Index

 

Presentation

Catholic Church

• Church of Scotland (Lord High Commissioner) Act 2025 (UNITED KINGDOM)

(Established Church – Church of Scotland – Anticatholic laws)

• Cour de Cassation. Assemblée plénière, 4 april 2025, n. 681 B+R (FRANCE)

(canon law – separation between Church and State – Lack of jurisdiction)

 

Judaism

• Path to progressive Judaism (UNITED KINGDOM)

(Judaism – female rabbinate – patrilineal transmission)

• S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, affaire Logsdon vs Woods, of 28 march 2025 (USA)

(Kasherut – religious freedom in jail – privacy)

 

Islam

-VwG Trier, n. 9/K/4557/24, of 25 february 2025, VwG Berlin, n. 11/K/61/24, of  27 january 2025, OVwG Berlin-Brandenburg, n. 1/N/17/25, of  25 april 2025 (GERMANY)

(Niqab – road safety – identification)

• Provisional Constitutional Declaration, of 13 march 2025 (SYRIA)

(Costitution – Religious freedom - منظمة التعاون الإسلامي‎, Munaẓẓamat al-taʿāwun al-islāmī - Organization of the Islamic Cooperation)

 

Freedom of worship

• Crimes Amendment (Places of Worship) Bill 2025 (AUSTRALIA)

(criminal protection of religions – protection of religious sentiment – protection of ministers of religion)

 

Religious Freedom

• S. Supreme Court, affaire Mahmoud vs. Taylor, of 27 juny 2025 (USA)

(school exemption – parents’ right to educate their children – neutrality in schools))

• Texas, Law SB11, of 20 juny 2025 (USA)

(Daily opportunity for prayer and Bible reading at school – Establishment clause – school neutrality)

• Georgia, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, of 3 april 2025 (USA)

(individual religious practice – collective interest – government assistance)

 

Proselytism

• Texas, Law 965, of 20 juny 2025 (USA)

(libertà di propaganda religiosa – superiore interesse statale – enti pubblici)

 

Teaching religion at school

• Texas, Law 1049, of 20 juny 2025 (USA)

(freedom of religious propaganda – higher state interest – public bodies)

 

Religious symbols

• S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, affaire “Roake vs Brumley”, of 20 juny 2025 (USA)

(The Ten Commandments – public school – Louisiana)

• Texas, Law SB10, of 20 juny 2025 (USA)

(The Ten Commandments – public school – Texas)

 

State secularism

• Law n. 17 of 21 january 2025 (KIRGHIZISTAN)

(Niqab – burqa - منظمة التعاون الإسلامي‎, Munaẓẓamat al-taʿāwun al-islāmī - Organization of the Islamic Cooperation)