Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 8 July 2016
Creator of life-size Noah's ark replica reveals why he built the massive biblical structure — and what he hopes it accomplishes
(Billy Hallowell, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)
Europe's freedom of speech fail
(Jacob Mchangama, Foreign Policy)
LDS Church's chief lawyer says not all religious freedoms should be defended the same
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Compromise, not division, is the way to protect religious and LGBT rights, BYU conference speakers say
(Benjamin Wood, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Threats to religious freedom are real, leaders agree at BYU Religious Freedom Conference
(Genelle Pugmire, Daily Herald)
Instant replay for journalists: Pope Francis asks news umpires to take a second look
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion)
On Eid, here’s how Ramadan changed my despair about the world into hope
(Wajahat Ali, The Washington Post)
Bosnian Muslims in Southern California may not fit the stereotype but they feel the prejudice
(Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times)
Religious freedom is no carte blanche: highlights from Mississippi HB 1523 court ruling
(Stephanie Russell-Kraft, Religion Dispatches)
Who’s not defending Mississippi’s religious freedom law
(Mark Silk, RNS Blog: Spiritual Politics)
The United States of Islamophobia
(Kim Ghattas, Foreign Policy)
Russia: Putin signs sharing beliefs, "extremism", punishments
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)
Patriarch Kirill invited to consecrate Russian cathedral in London
(Interfax-Religion)
Migrants in Europe should be settled among local people, not in enclaves, the FJCR president believes
(Interfax-Religion)
Tolerance Center in Moscow and UNESCO to hold campaign on adapting migrants in 181 world countries
(Interfax-Religion)
An abbot killed in Yaroslavl Region of Russia
(Interfax-Religion)
Anglican Church of Canada to vote on same-sex marriage at General Synod
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
Chaplain distributes Bibles after scripture is removed from U.S. Air Force base facility
(Jonah Hicap, Christian Today)
Removal of cross from logo of Christian school in England upsets students' parents
(Jonah Hicap, Christian Today)
Pakistan human rights lawyer who defends Christians goes into hiding after death threats
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)
Muslim girls fence against Islamophobia in the UK
(Zab Mustefa, Al Jazeera)
The next big Supreme Court battle over 'religious liberty' is set to unfold — and one group just issued a major warning
(Billy Hallowell, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)
Forced funding for faith?: A pending Supreme Court case could usher in mandatory tax support for religion
(Carmen Green, Americans United for Separation of Church and State: Wall of Separation)
Baptist group argues government money should not fund churches
(Cherilyn Crowe, The Baptist Standard)
BJC’s Hollman: For churches, government funding can bring government regulation
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Nine Christians killed in another attack in eastern DRC
(World Watch Monitor)
Morning-after pill | Conscientious objectors or dishonourable disobedience?
(Jeanelle Mifsud, Malta Today)
Volume is rising in closed-door LGBTQ debates among Baptists on the left
(Terry Mattingly, On Religion)
Niqab and burka ban comes into force in part of Switzerland
(The Week)
In ‘Beauty of Their Dreams,’ filmmaker explores conflict between religion and girls’ education
(Chanel Dubofsky, Jewish Daily Forward)
Mainstream news media and those missing Muslim voices denouncing terrorism
(Richard Ostling, Get Religion)
What the Americans drawn to ISIS had in common
(Karen Yourish and Jasmine C. Lee, The New York Times)
Prosecutors reveal efforts by ISIS recruiter in Syria to encourage attacks in U.S.
(Adam Goldman, The Washington Post)
Study reveals another unexpected health benefit of attending church
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)
Let's keep the Fourth going all year long
(Gene Policinski, Newseum Institute: Inside the First Amendment)
How abortion restrictions could collide with Zika in the U.S. this summer
(Alexandra Sifferlin, TIME)
EVENT, 8 July 2016: U.S.-Pakistan Interreligious Consortium: Creating Change Through Interreligious Action, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Washington, D.C.
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs)
African Union to withdraw troops from Somalia by 2020
(Elias Meseret, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Italian held in slaying of Nigerian who fled Boko Haram
(The Associated Press)
Thursday, 7 July 2016
Meet Dušan Dvořák, high priest of the European Cannabis Church
(Lukas Hurt, Leafly)
6 facts about religious hostilities in the Middle East and North Africa
(Katayoun Kishi and Angelina E. Theodorou, Pew Research Center)
The 2016 State of the First Amendment: Surveys find support for religious liberty and free speech, need for more education about our core freedoms
(Newseum Institute First Amendment Center)
The Great War changed religion and society, but not enough
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Saudi Arabia identifies bombers in 2 attacks this week
(Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Nepal: Police breakup crowd celebrating Dalai Lama’s birthday
(UCAN)
New York police reinstate Muslim police officer earlier suspended for refusing to shave his beard
(Jonah Hicap, Christian Today)
Jews with special needs prepare for a rite of passage
(Megan Jula, The New York Times)
Dozens killed in suicide attack on Shiite shrine north of Baghdad
(Omar Al-Jawoshy, The New York Times)
Russian Supreme Court adds to extremism verdicts against Jehovah's Witnesses
(Russia Religion News)
State Duma asked to curtail freedom of religious groups
(Russia Religion News)
Church's bold move to help the homeless has big impact on the government, report finds
(Billy Hallowell, Deseret News National Edition: Causes)
Florida faces heat over denial of kosher meals
(Press Release, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
AME Church continues 200-year journey toward racial justice
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
What Christians can do to ensure Philando Castile and Alton Sterling shootings don’t happen again
(Herb Scribner, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)
Malawi bishops plead for international help on food crisis
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Spanish monsignor only ‘Vatileaks 2.0’ defendant to get jail time
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Report suggests UK and US were wrong on Iraq, Vatican was right
(Austen Ivereigh, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Europe after Brexit
(James J. Sheehan, Commonweal)
Chaplains express concerns for religious liberty over new Department of Defense gender identity policy
(Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty)
Transgender service members can now serve openly, Carter announces
(Terri Moon Cronk, U.S. Department of Defense)
Chaplains' group says new military policy on transgenders poses religious freedom concerns
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
USCIRF criticizes China's restrictions on Muslims during Ramadan
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Statement by the President on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr
(Office of the Press Secretary, The White House)
Obama sends Eid al-Fitr greetings
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Terror attacks in Islamic countries casts shadow on Eid celebration in India
(Hindustan Times)
Why Malaysia, known for moderate Islam, should expect more ISIS attacks
(Ralph Jennings, Forbes)
A flood of guests expected as Noah’s Ark theme park opens in Kentucky
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Protesters decry tax breaks for Ark park that hires only Christians
(Linda Blackford, Lexington Herald Leader)
On a mission: Cherokee County marks 300 years of Christianity in East Texas with marker, mission rededication
(Jo Anne Embleton, Jacksonville Daily Progress)
Freedom of religion includes all religions
(Elysia Scholl, The Fairfield Ledger)
Iowa churches can't discriminate during services 'open to the public'
(Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, Christianity Today)
Churches fear Iowa law will silence pastors, open church bathrooms to transgenders
(Todd Starnes, Fox News)
Churches say this government brochure 'should send chills down the spine of every congregation in Iowa.' Here's why
(Billy Hallowell, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)
Militants kill three worshippers at Bangladeshi Ramadan celebration
(Aidan Quigley, The Christian Science Monitor)
Why do people support police using force? Religion is part of the answer
(Tobin Grant, RNS Blog: Corner of Church and State)
The persecution of the Ahmadis must not be allowed to spread
(Giles Fraser, The Guardian)
Kenyan human rights lawyer killed while investigating police corruption
(World Watch Monitor)
Car bomb kills 11 soldiers in Libya’s Benghazi
(Agence France-Presse)
Fierce fighting for key Aleppo road despite Syria truce
(Agence France-Presse)
Reform and Conservative Jews hold mixed prayer service at Western Wall in protest of stalled talks
(Judy Maltz and Yair Ettinger, Haaretz)
Church rulings on marriage dissolution in India 'have no legal basis'
(UCAN)
Myanmar arrests five over mosque arson attack
(John Zaw, UCAN)
Indonesian Catholics join Muslims celebrating Eid al-Fitr
(Konradus, UCAN)
Christians' homes torched by Muslim mob in Egypt as warning not to build new church
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Archbishop of Canterbury to open home to Syrian refugee family next month
(Joel Silverstein, Reuters)
How this young Yazidi is bringing hope to IS victims
(Brenda Stoter, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Head of Fallujah liberation offers views on upcoming Mosul battle
(Mustafa Saadoun trans. Kamal Fayad, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
The IS movement is not about religion, but is anti-religion
(Editorial, Deseret News)
Freedom of worship: Rio 2016 athletes’ village to welcome all religions
(Rio 2016)
Olympic refugees' team set to make history in Rio: These athletes don't have a country, but they have a voice
(Hazel Torres, Christian Today)
New govt to defend ‘race and religion’ laws at UN meeting
(Fiona Macgregor and Thu Thu Aung, Myanmar Times)
Pan-Orthodox Council took place: That is 'what counts', participants, observers say
(Katerina Shchetkina, Ukraine Today)
India’s Jewish ‘lost tribe’ faces hard times in Israel
(Shira Ruben, Jewish Daily Forward)
Eid on the run for Afghan refugees in Pakistan
(Aamir Latif, Anadolu Agency)
Saudi Arabia, blamed for spawning jihadists, is again their target
(Ben hubbard, The New York Times)
Ramadan charity seeks to free 'innocent' Indian Muslims
(BBC News)
Gender-segregated swimming cut back at 2 public pools near Brooklyn Hasidic areas
(Eli Rosenberg, The New York Times)
Ramadan for Muslim inmates: Mixing religious duty with prison’s limits
(Samantha Schmidt, The New York Times)
Muslim camps are spreading in the U.S. to help kids ‘be proud of who they are’
(Abigail Hauslohner, The Washington Post)
Aldeguer Tomás v. Spain: a missed opportunity for the Court to provide guidance concerning the legal recognition of same-sex relationships
(Laurens Lavrysen, Strasbourg Observers)
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