Pew Research Center

Religion & Public Life

January 21, 2020
Daily Religion Headlines
U.S. Headlines
Religious-schools case heads to a Supreme Court skeptical of stark lines between church and state ([link removed])
The Washington Post *

LGBT activists say new bills target transgender youth ([link removed])
The Associated Press

Roe v. Wade: Settled law or bad precedent? States prep for an overturn ([link removed])
NPR

Precarious US-Iran relations have Muslim voters eyeing candidates’ records on war ([link removed])
Religion News Service

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Faith, politics mix on holiday ([link removed])
The Associated Press

Trump’s black voter outreach looks in part to the pews ([link removed])
The Associated Press

Multiracial churches growing, but challenging for clergy of color ([link removed])
Religion News Service

Vatican orders sex abuse investigation of Brooklyn bishop ([link removed])
The Associated Press


International Headlines
Myanmar government-appointed panel finds ‘war crimes’ but no ‘genocide’ against Rohingya ([link removed])
Reuters

Ten years after Vatican takeover, Legion in new abuse crisis ([link removed])
The Associated Press

Norway government collapses over IS spouse repatriation spat ([link removed])
Deutsche Welle

Bangladesh sentences 10 to death for 2001 political bombings ([link removed])
The Associated Press

French trial exposes how church covered for predator priest ([link removed])
The Associated Press

Pope condemns ‘barbaric resurgence’ of anti-Semitism ([link removed])
Reuters

Seventy-five years on, Holocaust survivors struggle to recover property in Poland ([link removed])
Reuters

Sex and religious education to be made compulsory in Wales ([link removed])
BBC News

Russian Jehovah’s Witness gets suspended sentence for extremism – spokesman ([link removed])
Reuters

Famed Buddhist nun Pema Chodron retires, cites handling of sexual misconduct allegations against her group’s leader ([link removed])
The Washington Post *


Analysis & Commentary
The Methodist Church will probably split in two over homosexuality, and that’s bad for all of us ([link removed])
CNN

The last gasp of James G. Blaine? The Supreme Court weighs tax credits and a 19th-century bigotry ([link removed])
The Wall Street Journal *

Do you want your tax dollars to fund religious education? You shouldn’t ([link removed])
The Washington Post *

How Martin Luther King Jr. used the pulpit to ‘redeem’ America’s soul ([link removed])
Religion News Service

Europe’s far-right and India’s Hindu nationalists are getting closer ([link removed])
Foreign Policy *

I quit the priesthood ([link removed])
The New York Times *


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