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Thursday, 15 October 2015

Catholic hospital denies Michigan woman treatment on religious grounds
(Ryan Felton, The Guardian)

Human Rights explained in one beautiful animation
(Adam Wagner, RightsInfo)

Sustainable building management for CofE?
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

CONFERENCE CALL, 15 October 2015: Religion and National Security since 9/11
(Institute for Global Engagement)

EVENT, 15 October 2015: Religion and Politics in a Global Society: Comparative Perspectives from the Portuguese-Speaking World
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

State Department releases 2014 International Religious Freedom Report
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Remarks at the release of the 2014 Report on International Religious Freedom
(David N. Saperstein, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom)

State Department: Those claiming religion pose the biggest emerging threat to international religious freedom
(Blog, International, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Egypt designated a "Country of Particular Concern" in U.S. Religious Freedom Report
(allAfrica)

US Department of State: Armenian constitution guarantees the freedom of religion
(Siranush Ghazanchyan, Public Radio of Armenia)

US report: Islamic authorities encroaching on non-Muslim lives
(Malaysiakini)

Some countries cracking down too hard on Islamists, State Dept. says
(Nahal Toosi, Politico)

The U.S. State Department: nonstate groups imperiled religious liberties in areas of eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed separatists
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)

Pakistani courts contine to issue 'blasphemy' death sentences, but no US blacklisting
(CNS News)

Pakistan failed to protect religious freedom, says US State department report
(Daily News and Analysis)

India witnessed religiously motivated killings, riots and forced conversion: US Report on International Religious Freedom 2014
(DNA India Analysis)

US to 'encourage' Modi government to turn ideals of tolerance and civility into reality, says top diplomat
(Daily News and Analysis)

Modi government plays down US report criticising religious freedom in India
(Daily News and Analysis)

Vietnam slams US's religious freedom report as not objective
(New Zealand Herald)

China rejects U.S.religious freedom report
(Xinhua)

Religious freedom is under threat worldwide, but what about the US?
(Matthew Bell, Bradley Campbell, PRI)

Wednesday, 14 October 2015

WCC thanks ECRE for 40 years work with refugees, the displaced and asylum seekers
(World Council of Churches)

The 2014 International Religious Freedom Report
(U.S. Department of State)

Religious freedom facing increased threats, US report finds
(Bradley Klapper, ABC News)

Remarks at the rollout of the 2014 Report on International Religious Freedom
(John Kerry, U.S. Department of State)

State Department religious freedom report focuses on terror groups
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Parliament of World Religions convenes in Mormon country — at last
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)

How Muslims and Christians are working together to help refugees in Iraq and Syria
(Molly Thomas, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)

Pakistan’s Supreme Court makes landmark judgment
(Aftab Alexander Mughal, World Watch Monitor)

Qadri verdict a ‘victory over terrorism’
(Asif Aqeel, World Watch Monitor)

Vatican and Palestinian flags fly alongside other nations' at the UN
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Catholic bishops at Vatican summit seek elusive common ground
(David Gibson and Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

Pope asks forgiveness after sex scandals rock Vatican and Rome
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)

Ohio planning to implement anti-BDS legislation
(JTA)

British family says 74-year-old grandfather faces 350 lashes from Saudi Arabia for illegal wine
(Adam Taylor, The Washington Post)

Afghan ISIS branch makes inroads in battle against Taliban
(Mujib Mashal, The New York Times)

Palestinians kill 3 Israelis as violence mounts in ‘day of rage’
(William Booth and Ruth Eglash, The Washington Post)

Republican lawmaker seeks ban on LGBT conversion therapy
(Kathleen Ronayne, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Prayer and calls for racial unity in the shadows of Lincoln
(Hamil R. Harris, The Washington Post)

Muslim advocacy group says lawmaker 'Islamophobe', blasts bill
(Dave Boucher, The Tennessean)

Egypt's last Islamists standing offer 'polite' opposition
(Ahmed Aboulenein, Reuters)

Indonesian President calls for calm after church attack in Aceh
(Joe Cochrane, The New York Times)

Suicide by any other name (commentary)
(Kirsten Powers, Religion News Service)

Three weeks after kidnapping in Philippines, video surfaces of Canadians being held by gunmen
(Douglas Quan, National Post)

Pork or nothing: how school dinners are dividing France
(Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian)

Leaderless Palestinian youth, inspired by social media, drive rise in violence in Israel
(Jodi Rudoren, The New York Times)

New York parents charged in church beating death of teen
(Reuters)

The surprising thing that happened when this Islamophobe protested at a mosque
(Peter Holley, The Washington Post)

Man claims he lost job at Catholic home because he's gay
(Alanna Durkin, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Muslim groups' lawsuit over N.Y. surveillance revived by court
(Joseph Ax, Reuters)

Planned Parenthood changes fetal-tissue reimbursement policy
(David Crary, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

NJ archbishop sets rules for barring Catholics from Communion
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)

Cairo University bans veil for instructors
(Rami Galal, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

Young Palestinians sound off on current unrest, Israeli occupation
(Al Jazeera America)

Michigan ACLU takes on Catholic hospital for refusing tube tying
(Massoud Hayoun, Al Jazeera America)

PEGIDA protests turn up heat on EU immigration officials
(Lisa De Bode, Al Jazeera America)

Russia: 23 known prosecutions for religious literature in four months
(Forum 18 News Service)

Court reinstates lawsuit challenging NYPD surveillance of Muslims after 9/11
(Associated Press)

3rd Circuit: Challenge to NYPD Muslim surveillance program may move forward
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Court upholds military reprimand to enlistee for objecting to same-sex wedding
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

SPLC ethics complaint: Alabama Supreme Court justice violated judicial ethics on extremist radio show
(Press Release, Southern Poverty Law Center)

Judicial ethics complaint cites Alabama justice's remarks on same-sex marriage precedent
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Why faith groups can work together to combat religious violence
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)

Reassessing the role of parliament in law and human rights
(Brian Chang, UK Human Rights Blog)

Parliaments, the Rule of Law and Human Rights
(Murray Hunt et al., Oxford University Faculty of Law)

Religious schools excluded from new tax-credit scholarships
(KULR8)

Refugees to be questioned on religion and previous military activities by Lithuanian authorities
(The Baltic Time)

Religion can’t be the basis of state, Pranab tells Israel
(Stanly Johny, The Hindu)

Freedom under threat in India
(The Times of India)

Anglican church says abolishing penalty rates may threaten freedom of religion
(Anna Patty, The Sydney Morning Herald)

Religious Ministry Cases
(The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)

Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Dutch Jews express ‘grave concern’ over refugee center in heavily Jewish town
(JTA)

How the Catholic Church made a social media splash during the Pope’s U.S. visit
(Nathalie Tadena, The Wall Street Journal)

In Germany, a Turkish Muslim educates immigrants not to hate Jews
(Miriam Dagan, The Times of Israel)

My intervention at the Synod: The challenge of rebuilding trusţ in post-totalitarian or totalitarian contexts
(Borys Gudziak Blog, Religious Information Service of Ukraine)

Op-Ed: The New York Times’ ‘big lie’ about the Temple Mount
(Steven Fine, JTA)

Why religion still matters
(Mary Beth McCauley, The Christian Science Monitor)

As US preaches religious freedom abroad, critics see hypocrisy
(Jerome Socolovsky, Voice of America)

WCC calls for an end to foreign military interventions in Syria
(World Council of Churches)

Religion and Public Life Survey, 2012
(Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, The Association of Religion Data Archives)

Religious education in Greece: Greece's ruling leftists soften their secularism
(ERASMUS | KERKYRA, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Is there a sword of Damocles ready to fall over Obergefell? The editor of Mercator and 60 eminent US legal scholars all say yes!
(Michael Cook, Mercator Net)

Secretary Kerry to release report on international religious freedom
(U.S. Department of State)

Israel may be taking first steps toward becoming a Halakhic state
(Editorial - Opinion, Haaretz)

Meet the Nobel-nominated priest who rescues African refugees from Mediterranean
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)

Islamic State urges jihad against Russians, Americans: audio
(Reuters)

Germany investigates mock gallows for Merkel at anti-Islam rally
(Thorsten Severin, Andreas Rinke, and Paul Carrel, Reuters)

The Supreme Court, 9-0, on student organizations’ “freedom to express ‘the thought that we hate'”
(Eugene Volokh, The Washington Post)

Religious Jews target of latest attacks by Palestinians
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)

Special Report: Battling for India’s soul, state by state
(Rupam Jain Nair and Frank Jack Daniel, Reuters)

Palestinian ‘Day of Rage’ attacks shake Jerusalem
(Religion News Service)

Islamists detained in central Moscow were trained in ISIL, planned terrorist attack in public transport - FSB (updated)
(Interfax-Religion)

End foreign military interventions in Syria, says World Council of Churches
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Meet Palestine's first female marriage officiant
(Ahmad Melhem, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)

Arabia: ancient history for troubled times
(Greg Fisher, OUPblog Religion)

Kazakhstan: Secret police-inspired criminal prosecutions
(Forum 18 News Service)

ECHR fines Turkey for violating privacy of Australian man
(Hürriet Daily News)

European court says Christian proselytizer's rights infringed by broadcast documentary
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Bremner v. Turkey: Court Press Release
(Registrar of the Court, European Court of Human Rights)

Health clinics run by anti-abortion groups sue attorney general over AB 775
(Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee)

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