Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 8 September 2015
Pope Francis reforms Church's annulment process
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Proposed Mosque in Detroit suburb draws sharp opposition
(Steve Friess, Al Jazeera America)
Palestinian mother injured in arson attack dies
(Al Jazeera)
Muslim flight attendant suspended for not serving alcohol
(Greg Toppo, Religion News Service)
Genome editing of human cells
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Kansas jury to weigh death penalty in Jewish center murders
(Kevin Murphy, Reuters)
Against anti-immigrant sentiment, small town mayor welcomes in refugees
(Andrew Curry, Al Jazeera America)
Planned Parenthood faces unexpected challenge from Obamacare
(Jilian Mincer, Reuters)
Austria says fight against Islamic State needs Syria's Assad
(Shadia Nasralla and Sam Wilkin, Reuters)
Somalia needs army help, investment to fight Islamists: minister
(Edmund Blair, Reuters)
Ethiopian Christians cleared of holding ‘illegal meetings’
(World Watch Monitor)
Churches unite in call for United States to confront racism
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
More on the Kentucky Clerk Case
Monday, 7 September 2015
Atheist Castros praise Christian values, prepare for papal visit
(Reuters, Religion News Service)
Labor Day Statement 2015
(United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)
Catholic bishops issue labor day statement
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The origins of Labor Day: Marches and civil unrest in 1880s Chicago
(Heath Carter, OUPblog)
Religion and law round-up – 6th September
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Art. 8, embryo donation and scientific research: Parrillo v Italy
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Anders Wejryd reflects on Christian unity at Community of Sant'Egidio conference
(World Council of Churches)
Canadian church confirms need for economic pressure on Israel to end occupation of Palestinian territories
(Kristine Greenaway, World Council of Churches)
Reform of canonical marriage annulment
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Who is behind Canary Mission targeting pro-BDS activists?
(Josh Nathan-Kazis, Forward)
What Syrian refugees have to say about coestience with Israel
(Shahar Shoham, Forward)
Haunted by Holocaust, Israel ponders whether to crack door open to refugees
(Allison Kaplan Sommer (Haaretz), Forward)
In migrant crisis, German generosity comes under fire
(Anthony Faiola and Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post)
Treating migrants like natural disasters ‘dehumanizing’
(Barçın Yinanç with Ayhan Kaya, Hürriet Daily News)
Kadyrov calls on Muslim world to urgently discuss problem of migrants trying to find refuge in Europe
(Interfax-Religion)
Catholic Diocese can move to trial in 20-year battle to create a cemetery
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Dutch Holocaust survivors suffer Anti-Semitic abuse in robbery
(JTA, Forward)
Multi-faith letter to the Constituent Assembly of Nepal
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom)
UN praises Austrian, German refugee response; churches want all of Europe's support
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Egypt postpones verdict in Turkey, Qatar ‘terror’ case
(Anadolu Agency, Hürriet Daily News)
Egypt limits ability of imams to run for office
(Rami Galal, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Islamic Party of Tajikistan disassociates itself from deputy defense minister charged with organizing attacks on law enforcement officials
(Interfax-Religion)
Migrants, Christianity and Europe: Diverse, desperate migrants have divided European Christians
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Israel ‘too small’ to accept Syrian refugees, says Netanyahu
(Religion News Service)
Pope Francis: Every parish in Europe ‘take in one refugee family’
(Religion News Service)
U.S. rethinks strategy for battling Islamic State in Syria: NYT
(Lisa Lambert, Reuters)
Cuba's atheist Castro brothers open doors to Church and popes
(Marc Frank, Reuters)
Kenya plans offensive against Islamist militants in coastal forest
(Joseph Akwiri, Reuters)
Trial opens of 10 accused of recruiting Dutch Muslims for Islamic State
(Yoruk Bahceli, Reuters)
Kentucky clerk seeks to force governor to OK denial of gay marriage licenses
(Steve Bittenbender, Reuters)
Cyprus says it could take up to 300 preferably Christian refugees
(Michele Kambas, Reuters)
Bangladesh High Court rejects petition challenging Islam as state religion
(The Economic Times World News)
Sunday, 6 September 2015
An American family saved their son from joining the Islamic State. Now he might go to prison
(Adam Goldman, The Washington Post)
Pope calls on every European parish to host one migrant family each
(Reuters Africa)
Police 'In God We Trust' decals draw complaints from Freedom From Religion Foundation
(David Warren, Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel)
Simon Coveney stresses that religion should not be a factor in responding to refugee crisis
(Barry Roche, The Irish Times)
Religious freedom faces no threat except from radicals
(Ajay Kumar, The New Indian Express)
Religious leaders advice Front
(Viet Nam News)
Egyptian billionaire offers to buy an island off Italy or Greece to rehouse refugees
(Louisa Loveluck, The Telegraph)
Dispatches: Refugees march out of Hungary
(Lydia Gall, Human Rights Watch)
Saturday, 5 September 2015
Countering the hate: 'People are getting involved in tremendous ways'
(Interview with Manfred Schmidt, Spiegel Online International)
Who are ‘cultural Catholics’?
(David Masci, Pew Research Center FactTank)
Dark Germany, bright Germany: Which side will prevail under strain of refugees?
(Spiegel Online International)
Where religious freedom ends: Why a Kentucky clerk has no right to deny gay marriage licenses
(Damon Linker, The Week)
Squaring religious freedom with gay marriage
(Charles C. Haynes, Providence Journal)
Europe’s migrant crisis: Merkel the bold
(The Economist)
Gay marriage and religion: The impressive recalcitrance of Kim Davis
(S.M., The Economist [Democracy in America: American politics])
Conflicts are driven by religious intolerance, says PM Modi
(Anil Kumar Ojha, Hindustan Times)
Issues to be discussed at PACE’s autumn session revealed
(Anakhanum Khidayatova, Trend News Agency)
Jail time for Kentucky County Clerk
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Understanding the Jewish High Holy Days
(Patheos Blog: Community by Deily)
The Doha Congress: Negotiating a return of the Iraqi Baath Party?
(Aron Lund, Syria Comment (Joshua Landis))
Assisted dying: Archbishop Welby urges MPs to reject bill
(BBC News)
7th Circuit again upholds contraceptive mandate accommodation for religious non-profits
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
NY education commissioner grants religious exemption from MMR vaccination requirement
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Art across the early Abrahamic religions
(Robert Gregg, OUPblog Religion)
Migrant crisis: Austria and Germany await more arrivals
(BBC News)
David Cameron: UK to accept 'thousands' more Syrian refugees
(BBC News)
The Arab world’s wealthiest nations are doing next to nothing for Syria’s refugees
(Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post)
Europe’s refugee crisis is America’s problem, too
(Adam Taylor, The Washington Post)
Legally, ‘God’s authority’ is a tough issue
(Robert Barnes and Katie Zezima, The Washington Post)
Friday, 4 September 2015
ISIL recruits IT specialists, doctors, engineers in Uzbekistan
(Interfax-Religion)
Sokurov warns Europe against medley of ethnic groups and religious cultures
(Interfax-Religion)
Nepal: Religious freedom tested
(Persecution Blog)
KY clerk case didn't have to go down this way
(One News Now)
Kentucky dispute shows need for thoughtful marriage license conversation
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty Blog)
Refugees and the EU: Europe is finally confronting the migrant crisis
(The Economist)
What we learned from the arrest of Kim Davis
(Dr. Michael L. Brown, One News Now)
Five federal judges rebuke court: don’t tell the Little Sisters how to be Catholic
(The Catholic World Report)
Are the Schools Equality PACT reforms, to protect human rights, unconstitutional?
(Michael Nugent, Michael Nugent)
Kim Davis's conscientious decision
(R.R. Reno, First Things)
How Kim Davis’s imprisonment is a win for religious liberty
(Brandan Robertson, Patheos Blog: Revangelical)
Why Kim Davis’s refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses is legally different from a ‘sanctuary city’s’ refusal to cooperate with federal immigration law
(Jonathan A. Adler, The Washington Post: The Volokh Conspiracy)
Justice Scalia explained why Kim Davis should issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples or find a new job
(Jonathan H. Adler, The Washington Post: The Volokh Conspiracy)
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis jailed for her conscience
(Press Release, Liberty Counsel)
Kim Davis stands her ground - in jail
(Mike Wynn and Chris Kenning, The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal)
A new legal cloud over same-sex marriage in Kentucky?
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
Judge jails Rowan clerk for contempt; 5 deputies pledge to issue marriage licenses Friday morning
(John Cheves, Kentucky.com)
Republican candidates split over Kentucky clerk in gay marriage case
(Reporting by Emily Stephenson in Washington and Alana Wise in New York; Editing by Lisa Shumaker, Reuters)
In Kentucky college town, license issue divides gay and church communities
(James Higdon, The Washington Post)
Jailed clerk's attorney: Marriage licenses for gays are void
(Adam Beam, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Recalcitrant Kentucky county clerk jailed for contempt; deputies will issue marriage licenses
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?
(Eugene Volokh, The Washington Post: The Volokh Conspiracy)
32 magistrates in NC have refused to perform marriages under new religious objection law
(TWC News Staff & Associated Press, Time Warner Cable News)
Oregon judge refuses to perform same-sex marriages, cites First Amendment right to religious freedom
(Bryan Denson, The Oregonian)
Tenn. judge refuses to grant straight couple a divorce because … gay marriage
(Michael E. Miller, The Washington Post)
Tennessee judge says Obergefell ended state jurisdiction over contested divorces
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
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