Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
Russian Emergency Ministry will provide fire-fighting equipment to Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem
(Interfax-Religion)
A crisis in two parts: Mongolia’s Buddhism question and its economic failings
(Suzanne Holcomb, The McGill International Review)
Ohio mosque is first to join sanctuary movement
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Another wave of bomb threats hits US Jewish community centers
(Charlie Wood, Christian Science Monitor)
Antievangelism law fails in case against advocate of Yoga
(Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg, Russia Religion News)
DIY Judaism in Red State Idaho — 2 synagogues, no federation, but faith to spare
(Dan Yurman, Forward)
Elder Oaks urges all Church members to defend religious freedom
(Jill Adair, Deseret News Faith)
Should Christians fear Trump's God?
(Michael Peppard, Commonweal)
Sundance film festival trashes nuns
(Jared Hendler, Christian News Wire)
Shall we wake the Prime Minister, Habibi?
(Tevi Troy, Tablet)
What the rich owe the poor
(Adam Kirsch, Tablet)
In Germany, unity prayer service encourages tearing down walls that divide
(Marc Witzenbacher, World Council of Churches)
Hundreds of Israelis protest against Trump in Tel Aviv
(Your Middle East)
Religious services now being held in OH and WV prisons for Pagans, Wiccans, & Satanists
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Trump orders revival of Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines
(David Smith, The Guardian)
When Fascism dawns in America, you'll know it
(Bradley Burston, Haaretz)
Protests turn violent across Indian state
(Tamil Nadu, The Hindu)
Islam Nusantara and it's critics: The rise of NU's young clerics- analysis
(Alexander R. Arifianto, Eurasia Review)
Feminist futility: why the Women's March promises a conservative future
(Steve Turley, Christian Post)
No 'safe spaces' for persecuted Christians
(Eric Metaxas, Christian Post)
'Gosnell Effect' shows why Roe v. Wade won't survive
(Phelim Mcaleer and Ann Mcelhinney, Christian Post)
China forcing churches to conform to communist agenda
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post)
Political correctness is killing colleges
(Eric Metaxas, The Christian Post)
School bus driver wants religious exemption from fingerprints in background check
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Former bus driver files lawsuit
(Altoona Mirror)
Court says environmentalism is not a religion
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Former employees sue claiming they were required to participate in Scientology traininig
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Former Continental Design employee files lawsuit alleging religious discrimination: Quality manager says he was forced to take classes in Scientology
(Stuart Hirsch, The Herald Bulletin)
Trump reinstitutes ban on foreign aid to NGOs that promote abortion services
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Trump revives ban on foreign aid to groups that give abortion counseling
(Somini Sengupta, The New York Times)
US missionary receives award for ‘changing hearts’ among Colombia’s FARC
(World Watch Monitor)
Shariah conviction: Khalid wants EC’s official stand
(V Anbalagan, Free Malaysia Today)
Malaysian politician wants ruling on Sharia court conviction
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New lawsuit challenges "Bibles in Schools' program in West Virginia
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))
Hey reporters: Is a more active Religious Left a sign of a growing Religious Left?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Why you can buy a beer in North Dakota on Sunday morning but not a belt at Wal-Mart
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Sialkot: Christians and Muslims celebrate interfaith harmony
(Madeeha Bakhsh, Christians in Pakistan)
No place for Gods in Maharashtra’s rural govt offices
(Surendra P Gangan, Hindustan Times)
A secularist response to CORAB: recommendations at odds with the realities of twenty-first century life in Britain
(Steven Kettell. Guest Post, Law & Religion UK)
LITURGY Q & A: When Bodies Are Donated for Research
(Fr. Edward McNamara, Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)
Donald Trump's immigration policies threaten religious liberty
(Alan Cross and Dr. Gus Reyes, Time)
Brexit Appeals: Supreme Court Summary
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
The Brexit Judgment – “The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.”
(Dominic Ruck Keene, UK Human Rights Blog)
Rights groups unmoved by Turkey's softened state of emergency
(Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Indian evangelist suffers brain haemorrhage after police grilling
(World Watch Monitor)
Melissa Rogers offers the Trump Administration key religion and public policy advice
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Monday, 23 January 2017
From Europe to India, Christians seek unity in era of division
(Crux)
Supreme Court denies review in challenge to Utah's polygamy laws
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Polygamy remains a crime as U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear case from ‘Sister Wives’
(Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Critical film unnerves Egypt's religious scholars
(Salwa Samir, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Egypt's new public service mandate has some women wanting more
(Youssra el-Sharkawy, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
How Egypt is trying to stop looting at ancient mosques
(Khalid Hassan, trans. Sami-Joe Abboud, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Will presidential referendum save Turkey's democracy?
(Ali Bayramoglu, trans. Sibel Utku Bila, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Turkey's parliament comes to blows over Erdogan-enabling reforms
(Pinar Tremblay, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Ken Woodward, et al: History behind Democrats losing some key faith ties that bind
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
A mosque is at the center of a raw debate in the South of France
(James McAuley, The Washington Post)
The changing nature of America’s irreligious explained
(Richard Flory, The Conversation)
Majority of Americans want some abortion restrictions, object to taxpayer funding, poll says
(Caleb Ecarma, The Daily Signal)
What Trump's decision to move embassy to Jerusalem would mean
(Josh Siegel, The Daily Signal)
The Legal Revolution against Religion
(Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities)
The Legal Revolution against the Place of Religion: The Case of Trinity Western University Law School
(Barry W. Bussey, BYU Law Review)
Christians in Nigeria’s Jigawa State cry out as authorities begin church demolition
(World Watch Monitor)
Patient patriotism
(Randall Smith, The Public Discourse)
Madisonian Thomism: James Madison's constiutional theory is basically Thomistic
(Paul R. DeHart, The Public Discourse)
Science, embryonic autonomy, and the question of when life begins
(Ana Maria Dumitru, The Public Discourse)
A secularist response to CORAB: Recommendations at odds with the realities of twenty-first century life in Britain
(Steven Kettell, The London School of Economics and Political Science)
Might a computer algorithm replace the ECtHR? Short answer: no
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Computer algorithm predicts most Strasbourg judgments
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)
Religious crowd gathers in support of women's march
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
'What... does it all mean?' Inauguration, women's march numbers fuel controversy
(Christian Broadcasting Network)
As it turns out, hijabs were the most obvious religion issue in Women's March
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
At the women’s march, the religious left resists Trump
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Women's March events take place in Washington and around the world – as it happened
(Amber Jamieson, Nicola Slawson, Nadia Khomami, The Guardian)
Obscenity- and violent rhetoric-laced ‘women’s march’ was a bleeping disaster for the left
(Thomas Lifson, American Thinker)
Once again, feminists silence pro-life women
(Katrina Trinko, The Daily Signal)
Americans support Supreme Court ruling to restrict abortion, oppose taxpayer funding
(Andrew Walther, Christian News Wire)
Father and son accused of rape want the ‘only law book that truly matters’ at their trial: The Bible
(Kristine Guerra, The Washington Post)
Nebraska wants to overturn ban on religious attire in classrooms
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
The new Arab-Israeli alliance
(Michael J. Totten, World Affairs Journal)
Commentary: Make religious freedom for all a top priority
(Thomas J. Reese and Daniel Mark, Philly.com)
LDS church provides place for displaced Muslim community to pray
(Ginny Romney, Deseret News Faith)
Reid: No group is harder on me than fellow Mormons
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Series of anti-Semitic attacks strike north London
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Fewer and lonelier: Why the celibate priesthood is in crisis
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Turkmenistan: Two prisoner of conscience deaths from torture?
(Forum 18 News Service)
2nd Circuit hears arguments in Title VII sexual orientation case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Second Circuit wrangles with workplace discrimination question
(Mark Hamblett, Law.com)
Are Bible classes in public schools constitutional? The answer is complicated
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
‘Politics and religion should not be mixed’
(Andhra Pradesh, The Hindu)
Are faith, morality and culture issues haunting modern Democrats? (Round II)
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
When horse diapers and freedom of religion collide
(Fox News)
As Democratic support for Israel wanes, will American Jews abandon their political home?
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Once outlawed, Uganda's tiny Jewish group opens synagogue
(Rodney Muhumuza, Associated Press)
Bible in schools challenged: Freedom From Religion Foundation files lawsuit to end Mercer program
(Samantha Perry, Bluefield Daily Telegraph)
CAIR joins United Church of Christ in release of video promoting interfaith understanding
(Yahoo! News)
Nebraska encouraged to repeal ban on religious garb in classrooms
(Zach Puhacek, Lincoln Journal Star)
Indian Americans Suhag Shukla, Sapreet Kaur among 2017 ‘faith leaders to watch’
(Giovanni Albanese, Jr., India-West)
Even Stalin could not eliminate Jehovah's Witnesses
(Open Russia, Russia Religion News)
Trump's inauguration speech was a manifest of return to conservative values, the FJCR official believes
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Church welcomes the Education Minister's initiative on bringing back elements of the Soviet educational system
(Interfax-Religion)
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