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Friday, 25 July 2014

Marriage falls out of favour for young Europeans as austerity and apathy bite
(Lizzy Davies, Anne Penketh, Stephen Burgen, Helena Smith, and Remi Adekoya, The Guardian)

University professor admits to assault on pro-life students
(Christian News Wire)

Pioneer Day remembers the Mormons landing in Salt Lake City, Utah
(Emily Murdoch, World Religion News)

ISIS blows up Muslim shrine with Biblical prophet Jonah's tomb 'to dust' because it had become a place of apostasy
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)

Texas sees 13 percent drop in abortions with controversial pro-life law
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Theologian says 'love' is the new cultural apologetic affirming immoral activities such as assisted suicide
(Alex Murashko, The Christian Post)

Two Finnish Christian aid workers killed in Afghanistan
(World Watch Monitor)

Temple in Brazil appeals to a surge in Evangelicals
(Simon Romero, The New York Times)

French mayor ditches anti-gay marriage stance to preside at son's wedding
(Kim Willsher, The Guardian)

With Mosul’s Christians gone, Islamic State troops take over 4th-century monastery
(Cathy Otten, Religion News Service)

Islamist militants gain in Syria
(Maria Abi-Habib, The Wall Street Journal)

Spectators to war, West Bank residents hail the Hamas fight against Israel
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)

Archbishop Chaput says pope will visit Philadelphia in September 2015
(Nancy Wiechec, Catholic News Service)

Massachusetts monks tap brewing tradition to support aging members
(Scott Malone, Reuters)

For new post at Yeshiva, Lieberman is a natural
(Ariel Kaminer, The New York Times)

Editor who used 'gaystapo' claims religious discrimination
(Daniel Finney and William Petroski, The Des Moines Register)

Conservatives hone script to light a fire over abortion
(Jeremy W. Peters, The New York Times)

Lengthy Arizona execution heightens lethal-injection questions
(Ashby Jones and Jacob Gershman, The Wall Street Journal)

Public holidays, religion and the law
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Xinjiang state-sponsored Islamic schools to expand enrollment
(Xinhua Net)

China, Taiwan hold religious exchange; Chinese officials hope to promote cross strait relations [Traditional Chinese]
(Lin Ruiyi, China Times)

Bishkek: Supreme Court outlaws Ahmadis
(AsiaNews.it)

Shandong, flurry of arrests against Church of Almighty God members
(AsiaNews.it)

Germany, France, Italy jointly condemn Gaza-related anti-Semitic acts
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Thursday, 24 July 2014

Call to boycott work of Jewish Turkish writer backfires
(Tulin Daloglu, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)

Conclusions from the crisis in Ukraine: Russian Baptists' criticism of Ukrainian Baptists
(William Yoder, Ph.D., Rea-moskva.org via Russian Religion News (Stetson University))

Dignity Health pension plan is not a church plan, court rules -- again
(Kathy Robertson, San Francisco Business Times)

Echoes of apocalypse in Iraq conflict
(Ali Mamouri, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)

Egypt campaigns against atheism
(Ahmed Fouad, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)

Lawsuit: CSUN scientist fired after soft tissue found on dinosaur fossil
(CBS Los Angeles)

Mindanao's only Christian municipality does not want to be part of Islamic region
(AsiaNews.it)

OIC welcomes UNHRC resolution on investigating Israeli violations in Gaza and regrets American opposition
(Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation)

Sri Lanka and Myanmar: Understanding the rise of Buddhist radicalism
(Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies)

Sri Lanka: Understanding the Buddhist-Muslim Communal Clashes
(Zarin Ahmad, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies)

Supreme Court may not protect Obamacare this time
(Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post Opinions)

The fine line between freedom of speech and treason in Israel
(Erel Segal, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)

UAE Twitter activist not guilty but still in custody
(Matt J. Duffy, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)

Meriam Ibrahim, finally freed from Sudan, meets with Pope Francis
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)

$500,000 judgment in phony charities case
(Nick Divito, Courthouse News Service)

US Congress, European Parliament focus on case of Meriam Ibrahim
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Colorado same-sex marriage laws invalidated with only limited stay
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Colorado gay marriage ban struck, appeal awaits
(AP, Houston Chronicle)

Church split can be adjudicated using neutral principles of law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

America can't continue to ignore Middle East Christians
(Lucy Schouten, The American Spectator: The Spectacle Blog)

Religious liberty and the pioneers — Understanding true worth
(Dan Liljenquist, Deseret News)

Sounds of explosions accompany church consecration in Donbass
(Interfax-Religion)

It’s still not easy being Muslim in Europe, particularly in France
(Kim Ye Dionne, The Washington Post)

French Jews living in fear, minister says
(Ingrid Melander, Reuters)

Burned cross found outside Tenn. church
(Stephanie Ingersoll, USA Today)

Isis denies ordering that all girls in Mosul undergo FGM
(Ian Black and Fazel Hawramy, The Guardian)

Turkey's Erdogan says Israel should face trial over Gaza assault
(Daren Butler and Ece Toksabay, Reuters)

U.N. rights body criticizes Ireland on abortion, church homes
(Padraic Halpin, Reuters)

Two Finnish aid workers killed in western Afghanistan
(Hamid Shalizi, Sakari Suoninen, Jussi Rosendahl, and Maria Golovnina, Reuters)

Finnish aid workers shot dead in Afghanistan
(Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian)

Christian charities step into breach as Texas migrant crisis deepens
(Tom Dart, The Guardian)

U.S. Jewish group wants its award back from Turkey's Erdogan
(Jonny Hogg and Nick Tattersall, Reuters)

U.S. government may offer compromise for faith-based groups on birth control
(Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition)

Kidnapped girls' parents die as Chibok's trauma rises
(World Watch Monitor)

Is religious exposure making it difficult for your child to distinguish fact from fantasy?
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)

Chinese Christians 'ready to die' to protect church cross from demolition as month-long vigil continues
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Largest Presbyterian denomination in US demands Obama push for Israeli-Hamas ceasefire
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Federal judge declares Colorado ban on gay marriage unconstitutional
(Jordan Steffen, The Denver Post)

Fifty-two Catholic priests defrocked in England and Wales since 2001
(The Guardian)

A MintPress analysis of the biases in reporting on Gaza
(Frederick Reese, Mint Press News)

Uzbekistan: Another jailing, large fines for meeting upheld, more confiscations
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

Rockets or not, Birthright still going to Israel
(Oren Dorell, USA Today)

Holy Land deserted by tourists as fighting empties hotels
(Alisa Odenheimer and Caroline Alexander, Bloomberg)

Islamists planning imminent attack in Norway: police
(Ole Petter Skonnord and Balazs Koranyi, Reuters)

Pope Francis holds 'very affectionate' meeting with Sudanese apostasy woman Meriam Ibrahim after she arrives in Rome
(Adam Withnall, The Independent)

Iraqi Christians in Mosul told by Isis to convert to Islam or be executed
(Fazel Hawramy, The Guardian)

Life in a jihadist capital: Order with a darker side
(The New York Times)

Preachers rail at police in funeral for NYC man who died in custody
(Jonathan Allen, Reuters)

For Muslims in New York, observing Ramadan is a blend of rituals far and near
(Kiran Nazish, The New York Times)

Special liturgy atones for outbreak of ‘The Great War’
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)

U.S. religious leaders embrace cause of immigrant children
(Michael Paulson, The New York Times)

Higher calling, lower wages: The vanishing of the middle-class clergy
(David R. Wheeler, The Atlantic)

Muslim judges quit panel in two key interfaith child custody cases
(Ida Lim, Malay Mail Online)

Polygamous wives who helped settle the west
(Paula Kelly Harline, OUPblog Religion)

A gentle chiding of the Court on same-sex marriage
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)

Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Christian-Muslim relations: Critical for religious harmony
(Mohammad Alami Musa, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)

India, Hindu politicians force Muslim to break Ramadan fast
(AsiaNews.it)

Same-sex marriage and religion: When a pastor is re-frocked
(E.W., The Economist [Democracy in America: American politics])

Subcommittee Hearing: The troubling case of Meriam Ibrahim
(House Committee on Foreign Affairs, House.gov)

Solidarity sign * Humanist soldiers * Fact and fiction: Wednesday’s Roundup
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Some good news about Muslims in Europe
(Erik Bleich and Rahsaan Maxwell, The Washington Post)

Anti-Semitism and the “French Intifada”
(Seth Mandel, Commentary)

Contrasting Views of Marriage, Round Two: The Destructive Logic of Marriage Revisionism
(Robert P. George, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

Contrasting Views of Marriage, Round Two: The Equal Dignity of Same-Sex Couples
(Jameson W. Doig, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

Contrasting Views of Marriage: The Need for a Defining Principle
(Robert P. George, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

Contrasting Views of Marriage: The Benefits of Same-Sex Marriage
(Jameson W. Doig, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

Eyes on Gaza, tensions flare in Brooklyn
(Benjamin Mueller, The New York Times)

Suit challenges city denial of equal public space to atheist
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

U.S. judge knocks down Colorado's gay marriage ban, stays ruling
(Daniel Wallis, Reuters)

The U.S.-Israel alliance: No apologies necessary
(Lawrence A. Franklin, Gatestone Institute)

Congressional primary winner in Georgia espouses troubling church-state views
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Religious workers, interns, volunteers and the National Minimum Wage
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

IRD, allied groups to rally for abducted Nigerian schoolgirls awaiting rescue from Boko Haram militants
(Faith McDonnell, Juicy Ecumenism)

Zhejiang destroys more than 130 chapels [Simplified Chinese]
(Lin Ping, Radio Free Asia)

Commentary: The fate of the Obamacare subsidies in the Supreme Court
(Tom Goldstein, SCOTUSblog)

White House caves on religious accommodations to HHS mandate
(Alexander Griswold, Juicy Ecumenism)

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