Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 26 February 2015
Senior ISIS commanders killed in air strikes in Iraq, fate of leader Baghdadi unknown
(The Jerusalem Post)
Inside ISIS: a Time special report
(Time Magazine)
IS executioner 'Jihadi John' named by media
(Your Middle East)
New ISIL video shows militants smashing ancient Iraq artifacts
(Today's Zaman)
ISIS burns 8000 rare books and manuscripts in Mosul
(VIDEO, YouTube)
Islamic State fighters destroy antiquities in Iraq
(The Jerusalem Post)
Syrian sources say ISIS executed 15 Christians - with more killing to come
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Justice Ministry, Amnesty International clash over human rights situation in Hungary
(Hungary Today)
Sweden’s high court all but bans homeschooling, family appeals to ECHR
(Michael F. Haverluck, One News Now)
Brother of two martyred Coptic Christians thanks ISIS on live TV: His brothers are "pride of Christianity"
(Zoe Romanowsky, Aleteia)
The rise of religious exemptions from vaccines
(Kelly J. Baker, The Christian Century)
Lawmakers weigh in on MI religious freedom bills
(Alana Holland, WNEM TV 5)
Putin congratulates Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia on its 15th anniversary
(Interfax-Religion)
China's fertile ground for Islamic State
(Adam Minter, BloombergView)
North Carolina Senate passes opt-out measure for officials opposed to gay marriage
(Marti McGuire, Reuters)
Richard Dawkins on attack: “Children need to be protected” from religious parents
(Joanna Rothkopf, Salon)
Australia warns women IS no 'romantic adventure'
(Your Middle East)
"Many argue that Da’esh is not present in the Gaza Strip. However, the reality is different."
(Abdalhadi Alijla, Your Middle East)
Novosibirsk theatre defends artistic freedom following accusations of “offending religious feeling”
(Vsevolod Mititello, The Calvert Journal)
Controversial Austrian law encourages teaching Islam in German
(NPR, WMRA News)
Austria passes controversial reforms to Islam law banning foreign funding
(AFP, The Telegraph)
Austrian Parliament passes controversial amendments to law on Islam
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Introducing the 2015 Easter Egg Roll: opening the ticket lottery
(Jenna Brayton, The White House Blog)
Annual White House Easter egg roll announced
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court dismisses religious and speech objections to requirement that witness stand to be sworn in
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Arson damages Christian seminary in Jerusalem in suspected hate crime
(Ari Rabinovitch, Reuters)
Separated by violence, Muslims and Buddhists seek to be reunited in Myanmar
(Pai Soe, Religion News Service)
German Jewish leader warns against wearing skullcaps
(Madeline Chambers, Reuters)
Student at Wheaton College pelted with an apple over human sexuality question
(Eliel Cruz, Religion News Service)
India's parliament disrupted over Mother Teresa remarks
(Krista Mahr, Rupam Jain Nair, and Sujoy Dhar, Reuters)
Hindu leader implies Mother Teresa did charity work to convert poor to Christianity
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Turkey’s 'Rocker Imam' inspires Turks
(Mustafa Akyol, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
No justice for Turkish women who kill in self-defense
(Sibel Hurtas, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Turkish border closed as Christian hostages in Syria spike to 250
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Turkey: Top court overturns compensation ruling for Kutlular
(Today's Zaman)
UN rights chief warns of widespread abuse in Myanmar
(Jacqueline Jones, Jurist)
Patriarch of Jerusalem: we must gather and seek ways to unite churches in Ukraine
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Christian groups recognized for aiding Ukrainian Jews
(Ariel Cohen, Religion News Today)
Hindu radicals: We will convert Christians and Muslims until the government stops us
(Nirmala Carvalho, Religion News Today)
Swastika attack in Montreal considered hate crime
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Canada’s Parliament unanimously condemns rise of anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Danish imam to be charged in Germany for call to kill Jews
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Habayit Hayehudi: ‘We’ve never had a leadership so attentive to the rabbis’
(Chaim Levinson, Haaretz)
Sporadic violence builds tension in CAR, many Christians victims
(Illia Djadi)
Among the FARC, a growing Christian presence
(Deann Alford, World Watch Monitor)
Baker who faces monumental fines for refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple reveals why he won’t back down in passionate religious freedom speech
(Billy Hallowell, The Blaze)
Joint Committee on the Draft Protection of Charities Bill: report
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
EVENT, 26 February 2015: Anger and Revolutionary Justice (2015 Berkley Center Lecture)
(Martha C. Nussbaum, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
CONFERENCE CALL, 26 February 2015: “Obama’s International Religious Freedom Record: Not as Bad as You Think”
(Speaker, Judd Birdsall, Institute for Global Engagement)
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Briefing: The Muslim Brotherhood in England and Egypt
(Jayson Casper, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Can Yoga fix the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
(Batya Ungar-Sargon, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Islam in Britain: No Charlies here
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
State says 70-year-old flower shop owner discriminated against gay couple. Here’s how she responded
(Kelsey Harkness, The Daily Signal)
Howard County school's religious practices questioned
(Lauren Stagter, Kokomo Tribune)
Security tightened at New Delhi churches after attacks
(Rupam Jain Nair, Reuters)
France plans broader dialogue with its large Muslim minority
(Tom Heneghan, Reuters)
In Holy City, Iran's Rouhani seeks clergy's backing for nuclear talks
(Babak Dehghanpisheh, Reuters)
Few UK Muslims have sympathy for Paris attack motives, most oppose violence: poll
(Estelle Shirbon, Reuters)
U.S. charges three with conspiring to support Islamic State
(Joseph Ax, Reuters)
Republicans shelve measure labeling Idaho a 'Christian state'
(Laura Zuckerman, Reuters)
Intergroup calls on the European Union to focus on protecting religious or belief minorities in the MENA region as ISIS attacks Christian villages in Syria
(European Parliament Intergroup on FoRB & RT)
Finnish public broadcasting to read entire Quran in new series
(Krishnadev Calamur, NPR)
ISIS heads to Rome
(Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times Opinion)
The funeral of the reposed Primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church to be in Ternopil
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Patriarch Filaret called on UAOC clergy to unite
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Russia bans activities of Ukrainian churches in Crimea since March
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Why the world needs interfaith groups
(Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions)
New York residents arrested over ISIS extremist plot
(Al Arabiya News)
School prayer back in focus of Pickens County School Board
(Ron Barnett, The State)
Syrian Kurds cut IS supply line near Iraq; fears for Christians mount
(Tom Perry and Sulieman Al-Khalidi, Reuters)
Officer in parade controversy speaks out on religious liberty
(Pat Reavy, Deseret News)
Officer in gay pride parade incident speaks out
(Brady McCombs, Associated Press, Yahoo! News)
World Christianity by the numbers
(George Weigel, Denver Catholic)
72 Assyrian Christian families captured, 50 besieged by IS after Syria attack
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
ISIS’ Christian hostage toll in Syria rises to 150
(Al Arabiya)
ISIS is holding 150 Assyrian Christians, will threaten to kill them in video message Wednesday: activist
(Tobias Salinger, New York Daily News)
Army of Assyrian Christians aims to fight Islamic State
(Therese Apel, USA Today)
Appeals court rules for employer on ‘ministerial exception’
(David L Hudson Jr., The Newseum Institute)
NC Supreme Court hears arguments for and against vouchers
(Anne Blythe, News and Observer)
Republicans propose declaring Idaho a 'Christian state'
(Laura Zuckerman, Reuters)
Hundreds protest Austrian Islam bill in Vienna
(APA)
Religious freedom bill passes Indiana Senate
(Niki Kelly, The Journal Gazette)
Shocking intolerance against Christians in Europe
(Observatory on Intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe)
Abercrombie & Fitch, argument analysis: Plucking simplicity out of complexity
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
SCOTUSblog link to EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch case
(SCOTUSblog)
Abercrombie & Fitch, the Supreme Court and you
(Dwayne Leslie, Huff Post Religion)
Justices appear to favor Muslim denied job over headscarf
(AP, The New York Times)
Report: Supreme Court questions seem to favor Muslim woman in hiring discrimination dispute
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
SCOTUS will hear oral arguments today in Abercrombie & Fitch religious accommodation case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court to consider accommodations for religiously devout employees: In Plain English
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)
Religious freedom, again
(Michael Stokes Paulsen, National Review)
Indian authorities dismantle temple built in honor of Prime Minister
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Rights groups welcome announcement of first State Dept. LGBT envoy
(Marisa Taylor, Al Jazeera America)
Kazakhstan: "A general unwillingness to properly protect human rights"
(Forum 18 News Service)
De Blasio cuts deal on controversial circumcision ritual
(Will Bredderman, New York Observer)
New York City changes policy on controversial circumcision rite
(Paul Berger, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Settlement agreed to in NYC circumcision regulation challenge
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religious freedom in focus
(Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice)
An insider’s view of the pro-life movement
(Michael J. New, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
The “Is Obama Christian?” question
(Ross Douthat, The New York Times Opinion)
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