Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Why Hezbollah won't open all-out front against Israel
(Ben Caspit trans. Danny Wool, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Who's behind assassination attempt on former Egyptian mufti?
(Amr Mostafa trans. Mike Nahum, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
US: Georgetown University appoints first director for Hindu Life, Hindu priest
(DNA India)
Google and the U.S. Government are helping orthodox Jews get tech jobs
(Gwen Ackerman, Bloomberg)
Danish mosque continues to make history
(The Copenhagen Post)
Hijab-wearing Muslim women being passed over for jobs in last form of 'acceptable' discrimination – MPs
(John Bingham, The Telegraph)
Why the Founding Fathers wanted to keep ministers from public office
(John Fea, Religion News Service)
The moral tribalism of contemporary politics
(Michael Schulson, Religion & Politics)
Kosher soup kitchen opening was ‘imminent’ — So what happened?
(Liza Schoenfein, Forward)
Looming Texas execution illustrates urgency of forgiveness
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Florida court rejects challenge to school voucher program
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Italian Islamic leader wants legal recognition of polygamy
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
French president meets pope in wake of priest’s murder
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
California legislator drops effort to remove religious school exemptions from anti-discrimination laws
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Alberta judge upholds human rights prayer decision against private school
(The Canadian Press)
Canadian court finds Human Rights Act violation in school's denying prayer space to Muslim students
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pregnant bride can't sue historic synagogue
(Adam Klasfeld, Courthouse News Service)
Reinstatement precludes pregnancy discrimination suit against synagogue
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Muslim boy claims school forced him to falsely confess to ISIS allegiance: suit
(Emily Saul, New York Post)
Muslim 12-year-old was forced by school to sign false ISIS confession, lawsuit claims
(Priscila Korb, Islip Patch)
Suit seeks $25M damages for Islamophobic bullying of special-needs 12-year-old
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Martin Luther King Jr.’s heirs end Nobel medal dispute
(David Beasley, Reuters)
Suit over MLK's Nobel Peace Prize medal settled
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ten Commandments monument in Maryland county will stay
(Press Release, Alliance Defending Freedom)
Plaintiff dismisses suit against Maryland Ten Commandments monument
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court rules in favor of Step Up scholarship program
(Thomas St. Myer, Pensacola News Journal)
Florida Appeals Court says challengers of tax credit scholarships lack standing
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Briefing on the Release of the 2015 Annual Report on International Freedom (IRF)
(United States Department of State)
State Department issues 2015 International Religious Freedom Report
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Why Christmas should matter to us whether we are ‘religious’ or not
(Christopher Deacy, OUPblog Religion)
A suicide party? Moral and religious questions? Associated Press draws a blank
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
The abortion rights movement is bolder than it’s been in years. That’s Cecile Richards’s plan.
(Caitlin Gibson, The Washington Post)
A look at religion in Indonesia 71 years since independence
(Natashya Gutierrez, Rappler)
Does religious liberty protect child neglect?
(Jacob Lupfer, Patheos Blog: Capitol & Cathedral - Faith in the 2016 Election)
Lidasan: Inter religious dialogue through academic partnership
(Mussolini Sinsuat Lidasan, Sun Star Davao)
100 students to receive training as interfaith dialogue practitioners
(Ashraf Padanna, Gulf Times)
Welcome to City Plaza, Athens: a new approach to housing refugees
(Vicki Squire, The Conversation)
Tasmania seeks to protect 'freedom of religion' ahead of gay marriage debate
(Richard Baines, ABC News)
Britain is unusually irreligious, and becoming more so. That calls for a national debate
(The Economist)
A little-known Pakistani tribe that loves wine and whiskey fears its Muslim neighbors
(Tim Craig, The Washington Post)
India court bans children from human pyramid festival
(BBC News)
Germany sees Turkey as platform for Islamist groups, leak shows
(Patrick Donahue, Bloomberg)
Who is an extremist? UK faces legal challenge over strategy to stop radicals
(Michael Holden, Reuters)
Yeshivas take lesson in secular studies
(Leslie Brody, The Wall Street Journal)
Oklahoma man jailed in killing accused of anti-Muslim rants
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Fifty Turkish professors suspected of links with Gulen ousted from Azerbaijani university
(Interfax-Religion)
The Conference of European Rabbis to discuss problems of terrorism and anti-Semitism in Moscow
(Interfax-Religion)
Turkey bankrolling Hamas, German officials say
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Poland proposes to jail users of term ‘Polish death camps’
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
U.N. chief warns of unprecedented 'catastrophe' in Syria's Aleppo
(Michelle Nichols, Reuters)
Religious accommodation struggles in the U.S. workplace
(Jonah Hicap, Christian Today)
Churches destroyed, Bibles burned: Nigerian church leader on Christians returning home after Boko Haram
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
Jewish activists highlight growing movement in visit to disputed holy site
(Nick Schifrin, NPR)
Jewish community leader says removing 18C would send 'worst possible message'
(Gabrielle Chan, The Guardian)
Doctors at Catholic hospitals may be unable to refer women for services
(Kathryn Doyle, Reuters)
Pilgrims crowd church where Mother Teresa once prayed
(Valerie Plesch, Religion News Service)
Thousands of Bolivian Catholics break rocks to change fortunes
(Elly Park, Reuters)
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
What is extremist belief? An answer from medieval Islamic philosophy
(Anthony Booth, The Conversation)
What do American schools teach about Islam? PC or nothing
(Joy Pullman, The Federalist)
Hundreds of Muslim refugees who converted to Christianity hoping to return home and spread gospel
(Leah Marieann Klett, The Gospel Herald)
The complicated role religion plays, even for atheists
(Dow Marmur, Toronto Star)
Atheists win damages in complaint over sheriff's religious posts
(Michael Carroll, AMI NewsWire)
Turkey calls for schools to destroy books and newspapers after coup
(Damian Sharkov, Newsweek)
Turkish-Russian relations affected by Fethullah Gulen - Erdogan
(Interfax-Religion)
Buddhist nun hangs herself in Tibet to protest Chinese govt’s actions
(The Tibet Post International)
What do you believe in? German theater project poses tough questions on faith
(Gaby Reucher, Deutsche Welle)
What counts as a hate crime?
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)
As immigration reform stalls, Catholics embrace welcoming message
(Rhina Guidos, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Maine diocese settles sex abuse suit for $1.2M
(Associated Press)
A false equivalency: Archbishop Chaput's Dangerous Political Analysis
(John Gehring, Commonweal)
Attorney General Opinion No. KP-0109
(Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton)
Attorney General Paxton affirms constitutionality of courtroom prayer and volunteer chaplains, says First Liberty Institute
(Press Release, First Liberty Institute)
Texas AG opinion OK's courtroom chaplains
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
FLDS member asks judge to let him write to Warren Jeffs in prison, says eternal salvation is at stake
(Ben Winslow, Fox 13 Salt Lake City)
FLDS fraud defendant says 1st Amendment protects his letters to jailed leader
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Brazil’s African faiths beat back attempt to exclude them from Olympics
(Janet Tappin Coelho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Olympic Village now includes Brazilian-African religions with others
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Deed restrictions upheld to prevent construction of synagogue
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Iraqi Kurdish forces take more ground east of IS-held Mosul
(Susannah George and Balint Szlanko, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
IACHR welcomes progress on human rights of LGBTI persons
(Press Release, Organization of American States | Inter-American Commission on Human Rights)
IACHR welcomes the adoption of the UN Resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity
(Press Release, Organization of American States | Inter-American Commission on Human Rights)
IACHR welcomes creation of LGBTI core group at the OAS
(Press Release, Organization of American States | Inter-American Commission on Human Rights)
Convoy of IS fighters allowed to leave Syrian city
(Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Germany ministry calls Turkey key Islamist 'platform'
(Geir Moulson and Frank Jordans, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Christians return to rebuild lives in communities liberated from Boko Haram
(World Watch Monitor)
Syrian Christians: Targeted in Aleppo, still being ignored in the New York Times
(Jim Davis, GetReligion)
Hezbollah created Palestinian terror cells on Facebook, Israel says after bust
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Adventures in secular laws and faith: BBC takes shallow dip into Cannes burkini debates
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Abuse of Muslims is now mainstream. I never thought my children would see this
(Salma Yaqoob, The Guardian)
Radical UK Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary guilty of inviting support for ISIS
(Michael Holden, Reuters)
France: Charlie Hebdo receives threat of 'imminent' attack after provocative cover depicting half-naked Muslims
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)
Why are Kenyan churches and mosques being painted yellow?
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
Nigeria: Mother of kidnapped Chibok schoolgirl pleads for prisoner swap with Boko Haram militants
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)
Jamaica seeks partnership with church leaders to develop policy on faith-based tourism
(Angie Chui, Christian Today)
Swedish church planning to drop thousands of Bibles into ISIS-controlled Iraq says security threat is price worth paying
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)
Burkini beach brawl leads third French city in a week to ban the swimsuit for Muslim women
(Katie Mettler, The Washington Post)
Burkini ban defended as French mayors urged to cool local tensions
(Reuters)
Division among Iraq's Shabak minority reveals Kurdish-Arab land rivalry
(Saad Salloum trans. Pascale Menass, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
In our opinion: Increasing anti-Semitism reflects a disturbing rise in religious intolerance
(Deseret News)
Tennessee county approves religion policy, nudges forward new schools
(Emily R. West, Spring Hill Home Page)
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