Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 19 October 2015
The plot to change Catholicism
(Ross Douthat, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times Sunday Review)
Who is leading the intifada?
(Adnan Abu Amer, trans. Sami-Joe Abboud, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Pope says Church needs more decentralization, changes to papacy
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
Sunday, 18 October 2015
A veil ban, 'barbaric practises', and Canada's election
(Sonya Fatah, Al Jazeera)
Egyptians are voting for the first time since Sisi took power, so what do you need to know?
(Al Bawaba)
Made in Moscow: Religious freedom abuses continue in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine
(Mary Ann Glendon and Katrina Lantos Swett, Atlantic Council)
Oprah’s new ‘Belief’ series shows how dramatically the nature of faith is shifting
(Diana Butler Bass, The Washington Post)
Do team chaplains infringe on religious freedom? A nonprofit says yes, but an Alabama lawmaker disagrees
(Jamon Smith, Tuscaloosa News)
Biden says religious freedom key to fighting extremists
(Radio Free Europe)
Saturday, 17 October 2015
China's atheist leaders confront the growth of religion
(Dick Hughes, Statesman Journal)
Pope to make first Africa trip in November amid security concerns
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
Future of chapel buildings in Wales
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Indian village mob beats Muslim man to death for 'smuggling cows'
(Lizzie Dearden, The Independent)
EVENT, 17 October 2015: Inform Autumn Seminar - Children, Minority Religions, and the Law
(London School of Economics)
Friday, 16 October 2015
Almost 2,500 Russian citizens fighting for Islamic State - Russian interior ministry data
(Interfax-Religion)
Holidays, public schools and what it means to be “American”
(Charles C. Haynes, Newseum Institute)
Moscow Patriarchate condemns another seizure by schismatics of church in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)
Puritans, Victorians, post-war Catholics: images from America’s sexual history
(Allan C. Carlson, Mercator Net)
U.S. State Dept's religious freedom report politicized, full of flaws - Russian diplomat
(Interfax-Religion)
Zimbabwe's Lembas push for circumcision
(Yael Eveb-Or, Forward)
America and religious liberty: Religious freedom retreats in many countries, but not all
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
“Academisation”, Ofsted and Multi-Academy Trusts
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Deafening silence: Palestinian terrorism in Israel
(Rachel Huebner, The Harvard Crimson)
The unreasonableness of ‘reasonable accommodation’
(Stephen Evans, National Secular Society Blogs & Opinion)
ISIS Beheads, crucifies man accused of helping people escape caliphate
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
ISIS terrorist abandons jihad after witnessing 'love of Christians' at Jordanian refugee camp, aid group says
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Hundreds of Palestinian rioters torch Biblical patriarch Joseph's tomb in West Bank
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
20,000 ISIS fighters killed but militants haven't lost ground
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
'Convert or die': Assyrian Christians in Sweden targeted by ISIS
(Benge Nsenduluka, The Christian Post)
Israel’s chief Rabbi says falsehoods are fuel for the latest violence
(Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times)
Pakistani pilgrims flock to crocodile shrine as Taliban threat recedes
(Syed Raza Hassan, Reuters)
Jewish-Muslim women's network is launched with government support
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
France in stalemate with Vatican over nomination of envoy said to be gay
(Aurelien Breeden, The New York Times)
Palestinians set fire to Jewish shrine; Israeli soldier stabbed
(Ari Rabinovitch, Reuters)
New Mexico town of Belen in fight to keep Nativity scene
(Russell Contreras, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
UK man gets 20 years in U.S. prison over Oregon militant camp
(Nate Raymond and Joseph Ax, Reuters)
Male Adventist pastors forgo ordination credentials in solidarity with unordained women
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Congregants were abused and shamed at church where fatal beating occurred, ex-member says
(Benjamin Mueller, The New York Times)
Police: Teen son was beaten for trying to leave his church
(Carolyn Thompson, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
UK agency forbids religious Jewish school to require Halachic compliance
(The Jewish Press)
British agency orders government funded Jewish high school to change admission requirement
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Georgia’s religious minorities file lawsuit with Constitutional Court
(Democracy and Freedom Watch)
Minority religious groups sue in nation of Georgia challenging unequal tax obligations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Indian ruling party official urges Muslims to give up eating beef
(Rajesh Kumar Singh, Reuters)
Malaysia arrests hacker for supplying U.S. targets to Islamic State
(Yantoultra Ngui and Mark Hosenball, Reuters)
Suu Kyi urges supporters not to let race, religion dominate election
(Timothy McLaughlin and Than Win Han, Reuters)
Myanmar's Suu Kyi campaigns in Rakhine, but will avoid Rohingya areas
(Al Jazeera America)
Sikhs, knives, and religious exemptions
(Eugene Volokh, The Washington Post)
Thor and his followers come to the Northern California hills
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Syria partition and 'Holy War' talk worries UN officials
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Chad arrests 62 women for wearing veils after bombings
(Al Jazeera)
Turkey rebuffs EU on refugee deal, accuses bloc of 'political bribery'
(Al Jazeera America)
Palestinian Day of Rage turns deadly as tension gives way to violence
(Al Jazeera America)
Thursday, 15 October 2015
Mosul pilgrims barred from returning home
(Vivian Salama and Bram Janssen, Associated Press, The Big Story)
Pakistan: Over 1400 cases of blasphemy in a year
(Agenzia Fides)
Islam in Britain: David Cameron goes too far in equating theology and terror
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
October 15 Muslims celebrate the beginning of New Year 1437 according to Hijri
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Melkite archbishop urges British not to support militants in Syria
(Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald)
Devotees of 50 faith traditions come together as Parliament of the World's Religions gets underway
(Marjorie Cortez, Deseret News)
Parliament of The World’s Religions 2015: Interfaith gathering in Salt Lake City embraces Mormon, Atheist and Aboriginal voices
(Ismat Sarah Mangla, International Business Times)
Mexico performs first Mass in indigenous Nahuatl language
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
World's largest interfaith gathering in Utah
(Muneeb Nasir, OnIslam)
China courts hardline Buddhist party ahead of Myanmar poll
(Sui-Lee Wee, Reuters)
Earliest known draft of King James Bible is found, scholar says
(Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times)
Isis Inc: how oil fuels the jihadi terrorists
(Erika Solomon, Guy Chazan, and Sam Jones, Politics and Society)
The Episcopal Church’s first black leader — and its ‘tortuous’ path toward integration
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post)
Parishioners have to leave closed church after an 11-year vigil
(Associated Press, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Baptist leader: Christians should boycott gay weddings
(Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal)
Glimpses inside secretive sect after killing at upstate New York church
(Jesse McKinley and Benjamin Mueller, The New York Times)
Elder Joseph W. Sitati addresses race, self-reliance and Church growth in Africa
(Deseret News)
Shared well-being: Multi-religious values for sustainable development
(International Executive Committee, Religions for Peace)
Deep dvisions in Turkey as eection nears
(Jacob Poushter, Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends)
The German lynchmob: Islamophobe movement returns with a vengeance
(Spiegel Online International)
New policy forces Missionaries of Charity to end adoption services in India
(Catholic News Agency)
Citing new rules, India's Missionaries of Charity to end adoption work
(Catholic News Service)
Sudan and South Sudan ecumenical bodies hear of churches’ role in regional peace
(World Council of Churches)
Catholic orphanages in India end adoption services in protest over new government policies
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pastafarian who fought to wear pirate hat or colander in driver’s licence photo scolded by Quebec judge
(Paul Delean, National Post)
Canadian judge scolds "Pastafarian" suing over drivers' license photo
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Parishioners lose appeal to maintain Scituate vigil
(Andy Rosen, Boston Globe)
Appeals court affirms archdiocese's right to close local church
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sweden could house tens of thousands refugees in tents: Migration Agency
(Johan Ahlander, Reuters)
Boycott gay weddings, even family, says Southern Baptist leader Al Mohler
(Andrew Wolfson, Religion News Service)
Interview: New York Cardinal Dolan sees light amid the synod’s confusion
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Safe house in South Africa offers gays refuge, hope and ministry
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
Police raid Sat-7 channel's Egypt offices
(World Watch Monitor)
Iraqi nun who fled monastery now helping refugees
(World Watch Monitor)
Why some in Egypt are banning campaign photos of female candidates
(George Mikhail, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
'Conversion therapy' endangers LGBT youth and must stop: U.S. report
(Andrew M. Seaman, Reuters)
US government calls for an end to LGBT conversion therapy
(Marisa Taylor, Al Jazeera America)
Ending Conversion Therapy: Supporting and Affirming LBGTQ Youth
(SANHSA, US Department of Health and Human Services)
‘Third Temple’ in Jerusalem: Mission impossible for messianic zealots
(Ben Piven, Al Jazeera America)
EU leaders look to Turkey to solve refugee crisis
(Lisa De Bode, Al Jazeera America)
US raises eyebrows over workers’ religious rights
(William Lowther, Taipei Times)
Washington: European anti-Israel sentiment crossed the line into anti-Semitism
(Michael Wilner, The Jerusalem Post)
Religious freedoms under threat in Pakistan: U.S. Senator
(The Hindu)
Holidays, public schools and what it means to be “American”
(Charles C. Haynes, The Newseum Institute)
Religious sect granted permit to increase water at compound near Pringle
(Bob Mercer, Rapid City Journal)
Indonesia deploys troops to calm religious unrest in Aceh province
(Reza Munawir, Reuters)
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