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Friday, 10 October 2014

Oral Arguments in Holt v. Hobbs (Muslim prisoner beard case) (audio)
(Supreme Court of the United States)

Why religious freedom for prisoners matters
(Luke W. Goodrich, The Hill: Congress Blog)

FRA and civil society develop strategic framework for cooperation
(European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights)

Iraqi women targeted for execution by IS
(Pascale el Khoury, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Turkish government risks isolating Kurds, facing IS alone
(Tulin Daloglu, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

In battle against Kurds, is it AKP's policy to back IS?
(Cengiz Çandar, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Dutch Protestant school hires 'dress coaches' to teach right class garb
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)

ADF to Ariz. school district: Teachers free to have personal Bible at desk
(Sonoran News)

Instant view: It's Kristallnacht; execute the terrorists
(The Commentator)

Judaism's sexual revolution: Why Judaism rejected homosexuality
(Chuck Colson, BreakPoint)

Capital events highlight threats to American religious freedom
(Andrew E. Harrod, Juicy Ecumenism)

Vatican debate on gays provokes strong reaction from all corners
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)

Church giving won’t rise unless pastors embrace Jesus’ teachings on poor, report says
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Kidnapped Redeemed Christian Church of God pastor escapes from Boko Haram
(Cath Martin, Christian Today)

Greens want to counter extremism among youth using outreach body
(Daniel Hurst, The Guardian)

Australia: Pastor puts 'Muslims welcome here' sign outside his church
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)

Tallying the same-sex marriage states (UPDATED)
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)

Works of Nobel Prize for Literature winner Patrick Modiano deal with Holocaust issues
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Taliban shooting victim Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights activist share Nobel
(Griff Witte and Brian Murphy, The Washington Post)

The Nobel Peace Price for 2014: Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay
(Nobelprize.org)

For Pakistani Christians and Muslims, Nobel Prize to Malala helps fight for human rights in the country
(AsiaNews.it)

In Pakistani’s Swat Valley, Malala’s peace prize seen as slap at Taliban
(Haq Nawaz Khan, The Washington Post)

Religion, employment and teaching: The staff and their souls
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and Public Policy])

Jihadists seize Kurdish HQ in Syria's Kobane, massacre feared
(Fulya Ozerkan with Sara Hussein in Beirut, AFP via Yahoo!News)

After Court action, U.Va. adds same-sex benefits
(Inside Higher Ed)

Kazakhstan: Ten days' imprisonment for "extremist" book
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Justices show skepticism about prison no beard rule
(Tony Mauro, New York Law Journal)

Religion and politics mingle as Supreme Court, Vatican put focus on just who defines a modern family
(Anne-Gerard Flynn, Mass Live)

Repressions against Crimean Tatars have significantly intensified
(Timur Bakiev, Ground Report)

Ultra-orthadox Jewish men "stand up" for "religious freedom" ... on a plane
(Kara Loewentheil, USC Annenberg: Religious Dispatches)

Australia's terrorism laws 'could criminalise preaching from Qur'an'
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)

China’s one-child policy: Pro-choice and pro-life must work together to end forced abortion and gendercide
(Reggie Littlejohn, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

NC school district to keep but re-evaluate Bible curriculum
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

California churches take action against forced abortion coverage
(Tom Ciesielka, Christian News Wire)

California megachurch pastor Rick Cole sleeps on the streets to raise funds for the homeless
(Smitha Nambiar, Christian Today)

Turkey condemns Israeli security forces for storming Al-Aqsa Mosque
(Middle East Monitor)

Tunisia's Islamists ready for a coalition with old regime officials
(Tarek Amara, Reuters)

Estonia first ex-Soviet state to legalise gay marriage
(BBC News)

Estonian president promulgated the controversial Cohabitation Law
(The Baltic Course)

Leading Vatican cardinal says Catholic Church will never bless gay marriage
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)

Church officials struggle to assist those with mental illness
(Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register)

Notre Dame, Saint Mary's extend benefits to same-sex spouses
(Margaret Fosmoe, South Bend Tribune)

Frustrations end as gay couples marry in Las Vegas
(Kimberly Pierceall, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

N.C. GOP leaders face noon deadline to intervene in same-sex marriage lawsuits
(Michael Gordon, The Charlotte Observer)

A beheading in Oklahoma: Was it terrorism or workplace violence?
(Holly Bailey, Yahoo! News)

The woman’s place in the synagogue
(Barry Davis, The Jerusalem Post)

Christian clerics to Europe: Recognize Palestinian statehood
(The Jerusalem Post)

College students get app to combat anti-Semitism
(Hannah Dreyfus, The Jewish Week)

Three wheels and three walls: New York’s tricycle sukkahs
(Raffi Wineburg, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Reform rabbis nudge ICE on deportations
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Israel Police restrict Muslim worshippers on Temple Mount following riots
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Abortion law reform in Northern Ireland – so will it happen this time round?
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Pope Francis' message to Catholic Charities USA
(Zenit: The world seen from Rome)

Human rights: The gay divide
(The Economist)

Britain, Sweden - and a State of Palestine?
(Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute)

Christian students to get their own religion classes, Turkey’s education minister says
(Hürriyet Daily News)

Minister: Christian theology lessons to be introduced in schools
(Daily Sabah)

Christians urge India's prime minister to halt torment in Madhya Pradesh
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)

Muslim women attacked in Australian communities after anti-terror raids
(Henri Rose Cimatu, Ecumenical News)

Symposium: The human costs of staying out of the marriage debate
(Robin Fretwell Wilson, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: The gay marriage cases and federal jurisdiction
(Steven Calabresi, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: The Supreme Court’s deliberation-forcing move in the marriage equality cases
(William Eskridge Jr., SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: Going gentle into that good night?
(John Neiman, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: Judge Sutton’s trilemma
(Dale Carpenter, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: Why the Nine couldn’t count to four
(Scott Michelman, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: No going back for this Bickelian Court
(Neil Siegel, SCOTUSblog)

Symposium: The Supreme Court’s opt out means more marriage equality but continuing harms to gay and lesbian couples
(Suzanne Goldberg, SCOTUSblog)

Thursday, 9 October 2014

“What’s at stake in Kobani: Islamic State and Kobani calculations”
(Carl Drott, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)

Bahraini activist faces trial over tweets
(Al Bawaba News)

Debate continues over religion in Licking Valley schools
(Jeff Valin, 10 Central Ohio's News Leader)

Egypt's army: Between victory and defeat
(Dr. Amira Abo el-Fetouh, Middle East Monitor)

Franciscan priest, four Christians freed by Islamist militants in Syria
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)

Islamic State fighters are threatening to overrun Iraq’s Anbar province
(Erin Cunningham, The Washington Post)

Monastic silence and a visual dialogue
(Abbie Reese, OUPblog Religion)

Peter Luger sued by Muslim waiter who claims he was target of hate-filled taunts and trickery
(John Marzulli, New York Daily News)

Rights group asks for probe into shooting range that refuses to cater to Muslims
(Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News)

Scenes from Sukkot in Brooklyn
(The New York Times: City Room)

Seven witchcraft suspects burned to death in Tanzania
(AFP, Yahoo! News)

The Battle for Kobani
(Alan Taylor, In Focus, The Atlantic)

Russian parliament passes government's law on religious meetings
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News, Stetson University)

Duma simplifies legalization of new religious movements in Russia on first reading
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News, Stetson University)

Bakery owners face bankruptcy after a discrimination finding
(Carolyn Moynihan, Conjugality: A Blog on the Future of Marriage)

Why the Gaza war looked different on Israeli TV than it did on CNN
(Yonit Levi and Udi Segal, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)

What's at stake in Kobani: Islamic State and Kobani calculations
(Carl Drott, Syria Comment)

Dispatches: A shocking display of homophobia by Kyrgyz Parliament
(Mihra Rittmann, Human Rights Watch)

Dispatches: The Ukraine ceasefire that wasn't
(Ole Solvang, Human Rights Watch)

Religious pluralism is a fact (not a belief system)
(Fred Clark, Patheos Blog: Slacktivist)

Debate over religious freedom looms ahead
(Kristine Guerra, Indy Star)

Marriage and society: Getting to the heart of the matter
(Collette Caprara, The Daily Signal)

The profound injustice of Judge Posner on marriage
(John Finnis, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

Meeting current international religious freedom and national security concerns
(Tad Stahnke, Human Rights First, Testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security)

#Holocaust selfies are inevitable if you turn solemn sites into tourist traps
(Lilit Marcus, The Guardian)

Synod14: Summary of 7th General Congregation: On the Indissolubility of Marriage, Communion, Cohabitation and Responsible Parenthood
(Zenit: The world seen from Rome)

Trinity Western grad 'attacked' for being Christian in job rejection
(Natalie Clancy, CBC News | British Columbia)

Black atheists say their concerns have been overlooked for too long
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)

As UN targeted by Islamists in Mali, Bishops urge renewed peace efforts
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)

KY officials seek nondiscrimination assurances from creationist park
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Is it fair to judge a religion by their extremists?
(JJ Feinauer, Deseret National News)

Nepal: Institutionalizing human rights - OpEd
(Dr. Gyan Basnet, Eurasia Review)

Dashain and Deepawali could "bankrupt" Nepal
(Christopher Sharma, AsiaNews.it)

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