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Friday, 4 September 2015

Judge won't divorce straight couple because gay marriage is legal
(Simon McCormack, Huffington Post)

Texas clinics challenge abortion limits (UPDATED)
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)

Chinese human rights lawyer could face spying charges
(Tom Phillips, The Guardian)

Hungarian leader rebuked for saying Muslim migrants must be blocked ‘to keep Europe Christian’
(Robert Mackey, The New York Times)

10th Circuit denies en banc review, over 5 dissents, in contraceptive mandate case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Pakistan's fading Parsi community looks abroad
(Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse)

At a Berlin church, Muslim refugees converting in droves
(Kirsten Grieshaber, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Europe's Christian roots threatened by Muslims, Hungarian Prime Minister says amid refugee crisis
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Amid refugee crisis, Hungary prime minister says Muslims not welcome
(Al Jazeera America)

Refugees threaten Europe's Christian roots, says Hungary's Orban
(Paul Carrel, Reuters)

The refugee crisis that isn't
(Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch)

Migrant chaos mounts while divided Europe stumbles for response
(Steven Erlanger and Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times)

Is the migration crisis killing the European dream?
(Douglas Murray, Gatestone Institute)

Judges predict foes will win on birth control mandate
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)

Puritanically radical, radically puritanical: Saudi Arabia’s religious cleansing policy expands through ME
(Catherine Shakdam, Mint Press News)

Death threats target Turkey's Protestants
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)

Scotland much more secularized than US - half Christians - American survey finds
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Palestinian teachers, students strike in Israel over school budget cuts
(Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America)

Islamic State blows up tower tombs in Syria's Palmyra: antiquities chief
(Kinda Makeih, Reuters)

Moroccans vote in local election test for ruling Islamists
(Aziz El Yaakoubi, Reuters)

Archbishop of Canterbury issues statement on migrant crisis
(Anglican Communion News Service)

Oregon judge creates legal defense fund after refusal to perform same-sex marriages
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

American ideals draw U.S. citizens to settle in Israel’s West Bank
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)

Court dismisses no-fly retaliation case
(Press Release, Center for Constitutional Rights)

No damage remedy available to Muslims placed on no-fly list for retaliatory reasons
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Constable applicant can sue over religious and ideological questions in job interview
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Civil rights groups sue county over meals for Muslim inmates
(Paradise Afshar, Miami Herald)

ACLU of Florida and CAIR Florida file lawsuit challenging policy denying religious meals to Muslim inmates at Miami-Dade jails
(Press Release, ACLU of Florida)

Suit seeks halal meals in Florida jails
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Churches as charities: some basics
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Facebook and calling priests "Father"
(Nathan O’Halloran, S.J., First Things)

Producers vs. scribes? The influence of the cultural left
(Mark Movsesian, First Things)

America’s class divide: Scribes v. Producers
(John O. McGinnis, Library of Law and Liberty)

Will progressives require doctors to kill?
(Wesley J. Smith, First Things)

OSCE states get detailed info about Azerbaijan's position on Karabakh conflict
(Elmira Tariverdiyeva, Trend News Agency)

Four myths about the status of women in the early church
(Susan E. Hylen, OUPblog Religion)

Death threats target Turkey's Protestants
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)

Is compromise possible in jailed Kentucky Clerk case? Ryan T. Anderson's take
(The Daily Signal)

Compromise could fix Kentucky's wedding license feud, but the Supreme Court is not yet ready to decide
(Compiled by Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)

Thursday, 3 September 2015

Baku court sentences five IS members to many years in jail
(Interfax-Religion)

Congressman Garamendi concerned by India's religious freedom violations
(Arvin Valmuci, Sikh Siyasat News)

Time to take marriage seriously?
(Carl R. Trueman, First Things)

Federal judges criticize ruling against Little Sisters of the Poor
(Press Release, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)

Five Judges rebuke 'clearly and gravely wrong' birth control mandate ruling against nuns
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post Politics)

Citing Pope Francis, bishops call on Congress to renew religious freedom commission
(The Catholic Sun)

Oklahoma Wesleyan University now 2nd Christian college to leave CCCU over hiring of gay professors
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

'Islam teaches love and peace, not hate and violence,' Muslim Americans declare in 100 billboards across the US
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

US Muslims hope new billboards reclaim Islam's message
(Rasha Madkour, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Radicalisation play cancelled by theatre after concerns about 'extremist agenda'
(Hannah Ellis-Petersen, The Guardian)

Iranian family seeking asylum in Germany convert to Christianity
(The Guardian)

Death toll in IS Yemen mosque attack rises to 32
(Agence France-Presse)

Special Report: In Egypt, jailed Islamists 'dying of neglect'
(Stephen Kalin, Reuters)

Michigan Imam visits Amir Hekmati, longest-held American in Iran
(Rick Gladstone, The New York Times)

Texas clinics file Supreme Court appeal of abortion law
(Mark Sherman, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

U.S. Special Representative met with religious leaders of Ukraine
(Institute for Religious Freedom)

Turkey takes on the Islamic State ... in 40-page report
(Mustafa Akyol, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

World Council of Churches joins Paris international divest from fossil fuel call
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Vatican says transgender man cannot be a godparent
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics jumps into Bible, pot debate
(Greg Horton, Religion News Service)

U.S. court: Transgender illegal immigrant cannot be deported to Mexico
(Dan Whitcomb, Reuters)

South Carolina to seek death penalty in Charleston church massacre
(Harriet McLeod, Reuters)

Ambassador Saperstein calls for religious freedom in Tibet
(Tenzin Monlam, Phayul)

U.S. clerk jailed for gay marriage defiance; dispute goes on
(Steve Bittenbender, Reuters)

White House: 'appropriate' for judge to enforce law in Kentucky gay marriage license issue
(Alina Selyukh and Susan Heavey, Reuters)

Ky. clerk’s office issues marriage licenses Friday — without the clerk
(Mike Wynn and Chris Kenning, Religion News Service)

Kentucky clerk who said ‘no’ to gay couples won’t be alone in court
(Alan Blinder and Richard Fausset, The New York Times)

Kentucky clerk ordered to jail for refusing to issue gay marriage license
(James Higdon and Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post)

Kentucky clerk issued marriage license to a transgender couple
(Mike Wynn, Religion News Service)

Muslim flight attendant files complaint after discipline for refusing to serve alcohol
(Sarah Cwiek, Michigan Radio)

EEOC complaint alleges failure to accommodate Muslim flight attendant
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Case again examines NLRB jurisdiction over religious colleges
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

A win for life (and common sense) in the March for Life vs. abortion-pill mandate fight
(Marissa Poulson, Alliance Defending Freedom)

Implementing health reform: Federal court rules on March for Life v. Burwell (updated)
(Timothy Lost, Health Affairs Blog)

IRS chief Koskinen and the tax status of faith-based colleges
(Brian W. Walsh, The Hill)

Ugandan rabbi launches second bid for Parliament
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Ma Ba Tha to celebrate passage of race & religion laws
(Wa Lone, Myanmar Times)

Rome to name plaza after Martin Luther nearly 500 years after his '95 Theses'
(Compiled by Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)

A primer on where pope stands on gays, divorce, abortion
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)

The ISIS slave girl buyback schemes
(Mat Wolf, Shira Rubin, The Daily Beast)

The two Jewish state solution
(Yuval Diskin, Tablet)

ADF report: Planned Parenthood’s years-long pattern of ignoring child sexual abuse, enabling predators
(Attorney sound bites: Natalie Decker | Michael J. Norton, Alliance Defending Freedom)

Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Black Elk: An American Virgil
(Matthew Milliner, First Things)

Myanmar: Electoral Commission rejects candidacy of Muslim leaders
(Asia News)

A testing time for Europe
(Martin Maier SJ, Europeinfos: Christian perspecitves on the EU)

Migrant crisis has reached 'Biblical proportions' with millions of refugees overwhelming Europe, UK leader warns
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Cornerstone Blog: Migration Crisis: Europe's Failed Response
(Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

Second Bangkok bombing suspect arrested, an ethnic Uyghur
(Asia News)

Why death penalty must go
(Faizan Mustafa, The Tribune (India))

Kentucky clerk loses on same-sex marriage plea
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)

Contempt hearing for Kentucky county clerk
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)

Clerks, conscience, and the case for common ground
(Charles C. Haynes, Inside the First Amendment, Newseum Institute: First Amendment Center)

Kentucky clerk not issuing gay marriage licenses causes uproar. North Carolina shows better way
(Ryan T. Anderson, The Daily Signal)

Kentucky clerk, a local fixture, and now a national symbol
(Alan Blinder and Richard Fausset, The New York Times)

The defiant Kim Davis, the Ky. clerk who refuses to issue gay marriage licenses
(Sarah Kaplan and James Higdon, The Washington Post)

Kentucky county clerk continues to refuse to issue marriage licences; contempt motion filed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Contempt motion filed against Rowan County clerk
(Press Release, ACLU of Kentucky)

Singapore elections: Church tells Catholics to cast a moral and responsible ballot
(Asia News)

Thousands of Odisha pogrom survivors accuse the BJP of protecting religious terrorism
(Asia News)

The one percent: Why so few pastors quit a 'brutal job'
(Lisa Cannon Green, Christianity Today)

Vienna Jews accuse city prosecutor of ignoring anti-Semitic incitement by Muslims
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

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