Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
I thought voting Brexit would protect Jewish people. How wrong could I have been?
(Angela Epstein, The Telegraph)
GOP rejects call to back off gay marriage opposition
(Steve Peoples, The Associated Press)
Europeans fear wave of refugees will mean more terrorism, fewer jobs
(Richard Wike, Bruce Stokes, and Katie Simmons, Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends)
Thousands fasting after Russian President Putin signs law banning evangelism outside of churches
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Monday, 11 July 2016
'Act of love' amid violence: 6-year-old boy asks police officers to pray with him for their safety
(Hazel Torres, Christian Today)
'Burqa revolution' in Kerala was an early sign of Islam radicalisation in the state
(Srinivasa Prasad, Firstpost)
Bangladesh: Mosque sermons now under control in fight against Islamic terrorism
(Sumon Corraya, AsiaNews.it)
Feeling ignored, black Christians pray, vent in national conference call
(Nicola A. Menzie, Religion News Service)
How the IRGC is trying to tighten its grip on Rouhani
(Zahra Alipour, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)
Iowa churches required to comply to bathroom laws
(Christine Kim, Christianity Daily)
U.S. churches to Russia: “We’re not leaving”
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
What Turkey fails to understand about IS
(Mustafa Akyol, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
The Lord Chief Justice and codification of the criminal law
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Muslim clerics in India unite against superstar televangelist Zakir Naik
(Uzair Hasan Rizvi, Scroll.in)
Faith and light: Professor's blog (Howard Friedman) helps keep 'church-state' debate alive
(Linda Laderman, Legal News)
Half Europeans fear, resent refugees: survey
(Alastair Macdonald, Reuters)
Pope Francis names first American and first woman as his No. 1 and No. 2 spokespeople
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Balkan refugees seek asylum in Regensburg Cathedral
(Kate Brady, Deutsche Welle)
How Buddhist monks are battling deforestation in Cambodia
(Ate Hoekstra, Deutsche Welle)
How faith leaders over the weekend addressed racial violence
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)
British Jews and marriage: Why British Jews marry outside the faith less than American ones
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Pope’s trip to Georgia, Azerbaijan to feature politics and outreach
(Associated Press)
In chastising the US, African cardinals are voice of the future
(Thomas D. Williams, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Mississippi Attorney General: Pastors “duped” by HB 1523
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
NYT investigates religious fundamentalism in Saudi Arabia today
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Russia: National threat to Jehovah's Witnesses to be taken up in court
(Russia Religion News)
Russian president signs anti-terrorism law that restricts religious proselytizing
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Mormon church to keep missionaries in Russia despite new proselytizing restrictions
(Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Jehovah's Witnesses win another round in bid to access gated communities in Puerto Rico
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Texas governor mandates burial or cremation of aborted fetuses
(Catholic News Agency)
Texas proposes rule change on handling of fetal tissue
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
My Hasidic students need you to support enforced secular education
(Yitzhak Bronstein, Forward)
The flawed legal reasoning that says we shouldn’t force secular studies on Hasidic Jews
(Dena S. Davis, Forward)
In new suit, 10 states challenge feds' interpretation of transgender rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Violence and Islam not the same: Islamophobia will not solve the problem of terrorism
(Asad Ashraf, Firstpost)
Nebraska, 9 other states sue federal government over transgender restroom rules
(Joe Dejka, Omaha World-Herald)
Nearly half of US states have sued over transgender bathroom rule in schools
(Catholic News Agency)
Possible Trump VP pick supports abortion rights
(James Oliphant, Reuters)
After the shootings, Dallas clergy will pray, then advocate for change
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Archaeologists dig up Philistine artifacts where Goliath may have walked
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
Sudan’s Christians face ‘ethnic cleansing’
(World Watch Monitor)
Hasidic school in London reprimanded for not teaching about sexual orientation
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Catholic bishops want talks before India abolishes religion-based laws
(UCAN)
Lebanon reels under weight of Syrian refugee crisis
(Jean Aziz trans. Pascale el-Khoury, Al Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)
Is Israel doomed to live with terror?
(Shlomi Eldar trans. Sandy Bloom, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Iraqi pre-Islamic landmark threatening to collapse
(Abnan Abu Zeed trans. Pascale el-Khoury, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
What do recent attacks mean for future of Egypt's Christians?
(Shahira Amin, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Conversations about hard truths
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Seven hard truths about America this July 4th weekend
(David Gushee, RNS Blog: Christians, Conflicts & Change)
Five of 15 Muslims missing from Kerala had converted to Islam just a year ago
(Shaju Philip, The Indian Express)
U.S. Catholic bishops urge Congress to protect conscience rights on abortion immediately
(Fr. Mark Hodges, Lifesite)
The precarious state of religious liberty
(Hillsdale Daily News)
10 more states sue Obama admin over forced school transgender bathroom policy
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Anglicans in Canada to vote on same-sex marriage
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)
Raid on Indonesian food stall prompts fears of fundamentalism
(Joe Cochrane, The New York Times)
Religious leaders encourage understanding after week of violence
(Adrian Florido, NPR)
How African-American church leaders are responding to new challenges
(Tom Gjelten, NPR)
C of E hardliners to boycott synod talks on same-sex relationships
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Church of England is bidding to open scores of free schools
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Study contradicts efforts to link migrants to crime
(Deutsche Welle)
From Myanmar's Rohingyas to Pakistan's Ahmadis, how nations change names to oppress minority groups
(Haroon Khalid, Scroll)
How Turkey’s televangelists gain money, mockery
(Barın Kayaoğlu, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Russia: USCIRF condemns enactment of anti-terrorism laws
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
The church camps that aim to bridge race relations
(Jesse James DeConto, The Atlantic)
Illegal Israeli outposts in the West Bank face new pressure even as they expand
(Anne-Marie O'Connor, The Washington Post)
Bangladesh to ban Islamic TV channel, Peace TV
(BBC News)
A Saudi morals enforcer called for a more liberal Islam. Then the death threats began.
(Ben Hubbard, The New York Times)
Anti-abortion group presses ahead despite recent Supreme Court ruling
(Erik Eckholm, The New York Times)
On a somber Sunday, ‘one nation under God examines its soul’
(Richard Fausset, Campbell Robertson, and Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times)
ECHR ruling paves way for gay marriage case
(Cayman News Service)
Law and religion round-up – 10th July
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Brexit Basics 3: update 9th July
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Bridging Mars and Venus for religious freedom
(Daniel Philpott, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)
Which U.S. religious groups are oldest and youngest?
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
California religious conscience violations make the U.S. sound a lot like Belgium
(Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review)
EVENT, 11-15 July 2016: Third Joint Conference of Academic Societies in the Fields of Religion and Theology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
(University of Pretoria)
Saturday, 9 July 2016
Bangladesh’s tryst with ISIS
(Slok Gyawali, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Pope calls on Latin America to fight ‘colonizations,’ realize its destiny
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Texas Apache tribe flies free: Column
(Robert Soto, USA Today)
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America issues a statement on shooting deaths in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Texas
(Daniel R. Jackson and G. Alexander Bryant, Seventh-day Adventist Church)
EVENT, 9 July 2016: Religious literacy in a plural age
(Harvard Divinity School)
The Brill Encyclopedia of Law and Religion
(Gerhard Robbers, W. Cole Durham, Jr., Donlu Thayer eds, Brill | Nijhoff, Leiden)
Friday, 8 July 2016
The democratic secularization of a political religion - another view on Brexit
(Günter Thomas, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
New practical guide on access to justice in European law
(European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA))
Religious-liberty laws: Left, right (Thirty years ago, progressives embraced religious exemptions. No longer)
(The Economist)
Putin tightens screws on religious activity
(Russia Religion News)
Spanish leftists’ party under fire for anti-Semitic Obama tweet
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Jewish groups mourn police, urge reform after Dallas shootings
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
What can Jews do about police violence after shootings — and Dallas?
(Jay Michaelson, The Forward)
Syrian Patriarch talks to DW-TV
(Deutsche Welle)
Russia's new 'big brother law' has Christians, Muslims and Jews fearing for their religious freedom
(Billy Hallowell, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)
Irish parliament rejects abortion for fetal defects
(Michael Kelly, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Bishops plead for conscience protections on abortion
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Memo to policy-makers everywhere: Listen to Christians
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Mass. town should not use public funds to support its churches, Americans United says in lawsuit
(Press Release, Americans United)
Suit alleges grants for church preservation projects violate Massachusetts no-aid provision
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Michigan’s systematic inquisition of parents over religious objection to vaccines leads to federal lawsuit by Thomas More Law Center
(Thomas More Law Center)
Suit challenges Michigan's attempt to dissuade assertion of religious objection to immunizations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ark Encounter: RNS creationist park coverage is way ahead of the Times
(Jim Davis, Get Religion)
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