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Friday, 27 May 2016

G.O.P. opposition to gay rights provision derails spending bill
(Emmarie Huetteman, The New York Times)

A state-by-state look at proposals dealing with LGBT rights
(Associated Press)

Survey of state legislative action on religious freedom and LGBT rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Christie administration can't give $11M to religious schools, court rules
(Matt Arco, NJ.com)

New Jersey court invalidates capital grants to 2 religious colleges
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Former SPLC director hired by JIC to prosecute Chief Justice Roy Moore
(Press Release, Liberty Counsel)

Former SPLC legal director hired to prosecute Roy Moore
(Kent Faulk, AL.com)

Alabama commission hires law prof to prosecute charges against chief justice
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Appeals court upholds Saturday murder trial despite defendant's religious objection
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Ecclesiastical abstention doctrine leads to dismissal of consumer fraud complaint against cemetery
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Religious freedom standards in the European workplace
(Ahrens G. Kerwood, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

Sikh filmmaker takes on Times Square to teach people about his religion
(Carol Kuruvilla, Huffpost Religion)

Ethicist says U.S. has moral duty to respond to refugee crisis
(Kim Lawton, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Will the waning Barack Obama administration rewrite religious hiring rules?
(Richard Ostling, Get Religion (blog))

Explained: Donald Trump's unlikely support from white evangelicals
(Theo Anderson, The University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

Moscow Patriarchate holds the 2nd place in the world for the number of believers among other Christian Churches
(Interfax-Religion)

Razumkov Center: Majority of Ukrainians believe in God
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Putin and Patriarch Kirill go to Mount Athos
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Ukrainian Roman Catholic bishops urge to protect children and families
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Tunisia could be on verge of new revolution: separating religion and politics
(Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz)

They thought they were going to religion school. They ended up slaves
(May-Ying Lam, The Washington Post)

MEPs launch declaration on religious freedom in Pakistan
(Martin Banks, The Parliament Magazine)

Khartoum re-arrests pastor, holds others 'pending serious charges'
(World Watch Monitor)

Pastors congregate in D.C. to discuss politics, religion
(Bradford Richardson, The Washington Times)

A famous rabbi on religion’s role: Why a rabbi’s call for old-fashioned altruism is a rare religious voice
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

The world is getting more religious, because the poor go for God
(Giles Fraser, The Guardian)

Religion in NZ gets some high-level backing
(NZ Catholic)

Self-described anti-Semitic German pastor resigns from interfaith position
(The Jerusalem Post)

Elder D. Todd Christofferson: 'Everyone has a stake in religious freedom'
(Rachel Sterzer, Deseret News)

Transgender is the latest RFRA arena
(Mark Silk, RNS Blog: Spiritual Politics)

The 2016 International Religious Liberty Summit gives advocates a platform to address scarce media coverage of worldwide discrimination and persecution cases
(Bettina Krause, Adventist News Network)

How did public bathrooms get to be separated by sex in the first place?
(Terry S. Kogan, The Conversation)

What place is there for religion in modern life?
(Mark Elliott, The Conversation)

Kenya’s threat to close Dadaab camp plays on international refugee fears
(Neil James Wilson, The Conversation)

Exclusive: Iran teams with Taliban to fight Islamic State in Afghanistan
(Yochi Dreazen, Foreign Policy)

Sharia law "incompatible" with British law, says Christian Concern
(Aaron James, Premier)

'Hate crimes will not be tolerated in Louisiana': New 'Blue Lives Matter' law first in nation
(Elizabeth Crisp, The Advocate)

Thursday, 26 May 2016

A place where Muslim migrants arrived in Europe en masse – and integrated (+video)
(Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor)

Government launches independent review into Sharia law as part of counter-extremism strategy
(Sarkis Zeronian, Breitbart News)

UK Government launches independent review into sharia
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Christians arrested over allegations of 'forced conversions' in India
(Suzette Gutierrez Cachila, The Christian Times)

Baptists join diverse faith groups to support mosque-building effort
(Jeff Brumley, Baptist News Global)

Muslim employees file religious discrimination complaint against Wisconsin firm over prayer dispute
(Morgan Winsor, ABC News)

Lebanese citizenship law strips women of identity and property
(Ruth Pollard, Reuters)

Transgender veteran sues barber for refusing to cut hair
(Patrick Healy, NC Southern California)

Religious freedom group plans media blitz during Obama's visit to Air Force Academy
(Oriana Pawlyk, Air Force Times)

Five dead as Christian villages in Turkey attacked by suicide bomber
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)

300 Muslims attack and torch Christian homes in Egypt
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)

Trans woman rejects policy that allows men to enter restrooms for women, urges separate facilities for transgenders
(Jonah Hicap, Christian Today)

ISIS' genocide against Christians escalates in Iraq and Syria as demands for UN action grows
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Pakistan: Christian woman refuses to leave home after blasphemy accusation
(Asif Aqeel, World Watch Monitor)

Protestors condemn caste prejudice within India's Catholic Church
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Are employers required to grant prayer breaks to Muslim employees?
(Lucy Schouten, The Christian Science Monitor)

Tight security as Jewish pilgrimage starts in Tunisia
(Agence France-Presse)

Turkey's Islamists, nationalists both silent on Israeli weapons flow to Azerbaijan
(Pinar Tremblay, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Ultra-Orthodox slaughterhouse faces ax
(Mordechai Goldman, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Couple files religious discrimination complaint against inn
(The Associated Press)

South Carolina governor to sign ban on abortion past 19 weeks
(Harriet McLeod, Reuters)

Native Americans protest a planned auction of sacred objects in France
(Camila Domonoske, NPR)

US counter-terrorism chief criticizes anti-Muslim political rhetoric
(Patrick Wintour, The Guardian)

Among M.Div. graduates, a new crop of transgender students
(Jesse James DeConto, Religion News Service)

For ISIS, a competing vision of Ramadan as a month of conquest and jihad
(Ayman S. Ibrahim, Religion News Service)

In a first, Trump PAC reaches out to Amish
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)

Uzbekistan: Fines, rape threat for religious literature
(Forum 18)

Minnesota Irish festival speech suit revived
(Joe Harris, Courthouse News Service)

8th Circuit gives Christian proselytizer at Irish fair limited victory
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Memorial Day crosses honoring fallen soldiers removed from public property after complaint
(Fox News)

Memorial Day display triggers controversy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Settlement of lawsuit clears way for construction of tallest cross in the U.S.
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

CAIR launches satirical ‘ISLAMOPHOBIN’ public awareness campaign to challenge anti-Muslim bigotry
(Press Release, Council on American-Islamic Relations)

CAIR launches satirical ad to combat Islamophobia
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

States sue Obama administration over transgender bathroom policy
(David Montgomery and Alan Blinder, The New York Times)

11 states sue feds over transgender rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Newseum Institute receives grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to develop religious liberty education program
(PR Newswire)

Primate of Uganda warns against syncretism
(Gavin Drake, Episcopal News Service)

Pope and imam dial back talks about Christian concerns, with assist from some journalists
(Jim Davis, Get Religion (blog))

43 Republicans join Democrats to support Obama’s transgender agenda
(Ryan T. Anderson, The Daily Signal)

Egypt affair rumours spark inter-religious violence
(BBC News)

Without virtue, freedom fails
(Charles C. Haynes, Newseum Institute Religious Freedom Center: Inside the First Amendment)

Civil Society: The Art of Human Connection
(First in a three-part series on the practice of civic life, Mormon Newsroom)

Xenophobia and Islamophobia become main trends in Europe in 2015 - ECRI report
(Interfax-Religion)

Terrorists in Syria are destined to fail - Patriarch Kirill
(Interfax-Religion)

Freedom of religion among Myanmar’s ‘biggest challenges’
(World Watch Monitor)

G7 Japan: World leaders visit Shinto religion's holiest shrine
(BBC News)

Why Charleston shooting is both an obstruction of religion and a hate crime (but not terrorism)
(Tobin Grant, Religion News Service)

Holy Prophet’s Seerah provides foundation for securing interfaith harmony: Minister
(The Nation)

All need religious liberty, Baptist, others contend
(Tom Strode, Baptist Press)

Religious liberty on the rocks in California
(Alice B. Lloyd, The Weekly Standard)

Pope Francis blesses Ukrainian military servicemen
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Schoolchildren in Khmelnytskyy clean up an old Jewish cemetery
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Kamianets-Podolsk eparchy of the UOC (MP) issued a commentary on the Pre-Conciliar Pan-Orthodox Conference in Chambesy
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Living longer
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

Diet passes Japan’s first law to curb hate speech
(Tomohiro Osaki, The Japan Times)

How Tajikistan’s president extended his term—for life
(Reid Standish, Foreign Policy)

CONFERENCE CALL, 26 May 2016: How Women of Faith Deploy Religious Resources for Peacebuilding
(Institute for Global Engagement)

Wednesday, 25 May 2016

11 states sue over Obama's school transgender directive
(Paul J. Weber, Kansas City Star)

After the uprisings Digital technology is keeping the spirit of the Arab Spring alive
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Buddhist heritage emerging as a major plank in Asian diplomacy
(P.K. Balachandran, The New Indian Express)

Wind turbines in Cornwall – diocese support for Good Energy appeal
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Commentary: Fewer churches are involved in politics, and why that’s not good
(Brad Fulton, Religion News Service)

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