New Religous Liberty Rule for Education, Sudan Ends Islamic Law, Danish Cartoons are Back, Squirt-Gun Baptism, State Tuition for Religious Education? Homeschooling Raises Culture Clash
DeVos Announces Major Religious Liberty Rule for Education
Sudan Ends 30 Years of Islamic Law
Sudan separated church and state, effectively ending Islamic law in the country. “For Sudan to become a democratic country where the rights of all citizens are enshrined, the constitution should be based on the principle of ‘separation of religion and state,’ in the absence of which the right to self-determination must be respected.”
Danish Cartoons of Muhammad Are Back
In 2005, a Danish humor magazine published cartoons mocking Muhammad. 250 people were killed in the uproar and around 800 wounded, including several magazine staffers. Earlier this week, Charlie Hebdo — a satirical French weekly — republished the cartoons to mark the start of the trial of suspected accomplices in an Islamist militant attack on its Paris office in January 2015.
Socially Distanced Squirt-Gun Baptism
Suit to Force State Tuition for Religious Education
Three Vermont families are suing the state’s education secretary on the grounds that denying them state tuition for religious school is unconstitutional. The suit follows Espinoza v Montana Dept. of Revenue in which the U.S. Supreme Court said that states that provide tuition for private secular schools cannot deny the same for religious schools.
Pandemic-Inspired Homeschooling Raises Culture Concern