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Saturday, 25 October 2014

Will this shocking atheist pamphlet be handed out in some Florida schools?
(Husna Haq, The Christian Science Monitor)

Celebrating the elderly
(Evangelical Alliance UK: IDEA)

Preach to me: More Americans want their churches involved with politics
(The Economist)

Chairman of Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is optimistic about religious freedom
(Kelsey Clark, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)

Freedom of religion, belief must be protected in workplace says UN expert
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Bielefeldt: Why isn’t the UN protecting religious liberty whistleblowers?
(Emily Belz, World Magazine)

Grace, forgiveness and the Tutu legacy
(Evangelical Alliance UK: IDEA)

Semarang: Church hosts conference to strengthen friendship and dialogue between religions
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)

Gulf Cooperation Council vows tough steps to curb ‘media extremism’
(Arab News)

8,000 more Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar
(Robin McDowell, Arab News)

Grand mufti: Bogus sick leaves are sinful
(Arab News)

Egypt, young Catholics: The revolution has been betrayed, but the future belongs to us
(Giulia Mazza inviato, AsiaNews.it)

Muhammad, where are you? - OpEd
(Uri Avnery, Eurasia Review)

Pope urges abolish life prison terms, death penalty; lashes corruption
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)

Secularism grows as more U.S. Christians turn ‘churchless’
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)

US: ISIS generates tens of millions of dollars monthly
(Jason Ditz, Mint Press News)

Attorney General Holder announces Federal Government to recognize same-sex married couples in six additional states
(United States Department of Justice)

Utah governor: Gay marriage may drive religious-freedom law
(Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune)

Friday, 24 October 2014

Coeur d'Alene says hitching post is exempt from gay rights law
(Jessica Robinson, Boise State Public Radio)

Man accused of smashing Oklahoma Ten Commandments monument is identified
(Rick Green and Jonathan Sutton, NewsOK)

Meeting of Eastern Catholic hierarchs of Europe begins in Lviv
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)

Religion in Houston: Freedom to speak about anything the government approves
(Bob Siegel, Communities Digital News)

U.S. says Palestinian-American killed by Israeli forces
(Reuters)

WCC congratulates new leadership of the ACT Alliance
(World Council of Churches)

Workshop at ACT Alliance assembly in Dominican Republic focuses on “diakonia”
(World Watch Monitor)

Pope Francis says Christians must campaign to end death penalty, life imprisonment
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Difference and dignity
(Mormon Newsroom)

Women warned anew: Hands off cars!
(Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Arab News)

Nationalism under pressure: Islamic State, Iraq and Kurdistan
(Erlend Paasche, ISN Security Watch)

In the West, a growing list of attacks linked to what?
(Paul Woodward, War in Context)

Vietnam Catholics demand return of land in rare protest
(Radio Free Asia)

The Islamic State "is the world's richest terrorist group"
(AsiaNews.it)

The White Shroud: A Syrian resistance movement to the Islamic State
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)

Is a "vocation of friendship" key to gay ministry in the Church?
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)

A Canadian murderer, and myths about countering radicalization
(Dan Murphy, The Christian Science Monitor)

Drugs and religion key themes in Ottawa shooter’s troubled life
(Les Perreaux, Patrick White, and Andrea Woo, The Globe and Mail)

Canadian rampage is tip of iceberg: Middle East Christians are being slaughtered by radical Islamists, says a Canadian journalist
(Michael Coren, MercatorNet)

Leading evangelical ethicist David Gushee is now pro-LGBT. Here’s why it matters
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Blog: On Faith & Culture)

From Germany to Iraq: One Yazidi family's war on Islamic State
(Özlem Gezer, Spiegel Online)

PJI files brief in forced religion of Yoga case
(Pacific Justices Institute)

Imprisoned Christian Pakistani Asia Bibi's family speaks out; gives details on her torture, requests help from Obama and Pope
(Sami K. Martin, The Christian Post)

Is next step in war on religious liberty inspection of religious schools? That’s happening in the UK
(Genevieve Wood, The Daily Signal)

Billy Graham and the letter that saved 38,000 lives
(Evangelical Alliance UK: IDEA)

Idaho city: Chapel owners exempt from discrimination law
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)

Coeur d’Alene apparently changes stance, agrees that for-profit chapel need not perform same-sex weddings
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Is California forcing churches to pay for abortions?
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)

Two Wahabis get long prison terms for plotting terror act at Russia's chemical arms disposal plant
(Interfax-Religion)

Tajik family fined for giving lavish welcome-back to relative after Mecca hajj
(Interfax-Religion)

Sixth Circuit agrees to rehear “heckler’s veto” decision
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

6th Circuit grants en banc rehearing to Christian Evangelists who preached at Arab festival
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Backlash against marriage ruling rises as voting starts
(Lynn Bonner, News and Observer)

Court rules in Kiryas Joel voting inspector challenge
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

City asks Christian schools to repaint plow art
(Patrick Anderson, Argus Leader)

Schools' religious-themed snow plow decorations rejected by city
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Suit says schools promoted Christian activities
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Settlement reached in school's ban of religious Valentines
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Rejoinder to Sherif Girgis on sex discrimination and same-sex marriage
(Ilya Somin, The Volokh Conspiracy)

3 states wage fight to keep same-sex marriage ban
(Mark Sherman, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Christian school 'downgraded for failing to invite an imam to lead assembly'
(John Bingham, The Telegraph)

Man detained in destruction of disputed statue [Ten Commandments]
(Sean Murphy, ABC News)

Ghulam Azam, "spiritual" leader of Bangladesh's Islamic fundamentalists, is dead
(Sumon Corraya, AsiaNews.it)

Jailed Bangladesh ex-Islamist leader dies
(Julhas Alam, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Families of executed French monks say Algiers obstructing justice
(reporting by Chine Labbe in Paris and Lamine Chikhi in Algers. writing by Alexandria Sage; editing by Hugh Lawson), Reuters)

Southern Baptist seminary clears president after dispute over Muslim student
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Boston police name 1st Muslim captain
(Evan Allen, The Boston Globe)

Christian group fights for identity against Cal State policy
(Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times)

Reflections on responses to the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life
(Edward Kessler, Public Spirit)

Montreal Muslims denounce attacks as violating their religion
(Billy Shields, Global News)

The Obama Effect? [How has the Obama administration affected religious freedom?]
(Mark Movsesian, First Things: First Thoughts blog)

Puerto Rico gay marriage ruling sets up a potential federal conflict
(Richard Wolf, Religion News Service)

Christians in the Middle East: Interview with Archbishop of Beirut
(Pax Press Agency, Aleteia)

Christians in the Middle East: Interview with Patriarch of Chaldean Catholic Church
(Pax Press Agency, Aleteia)

Chaldean priests forced to choose between apostasy and martyrdom
(Kathy Schiffer, Aleteia)

Chaldean Catholic clerics stripped of duties for fleeing Baghdad without consent
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)

Why Jerusalem tensions have reached a boiling point
(Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America)

Danish health director: No reason to ban milah
(JTA)

Theocracy, protest and human rights: Of speech and silence
(B.C., The Economist: Erasmus blog)

Kyrgyzstan: "Draconian" proposed Religion Law and Administrative Code changes
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

“UK must not think only of itself”: Massacre families urge UK not to leave ECHR
(Alice Donald, UK Human Rights Blog)

Who's afraid of India's meek Muslims?
(Aijaz Zaka Syed, Arab News)

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Analysis: Israeli restrictions on movement strangle Palestinian life
(Daoud Kuttab, Ma'an News Agency)

British Jihadists and treason
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)

Colorado school district sued for promoting Christian groups' proselytizing efforts
(Shadee Ashtari, Huffington Post)

French Jewish leader indicted for calling Dieudonne ‘professional anti-Semite’
(JTA)

Haredim’s refusal to sit next to opposite sex delays Delta flight
(JTA, The Jewish Week)

Israel slams Latvian show celebrating life of alleged Nazi war criminal
(JTA, Jewish Daily Forward)

Judge rules against County Board of Elections
(Nathan Mayberg, The Photo News)

Muslim Brotherhood: Britain's investigation proves we are not associated with terrorism
(Middle East Monitor)

Nazareth Area School District settles suit over religious Valentine's Day cards
(Peter Hall, Morning Call)

Open Hillel holds first conference at Harvard
(JTA, The Jewish Week)

Palestinian-American student alleges anti-Muslim assault at Brooklyn arena
(JTA, Jewish Daily Forward)

Religious privilege allows some kids to bring knives to school, but not others
(James Kirk Wall, Chicago Now)

Stay lifted on adoptions by same-sex parents in Utah
(McKenzie Romero, Deseret News)

The Shabbos Project: Jews worldwide keeping this shabbos together
(Hana Levi Julian, The Jewish Press)

UK: 4 weeks in jail for 'Hitler was right' tweet
(JTA, Jewish Daily Forward)

Diwali 2014: Should we take time off work to celebrate religious festivals?
(Radhika Sanghani, The Telegraph)

Diwali: An Indian festival goes global
(Akhilesh Pillalamarri, The Diplomat)

Michigan gay rights push prompts protest from religious group outside state Capitol
(Jonathan Oosting, MLive.com)

Notes from the global Church: The future is Filipino
(Philip Jenkins, The Christian Cenutry)

Balancing mission, aesthetics and heritage of parish churches
(David Pocklington, Law and Religion UK)

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