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Friday, 2 December 2016

House doubles budget for Planned Parenthood investigations panel
(Ema O'Commor, BuzzFeed News)

First-ever Indigenous freedom of religion case heads to Canada’s Supreme Court
(Judith Lavoie, DesmogCanada)

Lawmakers miss their chance to protect religious liberty
(Sondra Clark, The Daily Signal)

Chip and Joanna Gaines under fire for maybe having the ‘wrong’ views on LGBT issues
(Katrina Trinko, The Daily Signal)

What a Trump Court would mean for abortion
(Cathy Ruse, The Daily Signal)

Abortion shocker! Media aghast concerning new Texas rules on burial of fetal remains
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

Combating religious discrimination in Iraq
(Dr. Ali Nasser Muthanna, CNN)

Beyond Belief: Defending religious liberty through the British Bill of Rights
(ResPublica)

Ohio religious liberty bill clears House committee, faces uncertain future
(Jackie Borchardt, Cleveland.com)

Melania Trump, fashion, and religious liberty: A strange combination
(Caleb Verbois, News-Democrat & Leader)

Time for compromise on gay rights and religious freedom
(Thomas Reese, National Catholic Reporter)

EVENT, 2 December 2016: "Human rights and religions. Non-state actors and their relationship to human rights". University of Lucerne, Luzern, Switzerland
(Universitat Luzern)

Thursday, 1 December 2016

LDS Church has spent 1.2 billion on welfare and humanitarian efforts
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)

Migration, Integration, and European Values: High-level meeting with religious leaders at European Commission
(Press Release, Conference of European Churches)

Berkley Center Annual Report 2015-2016
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Donors pledge $2.2bn to help Central African Republic recover
(World Watch Monitor)

Christian hospitals opt out of Canada's euthanasia law
(Samantha Gobba, Baptist Press)

Nineteen human rights organizations call to protect the rights of Christians in Iran
(Mohabat News)

Iranian rights groups decry treatment of Christians
(World Watch Monitor)

Human rights groups condemn persecution of Iranian Christians
(Andy Walton, Christian Today)

If the U.S. had 100 people: Charting Americans’ religious beliefs and practices
(Aleksandra Sandstrom and Becka A. Alper, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)

British Home Secretary pledges $17 million to protect Jewish institutions
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

British Prime Minister under fire for faith comments
(CBN News)

Youth urged to strive for interfaith harmony
(Dawn)

Advancing the freedom to serve
(Archbishop William E. Lori, CNSNews.com)

Bridging the digital divide, company gives churches free websites
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Texas man with 'You belong' sign outside Irving mosque lauded after Facebook post goes viral
(Caleb Downs, The Dallas Morning News)

Russia: No discrimination in the repression of religious minorities
(SOVA Centre and TASS, Human Rights without Frontiers International)

Students at Toronto university walk out on vote to mark Holocaust Education Week
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Two Iranians charged in planned attack on Israeli embassy in Kenya
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Leading Syrian theologian supported a legal ban on Wahhabism
(Interfax-Religion)

Woman cannot give evidence in a niqab, Australian court rules
(Paul Farrell, The Guardian)

Shiite forces advance on Tal Afar in Mosul operation
(Shelly Kittleson, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Why Iraq's Sunnis fear new PMU law
(Omar Sattar trans. Cynthia Milan, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Iraq's Shi'ite militias could prove bigger test than Mosul
(Stephen Kalin, Reuters)

Eastern Aleppo becoming 'one giant graveyard' says UN humanitarian chief
(Julian Borger, The Guardian)

Abortion-rights groups challenge restrictions in three states
(Jennifer Ludden, NPR)

Civil rights group documents nearly 900 hate incidents after presidential election
(Moriah Balingit, The Washington Post)

More mosques receive hate-filled letters from California
(Brian Melley, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

One year after San Bernardino attack, city aims to prevent Muslim hate crimes
(The Guardian)

Amid flames and suspicions in Israel, acts of Jewish-Arab cooperation
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)

Dutch parliament votes to ban face veils in some public places
(Thomas Escritt, Reuters)

Indonesia protests awaken fears for minority Chinese
(Stephen Wright, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Indonesians join thousands of soldiers, police at rallies
(Niniek Karmini, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Norway Catholic church fined over inflating membership for more funding
(Agence France-Presse)

Justices hear Texas death penalty case involving intellectual disability
(Adam Liptak, The New York Times)

Uzbekistan: More literature-related arrests, raids, fines, jailings
(Forum 18 News Service)

Latvia's entry ban on Kurayev another Russophobic gesture - Russian Foreign Ministry
(Interfax-Religion)

Leading Syrian theologian supported a legal ban on Wahhabism
(Interfax-Religion)

Texas elector quits, says pledge binding and Trump 'not biblically qualified'
(Steven Porter, Christian Science Monitor)

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal makes plea to allow women to drive
(Ben Rosen, Christian Science Monitor)

Another mass grave dug by ISIS in Iraq, and a ghastly ritual renewed
(Tim Arango, The New York Times)

How does Putin use Orthodox Church in international politics?
(Kristina Stoekl, Vedomosti, Russia Religion News)

Dialogue can heal nation wracked by fear, pope tells France
(Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service)

BuzzFeed’s hit piece on Chip and Joanna Gaines is dangerous
(Brandon Ambrosino, The Washington Post)

Damned by association: BuzzFeed 'news' story goes after the 'Fixer Upper' couple
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

"In God We Trust" on currency does not substantially burden atheists
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Panel backs same-sex couple denied access to central Illinois bed and breakfast
(Chicago Tribune)

ACLU statement on denial of appeal in downstate Bed & Breakfast case
(Press Release, American Civil Liberties Union)

Liability of B&B upheld for refusing to host same-sex ceremony
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

ARGUMENT ‘Inshallah’ in the Age of Trump
(Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Foreign Policy)

Australian judge says Muslim plaintiff cannot testify without removing veil
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

What went wrong at the Golden Rose Synagogue? A Ukrainian memorial to crimes against Jews has become a reminder of the country's own tendency toward historical denial.
(Alex Ulam, Foreign Policy)

Training can help Botswana’s teachers manage multiculturalism
(Annah Anikie Molosiwa, The Conversation)

Partial decriminalization of abortion in Brazil provokes ire of religious right
(Janet Tappin Coelho, Religion News Service)

Slovakia blocks recognition of Islam as official religion
(Novinite Sofia News Agency)

Slovakia bars Islam from becoming state religion by tightening church laws
(Gabriel Samuels, The Independent)

Merion teen hosts interfaith basketball game on Sixers' court
(Michaela Winberg, Philly.com)

Georgia: Metro Atlanta Chamber to oppose ‘religious liberty’ bills in 2017
(Scott Trubey, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

CCCU tries to thread the needle
(Kathryn Lee, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

When will Asia finally have same-sex marriage?
(Linda Van Der Horst, Foreign Policy)

Expropriated church property: Lupeni in the Grand Chamber
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

New project to assess media portrayal of refugees in Europe and promote their rights to speak on their own behalf
(World Association for Christian Communication - Europe (WACC Europe) and the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME), Conference of European Churches)

The long view on Burma: Forget short-term solutions to Burma’s interethnic violence. It will take generations to set things right
(Hunter Marston, Foreign Policy)

A genocide in the making: The world can no longer look away from the intensifying assault on Burma’s Rohingya minority.
(Sir Geoffrey Nice and Francis Wade, Foreign Policy)

Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Artists’ free speech rights at stake in Washington florist case
(Jim Campbell, The Daily Signal)

Catholic church prepares to fight ‘grave evil’ of mass deportations
(Kate Morrissey, The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Russian government has manual for officials who deal with religious groups
(Website of Federal Agency for Affairs of Nationalities, Russia Religion News)

Turkmenistan: Who is obstructing Russian Orthodox diocese?
(Forum 18 News Service)

Orthodox Church revives plans for teaching religion in all grades
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)

Petitions to watch | Conference of December 2
(Kate Howard, SCOTUSblog)

Religious liberty experts stand together, on cases inside prison walls
(On Religion)

Why so many are alarmed by the ongoing controversy at Mount St. Mary’s
(Michael Bayer, The Washington Post)

Turkey’s Erdogan: Israel restricting Muslim worship
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Meet the soft-spoken US-born rabbi challenging Israel’s religious establishment
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)

Miami archbishop recalls Catholic persecution in Cuba, prays for peace
(Catholic News Service)

Supreme Court declines case involving RFRA defense to drug charges
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Mexico charges 2 candidates, priest in political meddling
(Associated Press, The Big Story)

Mexico charges priest with electioneering offense
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

European Commission meets with religious leaders
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Commission brings together religious leaders to discuss migration, integration and European values
(Press Release, European Commission)

British plastic banknotes raise problems for vegans
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Muslim lawyers plan strategy for a Trump era
(Leigh Jones, The National Law Journal)

Muslim lawyers' groups strategize over Trump administration
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

14 defendants referred to prosecution on charges of attacking Coptic-owned residence in Sohag
(Taha Sakr, Daily News Egypt)

Arrests of journalists at Standing Rock test the boundaries of the First Amendment
(Alleen Brown, The Intercept)

Drama at Standing Rock: The conflict intensifies but the sacred goes unexplained
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

Ahok: Many Jakartans believe I defamed a religion
(Tempo.co)

Salafists distribute Muhammad biography in Germany after 'True Religion' ban
(Deutsche Welle)

Is religion disappearing entirely from Great Britain? A fresh look at religiosity trends
(Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, British Politics and Policy (blog))

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