Law and Religion Headlines


Saturday, 5 July 2014

Ramadan adds extra pressure for N. African Christians
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)

Number of Orthodox up in Russia but only few go to church, pray regularly – poll
(Interfax-Religion)

Prominent Chinese pastor sentenced to 12 years in prison; lawyer claims accusation set-up by gov't
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Texas officials call for help as waves of illegal immigrant children at US-Mexico border create 'refugee camps'
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Should this pastor be deported? Church rallies behind NC preacher who lied about drug felony
(Jessica Martinez, The Christian Post)

Religious Freedom Project Facebook Page
(Georgetown University, The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

American religions born in the U.S.A. bring home the country's rich religious history
(Yasmine Hafix ("THe Huffington Post"), Worldwide Religious News)

Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

The WCC: Seventy-five years in Geneva, 1939-2014
(World Council of Churches)

Moscow Patriarchate: Metropolitan Vladimir, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has died
(Nina Achmatova, AsiaNews.it)

The rise of Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses in the Caucasus
(Tara Isabella Burton, Al Jazeera America)

Manama: explosion in Shiite village kills police officer. Sunni authorities denounce "terrorism"
(AsiaNews.it)

Hong Kong, hundreds of arrests in aftermath of great march for democracy
(AsiaNews.it)

Non-Muslims told not to eat in public in Ramadan
(Arab News)

SAS v France and the face-veil ban: some initial reactions
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

European Human Rights Court to France: Do whatever you want
(Mark L. Movsesian, CLR Forum)

European Court of Human Rights fails to protect religious freedom
(FOREF Europe)

Euro Court's ban on French veil is biased
(Hajer Naili, WeNews: Religion)

Understanding the EU Human Rights Court's big ruling on France's headscarf ban
(Penelope Starr, UN Dispatch)

European Court of Human Rights upholds French ban on full-face veils
(National Secular Society, Richard Dawkins Foundation)

European court rules that France can maintain burqa ban
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)

The Islamic veil across Europe
(BBC News Europe)

Friday, 4 July 2014

Algeria to reopen shuttered synagogues, gov’t minister says
(JTA)

Anti-Christian video clips did not create hostile work environment
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Supreme Court sides with Christian college in birth control battle
(Melissa Barnhart, The Christian Post)

Obama weighs steps to cover contraception
(Robert Pear and Adam Liptak, The New York Times)

Nazism and repentance: The contours of contrition
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and Public Policy])

As military patrols the Temple Mount, thousands attend funeral of Palestinian youth
(AsiaNews.it)

Going nuts in Nanaimo over Chick-fil-A
(Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities)

EU court scraps sanctions on Iranian university
(Majzooban Noor)

What should West expect from Erdogan as president?
(Semih Idiz, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)

Egypt's Copts may soon regret supporting Sisi
(Joseph Fahim, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)

Protestant pastor gets 12 years for opposing the seizure of church land
(AsiaNews.it)

Uzbekistan: "Legally" preventing human rights
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18)

Meriam Ibrahim's Islamic relatives trying to prove she is Muslim; lawsuit could further delay departure to US
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Why Hobby Lobby is not about women's health
(Nicole M. King, MercatorNet)

Mother bodies, father bodies: how parenthood changes us from the inside out
(Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet)

The Sunni Ramadan offensive and the lessons of Tet
(George Friedman, MercatorNet)

This is Iraq's darkest hour
(Louis Raphaël I Sako and Oliver Maksan, MercatorNet)

Killing me softly: a New Zealand report on euthanasia
(Carolyn Moynihan, Careful! - MercatorNet)

Brazilian public school accused of forcing Jew to say Christian prayer
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Sectarian violence: Burmese authorities impose curfew in Mandalay
(AsiaNews.it)

Thursday, 3 July 2014

Morocco strengthens youth role in democracy
(Siham ali, Magharebia)

When ‘religious freedom’ includes Satanism
(Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun)

Baghdadi vows revenge in announcing 'Islamic State'
(Abdallah Suleiman Ali, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)

Coming out: Growing up gay and Muslim in America
(Edward Wyckoff Williams, Al Jazeera America)

Hamas denies link to murders of Israeli students
(Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)

Christians displaced again by Iraqi violence
(Shaida al-Ameen, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)

Sri Lanka military rebuilding homes after anti-Muslim violence
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)

China bans Ramadan fasting in Muslim northwest
(Al Jazeera America)

New Pakistan anti-terror law raises fears over civil rights
(Al Jazeera America)

Complaint filed against UMC "Philadelphia 36" over same-sex union
(John Lomperis, Juicy Ecumenism)

Judge approves settlement in KY Baptist homes case, appeal coming
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Broader right to object to birth control
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUS Blog)

After Hobby Lobby
(E. J. Dionne Jr., Commonweal Magazine)

Liberty Fund comments on Hobby Lobby
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)

BJC’s Brent Walker, others react to Hobby Lobby decision
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Symposium: RFRA post-Hobby Lobby: what now?
(Carter Snead, SCOTUS Blog)

Hobby Lobby decision protects free exercise of religion but could boomerang
(Marv Knox, ABP News)

The good news according to Hobby Lobby
(Anna Su, Religion and Politics)

Female religious extremist group seized in Uzbekistan
(Interfax)

Church denies that Patriarch Kirill going to visit Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)

Peru bishops reject therapeutic abortion for gender equality decree as 'immoral, unconstitutional'
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Church's sex offender housing shutdown by state
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post)

Planned Parenthood employees are salesmen for abortion, says former clinic director
(Melissa Barnhart, The Christian Post)

Pastor fights deportation after lying on immigration papers
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post)

Gay Christian conservative employee sues gay bar for sexual, religious harassment
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Iraq: Kurdish president proposes independence referendum
(The Guardian)

As violence spreads in Iraq, a new challenge to Maliki emerges from the Shiite south
(Loveday Morris, The Washington Post)

Gay, widowed and fighting for what they’re due
(Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times)

Colorado leaders seek gay-marriage resolution
(Ivan Moreno, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Religious health care provider loses free exercise claim against Medi-Cal managed care plan
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Gov. Nixon vetoes 72-hour waiting period for abortions in Missouri
(Virginia Young, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Faith leaders ask Obama to include religious exemption in planned LGBT non-discrimination executive order
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

The Lost Spring: U.S. policy in the Middle East
(Walid Phares, Gatestone Institute)

Geneva State Council president welcomes WCC Central Committee
(World Council of Churches)

Clergy blacklists, blue files and the Archbishops’ List
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Observatory and ADF host event on freedom of expression at OSCE in Vienna
(Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)

Hobby Lobby: The ruling and its implications for religious freedom
(RESPONSES ONGOING from the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Cornerstone: A Conversation on Religious Freedom and Its Implications for Religious Freedom)

RFRA worked in Hobby Lobby; what’s next?
(Thomas C. Berg, Cornerstone Blog)

Can we all just get along? Yes.
(Jennifer Marshall, Cornerstone Blog)

Hobby Lobby spells doom for mandate 2.0
(Kyle Duncan, Cornerstone Blog)

Hobby Lobby, benefit corporations, and religious nonprofits
(Stanley Carlson-Thies, Cornerstone Blog)

Is religious freedom necessary for other freedoms to flourish?
(Thomas Farr, Big Questions Online)

Aryan Jews * No More Godfatha * Cowardly Weapons: Thursday’s Roundup
(Kevin Eckstrom, Religion News Service)

Hobby Lobbying: how corporations got consciences
(Patricia Miller, Religion Dispatches)

Hobby Lobby is decided, but the fights over religious accommodation are not
(Jonathan H. Adler, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Space for 625,000 more created at Grand Mosque
(Arab News)

Shiites train for battle in Iraqi Holy City
(Maria Abi-Habib, The Wall Street Journal)

Radical Buddhists need to be restrained: Lankan minister
(MD Rasooldeen, Arab News)

Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Concern about religious extremism is growing even in Muslim countries
(AsiaNews.it)

Hobby Lobby is already creating new religious demands on Obama
(Molly Ball, The Alantic)

Sudanese Christian woman: 'There's a new problem every day'
(Nima Elbagir and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN World)

The Hobby Lobby ruling: Disingenuous
(S.M. | San Diego, The Economist [Democracy in America: American politics])

Torah too R-rated for some Hasidim, so they edited it
(Uriel Heilman, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Hobby Lobby in the long run
(Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle, Cornerstone Blog)

French defense minister sees progress against Mali terrorism
(Denis Simonneau, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)

Palestinian unity may not survive fallout from Israeli youth murders
(Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)

Hamas, Islamic Jihad warn Israel about retaliation in Gaza
(Asmaa Al-Ghoul, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)

Iraq's Assyrian Christians fear ISIS threat to heritage
(Mohammed A. Salah, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)

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