Law and Religion Headlines


Friday, 21 November 2014

Islamist cleric allowed to preach in London while on bail
(Josh Halliday, The Guardian)

Supreme Court developments on same-sex marriage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Rome’s extraordinary ecumenical event
(Maggie Gallagher, National Review Online)

USCIRF statement on the killing of Jewish worshipers in Jerusalem synagogue
(USCIRF)

Murders in Jerusalem: Keep God out of it
(The Economist)

Yemen culture minister to give her anti-extremism award to country's Jews
(Haaretz)

80 Turkish universities to have mosques, top religious body head says
(Hurriyet Daily News)

AfD supporters lean towards xenophobia and fascism, research says
(EurActiv)

Goa: Millions arriving for Francis Xavier
(Missionary International Service News Agency)

Grand mufti: Steer clear of anti-Islamic websites
(Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, Arab News)

Sweden: A local story of global jihad
(Annika Hernroth-Rothstein, Commentary)

Texas finally approves history textbooks amid religious and political concerns
(The Guardian)

Long legal battle ends with right to pray in NC county
(Charlie Butts, One News Now)

Church in Myanmar, five centuries of missionary history (a profile)
(AsiaNews.it)

Religious freedom under attack
(Geoffrey Johnston, The Whig)

Jerusalem: calm returns to the Esplanade of the Mosques
(AsiaNews.it)

For Global Times, Beijing open on Vatican choosing bishops, closed on Patriotic Association
(Bernardo Cervellera, AsiaNews.it)

Bahraini moral clarity and the ‘Al-Aqsa in danger’ myth
(Evelyn Gordon, Commentary)

Marine dad stands ground against daughter's Islamic indoctrination
(Chad Groening, One News Now)

Lutherans meet political and faith leaders in mainly Catholic Slovenia
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Making Israel’s Jewish status the law: Does it matter?
(Ben Sales, JTA)

Hamas denies knowledge of Liberman plot, but says leaders of 'occupation' are legitimate targets
(Yohan Jeremy Bob, Reuters, The Jerusalem Post)

Merkel against unilaterally recognizing Palestine as a state
(The Jerusalem Post)

PA chief warns against resorting to 'religious war'
(The Jerusalem Post)

High-level al-Qaeda leaders reportedly killed in US drone strike in Pakistan
(Khaama Press, World Affairs Journal)

Is a new law enough to protect religious minorities in Indonesia?
(Irsyad Rafsadi, The Conversation)

Hashtags and Holy War: Islamic State tweets its way to success
(Interview conducted with Ali Soufan by Britta Sandberg, Spiegel Online International)

Students of death: Euthanasia doctors seek existential answers at Auschwitz
(Katrin Kuntz, Spiegel Online International)

Muslim, Christian leaders for end to misuse of blasphemy law
(The News International)

Pope Francis: ‘We have paid too little heed to those who are hungry’
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)

Kenyan city of Mombasa tense after mosque closures
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)

The psychology of Jihad: who’s most at risk for falling into the web of radicalism?
(Catherine Shakdam, Mint Press News)

Sociology professor who banned full-faced veil in class killed in Bangladesh
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)

Neo-Pagan group gets NY property tax exemption
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Japan gearing up for more Muslim tourists
(Henri Rose Cimatu, Ecumenical News)

Indonesia drafts new law for religious freedom
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)

High schooler sues after he is suspended for proselytizing
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

9th Circuit hears oral arguments in conscience challenge to pharmacy board rules
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

9th Circuit hears arguments in pharmacy conscience rights case
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Netanyahu condemns discrimination against Arabs in southern Israeli town
(I 24 News)

6th Circuit hears oral arguments in child evangelism fellowship case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Suit challenges Fort Lauderdale restrictions on feeding homeless in parks
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Coalition ramps up LGBT anti-discrimination push despite long odds in Michigan lame-duck
(Jonathan Oosting, Michigan Live)

Anglican-Catholic dialogues discuss marriage, physician-assisted suicide
(Anglican Communion News Service)

Society ‘content’ with release of Bibles in Sarawak, urges no repeat of incident
(The Malaysian Insider)

Atheists and Secular Humanists are protected by the First Amendment regardless of whether their belief systems are “religions” or not
(Ilya Somin, The Volokh Conspiracy)

With Sanctuary 2014, the church, if not the law, is on immigrants' side
(Bruce Wallace, Al Jazeera America)

Lawsuit fights against 'under God' in Pledge of Allegiance at NJ school
(Fox News)

Uganda plans to pass new version of anti-gay law by Christmas: lawmaker
(Elias Biryabarema, Reuters)

Tunisians are shaken as young women turn to extremism
(Carlotta Gall, The New York Times)

Fears grow in India about Hindu 'Modi-fication' of education
(Andrew Macaskill and Rupam Jain Nair, Reuters)

NY's top court: Palenville Pagans deserve religious tax exemption
(Julia Reischel, Watershed Post)

Italy ponders embrace of same-sex unions
(Liam Moloney, The Wall Street Journal)

Archdiocese bans gay rights speaker from Detroit parish
(Patricia Montemurri, Detroit Free Press)

Churches and Obama’s executive amnesty
(Mark Tooley, First Things)

Evangelicals a mixed bag on Obama’s immigration move
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Services)

Laotian Christians evicted from village for refusing to renounce faith
(Henri Rose Cimatu, Ecumenical News)

China detains an American who assists North Koreans
(Jane Perlez, The New York Times)

Several injured in West Bank clashes
(JTA)

Syrian conflict playing out in Denmark
(The Local: Denmark's news in English)

Church and state in Greece: A new concordat?
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmu: Religion and Public Policy])

At least 50 churches were damaged in military action in Ukraine - Russian expert
(Interfax: religion)

Sir John Cass: C of E school acts fast to counter ‘extremism’ charge
(Margaret Holness, Church Times)

Voodoo: religion or trademark? – Think Schuhwerk
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Pressure mounts on Pakistan to curb Muslim "hate speech": Catholic bishops of Pakistan are appealing to the government over abuse of "blasphemy laws"
(Anto Akkara, Aleteia)

NOVA legal beat: Islamic discrimination amid ISIS and Syria crises
(Mathew B. Tully, ARL Now)

From Golden Temple to Rampal siege: Why it's so hard to deal with India's religious standoffs
(Rohan Venkataramakrishnan, Quartz India)

Indonesia drafts new law for religious freedom: New law to protect religious freedom for minorities
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)

Advocates paint differing pictures of the state of religion in the military
(Chris Carroll, Stars and Stripes)

Muslims must reach out to Dalits, other communities
(Aijaz Zaka Syed, Arab News)

Thursday, 20 November 2014

'Islam has nothing to do with IS group's atrocities'
(Arab News)

Egypt’s first female genital mutilation trial ends in not guilty verdict
(Patrick Kingsley, The Guardian)

Evangelical Alliance becomes a Living Wage employer
(Evangelical Alliance UK)

Freedom from religion? Not this time
(Editorial, AZCentral)

Freedom means life, liberty, pursuit of dignified death
(Richard H. Agins, SunSentinel Opinion / Viewpoints)

Humanum on YouTube [Videos from the Vatican Summit on Families]

Interview with an Islamic State recruiter: 'Democracy is for infidels'
(Interview conducted by Hasnain Kazim, Spiegel Online International)

Neo-Pagan group wins tax exemption
(Marlene Kennedy, Courthouse News Service)

Plan B contraceptive sales violate religious beliefs, Washington pharmacists argue in federal court
(Amy Wang, The Oregonian)

Spanish MPs urge govt to recognize Palestine
(Al Arabiya)

Spirituality alive on the Maidan
(Michael Swan, The Catholic Register)

Threat for India: Islamic State, Al Qaeda and Taliban
(Saroj Kumar Rath, Yale Global Online)

Vatican Summit: Global Faith Leaders discuss marriage
(List of Links, Mormon Newsroom)

Husband of Pakistani Christian woman pleads for blasphemy pardon
(Jon Boone, The Guardian)

Christians, Muslims unite for justice over couple burned in kiln
(Catholic News Agency)

Amid Syrian refugee relief, Christians and Muslims find fellowship
(Kevin Jones, Catholic News Agency)

Remembering the Druze officer who died defending the Jerusalem synagogue
(Yair Rosenberg, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)

Vatican marriage conference hears top scholars, global clergy
(Sheila Liaugminas, MercatorNet)

Religion survey babble confuses 103% of readers. Here’s why.
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)

Is saying the Pledge of Allegiance voluntary? Family and school spar in court
(David Porter, Associated Press, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)

Religion vs the individual
(Somasekhar Sundaresan, Pune Mirror)

A Hindu "living goddess" chooses to study with Catholics
(Christopher Sharma, AsiaNews.it)

Christian politicians and religious leaders agree to a memorandum for a "single Ukrainian Church"
(Nina Achmatova, AsiaNews.it)

Respect opinions: Religious freedom subject to upholding order
(Sarah Eleazar, The Express Tribune with the International New York Times)

Patriarch of Baghdad to Muslim leaders: Unbefitting silence on the Islamic State, a Nazism in the name of Islam
(Louis Raphael I Sako, AsiaNews.it)

Land for mosque in Cuba is ready, says Turkish Religious Affairs official
(Hürriyet Daily News)

New same-sex marriage case at the Court
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)

Same-sex marriages can go ahead in South Carolina
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUS Blog)

Becket Fund’s statement following pharmacist conscience case hearing
(Press Release, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)

Oral arguments, Stormans v. Wiseman [Video]
(Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)

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