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Friday, 1 July 2016

Muslim, Christian, Jewish leaders plan interfaith worship center in Jerusalem
(The Algemeiner)

Book Review: Culture war or common heritage? On recent critics of global religious freedom
(Daniel Philpott, Lawfare)

British faith leaders condemn rise of xenophobia following Brexit vote
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

Brexit boosters: Why the religious right hates the European Union
(Peter Montgomery, Religion Dispatches)

Queensland religious instruction gives parents freedom
(Paul Clark, The Sydney Morning Herald)

Hindu temple volunteer hacked to death in Bangladesh, say police
(Agence France-Presse)

Hindu priest hacked to death in Bangladesh
(Al Jazeera)

Episcopal church's largest congregation is 300 Muslims who meet for Friday prayers
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Belgian Catholic nursing home has to pay damages for refusing euthanasia
(Andy Walton, Christian Today)

Muslims are preparing for two big celebrations … with some trepidation
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Did war change Guatemala's faith?
(Amy Bracken, PRI's The World)

Ukrainian question divides Orthodox world
(Ola Cichowlas, The Moscow Times)

ISIS claims killing of Coptic Christian minister in Sinai
(Nour Youssef, The New York Times)

Former Soviet republics are fertile ground for ISIS recruiting
(Thomas Grove, The Wall Street Journal)

This place of worship would be 3-in-1: Church, synagogue and mosque
(Daniel Estrin, Pri's The World)

Synagogue bomb plot suspect facing additional charge
(Paula McMahon, South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

Al Qaeda leader warns of 'gravest consequences' if Boston bomber executed
(Reuters)

They were about to break their Ramadan fast. But first, they fed others.
(Justin Wm. Moyer, The Washington Post)

Minneapolis police investigating shooting of Muslim men as possible bias crime
(Matt Sepic, Minnesota Public Radio)

New York Police Dept reinstates Muslim officer suspended over beard
(Dan Whitcomb, Reuters)

Judge blocks Indiana genetic abnormality abortion law
(Chicago Tribune)

Court strikes down Indiana's so-called anti-discrimination ban on abortions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

U.S. judge tosses suit against Turkish imam Fethullah Gulen
(Nicole Hong, Wall Street Journal)

Alien tort suit against Turkish cleric dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

U.S. district judge strikes down Mississippi’s ‘religious freedom’ law
(Neely Tucker, Washington Post)

Judge blocks Mississippi law protecting religious objections to gay marriage
(Camila Domonoske, NPR)

'Scare quotes' are back in the PR-esque coverage of Mississippi religious liberty bill
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Federal district court strikes down Mississippi's anti-LGBT conscience protection law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Federal judge halts Mississippi anti-LGBT law from going into effect
(Chris Geidner, BuzzFeed News)

Judge blocks controversial Mississippi law
(Madison Park, CNN)

Denial of use permit did not impose "substantial burden" under RLUIPA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

BREAKING: Theresa May will NOT try to take UK out of European Convention on Human Rights
(Adam Wagner, RightsInfo)

WRITING CONTEST, Deadline 1 July 2016: The Seventh Annual Religious Liberty Student Writing Competition
(Sponsored by the Washington, D.C. Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

ESSAY CONTEST, DEADLINE 1 July 2016: Religious Freedom in Southeast Asia and the West
(Institute for Global Engagement)

Thursday, 30 June 2016

The ethics of Brexit
(William Schweiker, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

Fragile states index
(Foreign Policy)

This Independence Day, celebrate religious liberty for all
(Claire Markham and Sanam Malik, Center for American Progress)

Very well, alone?
(Peter Hitchens, First Things)

Brexit: Why Britain voted leave
(Nathan Pinkoski, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

Mayor of London disappointed, yet confident in Brexit aftermath
(The Jerusalem Post)

UK agency fears for future of kosher slaughter following Brexit vote
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The media’s disgraceful Brexit meltdown
(Charles C.W. Cooke, National Review)

Opinion: Where was the Church of England on Brexit?
(Mark Silk, RNS Blog: Spiritual Politics)

Brexit puts key parts of NI settlement at risk, says legal expert
(Colm Keena, The Irish Times)

Ontario appeals court upholds law society’s stand on Trinity Western University
(Sean Fine, The Globe and Mail)

Trinity Western University v. The Law Society of Upper Canada
(the Judgment, Court of Appeal for Ontario)

Canadian court OK's Ontario's refusal to accredit Christian law school
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Christian law school can be denied accreditation over Biblical stance on homosexuality, Ontario court rules
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Trinity Western University appeal appears headed for Supreme Court
(Blair Rhodes, CBC News)

Hungary and registration of religious groups: Magyar Mennonita Egyház again
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Community religious rights and Article 9 ECHR: Hamat
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Sexual orthodoxy and admitting lawyers
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Adventist leader discusses sexuality at united nations conference. Ganoune Diop speaks about Christian need to treat all people with dignity and respect.
(Bettina Krause, Adventist Review)

First Amendment Defense Act reportedly headed for hearing in Congress
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Why Americans should care about attacks on religious liberty in Russia
(Ben Sasse, The Daily Signal)

False choices & religious liberty
(John Gehring, Commonweal)

Selling religious ignorance
(E. J. Dionne Jr., Commonweal)

The Left has a religion — the Supreme Court just proved it
(Mary Eberstadt, National Review)

Obergefell and the new Gnosticism
(Sherif Girgis, First Things)

Switzerland denies citizenship to Muslim immigrant girls who refused to swim with boys: report
(Ken Shepherd, The Washington Times)

Religious restrictions among the world’s most populous countries
(Angelina E. Theodorou, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)

Abrahamic religions will define the future of the world
(Eric Metaxas, CNSNews.com)

In the fight against Isis, there's hope in the history of Islam
(Robert Fisk, The Independent)

Pan-Orthodox council proclaimed the unity of the Orthodox Church and published its decisions
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Overcoming their estrangement: How Orthodox churches came together
(Charles Camosy, Religion News Service)

Moscow Patriarchate tells Constantinople democracy is irrelevant in church life
(Interfax-Religion)

In Israel, followers of different religions help each other keep the faith
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)

Evangelist Franklin Graham just issued this challenge to Hillary Clinton
(Billy Hallowell, Deseret News)

Most American Christians believe they’re victims of discrimination
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)

Britain sees an increase in anti-Muslim attacks
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

California bill called ‘existential threat’ to Catholic education
(Kevin J Jones, Catholic News Agency)

Christian school goes on 'lockdown' after parents protest removal of cross from logo
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Anti-Christian bias, the BBC and the problem of religious literacy
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)

Christian school assemblies violate kids human rights, UN committee tells the UK
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)

Pentagon set to allow openly transgender soldiers
(Aidan Quigley, The Christian Science Monitor)

British tribunal: Deportation of imam does not violate Islamic center's religious freedom
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Somalia: Somali religious leaders denounce gender ministry new law
(All Africa)

Turkey reveals nationalities of airport bombers: Russian, Uzbek, Kyrgyz
(Dominique Soguel and Suzan Fraser, The Christian Science Monitor)

5 held for planning attacks on Indian religious, other sites
(Omer Farooq, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

A slow, steady siege on an ISIS stronghold in Libya
(Declan Walsh, The New York Times)

Egypt: Coptic Christian priest killed in 'hail of bullets' outside church
(Florence Taylor, Christian Today)

Turkey's growing influence over Islam in Austria
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)

Belgian Council of State says proposed ban on ritual slaughter is unconstitutional
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Ritual slaughter ban would be unconstitutional, Belgian state body says
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The fight for religious freedom in Catholic schools
(Dan Guernsey, The Cardinal Newman Society)

California’s fault line: pro-abortion profs split Jesuit colleges, brought on abortion mandate
(Adam Cassandra, The Cardinal Newman Society)

Child Evangelism Fellowship wins major victory in Cleveland
(Press Release, Liberty Counsel)

In settlement, Good News Clubs win equal access to after-school facilities
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Preserving the Mother Choice: Why you should oppose a female draft
(Margaret Tarkington, The Huffington Post)

US blacklists Myanmar for human trafficking record
(Arab News)

US takes Thailand off human trafficking blacklist
(Matthew Pennington, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Convulsive ingatherings
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

Non-locals in Mandera barred from bus journeys during Ramadhan due to Shabaab fear
(Manase Otsialo, Daily Nation)

Coptic priest gunned down by ISIS in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula
(Associated Press)

Did SCOTUS just restore sanity to religious liberty debate?
(Patricia Miller, Religion Dispatches)

An ominous sign: SCOTUS turns down religious freedom case
(Geoffrey Surtees, American Center for Law and Justice)

France charges accomplice of Paris attacker Abdeslam
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Egypt marks new holiday amid violence in Sinai, near Libya
(Hamza Hendawi, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Religious broadcasting: How it could change the way we see the world
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)

IJM human rights lawyer and client abducted in Nairobi
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)

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