Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Faith groups condemn shootings at Wisconsin Sikh temple
(Chris Herlinger, ENInews)
Girls (in India) threatened for wearing jeans
(UCA News)
Israeli scholar completes mission to 'fix' Bible
(Aron Heller, Associated Press)
Jordan king fears Alawite enclave if Syria breaks up
(Tom Perry, Reuters)
Latvia: Religious hatred still evident
(The Baltic times)
Nigeria: No compulsion in religion
(Hannatu Musawa, All Africa)
Norwegian official: Jews, Muslims should replace circumcision with ‘symbolic’ ritual
(JTA)
Penang Islamic council to probe claim of attempt to convert Muslims
(Malaysia Chronicle)
Religion, politics do mix in Canada
(The Province)
Religious profiling is condemned in resolution
(Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal)
Republic of Ireland abandoning religion faster than almost every other country
(Breda Heffernan and Colm Kelpie, Belfast Telegraph)
Russia: Underground sect charged with abuse
(Mansur Mirovalev, Associated Press)
Russian punk rockers rest case in court of world opinion
(Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg.com)
Shopping center construction damaging historic Lviv synagogue
(JTA)
Sikh tenets of forgiveness and peace on display at vigil for Oak Creek victims
(Chris McGreal , The Guardian)
Tennessee mosque set to open Friday
(CNN)
The World's Muslims: Unity and Diversity (a poll)
(The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life)
Three-year-old girl suffocates to death during exorcism (Malaysia)
(Bernard Cheah, The Sun Daily)
Two more Iranian pastors imprisoned for Christian faith
(Michelle Bauman, Catholic News Agency)
Why attack American Muslim women in government?
(Souad Mekhennet, International Herald Tribune)
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Report lauds Morocco interfaith efforts
(Hassan Benmehdi, Magharebia)
“Particular Concern” about religious freedom
(Philip Jenkins, patheos.com)
A huge cross looms over religious debate in tiny Indiana town
(Maegan Vazquez, Fox News)
As Syria war roils, unrest among sects hits Turkey
(Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times)
Bishops protest advance of Philippines 'reproductive health' bill
(Catholic News Agency)
Bussy-Saint-Georges, the town with built-in religious harmony
(Stéphanie Le Bars, The Guardian)
Divorce, pre-nups and sharia
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Emir of Fika escapes suicide bomber
(PM News Nigeria)
EU concerned as Russian band faces three-year jail
(Gulf Daily News)
For Sikhs, turban is a proud symbol—and a target
(Daniel Burke, Religion News Service)
Investigate Myanmar violence, U.N. says
(UPI.com)
Islam supercedes politics, says Malaysia PM Razak
(Bikya Masr)
Islamic group sues DuPage over mosque denial
(Robert Sanchez, Daily Herald)
Lutherans: Sex education in Costa Rica should be based on facts
(ENInews via Anglican Journal)
Mali extremists say they have faith in mediation
(Brahima Ouedraogo, Associated Press)
Manmohan Singh: Sikh temple shooting a 'dastardly attack'
(Huff Post World)
Military: 19 killed at central Nigeria church
(Bashir Adigun and Yinka Ibukun, Associated Press)
Muslims in France after the elections
(Aude Jehan, Common Ground News Service)
New mosque plans spark clashes
(UCA News)
Parents shun school religion (Canada)
(Jewel Topsfield, The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science)
Pope's support for Knights shows religious freedom not partisan
(Marianne Medlin, Catholic News Agency)
Rabbi sues Pennsylvania over funeral laws
(Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Religion as politics
(Kelly James Clark, Huff Post World)
Rights, Ramadan and China’s religious intolerance
(The Globe and Mail)
Row escalates over sacred fire
(Lorraine Kazondovi, New Era)
Russia: Jehovah's Witnesses charged with extremism
(The Moscow Times)
Russian prosecutors ask for 3 years in punk case
(Nataliya Vasilyeva, Associated Press)
Small, tight-knit Wisconsin Sikh community shocked by shooting
(Reuters)
Tehran's religious powder keg in Syria
(Kersten Knipp, Deutsche Welle)
The Sikh community stands apart, intentionally
(David Mason, The Washington Post)
Trademark infringement case sees North American pastor imprisoned
(Elizabeth Lechleitner, Adventist News Network)
US calls for greater religious freedom in Egypt, other Mideast states
(Bassem Aly, Ahram Online)
Vatican crackdown: Vatican II at heart of dispute between American nuns and Catholic church
(Kim Lawton, Religion & Ethics News Weekly, Huff Post Religion)
Vatican says religious liberty under attack in America
(John Rossomando, Red Alert Politics)
Veiled French Muslim woman charged with inciting riot
(Agence France Presse)
Zimbabwe Anglicans barred from shrine again
(ENInews)
Monday, 6 August 2012
Barred by Muslim countries, Rohingya Muslims sneaking into India – analysis
(B. Raman, Eurasia Review)
Burmese gov’t maintains restrictions on religious freedom: US
(Mizzima News)
Clinton hails gay rights activists in wary Uganda
(Writing by Andrew Quinn and James Macharia; Editing by Andrew Osborn, Reuters)
Demonstrators hold Vietnam's 1st gay pride parade
(Associated Press)
Estonia to change shechitah law but says no ban is planned
(JTA)
Gay couple married in US feted at Malaysia Banquet
(Sean Yoong, Associated Press)
German bishop calls for blasphemy laws
(The Local (Germany))
Hindus ask world museums-galleries to examine and return stolen Hindu artifacts to temples
(Eurasia Review)
Joplin mosque razed in fire; 2nd blaze this summer
(Associated Press)
London Olympics and Sunday shopping
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Marriage, mental capacity and sharia: a clash of religious and cultural norms
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Myanmar ‘massacres’: OIC wants fact-finding mission
(Arab News)
New religious sects: Cults or ‘churches’?
(Mitia, The Times of Zambia)
Philippine school bans Muslim hijab
(AFP via International Herald Tribune)
Riyadh deports 35 Ethiopian Christians for praying
(Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post )
Rohingya Muslims 'persecuted' after Myanmar crackdown: report
(Martin Petty, Chicago Tribune)
Saudi King invites Iran president for summit in Makkah
(Arab News)
Schools burned as sect tightens grip on Mexico’s ‘New Jerusalem’
(Pablo Perez, The Jakarta Globe)
Seven dead in shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
(Brendan O'Brien, Reuters)
Sikhism: 5 things to know about the Sikh religion
(Huffington Post)
Syria PM defects, accuses Assad regime of ‘genocide’
(Arab News)
Syria: Clashes in Damascus and Aleppo as 48 Iranian pilgrims abducted
(Al Bawaba News via Eurasia Review)
Syrian TV host kidnapped, executed by Islamists
(RT)
Temple spree leaves 7 dead
(Arian Campo-Flores and Caroline Porter, The Wall Street Journal)
Timeline: Islam in middle Tennessee
(The Tennessean)
TiZA, ACLU settle lawsuit
(Tim Post, Minnesota Public Radio)
Trial nears in VT. civil union child custody case
(Wilson Ring, Associated Press)
Understanding the standoff in Mali
(Giorgio Cafiero, Foreign Policy in Focus)
Uzbekistan: "It is prohibited to keep such books at home"
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Saturday, 4 August 2012
Al-Qaeda’s Russian trace in Spain?
(Polina Chernitsa, The Voice of Russia)
Buddhist activism and public policy: The International Network of Engaged Buddhists
(Matt Bieber, Huffington Post)
Egypt issues fatwa on Muslims who publicly ignore Ramadan fast
(Los Angeles Times)
Egypt's Christian leader lashes out at government
(Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press)
Eibner: Islamic extremists threaten Syria’s Christians
(John Eibner, Washington Times)
Government pressure on religious groups growing in US, says archbishop
(Catholic Free Press)
Islamist warns Russia after claiming cleric killing
(Dmitry Zaks, Agence France Presse)
Japan: Abduction and deprivation of freedom for the purpose of religious de-conversion
(Report, Human Rights Without Frontiers)
Miami schools backs down; church eviction threat dropped
(Florida Baptist Witness)
Missouri to vote on prayer amendment
(Tim Townsend, USA Today)
Students petition against religious liberty lawsuit
(Kristen Durbin, The Observer)
SVSU law instructor, attorney: Courts could go either way on Frankenmuth cross
(Lindsay Knake, Michigan Live)
Tunisia: Prison, fines for offending ‘sacred values’
(Human Rights Watch, Bikya Masr)
UN, US officials warn Mali crisis could spill over
(John Heilprin, AJC)
USCIRF issues new study of OIC country constitutions
(USCIRF)
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