Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Head of Religious Affairs to testify as witness in Akşener insult case
(Today's Zaman)
Rouhani calls for more Iranian women to 'lean in' to politics
(Arash Karami, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)
El Paso bishop says pope’s border stop is pastoral, but with a political edge
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Hampton Court's Chapel Royal stages first Catholic service for 450 years
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Hindu mum distraught after Federal Court gives son to Muslim ex-husband
(Yiswaree Palansamy, MalayMail Online)
Cover story: The head scarf, modern Turkey, and me
(Elif Batuman, The New Yorker)
Analysis: If Muslims and Christians worship a different God, what is the right response?
(Mark Durie, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Strength in weakness: Egypt president’s apology spurs hope
(Jayson Casper, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Christian leaders kept in Sudan since December uncharged, but incommunicado
(World Watch Monitor)
What Wheaton and Hawkins said at public reconciliation event
(Morgan Lee and Jeremy Weber, Christianity Today)
In Catholic Ireland, battle lines drawn over abortion as election looms
(Mirren Gidda, Newsweek)
Beef for foreigners not so soon: Haryana
(The Indian Express)
NASA is under fire for ‘religious discrimination’ of Christians, but they have something to say about it
(Justen Charters, Independent Journal)
Religious group threatens to sue NASA for censoring Jesus
(Jonah Bennett, The Daily Caller)
NASA threatened with lawsuit for banning Jesus
(Leada Gore, AL.com)
Migrants’ avoidance of the European Court of Human Rights concerns us all
(Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Strasbourg Observers)
Contempt and ecclesiastical courts
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Obama’s speech at Baltimore mosque was powerful, but was anyone listening?
(Daniel P. Franklin, The Conversation)
The clause on Buddhism in the Sri Lankan Constitution should not be changed – Lakshman Seneviratne
(Camelia Nathaniel, The Sunday Leader)
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
‘Religious liberty’ bills gain momentum in Georgia
(Aaron Gould Sheinin, Kristina Torres, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Elder Oaks speaks at Johns Hopkins: Religious freedom essential for free, prosperous society
(Jason Swensen, Deseret News)
How Pope Francis follows a long history interfaith work by past pontiffs
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
Saudi Arabia’s “religious police” arrest doll mascot for breaching Sharia Law
(RT)
New York governor announces regulations banning help for homosexual youth
(Heather Clark, Christian News)
New York regulations aim to end conversion therapy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Gay marriage lawsuit launched in Georgia
(Giorgi Lomsadze, Eurasianet)
Suit in nation of Georgia seeks marriage equality
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Church's state court suit challenges California mandate for health insurance abortion coverage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ban Ki-moon: ‘Close the gap between the world that is and the world that should be’
(The Guardian)
Fear and loathing of refugees in Europe
(Judith Sunderland, Human Rights Watch)
Texas again denied request to bar Syrian refugees
(Al Jazeera America)
Bangladesh church vandalised; priest says religion was not a motive
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
Babies, bathwater, and religion in public schools
(David R. Brockman, The Tennessean)
Scientology churches back U.N. World Interfaith Harmony Week
(PR Newswire)
EUCLID celebrates UN World Interfaith Harmony Week
(The Point)
Singing in harmony: Interfaith and intercultural dialogue in South Texas
(Kathy Hamilton, Today's Zaman)
Military delegation in city to visit faiths groups
(Alan Thompson, Leicester Mercury)
Interfaith dialogue, multiculturalism – only way to address global challenges
(APA)
Interfaith trip offers lessons in coexistence
(Debra Rubin, New Jersey Jewish News)
Federal Court to rule if interfaith custody case can be heard in civil court
(V. Anbalagan, The Malaysian Insider)
Family and Society: Farewell, religious liberty, farewell, conscience
(Augusto Zimmerman, News Weekly)
The paradox of religious laws in a secular Constitution
(Jug Suraiya, The Times of India)
EVENT, 9 February 2016: Elder Dallin H. Oaks to speak at Johns Hopkins on international religious liberty
(Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies)
Monday, 8 February 2016
Catholic and Latter-day Saint leaders discuss religious freedom in Tonga
(Mormon Newsroom)
Female genital mutilation — the numbers keep rising
(Robin Wright, The New Yorker)
Misuse of anti-extremism in January 2016
(SOVA Center for Information and Analysis)
Churches would break the law if they gave sanctuary to asylum seekers – but does it matter?
(Penny Crofts and Jason Prior, The Conversation)
Pope's visit to violent Mexican city highlights broader ills
(Maria Verza, The Virginian-Pilot)
US Catholic-Muslim dialogue launched, Chicago Archbishop Cupich to co-chair
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Thriving indie Jewish communities join forces to create rabbinic fellowship
(Ben Harris, Jewish Journal)
Party-line vote kills Klingenschmitt's religious freedom bill
(Megan Schrader, The Gazette)
Christians fight back in school sports prayer battles
(Bob Cook, Forbes)
James Madison would've backed Phoenix's Satanists
(Noah Feldman, Bloomberg View)
Amid religious freedom concerns, relief over Indiana bill's failure
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Religious “conviction”: A prisoner’s struggle to practice his faith behind bars
(Ashley Merritt, Valpo Law Blog)
What will happen when the Pope meets the Patriarch?
(John Pollard, The Conversation)
Education commissioner's firing followed refusal to spend for religious school
(Charles Wohlforth, Alaska Dispatch News)
Bahrain hosts World Interfaith Harmony Week
(Bahrain News Agency)
UN finds 'extermination' of detainees in Syria
(Al Jazeera)
Turkey and Germany agree on plan to ease refugee crisis
(Al Jazeera)
Senegal fears extremism amid imam arrests, regional attacks
(Baba Ahmed, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Anti-Islam movement PEGIDA stages protests across Europe
(Reuters)
Germany's Catholic Church calls for 'reduction' in refugees
(Agence France-Presse)
Mexico Catholic church accused of bending marriage rules for president
(David Agren, The Guardian)
Bosnia women protest at ban on headscarf
(BBC News)
Bosnians protest hijab ban
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)
State lawmakers look to increase safety for Amish drivers
(Scottie Lee Meyers, Wisconsin Public Radio)
U.S. judge grants injunction against anti-abortion activists
(Dan Levine, Reuters)
Archdiocese of Chicago could close dozens of parishes
(Michael O'Loughlin, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Chinese students are flooding U.S. Christian high schools
(Foreign Policy)
Actor and designer Waris Ahluwalia kicked off plane because of his turban
(Nadya Agrawal, Huffington Post)
Sikh actor barred from flying to US ‘because of turban’
(Mint Press News)
Tajikistan's mutiny participants, leaders of outlawed Islamic Renaissance Party to face court
(Interfax-Religion)
Women, religion and religious freedom
(The Weekly Number)
Egypt: Condemn justice minister’s hate speech
(Human Rights Watch)
Israeli Arabs take their message to the White House
(Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Turkey under pressure to open border to thousands of new Syrian refugees
(Al Jazeera America)
Anti-Islam protests in Dresden, Prague and other European cities
(Al Jazeera America)
Canada to end bombing missions in Iraq and Syria
(Al Jazeera America)
Interfaith harmony conference condemns attack on BKU
(Zubair Qureshi, Pakistan Observer)
Interfaith harmony: Divided in life, united in death
(Basma Siddiqui, The Express Tribune)
Kazakhstan: "What were they afraid of? We didn't take anyone away"
(Forum 18 News Service)
How Malaysia became one of the most anti-Semitic countries on earth
(Jon Emont, Tablet Magazine)
Individual, Community, and State: Mapping the terrain of religious freedom under the Indian Constitution
(Gautam Bhatia, Legally India)
Mexico: Expelled Christians allowed to return home with full religious rights
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)
Southern Baptists
(Martin E. Marty, The University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Families of Islamist militants named and shamed on Uzbek TV
(Joanna Lillis, The Guardian)
Seven ISIL members preparing terror attacks in Moscow, St. Petersburg detained in Yekaterinburg
(Interfax-Religion)
Patriarch, pope meeting 'a mutual step halfway' between Russia, Western world – Peskov
(Interfax-Religion)
Ending FGC: The religious factor
(Katherine Marshall, HuffPost Religion)
FGM in the context of Islam
(Dr. Mohamed Selim Al-Awa, General Secretary of the International Federation of Islamic Scholars)
Church dismisses as "hoax" reports about seizure of church construction site in Paris
(Interfax-Religion)
Lawmakers want to let students express religion on sports uniforms
(Ty Tagami, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
90 mosques across the UK open doors for interfaith dialogue
(Daily Sabah)
Law and religion round-up – 7th February
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Statement from Bishop Paul Butler on George Bell
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Vexatious litigants and the consistory courts
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Georgia proposes 'blasphemy bill' to outlaw religious insults
(The Guardian)
Victim critical of pope on abuse asked to leave Vatican commission
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
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