dispute escalates
(Asif Aqeel, World Watch Monitor)

Cases of intolerance, discrimination, legal restrictions, and violence against Christians
(reported from October to December 2016, Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)

Combating the scourge of religious persecution: Changing hearts and minds in the Middle East
(Doug Bandow, Forbes)

EY launches religious literacy training programme
(Sinead Moore, Economia)

Istanbul's busiest center Taksim to finally get mosque after decades
(Daily Sabah)

Syria's grand mufti invites Patriarch Kirill to hold interreligious conference
(Interfax-Religion)

Le Pen: If elected, French Jews will have to renounce Israeli citizenship
(Jerusalem Post)

Free pastors from the Johnson Amendment
(Tony Perkins, Religion News Service)

Stop repeating the heresy of declaring the United States a ‘Christian nation’
(Sufjan Stevens, The Washington Post)

What is the true meaning of mercy?
(Matthew Schmalz, Real Clear Religion)

Linda Sarsour rekindles the Left’s love affair with radical extremism
(Ian Tuttle, National Review)

Keith Ellison anti-Semitism controversy, explained
(Josefin Dolsten, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Italian judge: Soccer chants about Jews not hate speech
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Chicago synagogue hosts interfaith gathering after vandalism
(Paul Wieder, Forward)

Pope Francis meets ADL leaders, condemns anti-Semitism
(Ben Harris, Forward)

Chaffetz meets with Utah Muslim leaders worried over impact of travel ban, says he supports order
(Ben Lockhart, Deseret News Faith)

Panel OKs bill promoting religious expression in schools
(Associated Press, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

In time of racial despair, it’s critical for the Church to speak up
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

BJC’s Amanda Tyler: Abandoning ban on electioneering risks turning churches into PACs
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Tribe files legal challenge to Dakota Access Pipeline
(Taylor Isaac, Jurist)

RFRA challenge to Dakota Access Pipeline filed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Hinduism in California school curriculum: Civil rights lawsuit filed against state
(Joyce Tsai, East Bay Times)

Suit challenges treatment of Hinduism in California school curriculum
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Community room policy excluding worship held unconstitutional
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

10th Circuit denies en banc rehearing in 10 Commandments case, with dissent
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Georgia pays $225,000 to settle lawsuit alleging religious discrimination
(Jim Galloway, Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Georgia pays almost a quarter of a million dollars to end pastor’s lawsuit
(Press Release, First Liberty Institute)

Fired doctor settles suit against Georgia health department
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

9th Circuit upholds TRO against Trump's travel ban on Due Process grounds; postpones ruling on religious discrimination issue
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

US Court of Appeals upholds lower court ruling on Muslim visitor ban
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Uzbekistan: Religious literature fines and confiscations continue
(Forum 18 News Service)

Away from caste, religion, is there a gender narrative to UP polls?
(Pranshu Mishra, News 18.com)

500 prominent evangelicals take out full-page ad supporting refugees
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)

Does religion have a place in public schools?
(Benjamin Justice and Colin Macleod, The Atlantic)

Experts mull religious freedom, tolerance in US, abroad
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

My view: President Trump's promise may not be good for religion
(Stuart Reid, Deseret News Opinion)

Georgia pays $225,000 to settle suit alleging religious discrimination
(Greg Bluestein, Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Thursday, 9 February 2017

Jewish revival in Sicily: Dormant for five centuries, Jewish life in Italy’s far south is stirring
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Montreal photographer allegedly refuses to shoot gay wedding
(CTV News)

Modern Slavery - A Joint Declaration
(Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch and Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England)

Why religious freedom? Why the religiously committed, the religiously indifferent and those hostile to religion should care
(Brett Scharffs, Social Science Research Network)

Federal appeals court refuses to reinstate Trump travel ban
(Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press: The Big Story)

Joy and relief supplant fear and frustration at Logan (Lantos Prize winner arrives)
(Laura Crimaldi, Maria Sacchetti and Evan Allen, The Boston Globe)

Washington v. Trump - the Opinion
(Per Curiam, The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Cicuit)

Article 18: The Importance of FoRB in International Law
(CIFoRB)

Trump moves leave LGBT groups, religious conservatives wary
(David Crary and Rachel Zoll, Associated Press)

Azerbaijan: Regime jails Muslims, doesn't arrest torturers
(Forum 18 News Service)

Christianity and slavery: What churches can bring to the battle against servitude
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Russian aid helps tens of thousands of Christians stay in Aleppo - Patriarch John X
(Interfax-Religion)

Prayer service for peace in Syria held in Damascus
(Interfax-Religion)

Russian conscientious objector fails to obtain civilian service
(L. Naumova, Ulyanovsk Press)

Church and state warn dissenters against film about sainted tsar
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)

Trump’s religious freedom order won’t help the baker, florist, and photographer
(Kate Shellnutt, Christianity Today)

German doctor re-ignites debate after banning abortions in clinic
(Rina Goldenberg, Deutsche Welle)

How the Catholic Church can reduce deaths in the Philippine anti-drug war
(Ralph Jennings, Forbes)

LDS Church represented in European Parliament's conference on children and pornography
(Morgan Jones, Deseret News Faith)

Vatican’s UN nuncio urges action on poverty beyond economics
(Catholic News Service, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Amid scandals, French candidate risks ruining a ‘Catholic moment’
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Church-state explainer: What are Larson and Lemon?
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Six Prescriptions for International Religious Freedom in the President Trump Administration
(Thomas Farr - IGE Conference Call Series, Religious Freedom Institute)

Judge recommends dismissal of Tampa Christian school pregame prayer lawsuit
(Cathy Carter, WUSF)

Court upholds denial of football stadium loudspeakers for prayer
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

HIAS files suit to challenge legality of refugee ban
(HIAS)

Class action lawsuit filed against travel ban
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Toledo City Council bans conversion therapy
(Athena Cocoves, Toledo City Paper)

Ohio city enacts broad conversion therapy ban
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

India: Report examines legal restrictions religious minorities face
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Time limits for the return of asylum seekers – did the clock stop ticking?
(Fraser Simpson, UK Human Rights Blog)

Historical debates legitimated by supreme courts
(Maxime Gauin, Hürriyet Daily News)

Arguing more with the new critics of religious freedom
(Daniel Philpott, Arc of the Universe)

Canadians to train Ukrainian military chaplains in Lviv
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Rock, paper, scissors (comment on the Trump administration)
(Sarah Hammerschlag, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

Do Syrian American Christians welcome all the newer Muslim arrivals? It depends ...
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

Why a German-born soccer star of Muslim descent had to choose between his faith and his career
(Anthony Faiola and Souad Mekhennet, The Washington Post)

Berkeley, Milo Yiannopoulos and the lessons of free speech
(Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman, The Conversation)

Pope decries treatment of Rohingya Muslims
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)

A disappointing start to democracy: Myanmar’s winners and losers
(Kirsten McConnachie, The Conversation)

Resettling refugees in Asia and Latin America would let Europe abstain from its responsibility
(Tom Vickers, The Conversation)

Britain’s response to WWII child refugees puts modern society to shame
(Rebecca Clifford, The Conversation)

‘Love thy neighbor’ theme galvanizes 1,000 at interfaith gathering
(Paul Wieder, Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago)

I’m a Christian and an Interfaith Educator. America needs Islam.
(Elizabeth Welliver, Sojourners)

Pope Francis meets Hebrew U officials to plan interfaith education program
(The Algemeiner)

Bats and churches set for a harmonious future
(Heritage Lottery Fund)

British lottery approves grants to deal with bats in churches
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Story of Muslim Georgia State student influences new religious liberty bill
(Michelle Tabrizi, The Signal)

Bishops launch letter campaign urging Trump to protect religious freedom
(Catholic News Service, Intermountain Catholic)

South Dakota considering 'religious freedom' adoption bill
(John Riley, MetroWeekly)

Turkey to get new religious class curriculum in line with Euro court rulings
(Hürriyet Daily News)

The House of Lords and “religious literacy”
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

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