Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 13 October 2016
CSW launches the ‘Freedom of Religion or Belief Parliamentary toolkit’
(Kiri Kankhwende, Christians on the Left)
Donald Trump denounced by Liberty University students
(Ian Lovett, The Wall Street Journal)
Clinton campaign faces scrutiny over comments on religion
(Ken Bredemeier, Voice of America)
Should Christians vote for Trump? Trump’s behavior is odious, but Clinton has a deplorable basketful of deal breakers
(Eric Metaxas, The Wall Street Journal)
Why some Millennial evangelicals aren't voting for Trump
(Amanda Hoover, The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian worldview of Mike Pence
(Max Perry Mueller, Religion & Politics: Fit for Polite Company)
I confess: I brought a basket of stereotypes with me to the religion beat. And you?
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Christians in China fast and pray in anticipation of severe persecution
(Lorraine Caballero, Christian Daily)
New cardinals show Pope wants contemplative missionaries
(Fr Marc Whelan CSSp, The Irish Catholic)
Quebec judge had no legal basis for asking woman to remove hijab, higher court says
(Steve Rukavina, CBC News Montreal)
Friday essay: war crimes and the many threats to cultural heritage
(Ian Lilley, The Conversation)
Christians who reject all refugees are ‘hypocrites,’ pope says
(Cindy Wooden, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Interfaith group asks US Government to reject report that stigmatizes religious Americans
(Mormon Newsroom)
Israel's religiously divided society (Video)
(Pew Research Center, YouTube)
Pakistani archbishop says Christians fight persecution with dialogue
(Simon Caldwell, Catholic News Service)
Group of Muslims from Hizb ut-Tahrir detained - Crimean Mufti Board
(Interfax-Religion)
Chechen mufti reproaches Turkey for granting shelter to Chechen terrorists
(Interfax-Religion)
Dear Israeli lawmaker, do you believe in God?
(Netta Ahituv and Doron Halutz, Haaretz)
China's atheist leaders issue some striking new rules on religion
(Public Radio International)
With brutal drug campaign as model, Duterte turns eye to Islamist rebels
(Ralph Jennings, Christian Science Monitor)
Govt, law board: Framing the triple talaq argument
(Shalini Nair, Indian Express)
Chapaevsk Jehovah's Witnesses harassed by prosecutor
(Prosecutor's office of Samara province, Russia Religion News)
US, Israel and Jewish groups condemn UNESCO vote denying Jewish holy sites
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Why did the Israeli ambassador miss a high-profile synagogue event, again?
(Nathan Guttman, Forward)
Massachusetts churches challenge transgender nondiscrimination law
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Churches sue to enjoin Massachusetts ban on gender identity discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Alabama Chief Justice appeals suspension with cryptic motion for recusals
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
EEOC general counsel will leave in December
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Oklahoma governor declares today "oilfield prayer day"
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Massachusetts churches file suit to challenge law forcing them to speak, act contrary to their faith
(Press Release, Alliance Defending Freedom)
Judge rules religious rites trump animal rights, for now
(Associated Press)
TRO lifted in challenge to kaporos ceremonies
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
FETÖ exploits religion to push its own hidden agenda, Turkey's top religious authority warns
(Daily Sabah)
Religion can't dictate upon rights of individuals: Arun Jaitley
(The Economic Times)
China tells citizens to inform on parents who ‘lure’ kids into religion
(Kavitha Surana, Foreign Policy)
Church music, Vatican II and the Council of Trent
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Why do Christians revere Jerusalem?
(Mark Movsesian, First Things)
Google vs. ISIS and freedom of information
(Russell P. Johnson, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
How ascendant evangelicals helped defeat Colombia’s peace accord
(Andrew Chesnut, Religion News Service)
Shiite Muslims observe religious holy day of Ashoura
(Philip Issa, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Blog seminar on positive obligations (1): Publication PhD “Human Rights in a Positive State”
(Laurens Lavrysen, Strasbourg Observers)
Blog seminar on positive obligations (2): positive obligations under unqualified rights
(Vladislava Stoyanova, Guest Post, Strasbourg Observers)
Blog seminar on positive obligations (3): Positive obligations to protect fundamental rights – any role to be played by the European Court of Justice?
(Malu Beijer, Guest Post, Strasbourg Observers)
Blog seminar on positive obligations (4): The Responsiveness of a Positive State – Vulnerability and Positive Obligations under the ECHR
(Corina Heri, Guest Post, Strasbourg Observers)
Migrant and refugee children are victims of more bullying than their peers
(Simona Carla Silvia Caravita, The Conversation)
What does Islamophobia feel like? We dressed visibly as Muslims for a month to find out
(Irene Zempi and Imran Awan, The Conversation)
Romania: Lawsuit launched to stop Bucharest mega-mosque – "Romania is not a Turkish province"
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
Turkish dossier links interfaith dialogue to July coup
(The Irish Catholic)
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Nigeria: Embark on religious process and face wrath of the law – Kano Police warns residents
(Daily Post)
Those justifying Aradhana’s death should feel the full force of the law
(Editorial, Hindustan Times)
So what do Australians really think about selecting migrants based on religion?
(Nick Evershed, The Guardian)
Australian gay rights groups welcome same-sex marriage hurdle
(BBC)
Anti-religious freedom activists defeated at Procter & Gamble annual meeting
(National Center for Public Policy Research)
Terror groups exploit Iraqi homeless
(Sarah al-Qaher trans. Rani Geha, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Emergency advocacy letter delivered to Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S.
(Jordan Sekulow, American Center for Law and Justice)
Fitchburg church, three others sue Massachusetts over transgender law
(Michael Norton, Lowell Sun)
Black, Jewish and avoiding the synagogue on Yom Kippur
(Leah Donnella, NPR)
This Egyptian Christian is bringing communities together by teaching the Bible with the Quran
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)
The terrible climate of fear and hopelessness faced by Christians in Syria
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)
Sudan detains 6 Christians, threatens to demolish 5 churches
(World Watch Monitor)
Russian Spiritual and Cultural Center in Paris will begin working without official opening
(Interfax-Religion)
Priest is among casualties in South African student protests
(Christopher Torchia, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Nigerian Muslim cleric warns against gender equality
(BBC)
Paris attacks: Salah Abdeslam’s lawyers 'give up his defence'
(Kim Willsher, The Guardian)
Abortion laws may be relaxed for rape cases in El Salvador
(BBC)
In India, a day to burn demons singes Pakistan, too
(Ellen Barry and Suhasini Raj, The New York Times)
Gunmen attack crowded Shiite shrine in Kabul
(Zahra Nader and Mujib Mashal, The New York Times)
For Hindus on Long Island, a new temple 3 decades in the making
(Arielle Dollinger, The New York Times)
Two years later, few Hobby Lobby copycats emerge
(Jennifer Haberkorn, Politico)
Faith leaders call on Obama, Congress to reject controversial religious liberty report
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)
Women in Saudi Arabia want to be full-fledged citizens
(Shabnam von Hein, Deutsche Welle)
Christian lawyers call for UK surrogacy ban ahead of Europe vote
(Alex Williams, Premier)
New atheists and old leftists: Terry Eagleton presents an unusual challenge to the new atheism
(ERASUMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Muslim Americans respond to a caustic campaign by raising money and mobilizing
(Farai Chideya, FiveThirtyEight)
Religious leaders blast civil rights report on claims of discrimination
(Mark Zimmermann, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Clinton campaign under fire for critical emails on Catholic Church
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
“Freedom” vs. “liberty”: Why religious conservatives have begun to favor one over the other
(Stephanie Russell-Kraft, Religion Dispatches)
From Ebola to Zika: How religious actors can support prevention efforts in public health emergencies (Response to: Religion and global health: Addressing the Zika pandemic in Latin America)
(Rebecca B. Reingold, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Religion and global health: Addressing the Zika pandemic in Latin America
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Oklahoma governor calls on all Christians, er, Oklahomans to pray for oilfields
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Re: transgender restrooms, a lawsuit over where churches' religious freedom begins, ends
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Cairo University bans ‘religion identity’ in its application and papers
(Daily News Egypt)
Ilham Tohti, Uighur imprisoned for life by China, wins major human rights prize
(Tom Phillips, The Guardian)
Federal commission issues report on human rights in China
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
China targets parents with religion rules in Xinjiang
(Ben Blanchard, Reuters)
China’s crackdown on the Jewish Community of Kaifeng
(Yvette Alt Miller, Aish.com)
Chinese immigrants call for an end to organ-harvesting in their country
(Violetta Rusheva, New Europe)
Pakistan bans TV stations in sweeping 'attack on religious freedom'
(Vincent Wood, Express)
‘Women survive. They do not live.’ ISIS brutalizes women in the name of Islam — and it still has thousands of female slaves in its grasp.
(Sulome Anderson, Foreign Policy)
Eight ways that Islamophobia operates in everyday life
(Peter Hopkins, Gurchaten Sanghera, and Kate Botterill, The Conversation)
Is Muslim sectarian violence a new reality for Britain?
(Parveen Akhtar, The Conversation)
Churches file fed suit over gender-accommodations law
(Michael Norton, Lowell Sun)
The life experiences that can prevent sympathies for terrorism from developing
(Kamaldeep Bhui, The Conversation)
Australia: With the plebiscite set to be blocked, who will leave a legacy of marriage equality?
(Paula Gerber, The Conversation)
InterVarsity authors and alumni protest policy terminating employees who support gay marriage
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Blog: On Faith & Culture)
Bias and inaccuracy: New York Daily News on gays and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
(Jim Davis, GetReligion)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
The spiritual abuse in InterVarsity’s treatment of LGBT people
(Michael Vazquez, Religion News Service)
Israeli rabbinical group to host tens of thousands of unaffiliated Jews for Yom Kippur services
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Discrimination law changes would entrench second-tier status for same-sex weddings
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
Human rights groups urge Vietnamese govertnment to revise draft religion law
(Jardine Malado, The Christian Times)
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