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Thursday, 7 August 2014

Iraq Christians flee as Islamic State takes Qaraqosh
(BBC News)

Va. GOP official resigns after controversial Facebook post
(Jenna Portnoy, The Washington Post)

‘Black Jesus’ targeted as ‘blasphemous’ by conservative groups
(Heather Adams, Religion News Service)

At a camp for Hasidic boys, studying faith is their daily exercise
(Joseph Berger, The New York Times)

Ordinations signal growing popularity of Latin Catholic Mass
(Lilly Fowler, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Baghdad patriarch: flight of 100,000 Christians from Nineveh Plain turning into humanitarian catastrophe
(Joseph Mahmoud, AsiaNews.it)

WCC calls for urgent action in Iraq
(World Council of Churches)

Court backs sound limits outside abortion clinics
(Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida)

Tamil Nadu: Hindu radicals beat up women and children of a Pentecostal community
(AsiaNews.it)

Growth of Protestants in China: the frustrations of Wang Zuoan
(Wang Zhicheng, AsiaNews.it)

Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Appeals judges give few clues on how they'll rule on gay marriage case
(Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press)

Arizona couple settles lawsuit with polygamous church-run towns
(Jennifer Dobner, Business Insider)

Assemblies of God turns 100, and looks to a multiethnic future
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Chinese city bans beards and veils on buses
(Al Jazeera America)

ERO opponents cry foul after city moves lawsuit to federal court
(Katherine Driessen, Houston Chronicle)

Judge presses lawyer on why gay marriage rights pursued through courts, not votes
(Khalil Al Hajal, M Live)

Parents call rabbi a sexual predator
(Jack Bouboushian, Courthouse News Service)

State court hears Hebrew National lawsuit
(Mordecai Specktor, American Jewish World)

Turkey’s 'dark village' no longer safe for Jews
(David Lepeska, Al Jazeera America)

#BringBackOurGirls to Syria, why do we forget about a crisis long before it's over?
(Lane Anderson, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)

Turkey wakes up to Islamic State threat
(Orhan Kemal Cengiz, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)

World ignores Christian exodus from Islamic world
(Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone Institute)

Netanyahu: Israel's battle with Hamas is a test for the world
(Katie Pavlic, Townhall.com)

Husbands or birth control: which pulls women out of poverty?
(Nicole M. King, Family Edge)

Kurdish security chief: Turkey must end support for jihadists
(http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/08/syria-kurd-pyd-asayish-isis-turkey-islamic-state.html, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)

Baby Gammy case reveals murky side of commercial surrogacy
(Sonia Allan, MercatorNet)

There’s something very familiar about the UK dying debate
(Caroline Farrow, MercatorNet)

Exterminating Christians: End game in Iraq, little government expression of concern
(Sheila Liaugminas, MercatorNet)

World Humanist Congress in Oxford will tackle freedom of thought and expression
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)

Abbott defends new anti-terrorism laws as Islamic groups warn of ‘witchhunt’
(Daniel Hurst, The Guardian)

Xinjiang city bans Islamic dress on public transport
(BBC News)

Ugandan parliament set to re-introduce anti-gay law
(Elias Biryabarema, Reuters)

Grieving families of Sewol ferry victims want independent South Korean probe
(Anna Fifeld, The Washington Post)

Canadian professor made to leave Myanmar over Buddha tattoos on right leg
(Ethan Lou, Yahoo News)

U.S. backs Sunni plan to fight Islamic state jihadists in Iraq
(Nour Malas, The Wall Street Journal)

Judge: State Fair can limit preacher to specific areas
(Grant Rodgers, The Des Moines Register)

Obamacare: 'Health care sharing ministries' increase membership in wake of new law
(Tracy Seipel, San Jose Mercury News)

U.S. appeals court takes up gay marriage cases from four states
(Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)

Missouri inmate executed for raping, killing woman
(Jim Suhr, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Australian columnist resigns over expletive-laden responses to Gaza piece
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Ohio health department cracks down on abortion clinics, Planned Parenthood for abuses
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Hindu radicals, emboldened by power, terrorizing Christians in India
(Chris Woodward, One News Now)

Important decision on marriage amendments under way
(Charlie Butts, One News Now)

Meriam Ibrahim's husband describes being terrorised by 'Agents of Fear'
(Brownie Marie, Christian Today)

Bishop of Gloucester questioned by police over assault allegations
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)

North Korea rejects offer to attend mass given by Pope Francis in Seoul
(The Guardian)

Christians of Iraq threatened by ISIS
(World Religion News)

"I saw my niece burn alive." The dramatic story of an attack on Ahmadis in Punjab
(Jibran Khan, AsiaNews.it)

Baghdad: Iraqi Christians and Muslims pray together for peace and religious freedom
(Joseph Mahmoud, AsiaNews.it)

Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Gay wedding canon Jeremy Pemberton has NHS job offer withdrawn
(BBC News England)

Syrian Alawites horrified by rising death toll
(Translation: Tyler Huffman, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)

Same-sex marriage issue reaches the Court early (UPDATED)
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUS Blog)

Utah files same-sex marriage appeal with U.S. Supreme Court
(Marissa Lang, The Salt Lake Tribune)

Judge: Pittsylvania prayer injunction will remain
(AP, Greenwich Time)

Op-Ed: European governments must act to stem rising anti-Semitism
(Robert Singer, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Sinjar, Islamic State militia massacre Yazidis and impose tax on Christians
(Joseph Mahmoud, AsiaNews.it)

Erdogan, the new caliph, frontrunner in presidential elections
(AsiaNews.it)

Storm breaks out over minister's failure to block pro-ISIS video
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)

Young Hindu woman raped and forced to convert to Islam
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)

Earthquake in Yunnan, Catholics at forefront in helping survivors
(AsiaNews.it)

Remembering Rabbi Regina Jonas
(Eric Marx, Al Jazeera America)

Iraqi Yazidis: 'If we move they will kill us'
(Mohammed A Salih & Wladimir van Wilgenburg, Al Jazeera America)

Russia: European Court repeats calls for Religion Law change
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)

Trial court invalidates Florida's ban on recognizing same-sex civil unions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Judge refuses to recuse himself on charges that Jewish charitable activities bias him in immigration trial
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Report focuses on expensive homes of U.S. Catholic archbishops
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Documents reveal current IRS procedures on church tax inquiries
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Canadian in China investigation says trained North Koreans to be missionaries: audio
(James Pearson and Ben Blanchard, Reuters)

Italy expels imam for preaching hatred against Jews
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)

Campaign seeks to help educate escaped Nigerian schoolgirls
(Katy Senour, Catholic News Agency)

The Muslim right and the Anglo-American left: The love that dare not speak its name
(Meredith Tax, Tablet Magazine)

Judge overturns Alabama pro-life admitting privileges law that closed abortion clinics
(Cheryl Sullenger, Life News)

Protecting religious freedom is the American way
(Lamar Alexander, The Elk Valley Times)

Don’t use religion as a cover for discrimination
(Rev. Carol Burnett, The Clarion-Ledger)

UK Muslim cabinet member quits over Gaza policies
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Inclusive language for God does not equal heresy
(Rachel Marie Stone, Religion News Service)

If God does not exist, where did we come from?
(Kennedy Karuga, The Star)

'It's time to get out' of public schools, says college professor
(Bob Kellogg, One News Now)

Sayeeda Warsi, first Muslim in British Cabinet, resigns over ‘indefensible’ Gaza policy
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)

Russian Church urges Ukrainian authorities to stop persecutions against Orthodox Christians
(Interfax-Religion)

What should happen to churches as religion recedes?
(Oliver Farry, New Statesman)

Gunmen wound Lebanese religious mediators
(The Associated Press)

Rabbis urge U.S. action to free American jailed in Cuba
(Daniel Trotta, Reuters)

India shaken by case of Muslim men missing in Iraq
(Ellen Barry and Mansi Choksi, The New York Times)

China imposes intrusive rules on Uighurs in Xinjiang
(Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times)

Pope Francis lifts 29-year suspension on liberation theology icon
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)

Iraq agrees to help Kurds battle Sunni extremists
(Tim Arango, The New York Times)

De Blasio’s prekindergarten expansion collides with church-state divide
(Sharon Otterman, The New York Times)

Abortion providers in Texas press judge to block portions of new law
(Manny Fernandez and Erik Eckholm, The New York Times)

Federal judge finds Alabama abortion law unconstitutional
(Cameron McWhirter, The Wall Street Journal)

Contrasting views of marriage (Part 4): The destructive logic of marriage revisionism
(Robert P. George, The Christian Post)

Texas megachurch leaves PCUSA for conservative Presbyterian group
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

China probes Canadian Christian couple for alleged spying
(Kelly Olsen, Tom Hancock, Agence France-Presse)

Trusting God when you don't understand
(Joyce Meyer, The Christian Post)

Liberian churches call for 3-day of prayer to fight Ebola
(Front Page Africa)

FRC backs bill to protect faith-based adoption agencies
(Charlie Butts, One News Now)

Monday, 4 August 2014

‘Major Victory’: Atheist group reveals what led to its settlement with the IRS over church politicking
(Billy Hallowell, The Blaze)

Broward judge rules gay-marriage ban unconstitutional
(Steve Rothaus, Tampa Bay Times)

De Blasio’s prekindergarten expansion collides with church-state divide
(Sharon Otterman, The New York Times)

In Maharashtra prisons "only members of minorities die"
(AsiaNews.it)

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