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Monday, 24 November 2014

Israel fears EU Parliament will recognize 'Palestine'
(Cynthia Blank, Arutz Sheva 7)

Religion and Law round-up – 23rd November
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

'Jewish State' law passes Cabinet vote
(Hezki Ezra, Arutz Sheva 7)

Northern Ireland: DUP to introduce bill to exempt religious people from equality laws
(Pink News)

Jamaat Jund al-Qawqaz: A Caucasus Emirate Group in Latakia
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)

Sunday, 23 November 2014

Cabinet approves 'Jewish state bill'
(Lahav Harkov and Herb Keinon, The Jerusalem Post)

Court enjoins South Carolina's refusal to recognize same-sex marriages from elsewhere
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Egyptian court acquits first doctor charged with female genital mutilation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

First 'International Day of the Bible' to Launch Nov. 24
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)

Israel's Cabinet approves proposed basic law declaring Israel as a Jewish state
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Saturday, 22 November 2014

Pilgrim voices tell of more than first Thanksgiving
(Alan Wallace, TribLive Opinion/The Review)

Turkey trains Kurdish peshmerga forces in fight against Islamic State
(Humeyra Pamuk, Reuters)

Recognizing Palestine: Anomalies and ambiguities – OpEd
(Neville Teller, Eurasia Review)

Muslim's religious discrimination claim against NJ Transit dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Montana's same-sex marriage bans falls; becomes 34th state to recognize marriage equality
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

"Islamic State" unites Ankara and Baghdad
(Rufiz Hafizoglu, Trend News Agency)

Montana: Some clerks raise objections to granting same-sex marriage licenses
(The Associated Press, Great Falls Tribune)

Priests for Life vow to appeal Mandate decision to U.S. Supreme Court
(Fr. Frank Pavone, Aleteia)

In Pakistan, Christians and Muslims stage protest demanding blasphemy laws be stopped
(Team Aleteia, Aleteia)

Zoning denial did not create substantial burden under RLUIPA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Supermarket chain Sainsbury's stirs strong passions, outrage with World War I Christmas advertisement
(Danica Kirka, Star Tribune World)

Thousands demonstrate in major anti-abortion rally in Madrid, criticize government U-turn
(Associated Press, Star Tribune)

Somali Islamists execute 28 non-Muslims on Kenyan bus
(George Obulutsa, Reuters)

Refusing the Veil by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Cry freedom for the women of Islam
(Lucy Popescu, The Independent)

Representations of purgatory and limbo in popular culture
(Diana Walsh Pasulka, OUPblog Religion)

No place for extremists ‘masked as intellectuals’
(Arab News)

Turkish governor threatens to turn synagogue into museum
(Haaretz)

Bahrain's first post-Arab Spring vote boycotted by Shia majority
(AsiaNews.it)

Anti-semitism creeps Into Europe's daily routines
(Deborah E. Lipstadt, The Jewish Daily Forward)

French interior minister speaks of love for Jews
(JTA)

UN rights chief condemns Gambia for anti-gay legislation
(Julie Deisher-Edwards, JURIST)

Syrian Christians: 'Help us to stay - stop arming terrorists'
(Ruth Sherlock, The Telegraph)

The Marriage Pledge – Reaction within the US
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

My red-line notes on the Radner-Seitz Pledge
(Edward Peters, JD, JCD, Ref. Sig. Ap., In the Light of the Law: A Canon Lawyer's Blog)

In which First Things does some Fourth Things
(Doug Wilson, Blog & Ma Blog)

Is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dissolving into a religious war?
(Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor)

Status Quo? 'Jews prayed on the Temple Mount for centuries' (part 1)
(Hillel Fendel, Arutz Sheva 7)

There is no 'Status Quo' on the Temple Mount (part 2)
(Hillel Fendel, Arutz Sheva 7)

Status Quo? The Dome of the Rock was built for Jews (part 3)
(Hillel Fendel, Arutz Sheva 7)

Friday, 21 November 2014

Three Muslim youth innocent, discharged by court in 2006 Guj railway station blast
(ICAN)

Court: SC must honor gay marriages from other states
(Tony Santaella, WLTX 19)

Family of slain Christians in Pakistan fear for safety
(ICAN)

Christian forces clash with UN in Central African Republic
(Crispin Dembassa-Kette, Christian Today)

Egypt: Doctor and father acquitted after girl, 13, 'died from FGM'
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)

American Christian couple facing death sentence in Qatar
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)

45 killed after Boko Haram gunmen storm village
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)

The Factions of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab)
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)

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)

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