Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 7 September 2012
Pakistan urged to 'urgently' protect Shiites
(AFP)
SD court upholds dismissal of school abuse lawsuit
(Sioux City Journal)
Syria's Christians support stability, not regime: church
(Rana Moussaoui, Arab News)
US State Department still refusing to say Jerusalem is capital of Israel
(Lori Lowenthal Marcus, JewishPress.com)
Women, religion and free expression at core of burgeoning talks on Tunisia’s constitution
(Washington Post)
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Toews nixes Wiccan priest for B.C. prisoners
(The Canadian Press)
Analysis: Some Gulf rulers wary of U.S. shifts on Islamists, Iran
(Andrew Hammond and Rania El Gamal, Reuters)
Anonymity granted to Catholic donor opposed to marriage amendment, but amendment supporters object
(Dale Carpenter, Volokh Conspiracy )
Carnage of Shia Muslims in Pakistan
(Dr. Ismail Salami, Press TV)
Christian girl hailed as 'daughter of nation' by senior Pakistani cleric
(Jon Boone, The Guardian)
Christians face systematic discrimination in Chin State
(Hanna Hindstrom, Democratic Voice of Burma)
Dems quickly switch to Include "God," "Jerusalem"
(Jake Tapper, ABC)
EU court affirms asylum for religious persecution
(Dirk Kaufmann, Deutsche Welle)
Is it race or religion at issue in Burma?
(Get Religion)
Mali formally requests regional intervention force
(Anne Look, Voice of America)
Mark Craddock, Christian sect doctor, banned for prescribing 'gay cure' drug used for castration
(Cavan Sieczkowski, Huffington Post)
Nirj Deva MEP: Scrap Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
(Eurasia Review)
NYPD Muslim spying in New Jersey has ended, attorney general tells religious leaders
(Samantha Henry, Associated Press, Huffington Post)
Pew Forum Weekly Religion News Update
Politics of power: Burying truth through resolutions
(William A. Cook, Palestine Chronicle)
Russia: Shock at Moscow church demolition
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Salafists raid Tunisian hotel bar for serving alcohol
(BBC News)
Sri Lankan pilgrims flee mob attack
(Chennai and Colombo, ucanews.com)
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Antisemitism alive and well in Romania or how the Holocaust never happened
(Michael Curtis, Gatestone Institute)
Britons take workplace religion fight to Europe rights court
(Gilbert Reilhac/Alexandria Sage, Reuters, MoneyControl.com)
Catholic Church condemns 'price-tag' attack on monastery, urges Israel to change 'culture of contempt'
(Nir Hasson, Haaretz)
Christian discrimination: Former Archbishop Lord Carey accuses government and courts of 'double standards'
(Jessica Elgot, Huffington Post)
Christians claim workplace discrimination in landmark case
(Harvey Morris, International Herald Tribune)
Democrats release 2012 platform: Provisions on faith in America, civil rights, and social issues
(Eric W. Dolan, The Raw Story)
Did the Moonies really brainwash millions? Time to dispel a myth
(Eileen Barker, The Guardian)
Doomed to disappear? Religious minorities in Turkey
(Luke Montgomery, Washington Times)
Ethnic Chin Christians in Burma denied religious freedom, coerced to convert to Buddhism
(Kangla Online)
European Court of Human Rights ruling "could change UK law on religious discrimination"
(Personnel Today)
Fired for being Christian? Religious employees have their day in court
(Christopher Zara, International Business Times)
Islamic revival in China: CCP tolerance or strategy?
(Faaria Volinski, Huffington Post)
Liberia’s deadly religious campaign against gay marriage
(Steve Williams, Care2.com)
Maldives teenage girl faces lashing for pre-marital sex
(New York Daily News)
Moderate Muslims need to speak up
(Jakarta Globe)
Pakistan's Christian cabinet member urges blasphemy rethink
(Rob Crilly, The Telegraph)
Religious leader ordered detained pending sentencing
(John Diedrich, The Journal Sentinel)
Sectarian divide: The modern warfare
(Farooq Yousaf`, Eurasia Review)
The United Nations and Palestinian options
(Fadi Elhusseini, Eurasia Review)
Timur catches heat for ‘lazy’ resolution
(Ezra Sihite, Febriamy Hutapea & Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta Globe)
Turkmenistan: Upsurge in raids, threats, fines
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Workplace Religious Freedom Act passes California legislature
(Sunita Sohrabji, India West News)
World Hijab Day: Muslims debate where the headscarf belongs
(Ilene Prusher, Christian Science Monitor)
Yarmulke flash mob: Protests continue over Berlin anti-Semitic attack
(Spiegel Online)
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
10,000 Syrians stuck at Turkish border as violence continues
(Al Bawaba News)
Blasphemy and the law
(Chloe Breyer, New York Times)
Calls in China for ending labor camp system
(Li Ping, The Epoch Times)
Children to carry on Rev. Moon's religious movement, but feuding could endanger the empire
(Hyun-Ah Kim, Daily Reporter)
Don't just blame 'religion' when parents refuse to let desperately ill children die
(Andrew Brown, The Guardian)
First on CNN: Who’s delivering prayers at the DNC
(Dan Gilgoff , CNN)
Four religious freedom cases at ECtHR: Webcast of the hearing
(European Court of Human Rights)
India: Individual free to keep religious belief secret
(Hindustan Times)
Kenya: Another team to probe Rogo's Mombasa murder
(Maureen Mudi, Calvin Onsarigo, and Martin Mwaura, The Star (Nairobi))
Kodnani's instigation brought death to Naroda residents: court
(Business Standard)
Migron settlers begin leaving homes: Israeli army
(Reuters)
Politics and religion
(Editorial, Winnipeg Free Press)
Privacy, masks and religion
(Omer Tene, Concurring Opinions)
Religious freedom showdown in European Court
(The Telegraph)
Right to life of the mother takes precedence
(Jacky Jones, Irish Times)
Two Million Friends: A new approach in Afghanistan
(Johnny Barber, Countercurrents.org)
UN human rights chief urged to make Tibet "urgent priority"
(Phaylu.com)
Monday, 3 September 2012
Acceptability of Namo [Narendra Modi] outside Gujarat will remain uncertain
(B. Raman, Eurasia Review)
Appeals court rules that gown, invitations do not a wedding make
(Leigh Jones, Daily Business Review)
Conditions in northern Mali portend disaster
(Jemal Oumar and Raby Ould Idoumou, Magharebia)
Election primer 2012: Religion and government
(Steve Hochstadt, History News Network (George Mason University))
Eweida, Chaplin, Ladele and McFarlane: appeals to the European Court of Human Rights
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Georgia: Orthodox Church looks askance at proliferation of Yoga studies
(Molly Corso, EurasiaNet)
Georgians shaken by border incursion of Islamic militants
(Teo Bichikashvili, Institute for War & Peace Reporting)
Group says SCO 'vehicle' for rights abuses
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
In a ban, a measure of European tolerance
(Steven Erlanger, The New York Times)
Indonesia: Clinton should raise plight of religious minorities, says Human Rights Watch
(Eurasia Review)
Islamic fundamentalism in Africa
(Daniel Bodirsky, Geopolitical Monitor)
Islamization and growing tensions in Albania
(Aid to the Church in Need)
Jews and Muslims unite in fight for religious freedom in Europe
(Rachel Hirshfeld, Israel Nation News)
Kachin refugees feel Chinese heat
(IRIN)
Moroccan youth gets 3 months for public eating in Ramzan
(DunyaNews)
Muslim cleric accused of planting evidence in Pakistan blasphemy case
(Ayaz Gul, Voice of America)
Muslims are thriving in American Catholic colleges
(Richard Perez Pena, Times of India)
Pakistani blasphemy case shifts as cleric is arrested
(Salman Masood, The New York Times)
Persecution prompts Christians in Pakistan to call for separate province
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post)
Syria’s present is drenched in blood so next generation can have a future
(Isida Tushe, Eurasia Review)
Syrian rebel group pledges protection for Christians
(Catholic World News)
The hunger striker set to martyr himself for religious freedom in Iran
(Wilf Merttens, The Guardian)
Unification Church founder Rev. Sun Myung Moon dies at 92
(Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press)
Young Iraqis face religious fashion crackdown
(Lara Jakes, WBOC 16)
Saturday, 1 September 2012
Al-Qaeda threat against Lebanon Shiites genuine, serious
(Hussein Abdallah, The Daily Star)
Christianity faces a Middle Eastern exodus
(Kansas City Star)
Heeding Romney’s words on religious liberty
(Marc Schneier and Mohamed Magid, The Washington Post)
Human rights 'agenda' is new totalitarianism, bishop warns judges
(John Bingham, The Telegraph)
Opinion: Joshua Rozenberg previews the Ladele case
(The Christian Institute)
Orthodox youth to be united into All-Russian movement
(RIA Novosti / Alexander Vikulov, RT)
Pakistan: Alarming amount of hate-material in textbooks, study reveals
(UCAN)
The shaky state of Bosnia
(Michael Haltzel, Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Thousands rally in Bahrain to demand release of jailed activists
(PanARMENIAN.Net )
Vatican invites Usain Bolt to address religious liberty conference
(David Kerr, Catholic News Agency)
Friday, 31 August 2012
HC partially strikes down Himachal's anti-conversion law
(Ravinder Makhaik, Times of India)
Becket Fund Files interfaith brief defending Catholic Bishops against ACLU lawsuit
(Press Release, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
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