Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 2 March 2015
Turkey detains ten suspected Daesh militants: reports
(Al Bawaba)
Hero of the Middle East: King Abdullah II of Jordan
(Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute)
Two women convicted for religious, extremist Internet propaganda in Uzbekistan
(Interfax-Religion)
The part of the Abercrombie & Fitch case that had Supreme Court Justices laughing at their own jokes
(Nick Morpus, IJ Review)
Mormons targeted by social hostility in Russia
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
A Muslim community was shut down in Tyumen region for unlawfully banned literature
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Lavrov to raise issue of Christians' protection with UNHRC in Geneva
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Church hopes that Nemtsov murder will not be used for political games
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Church calls for protection for its churches in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)
Ukrainian nationalists attack Moscow Patriarchate's church in Sumy
(Interfax-Religion)
Eviction probable for WI Amish family
(Emily Van Ort, News 18)
Hitchin MP urged to confront Kazakh clients on human rights
(Michael Havis, Hertfordshire Mercury)
Southern Baptists urge Obama to defend ‘the least of these’ against ISIS
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Spain: Scientists slam government’s religion course for high school students
(Pilar Álvarez, El País)
5 key findings about global restrictions on religion
(Peter Henne, Pew Research Center FactTank)
Witch hunts increase in Tanzania as albino deaths jump
(Tonny Onyulo, Religion News Service)
Tanzania albinos decry politicians as police halt protest over killings
(Kizito Makoye, Reuters)
EU and Council of Europe: further integration of human rights systems hits a snag
(Alessandro Calcagno, COMECE, europeinfos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Study released on religious restrictions and hostilities
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Saudi women react to new king
(Caryle Murphy, Al-Monitor: Gulf Pulse)
Supreme Court denies California Prop 8 backers review of contribution disclosure law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
UK Christians take part in nonviolent blockade of Atomic Weapons Establishment
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Navy judge named in discrimination complaint lifts Guantánamo female guard no-touch order
(Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald)
Military judge lifts order accommodating religious concern of GITMO detainee
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Persecution of Christians and martyrdom in today’s world
(Martin Maier SJ JESC, europeinfos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Islamophobia sells in Canada
(Davide Mastracci, Al Jazeera America)
Court martial conviction for refusal to remove Biblical quotes from desk upheld
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court says religiously-affiliated hospital's plan is exempt from ERISA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Bangladeshis protest after atheist writer Avijit Roy hacked to death
(Saad Hammadi and Mark Tran, The Guardian)
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi could be retried and beheaded, say his family
(Kevin Rawlinson, The Guardian)
We can win (against secularism)
(First Things, R.R. Reno)
Proposed UT religious liberty bill will be limited to sexual orientation and gender identity
(Bob Bernick, Utah Policy)
After LGBT anti-discrimination vote, opponents vow to continue fight for religious people
(Laura Hancock, Casper Star Tribune)
Saudi grand mufti says clerics should steer away from murky politics
(Al Arabiya)
U.S. House passes student religious freedom amendment
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Pope to Christians captured by ISIS: You have not been forgotten
(Diane Montagna, Aleteia)
First envoy for LGBT rights marks shift in US foreign policy
(Robert r. Reilly, Aleteia)
ISIS apparently calling for murder of American professor
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Secularist blogger hacked to death by Islamists in Bangladesh
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sunday, 1 March 2015
Aggression against pro-life activists in Munich
(Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)
EU condemns democracy and human rights situation in Azerbaijan in its annual report
(panorama>>am)
Islamic 'radicals' at the heart of Whitehall
(Andrew Gillligan, The Telegraph)
Profanation of a Church of Mystery of the Resurrection in Emmaus in Czestochowa
(Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)
Ukrainian Catholic leader talks with Poroshenko about pope's possible visit
(Russia Religion News)
A plea for unity - GG and Baptist president call for an end to divisiveness in the Christian community and the political arena
(Jamaica Gleaner)
IRS new form for small non-profit applications has eliminated backlog
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Saturday, 28 February 2015
Egyptians in Libya - to flee or to stay?
(Tom Westcott, IRIN)
The latest anti-shechitah crusade: A threat to Jewish rites is a threat to Jewish rights
(Harold Brackman, Jewish Journal)
Fertile ground for militancy in hometown of Jihadi John
(Katrin Bennhold, The New York Times)
Accommodating prayer in Owatonna public schools
(Kim Hyatt, Owatonna People's Press)
In Algeria, women ‘imams’ battle Islamist radicalization
(Amal Belalloufi, Al Arabiya)
How Muslim Azerbaijan had satire years before Charlie Hebdo
(Konul Khalilova, BBC News Europe)
Thousands protest against UK branch of anti-Islam group PEGIDA
(Al Jazeera America)
South Carolina college denounces homosexuality after two volleyball players come out as gay
(Marissa Payne, The Washington Post)
Chinese State Administration of Religious Affairs: Absolutely resist efforts of foreign entities exercising control through Christian groups [Simplified Chinese]
(China Morning Post)
China, first ever Holocaust commemoration for the Shanghai Ghetto
(AsiaNews.it)
China inadvertently promotes Islamic extremism
(Jeff Kingston, The Japan Times)
Young Tibetan monks are being forced to disrobe by China
(Harold Mandel, examiner.com)
Allah versus KFC: How an unlikely American ideologue is inspiring Egypt’s new generation of Islamic militants.
(Mokhtar Awad, Samuel Tadros, Foreign Policy)
Pentagon: Syrian rebels to begin training to fight Islamic State as soon as March
(Maggie Ybarra – The Washington Times, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)
After the collapse of IS in Ayn al- Arab “Kobani” it also callapses and retreats from the town of Tal Hamis
(Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)
Analysis: Why does Islamic State target Christians?
(Charles Cameron, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
The Occasional Pilgrim: Sinan Pasha Mosque (Photos)
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Islamic State refugees grow disgruntled: ‘We loved them so much’
(Michael Kaplan, Religion News Service)
Hanby, Weigel, and Dreher on "The Civic Project of American Christianity"
(Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice)
Catholic social teaching and the global future of development
(Project Leaders Thomas Banchoff, Drew Christiansen, Global Futures Initiative: Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Why tolerance of religion is not enough
(The Christian Science Monitor | Commentary)
Religious discrimination: Dress codes
(The Economist)
February 2015 Media Survey: Freedom of Religion or Belief in Former Soviet States
(Catherine Cosman, Senior Policy Analyst, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
The law and children
(Helen Alvaré, American: The National Catholic Review)
Why we should read Dante as well as Shakespeare
(Peter Hainsworth, OUPblog Religion)
Dominicans keep hope alive among Iraqi Christian community
(ICAN)
EVENT, 23-28 February 2015: International Conference, "Towards Religious Freedom in Africa"
(An initiative of the Centre for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos in collaboration with the Nigerian Bar Association (Lagos and Ikeja Branches); The African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (South Africa), and the Internationa)
Consistory court catch-up, February 2015
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Jews and Muslims in Europe find themselves in the same rocky boat
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Europe without Jews?
(Guy Millière, Gatestone Institute)
Some legislation on religious and belief communities in Norway
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Catholic diocese raided in Oslo
(Nina Berglund, NewsinEnglish.no)
Faith, family and religious freedom subject of apostle's speech at California university
(Mormon Newsroom)
Elder Holland calls on Christians to unite to counter trends harming faith, family and religious freedom
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Five Biblical remixes from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Nyasha Junior, OUPblog Religion)
Turkish President Erdoğan slams Austria's controversial Islam law
(Hürriyet Daily News)
Friday, 27 February 2015
Egyptians of all faiths pray for Copts killed by ISIL
(Waleed Abu al-Khair, Al Shorfa)
Morocco’s religious diplomacy in Africa
(Ghita Tadlaoui, FRIDE)
USCIRF condemns abduction of more than 200 Assyrian Christians and urges their immediate release
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
USCIRF deeply concerned by reports of Saudi death sentence for apostasy
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Vatican: Italy step up security over threat posed by Islamic militants
(ICAN)
After ISIS threats, Italian coastguards seeks weapons
(Al Arabiya News)
King Salman calls for repelling religious extremism, intolerance
(Al Arabiya News)
Montagnard Christians continue to flee to Cambodia, but are running out of food and supplies
(AsiaNews.it)
Illinois professor could help Utah draft religious liberty, nondiscrimination bill
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News)
More courts are telling businesses: stop using religion to discriminate
(The Guardian)
Do-it-yourself Islam? Views on the religious credibility of the Islamic State
(Erwin van Veen & Iba Abdo, The International Relations and Security Network)
The lure of Islamic State for Central Asians
(Qishloq Ovozi, Radio Free Europe | Radio Liberty)
Arson attack against Greek Orthodox seminary in Jerusalem
(AsiaNews.it)
Magistrates to opt out of gay marriage ceremonies in NC
(Christian Today)
Mohammed Emwazi triable in British courts for war crimes, say prosecutors
(Vikram Dodd, The Guardian)
Hungary: Little EU action on rights concerns
(Web Newswire)
The human right to offend: Self-censorship in the face of intimidation has another name: cowardice.
(Ronald Bailey, Reason.com Blog)
Smart ID cards trigger privacy concerns in Turkey
(The Journal of Turkish Weekly)
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