Friday, June 17, 2022

This Week in Religion - Imprisoned Salvadorian women warn what total abortion ban means

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Three women from sit together on the stairs looking towards the viewer.

Editor's note:

Back in February, the AP Religion Team decided to send two of its journalists – reporter Luis Henao and visual journalist Jessie Wardarski – to El Salvador to report on the harsh anti-abortion law in that heavily Catholic country. Over the ensuing weeks, they arranged to meet during their visit with seven women willing to share their stories, on camera, about being imprisoned because of the law. The project took on new timeliness in early May, shortly before the trip, when a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion indicated a majority of the justices were prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade. To the formerly imprisoned Salvadoran women, their plight should serve as a cautionary tale for Americans. Once in El Salvador, Henao and Wardarski traveled to impoverished rural areas for interviews. They documented the women’s harrowing stories and their efforts to rebuild their lives. Such encounters led to compelling text, photos and video

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Religion News

Christian Reformed Church codifies homosexual sex as sin in its declaration of faith

Over the years, the small Calvinist denomination has given its churches a degree of latitude in ministering to LGBTQ people. That may now change. By Yonat Shimron/Religion News Service

Buddhist and Catholic, priests and theologians practice ‘double belonging’

'Religions need each other to understand themselves,’ said one Buddhist-Catholic practitioner. By Emily Schutz/Religion News Service

A German federal court rejects a Jewish man's bid to have a 700-year-old antisemitic statue removed from a church where Martin Luther once preached. By Geir Moulson/The Associated Press

United Arab Emirates bans Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ from showing

The United Arab Emirates – a Muslim-majority nation -- bans the upcoming Pixar animated feature “Lightyear” from showing in movie theaters after its inclusion of a kiss between two lesbian characters. By Jon Gambrell/The Associated Press

Mark Baumgartner, founder of the anti-abortion group, A Moment of Hope, arrives in an RV outfitted with any ultrasound machine outside the Planned Parenthood clinic on a day when patients will be showing up for abortion appointments.

Abortion foes in US, accustomed to small wins, say they are ready for a big one 

After decades of tiny steps and endless setbacks, America’s anti-abortion movement – with many faith leaders at its forefront -- is poised for the possibility of a massive leap. The Supreme Court may soon deliver a landmark ruling expected to weaken or overturn the constitutional right to abortion found in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. By Matt Sedensky/The Associated Press

 

Commentary and Analysis

Views on abortion differ not only among major religious traditions, but within each one. By Samira Mehta for The Conversation

We need to see ourselves in India’s religious minorities. By Khyati Y. Joshi/Religion News Service

Accused men were protected by the SBC while the women who dared to speak up were called sluts, adulteresses, Jezebels and even agents of Satan. A scholar of evangelicalism writes about this culture. By Julie Ingersoll for The Conversation

A scholar of Islam writes about how widespread authoritarianism in the Muslim world shapes governments' foreign policy toward Muslim minorities abroad. By Ahmet T. Kuru for The Conversation

 
Members of the ancient Samaritan community pray during the holiday of Shavuot on Mount Gerizim.

Members of the ancient Samaritan community pray during the holiday of Shavuot on Mount Gerizim near the West Bank town of Nablus, Sunday, June 5, 2022. Samaritans descended from the ancient Israelite tribes of Menashe and Efraim but broke away from mainstream Judaism 2,800 years ago. Today, the remaining about 700 Samaritans live in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank and the Israeli town of Holon, south of Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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  • This Week in Religion is a publication of the Global Religion Journalism Initiative, a collaboration among the Religion News Service, The Associated Press and The Conversation U.S.
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