Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 12 December 2016
Banning the burqa: the new exile
(Robert Hunt, Patheos Blog: Interfaith Encounters)
Cairo church bombing kills 25, raises fears among Christians
(Ahmed Mohammed Hassan and Ali Abdelaty, Reuters)
Cairo bombing: Sisi names suicide bomber as Coptic Christians protest
(Ruth Michaelson, The Guardian)
How Egypt's Copts fell out of love with President Sisi
(Johannes Makar, Foreign Policy)
Another attack on Copts in Egypt: Once again, the details make the horrors even worse
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Egypt: three days of mourning declared after 25 people killed in Cairo bomb
(Ruth Michaelson, The Guardian)
The troubled lives of Egypt’s Coptic Christians
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Egypt’s Copts mourn after ‘deadliest attack in recent memory’
(World Watch Monitor)
Under threat from terrorism, Coptic culture remains eternally powerful
(Jonathan Jones, The Guardian)
‘We have a right to build churches’ says Copt after latest attack
(World Watch Monitor)
Azerbaijan bans extremist religious organizations
(Interfax-Religion)
Azerbaijani Christians face fines for ‘illegal’ prayer meeting
(World Watch Monitor)
Azeri president approves legal changes restricting media coverage of anti-religious extremism efforts
(Interfax-Religion)
Iran: church retreat centre confiscated for ‘being funded by CIA’
(World Watch Monitor)
Syrian rebels offered chance to quit Aleppo, jihadists retake Palmyra
(Reuters)
Kurdish forces fighting ISIS in Syria get to hear God's word in the battlefield through audio Bibles
(Andre Mitchell, Christian Today)
Nigerian church collapse kills at least 160 worshippers – reports
(The Guardian)
Nigeria investigating what caused church collapse that killed scores of worshippers
(Merrit Kennedy, NPR: The Two-Way)
US libraries report spike in Islamophobic hate speech since election
(Danuta Kean, The Guardian)
Mexico’s religious liberty problem shows in priest prosecution
(Felipe de J. Monroy, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
German churches call for new law on arms exports
(Timothy Jones, Deutsche Welle)
Catholics want to stop executions in cases of severe mental illness
(Matt Hadro, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Spirit in the sky
(Alex Bozikovic, The Globe and Mail)
The LDS Church and the growing Mormon Studies field
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Methodist church eases post-election fears for Muslim, minority artists
(Manya Brachear Pashman, Chicago Tribune)
Trump is bringing progressive Protestants back to church
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Should anti-Trump Evangelicals leave the movement?
(Jonathan Merritt, The Atlantic)
How some Muslim refugees are converting to Christianity
(AFP, The Local)
A rare glimpse into the insular world of Israeli Jehovah's Witnesses
(Netta Ahituv, Haaretz)
The Korean religious leader on a collision course with the Church of England
(Harry Farley John Bingham, The Telegraph)
Catholic church in Manila issues prayer against expanded death penalty
(Reuters)
Artist works to preserve Christian heritage in Hamas-run Gaza
(Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters)
Iraqi Christians confront painful memories in town's clean-up
(Thomson Reuters Foundation)
More than 100 killed by church collapse in Nigeria -photojournalist, resident
(Reuters)
7th Circuit hears oral arguments over state regulation of Bible colleges
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Knightstown faces lawsuit over Christmas tree
(Deanna Allbrittin, Fox 59 News)
Town sued over cross on Christmas tree
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Op-Ed: The dangers of echo chambers on campus
(Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times)
For women under ISIS, a tyranny of dress code and punishment
(Rukmini Callimachi, The New York Times)
Israel wants mosques to turn the volume way down
(William Booth and Ruth Eglash, The Washington Post)
The man going back: Tens of millions of people are displaced around the world. I met one in Djibouti faced with an impossible choice.
(Dave Eggers, Foreign Policy)
Victoria’s model for assisted dying laws may be narrow enough to pass
(Ben White, Andrew McGee, and Lindy Willmott, The Conversation)
Churches vow to offer sanctuary to people in US illegally
(Denise Lavoie, Associated Press)
Texas AG Ken Paxton says school tried to illegally "silence a biblical reference to Christmas"
(CBS News)
Circumcision and religious liberty in Northern Europe
(Michael Peppard, Commonweal)
The religiocification of hate
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
New York Times editor: We just don't get (a) religion, (b) the alt-right or (c) whatever
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
A classic Paul Simon song for scribes to hum when covering religious freedom issues
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Ransomed: The freeing of 226 Christians from Islamic State
(Lori Hinnant, Associated Press)
Assyrian Christian hostage thriller: The Associated Press gets this persecution story right
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
In your newspaper? Vatican reaffirms its teachings on homosexuality and the priesthood
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Discuss please: Sarah Pulliam Bailey's letter to evangelicals who are mad at mainstream press
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Are millennials leading the way in rejecting Gideon Bibles? Los Angeles Times says yes
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
YouTube restricts PragerU video of British Muslim speaking about anti-Semitism
(Rachel del Guidice, The Daily Signal)
Civil liberties of indigenous people have long been suppressed at Standing Rock
(Colin Samson and Øyvind Ravna, The Conversation)
Argument: An idiot's guide to Islam in America
(Lawrence Pintak, Foreign Policy)
With new app, Spaniards can summon priests like Ubers
(Kavitha Surana, Foreign Policy)
Sunday, 11 December 2016
Update definition of hate speech, students urge legislators
(Miriam Dalli, Malta Today)
US voices concern over Ahmadiyya HQ raid
(The Nation (Pakistan))
Saturday, 10 December 2016
Brunei, M’sia, Indonesia rated region’s worst violators of rights, religious freedom
(A. Azim Idris, Asian Correspondent)
Lighting the Way for Human Rights
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Mauritius: International Human Rights Day 2016 - Workshop for Members of the Human Rights Technical Committee
(All Africa)
Turkey 'used imams for data on Gulenists in Bulgaria'
(Novinite Sofia News Agency)
Careful steps for Catholic Church tasked with pulling Congo back from crisis
(David Lewis and Aaron Ross, Reuters)
Kyrgyzstan to develop state program to fight terrorism, religious extremism
(Interfax-Religion)
Jehovah's Witnesses in Mordovia threatened with abolition
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
In secular France, Catholic conservatism makes a comeback
(James McAuley, The Washington Post)
Anti-Semitism bill will not pass Congress this year
(Josh Nathan-Kazis, Forward)
Ethics in the swamp: The rot of corruption
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Briefing change in SCOTUS transgender case may have substantive impact
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
4th Circuit hears employment discrimination case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Congress gives final passage to Defense Authorization Act-- some sections impact religion
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court extends briefing schedule in transgender case
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)
Judge orders fine, inspections for polygamous company in child labor case
(Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Istanbul court drops charges against Israeli commanders
(Reuters, The Forward)
Company using FLDS child labor held in contempt
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Justice Department urges judge to dismantle FLDS towns’ police force
(Ben Winslow, Fox 13 Salt Lake City)
Friday, 9 December 2016
In a push against anti-Muslim hate crimes, U.S. attorney general set to visit mosque
(Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times)
Church lacks standing in recall petition counterclaim
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pakistan: USCIRF condemns egregious treatment of Ahmadis
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Malta becomes first European country to ban 'gay cure' therapy
(Jon Henley, The Guardian)
International Human Rights Day: Religious rights are human rights
(Fiona Bruce and Benedict Rogers, Huffpost Politics UK)
Best International Human Rights Day Quotes and Activities of the day
(TF Live)
Doctors celebrate International human rights day
(ZADHR, The Zimbabwean)
Universality of human rights: myth or reality
(Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, Daily Times (Pakistan))
International Human Rights Day 2016 - Blog
(Conversation with Professor Alan Miller, Law Society of Scotland)
The Right to Religious Freedom - OU Human Rights Week
(Jessica Giles, Benjamin Zephaniah, YouTube Video)
Direct Link to ICLARS Oxford Conference Videos
Top 10 religious liberty stories of 2016
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))
Symposium explores religious liberty and the black church
(Cherilyn Crowe, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Religion that stops at words is useless, ineffective and hypocritical
(Patricia Holbrook, Atlanta Journal Constitution)
Plans to scrap Human Rights Act could be delayed until after Brexit
(Adam Wagner, RightsInfo)
Ecclesiastical judgments – November
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Clergy, the C of E and same-sex marriage: Pemberton v Inwood
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The Zoryan Institute Issues Statement on the Occasion of the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide
(Zoryan Institute of Canada Inc., MarketWired)
Christianity is facing extinction from its Biblical homeland says a Pakistani Christian Minister
(Madeeha Bakhsh, Christians in Pakistan)
Christmas reminds us that Jesus was a migrant like today’s refugees, says Pope Francis
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Retired Navy chaplain lauded for defending religious liberty
(Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times)
India's model for tolerance
(Harrison Akins, BBC)
Dr. Tenzin Dorjee Appointed to US Commission on International Religious Freedom
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
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