Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Supremes pass on gay marriage for now, but tee up major race-bias case
(Paul M. Berrett, Bloomberg Business Week)
A look at what’s next on same-sex marriage
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
Court rejects 1st Amendment objections to required AA attendance
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
South African appeals court says minister must arbitrate dispute with church
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Church evicts AA out of fear it would lead to required hosting of gay weddings
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Saudi Arabia: 2 million in Mecca for start of hajj
(Mokhtar Shehata and Benjamin Wiacek, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Scalia defends keeping God, religion in public square
(Valerie Richardson, The Washington Times)
U.N. concerned about Myanmar's ethnic, religious tensions
(Louis Charbonneau, Reuters)
Facing fears over extremism, Austria unveils new law on Islam
(Shadia Nasralla, Reuters)
Supreme Court to decide Tulsa religious bias case over hijab
(News 9)
Secular Turkey to build an 'International Islamic University'
(Mustafa Akyol, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Supreme Court grants review in Abercrombie & Fitch religious accommodation case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
ISIS beheads 7 men and 3 women in Syria; US-led airstrikes hit stronghold
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post World)
Myanmar: Rohingya Muslims to be legally labeled as immigrants
(The Journal of Turkish Weekly)
Pope: Nothing justifies the suffering imposed on Christians in the Middle East
(AsiaNews.it)
Alliance between radical Burmese and Sri Lankan monks will "destroy true Buddhism"
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
So, Mr. Davutoğlu, teach Marxism to pupils!
(Burak Bekdil, Hürriyet Daily News)
Apostasy and blasphemy laws: an affront to human rights
(Alastair Lichten, National Secular Society)
Hong Kong protests: The Party v the people
(The Economist)
Frontline defense of Christian civil liberties
(Rick Plasterer, Juicy Ecumenism)
Archbishop of Canterbury defends war on ISIS
(Mark Tooley, The American Spectator)
Despite IS threat, Baghdad Christians are still seeking baptism
(ACNS staff, Anglican Communion News Service)
Supreme Court to hear case of Muslim woman denied employment
(Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)
The Supreme Court will decide if Abercrombie is guilty of religious discrimination
(Susan Berfield, Bloomberg Business Week)
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Abercrombie workplace discrimination case
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Court takes up hear religious bias case over hijab
(Sam Hananel, News Observer)
Justices to debate prisoner’s religious right to grow a beard
(News Staff, FOX)
Justices to debate prisoner's religious right to grow a beard
(Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer, CNN Justice)
Indonesia: Aceh’s new Islamic laws violate rights
(Human Rights Watch)
Indonesia: New sharia bylaw worries religious minorities in Aceh
(Katharina R. Lestari and Ryan Dagur, UCA News)
Aceh: Activists and civil society groups against Sharia for non-Muslims
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
Suit against Pennsylvania wedding venue that declined to host same-sex weddings unsuccessful
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
World Communion Sunday events include focus on the persecuted Christians
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Brazil’s evangelicals become a political force to be reckoned with
(Jonathan Watts, The Guardian)
Suit challenges MTA's rejection of anti-Hamas ad
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Va. health official recommends overhaul of state’s strict abortion clinic rules
(Jenna Portnoy, The Washington Post)
California Catholics challenge abortion order
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
The U.K.’s gloomy marriage forecast
(Harry Benson, Institute for Family Studies)
Amidst political turmoil, continuing blasphemy charges for Pakistani Christians
(World Watch Monitor)
Observatory speaks about tolerance, and recent attacks on Christians
(Gudrun Kugler, Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe)
Intervention on behalf of the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians
(Barbara Vittucci, OSCE/ODIHR - HDIM 2014 Working Session)
Petition seeks protection of females on Israeli airline after gender intolerance
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical Times)
Catholic school athletics and sexuality (opinion)
(William Donohue, Eurasia Review)
Free speech: A motorway pile-up of moral confusion
(Douglas Murray, Gatestone Institute)
Non-Jewish Groups Join Protest against Campus Anti-Semitism
(JNS News Service, The Jewish Press)
Survey: Nearly one-quarter of Jewish-Israelis boycotting Arab businesses
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Car explodes at Atlantic City synagogue
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Fliers posted at UC Santa Barbara blame Jews for 9/11
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
N.Y. rabbi claims El Al policies may violate U.S. law
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Excluding the burqa and niqab from the public space ?
(Alessandro Calcagno, COMECE, europeinfos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Age-related milestones in the church
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Russian church founder near the European Council
(Interfax-Religion)
Rapists confess as Kenyan cleric takes up equality struggle
(Katy Migiro, Reuters)
Lawsuit filed after "Killing Jews" ads rejected
(Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Laws in Bolivia threaten religious liberty
(Journey Christian News)
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Congressmen want Obama to target Narendra Modi over religious freedom in India
(The Financial Express)
Ecclesia De Lange v The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
(Press Release, The Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa)
How to stop radicalization in the West
(Room for Debate (from August 28, 2014), The New York Times Opinion Pages)
In Germany, many believers balk at tweak to church tax
(Chase Gummer, The Wall Street Journal)
Sudan: Women protest worsening oppression, rising food prices
(Katy Migiro & Tim Pearce, All Africa)
The case against Qatar
(Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Policy Report)
The headscarf is finally free; the country is not
(Burak Bekdil, Hürriyet Daily News)
Towards a Europe of greater fraternity and solidarity
(Johanna Touzel, COMECE, europeinfos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Why "federalism" should not prevent nationwide marriage equality
(David Glasgow, guest columnist, Jurist)
Why every single Supreme Court justice got Hobby Lobby wrong
(Ron Fein, Guest Columnist, Jurist)
New York transit authority sued for denying anti-Islamic bus ad
(Laila Kearney, Reuters)
Court rules against ousted gay pastor
(Leila Samodien and Rebecca Jackman, IOL News)
Iran: Stop woman's execution, pleads HRW
(Eurasia Review)
Turkey will fight Islamic State, wants Assad gone - Erdogan
(Arab News)
Hindu group condemns Washington DC yoga tax
(Rajan Zed, Eurasia Review)
Iran hangs man for heresy
(AsiaNews.it)
Dhaka: Telecommunications minister removed for attacking Muhammad and Hajj
(Sumon Corraya, AsiaNews.it)
Scores of mainland supporters of democracy in Hong Kong arrested
(AsiaNews.it)
Ginsburg faulted for comment on Texas abortion law
(Tony Mauro, Legal Times, The National Law Journal)
Ireland: Referendum due on removing blasphemy from Constitution
(Fiach Kelly, The Irish Times)
Hate crimes against Muslims increase by 65 per cent in a year in London
(Rachel Bundy, London Evening Standard)
Fight for growing Pentecostal vote in Brazil
(Associated Press, ABC News)
The politics of Bible translations
(Scot McKnight, Patheos Blog: Jesus Creed)
ISIS is the Antithesis of Hajj, the Holy Pilgrimage
(Ameena Jandali / Patheos, Time)
Saudi overhaul reshapes Islam's holiest city Mecca
(Aya Batrawy, Associated Press -The Big Story)
'Selfies' frowned upon, but technology is transforming the Hajj
(Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times)
Turkish religious order tests AKP’s limits
(Pinar Tremblay, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Salafist danger spawns pan-Shiite solidarity
(Ali Mamouri, trans. Rani Geha, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Hardline Buddhists in Myanmar, Sri Lanka strike anti-Islamist pact
(Ranga Sirilal and Shihar Anneez, Reuters)
FOREF Report to the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
(Dr. Aaron Rhodes, Peter Zoehrer, Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Turkey: Anti-ISIL demonstrators clash with police in Kadıköy
(Cihan)
Schoolgirl jihadis: the female Islamists leaving home to join Isis fighters
(Harriet Sherwood, Sandra Laville, Kim Willsher in Paris, Ben Knight in Berlin, Maddy French in Vienna and Lauren Gambino in New York, The Guardian)
CHP's Türmen: Turkey must obey ECtHR decision due to ‘contractual obligation'
(Cihan)
2014 Sakharov Debate: Religion and Human Rights in Europe
(UCL European Institute)
Bombay HC order on declaring religion likely to be a watershed
(Deccan Herald)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia talks state, church during speech
(Jordan Steffen, The Denver Post)
In Israel, biblical land-use laws call for creative workarounds
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
Supreme Court: Can municipal sign ordinances restrict speech and religious liberty?
(Guest post by Daniel Bennett, RNS Blog: Corner of Church and State)
Christian business owner wins in odd same-sex wedding dispute
(Charisma News)
If UK scraps the Human Rights Act we'll be in grim company
(Farnkie Goodway, Mirror)
Hindu temple in India purified after low-caste chief minister visits
(Reuters)
Turks rumored to be joining the Islamic State
(Tulin Daloglu, Al-Monitor: Turkey Post)
Religious Freedom in China
(Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs - Cornerstone)
U.S. to greatly expand resettlement for Syrian refugees
(Gearan, Washington Post)
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