Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 4 August 2015
Christian leaders call on candidates to address climate change, inequality
(Sara Weissman, Religion News Service)
Kentucky bars religious volunteers from telling gays that they are abnormal, sinful
(Czarina Ong, Christian Today)
Russia says security forces kill 14 Islamist militants
(Writing by Gabriela Baczynska; Editing by Louise Ireland, Reuters)
Can Chile's abortion rights reforms overcome staunch religious opposition?
(Jonathan Franklin, The Guardian)
Jehovah’s Witness church says it will comply with mandatory reporting of child abuse
(The Guardian)
After deadly attack, Israel arrests extremist in crackdown
(Daniel Estrin, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
ISIS or Al Qaeda? American officials split over top terror threat
(Eric Schmitt, The New York Times)
Planned Parenthood is defended as Senate Democrats block bill to end funding
(Jackie Calmes, The New York Times)
23,000 sign petition for Catholic teacher's reinstatement
(Chris Brennan, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Monday, 3 August 2015
Interfaith alliance urges networks to use caution when discussing religion in presidential debates
(EIN News)
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani chided for religious persecution
(Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times)
LGBTQ organization wants ad for religious group that calls homosexuality a form of sexual deviation taken down
(Marin MacMahon, News 1130)
Justice Ginsburg discusses the just-ended Term
(Andrew Hamm, SCOTUSblog)
‘This is not Islam’: Refugees describe life under ISIL in Raqqa, Syria
(Lauren Williams, Al Jazeera America)
Dispatches: Tackling Indonesia’s religious intolerance
(Phelim Kine, Human Rights Watch)
Senegal prosecutes LGBT persons
(Freedom House)
New York cardinal blasts Trump's 'virulent' immigration remarks
(Ecumenical News)
Spotlight on gender justice at Us annual conference
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Is Cuba becoming a haven for LGBT rights?
(Creede Newton, Al Jazeera)
Transgender rights advocates 'going to battle over bathrooms'
(Marisa Taylor, Al Jazeera America)
Orthodox Jewish tenants at LeFrak City suing for discrimination over building’s new electronic keys – which they can’t use on Sabbath
(Carter Coudriet and John Marzulli, New York Daily News)
Orthodox Jewish tenants sue over electronic keys in building renovations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge upholds sentence for D.C. rabbi sentenced to prison for voyeurism
(Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post)
Court refuses to reduce sentence of rabbi convicted of voyeurism
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
IRS commissioner vows to not target Christian colleges opposed to gay marriage ... 'at this time'
(Samuel Smith, Christian Post)
IRS commissioner says no non-profit revocations in his term for colleges that opppose gay marriage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
IRS chief vows not to remove tax-exempt status of religious universities, colleges
(Jonah Hicap, Christian Today)
An Ethiopian court jailed Muslim leaders, activists to lengthy terms
(Mahlet Fasil, Addis Standard)
Putin puts Crimean archaeological site under federal control
(Associated Press)
Russian culture ministry takes over Crimean historic religious site
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Gay priest fired from university job gets new post at New Jersey parishes
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Report on tax implications of same-sex marriage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Younger Southern Baptists seek a less partisan approach to political engagement
(Christine Wicker, Religion News Service)
Sixth cert. petition on contraceptive coverage accommodation for religious non-profits filed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Israel's Shin Bet arrests Jewish extremist suspected of church attack
(Mairav Zonszein, The Guardian)
Israeli premier vows 'zero tolerance' for Jewish extremists
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Israel president threatened over 'Jewish terrorism' comment
(Agence France-Presse, Yahoo! News)
Israel: Harsh interrogations for Jewish terror suspects
(Al Jazeera America)
'Roving rabbis' spread across Montana on kosher mission
(Matt Volz, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Detroit becoming a hot spot for religious conventions?
(Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press)
Catholic church closings in New York bring sadness and anger
(Tatiana Schlossberg, The New York Times)
Lawsuit alleges: 7-year-old quizzed on religion, ordered to sit alone at lunch for telling classmates he didn’t believe in God
(Eugene Volokh, The Washington Post: The Volokh Conspiracy)
Fears grow over Nepal's 'anti-women' constitution
(Paavan Mathema, AFP, Times of India)
Marriage created by God, and not even Church can change that, says theologian
(Czarina Ong, Christian Today)
Religion and law round-up – 2nd August
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Judging the headscarf - Opinion
(The writer is vice chancellor, Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, The Indian Express)
Why Jewish Terror Is Different this time
(J.J. Goldberg, The Forward)
You can’t understand Pope Francis without Juan Perón — and Evita
(Nick Miroff, The Washington Post)
Russian forces kill 8 suspected Islamic State members in North Caucasus
(The Moscow Times)
How do Russians feel about religion? (Infographic)
(Alexandra Tyan, The Moscow Times)
Russians' views on religion are changing, and not for the better
(Compiled by Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Russians feel less positive towards religion now than they did in 1990
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Jewish terror attacks tighten the noose around the Palestinian authority
(Amira Hass, Haaretz)
16 year old stabbed in Jerusalem pride parade succumbs to wounds
(Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz)
Saudi ministry: 'Free expression is an abuse of religious rights'
(National Secular Society)
Anti-bias laws lacking for gays in workplace
(Rex Huppke, The Detroit News)
Immunization laws in Conn., elsewhere raise religious freedom issues
(Michelle Tuccitto Sullo, Connecticut Law Tribune)
Israeli justice in West Bank is seen as often uneven
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)
Minutes apart, 2 explosions shake New Mexico churches
(The Associated Press)
Senegal journalist convicted of engaging in homosexual acts, gets 6-month prison term
(Monica Cantilero, Christian Today)
Boko Haram crisis: 178 captives freed
(Heather Tomlinson, Christian Today)
Boko Haram kills 16 Christian fishermen by slitting their throats off the shores of Lake Chad
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
'Cowboy Church' banned from holding Sunday services at high school after Jewish teacher complains about prayer gatherings
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2015
(Brian J. Grim, Todd M. Johnson, Vegard Skirbekk, Gina A. Zurlo, Brill)
Fourfold drop in Middle East Christian population, finds new demographic study
(Interview with Gina A. Zurlo, the Weekly Number)
Saturday, 1 August 2015
Cornerstone Blog: Brazil: A Lesson in the Peaceful Navigation of Religious Change
(Brian J. Grim, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Cornerstone Blog: Embracing a New Era of Religious Dialogue in Latin America
(Matthew Carnes, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Cornerstone Blog: Religious Liberty Benefits All Faiths in Latin America
(Anthony Gill, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
From Calvin to the Caliphate: What Europe’s wars of religion tell us about the modern Middle East
(John M. Owen IV, Foreign Affairs)
Jehovah’s Witnesses broadcast special meeting into war zone of Ukraine
(Jehovah's WItnesses)
What should be made of the undercover Planned Parenthood Videos?
(Laurie Zoloth, Religion & Politics: Fit For Polite Company)
Two views on Obergefell: Time for soul-searching, or a decision that’s disenfranchising
(Francis DeBernardo and Helen Alvaré, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Marijuana ministries * Chicken blood * Chocolate snakes: July’s Religious Freedom Recap
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Cornerstone Blog: American Unexceptionalism in Religious Freedom Promotion
(Dennis Hoover, Religious Freedom Project of the Berkley Center of Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Cornerstone Blog: Religious Freedom: Are We Making Progress?
(Stephen Bailey, Religious Freedom Project of the Berkley Center of Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Cornerstone Blog: Religious Freedom: Rising Threats to a Fundamental Human Right
(Frank Wolf, Engy Abdelkader, Helen Alvaré, Brian Grim, Religious Freedom Project of the Berkley Center of Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Cornerstone Blog: Reflections on India: Religion and Development
(Aminta Arrington, Paul Rowe, Religious Freedom Project of the Berkley Center of Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Mass shootings: God, good guys and guns
(The Economist)
Can churches lead on racial harmony?
(Carmen K. Sisson, The Christian Science Monitor)
Syrian Christians and the English Jew
(Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post)
Defending religion from itself
(KNos Thames, Foreign Policy Democracy Lab)
Beirut's Spring of Life Center offers hope to thousands of refugees fleeing ISIS in war-torn Syria
(Hermione Macura, The Christian Post)
Former homeschooled Pentecostal woman weds ISIS militant she met online; celebrates Chattanooga terror attack
(Vincent Funaro, The Christian Post)
State dept report: Iran officials involved in sex trafficking of women, girls
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
South Dakota Episcopal diocese moves to be closer to its Native American members living on the state's 9 reservations
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Muslims in C. Africa 'forced to abandon religion': Amnesty
(Agence France-Presse)
China to probe allegations against abbot of Shaolin Temple
(Radio Free Asia)
Canada pastor 'admits to North Korea subversive plot'
(BBC News)
Chad says killed 117 Boko Haram fighters in two-week campaign
(Reporting by Madjiasra Nako; Writing by Bate Felix; Editing by Janet Lawrence, Reuters)
Ultra-Orthodox Israeli stabs 6 at a gay pride parade for second time, police say
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)
Anti-Semitic incidents in UK see sharp rise, figures suggest
(BBC News)
Despite bombing, Islamic State is no weaker than a year ago
(Ken Dilanian, Zeina Karam, and Bassem Mroue, The Associated Press)
Six California hospitals to cease being Catholic
(Monica Clark, National Catholic Reporter)
'Temporary' not guilty plea entered for Charleston suspect
(Harriet McLeod, Reuters)
Exhumation of Ripper’s last victim?
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Friday, 31 July 2015
Apologists for terror or defenders of human rights? The Cage controversy in context
(Tom Mills, Narzanin Massoumi, and David Miller, Our Kingdom: Power & Liberty in Britain)
Gay marriage around the world
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Is Islamic State threatening Jerusalem’s Christians?
(Daoud Kuttab, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Alabama prisoner who sought abortion changes her mind
(Al Jazeera America)
Amnesty: Muslims ‘erased’ from Central African Republic
(Azad Essa, African Media Agency)
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