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Thursday, 29 January 2015

Officials, religious leaders and community members gather in Dnipropetrovsk to mark 70th anniversary of the Holocaust
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)

UN Event in Geneva on the protection of the Aramean/Syriac Christians and of their heritage in Turkey
(European Centre for Law and Justice)

World Report 2015 - Top rights issues around the globe
(Kenneth Roth, Keynote, Human Rights Watch)

Milan’s new ‘anti-mosque’ law
(Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Daily Beast)

Nigeria elections: Mixing religion and politics
(Will Ross, BBC News Africa)

Upstart German party considers anti-Islam stance
(Anton Troianovski, The Wall Street Journal)

Making religion a force for unity : Advocating tolerance
(Editorial, The Sangai Express)

Update - religious freedom and a Canadian law school
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Portugal approves citizenship plan for Sephardic Jews
(Barry Hatton, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Unofficial census data shows Islam is on the rise in India, while the Hindu population declines
(Kyle Glatz, World Religion News)

France and America have radically different takes on religion
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)

Europe still needs to draw lessons from the Holocaust
(Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights)

Religious and secular advocates urge IRS to clarify rules on political endorsements from the pulpit
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Charlie Hebdo attack: French values challenged in schools
(Henri Astier, BBC)

Five key leaders in Germany's anti-Islamist group Pegida step down
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)

India investigates reports of mass ‘reconversion’ of Christians
(Jason Burke, The Guardian)

Mexico: Dozens of Protestants refused re-entry to village after being expelled
(Angie Chui, Christian Today)

In France, comedian’s trial suggests mocking religion has its limits
(Elizabeth Bryant, Religion News Service)

French video tries to blunt jihad’s allure among youth
(Dan Bilefsky and Maia de la Baume, The New York Times)

French prisons, long hotbeds of radical Islam, get new scrutiny after Paris attacks
(Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post)

Myanmar's draft religious laws 'illegal'
(Joshua Carroll, Turkish Weekly)

Big government restrictions on religious freedom keep losing in Supreme Court
(Mark Meckler, The American Spectator)

Orange County Public Schools to ban distribution of religious materials on campuses?
(Saul Saenz, My News 13 (Florida))

It is a wintry season for religious freedom in China
(Daniel Philpott, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)

Synagogue launches religious court case to evict Rabbi Barry Freundel
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

100,000 backers for ban on slaughtering animals without stunning first
(Western Daily Press)

Secularist group give Catholic school students 'get out of religion class' coupons
(Mark Yapching, Christian Today)

Christian Durham Free School closed after damning Ofsted report
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)

New religion and science study reveal 'post-secular' rejection of evolution
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)

China's crackdown surprised some churches building 'grander' facilities
(Karen Willoughby, The Christian Examiner)

Defense lawyer asks Guantánamo judge to expand the female guard no-touch rule
(Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald)

GITMO inmate invoking RFRA wants only male guards during transfers
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Grimes' Gortz Haus to stop all weddings in wake of discrimination complaint
(Grant Rodgers, Des Moines Register)

Idaho House committee rejects Add the Words bill along party-line vote
(Idaho Statesman)

Wyoming House Committee passes RFRA Bill
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Pastors on both sides of religious freedom debate sound off at State Capitol
(Sandra Parrish, Atlanta News)

Louisiana Supreme Court urged to rule in same-sex marriage
(Kevin McGill, Associated Press, WRAL)

States renew fight to stop same-sex marriage
(Richard Fausset and Alan Blinder, The New York Times)

Nashville Evangelical church comes out for marriage equality
(Elizabeth Dias, Time)

Nova Scotia Supreme Court rules in favor of Trinity Western Law School
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

What LGBT Americans think of same-sex marriage
(Jens Manuel Krogstad, Pew Research Fact Tank)

Paradise lost: is Christianity doomed in the Middle East?
(Gerard Russell, New Statesman)

Originalism and marriage
(Ed Whelan, National Review Online: Bench Memos blog)

Originalism and same-sex marriage revisited – a further rejoinder to Orin Kerr
(Ilya Somin, The Volokh Conspiracy)

California Supreme Court versus Boy Scouts
(Ed Whelan, National Review Online: Bench Memos blog)

Trib Talk: LDS leaders Oaks, Christofferson on religious freedom, LGBT rights (video)
(Jennifer Napier-Pearce, The Salt Lake Tribune)

What The New York Times gets wrong about religious liberty
(Staff editorial, Deseret News)

Judge furious over California Supreme Court ban on judges serving as Boy Scout leaders
(Steve Large, CBS)

Human rights complaint against Ontario school board filed by Atheist
(Kyle Glatz, World Religion News)

Holt v. Hobbs: Does a Muslim prisoner’s case foreshadow the end of affirmative action?
(Dawinder Sindu, Religion & Politics)

Court allows Texas execution
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)

Texas set to execute man for killing woman, setting her body on fire
(Jon Herskovitz, Reuters)

City's Orthodox Jews upset with free Pre-Kindergarten program, want time for religious instruction
(Ben Chapman, New York Daily News)

Trial of Egyptian poet over Facebook posting begins
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Orthodox Jewish group blasts NYC universal pre-K program
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Court issues enforcement orders to assure Jehovah's Witnesses access to Puerto Rico urbanizations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Muslim says he's not allowed to practise religion at Baffin Correctional Centre
(CBC News: North)

The political divide on views toward Muslims and Islam
(Michael Lipa, Pew Research Fact Tank)

Committee passes controversial religious freedom bill
(Bob Beck, Wyoming Public Media)

Why should American Muslims have to assimilate? (opinion)
(Ananya Bhattacharyya, Al Jazeera America)

Egyptian poet Fatima Naoot on trial, for post criticizing Islamic mass animal slaughter ritual
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Gazans storm U.N. building over aid stoppage
(JTA)

Higher education and the long arm of the law, part I
(Joseph Knippenberg, Library of Law and Liberty)

Bureaucratic delays put Egyptian convert's appeal at risk
(Barbara Baker, World Watch Monitor)

Recent violence in Niger shows growing intolerance among religious groups
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)

French president addresses Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day: 'France is your country. Your place is here. This is your home.'
(Vladislav Davidzon, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)

Why is the Islamist death cult so appealing?
(Paul Berman, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)

Montagnards flee to Cambodia, to escape Hanoi’s persecution
(AsiaNews.it)

Chin Christians ready to go to jail to stop cross removal
(Francis Khoo Thwe, AsiaNews.it)

For Indian bishop, to save girls from selective abortions, minds must be educated
(AsiaNews.it)

Jakarta ready to execute five more drug traffickers. Church calls for addiction treatment
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)

For Catholic Church spokesman, al-Sisi's Egypt is more liberal on new churches and freedom of expression
(AsiaNews.it)

Sensitivity about religious images is not unique to Islam
(Voice of America)

In India, President Obama urges greater religious liberty
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

EVENT, 29 January 2015: The new Congress and a new U.S. IRF Ambassador: What the future holds for IRF as a necessary aspect of U.S. foreign policy
(IGE's Faith &International Affairs Conference Call Series, Institute for Global Engagement)

EVENT, 29 January 2015: UMW to commemorate religious freedom
(Lindley Estes, The Free-Lance Star)

EVENT, 29 January 2015: Conference - Can we end poverty?
(Cato Institute, Columbia University, Roone Arledge Auditorium)

More on originalism and same-sex marriage
(Orin Kerr, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

China's super-rich communist Buddhists
(John Sudworth, BBC News Magazine)

Map: How the flow of foreign fighters to Iraq and Syria has surged since October
(Swati Sharma, The Washington Post WorldViews)

Yazidis ask Israel for help
(Jacky Hugi, trans. Hanni Manor, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Court sides with Trinity Western law school
(Paul McLeod, The Chronicle Herald)

Braving Arab-Islamic tradition, Egyptian women are beginning to use the bicycle
(AsiaNews.it)

Ugandan bishop willing to defend notorious Lord’s Resistance Army commander in war crimes court
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)

Getting Religion - report launch
(Religion, Martyrdom and Global Uncertainties, The Open University)

South Sudan militia free 280 child soldiers
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)

Greece, religion and geopolitics: A hint of civilisations clashing
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

These are the religious beliefs of Europe’s leaders—including the atheists
(Kabir Chibber, Jason Karaian, Quartz)

Trinity Western law students OK to practise in Nova Scotia
(Blair Rhodes, CBC News | Nova Scotia)

Nova Scotia Supreme Court rules in favour of Trinity Western
(The Canadian Press, Times Colonist)

Opinion in Trinity Western University v. Nova Scotia Barristers' Society
(Supreme Court of Nova Scotia)

UN strategy to combat religious intolerance - is it fit for purpose?
(Marc Limon, Nazila Ghanea, and Hilary Power, Open Democracy)

Reflections on religious freedom around the world
(Cornerstone Blog, Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

Policy makers must "get religion" to prevent violence
(Getting Religion event - Video highlights, The Open University and Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)

Your video think piece: 'Getting religion' is crucial when covering complex, even violent news stories
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion)

Luxembourg moves towards further separation of religion and the state
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Sweden's Court hears case for religious freedom, again
(Baila Olidort, Chabad Lubavitch News)

Mijatović calls on authorities in Azerbaijan to ensure safety of journalists and free speech advocates
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Row over Obama’s speech on religion
(Lakshmi Iyer, Mumbai Times)

Guest Blog: What Obama missed during his trip to India
(Vishal Mangalwadi, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)

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