Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
EWTN denied protection against contraception mandate
(Press Release, EWTN Global Catholic Network)
South Sudan’s transitional Government to aid crisis
(World Watch Monitor)
So, you married an atheist…
(Michael Lipka and Jessica Martinez, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)
550 Christian girls kidnapped and forced to convert in Egypt since 2011
(Cath Martin, Christian Today)
"Morality clause" has Cincinnati teachers reconsider their jobs
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's victory celebrated by Egypt's religious minorities
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
US House of Representatives to open with Hindu prayer
(Rajan Zed, World Religion News)
WRPC Human Rights Center to hold a forum on military crimes in Novorossia
(Interfax-Religion)
Court upholds refusal to allow April LGBT rallies in Kostroma
(Interfax)
Buddhist priest holds over hundred ceremonies, services in Russian army in 2014
(Interfax-Religion)
Patriarch Kirill urges to constantly pray in all churches for peace in Ukraine
(Interfax)
US sending nearly 300 troops into Iraq to protect embassy from Islamic jihadist threat
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
'My husband told them we were Christians and they shot him in the head and chest;' 48 Kenyans killed in terrorist attacks
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Texas abortion regs bar 'Gosnell of Texas' from performing abortions, but his clinics are still open
(Melissa Barnhart, The Christian Post)
Infant cremation: Bonomy Report recommends changes
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Utah Oktoberfest likely to include beer after all
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Pope rails against corruption as Italy probes rise
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Secular group protests Navy’s rejection of humanist chaplain
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews cry foul over Jerusalem’s new artificial beach
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
San Francisco archbishop defends decision to join D.C. rally against gay marriage
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Obama to issue executive order against LGBTQ discrimination
(Common Dreams, Mint Press News)
Kazakhstan: Teacher and bookseller fined, imam's fine overturned
(Felix Corley, Forum 18)
Iraqi forces hold off Isis rebels north of Baghdad as Obama waits
(Martin Chulov, Dan Roberts, and Patrick Wintour, The Guardian)
Taxpayers' cash should not be used to fund faith schools, say voters
(Toby Helm and Mark Townsend, The Guardian)
Nuns sue strip club, saying it's too close to convent
(Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune)
No academic question
(Cathleen Kaveny, Commonweal Magazine)
History goes on
(Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
Drakeman, “What’s the Point of Originalism?”
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
North Carolina legislature sends student religious expression bill to Governor
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Study confirms prevalence of religious discrimination in workplace hiring
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear graduation in church case
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Heritage’s ugly Benghazi panel
(Dana Milbank, The Washington Post)
Hollman Report: BJC opposes school vouchers, files brief in Colorado case
(K. Hollyn Hollman, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Vandalized Gandhi statue upsets many Sikhs in UK
(Aditya Kant, The Times of India)
Pakistan: Eight die as Lahore police clash with Qadri supporters
(BBC News)
Yemeni forces seek to wrest Sanaa mosque from ousted president
(Khaled Abdullah, Reuters)
PC(USA) economics of intolerance
(Jeff Gissing, Juicy Ecumenism)
Jordan releases Zarqawi's spiritual mentor from prison
(Ben Kesling and Suha Ma'ayeh, The Wall Street Journal)
On religion issues, children are still different
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUS Blog)
Spanish police break up alleged jihadist recruitment network
(David Roman, The Wall Street Journal)
Israel ramps up pressure on Hamas in hunt for missing teens
(Ali Sawafta, Reuters)
Buddhist-Muslim unrest boils over in Sri Lanka
(Dharisha Bastians and Gardiner Harris, The New York Times)
44 Sunni prisoners killed as Iraqi violence spreads
(Alissa J. Rubin and Suadad Al-Salhy, The New York Times)
Four-way hearing on same-sex marriage
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUS Blog)
Police: Priest killed with gun owned by colleague
(Brian Skoloff, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Meet the ‘evangelical’ Catholics who are remaking the GOP
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Archbishop Cordileone counters March for Marriage critics
(Catholic News Agency)
Alabama court overturns anti-sodomy law
(Reuters)
U.S. judge denies stay of execution in Georgia
(Richard Fausset, The New York Times)
Hobby Lobby aims for Obamacare win, Christian nation
(Stephanie Simon, Politico)
Illinois nuns take legal action against bordering strip club
(Catholic News Agency)
Baptized via Skype
(Paul Harp, The Christian Chronicle)
Hare Krishna gets Evangelical
(Rosalie Murphy, Faith Street)
Democracy and morality: ancient and modern
(Paul Eidelberg, MercatorNet)
ISIS invades Iraq: this is a war of religion
(Damian Thompson, Telegraph)
The failure of Western secular values in Iraq
(Laura Keynes, MercatorNet)
The coming Methodist split?
(Mark Tooley, Aleteia)
Modern cosmology versus God’s creation
(Gary Gutting, The New York Times)
Psychiatrist heaps fuel on fiery transgender debate
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
Cleaning up the Vatican
(Paul Vallely, The New York Times)
The ethics of tracking Taliban detainees
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
Assisted suicides in Washington state up by 43%
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
Investigation finds half of Down syndrome abortions missing from register
(Xavier Symons, BioEdge)
US lawmakers protest against incinerating foetuses with medical waste
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
The First Amendment protects a right to engage in adultery?
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Monday, 16 June 2014
"Dangerous" Facebook: Detention and trouble for Narendra Modi's critics
(Asianews.it)
Marriage, Roman Catholic clergy and Article 8 ECHR: Fernández Martínez v Spain
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Egypt jails Christian teacher for insulting Islam
(Arutz Sheva)
Obama to move on gay rights
(Justin Sink, The Hill)
Man decapitated statue of Jesus at Charleston church for religious reasons, police say
(Andrew Knapp, The Post and Courier)
Got religion on campus? Leave it off your resume
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
SCOTUS review denied over interesting dissent in challenge to school graduations in churches
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
North Carolina county seeks lifting of injunction after Town of Greece decision
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
'Forgotten Girls' provides critical insight into recent Boko Haram kidnapping, other global abuses
(Matti Stevenson, Christian News Wire)
White House: Obama to sign order banning anti-gay discrimination
(Christi Parsons and Michael A. Memoli, Los Angeles Times)
Christian university fights for law school in Canada
(Charlie Butts, One News Now)
Supreme Court denial of Certioari in Elmbrook (Scalia's dissent)
(Supreme Court)
Supreme Court says ‘no’ to public school graduations in church
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Georgia Right to Life announces new national, faith-based, pro-life organization
(Brownie Marie, Christian Today)
Thousands accept Jesus at Franklin Graham's Festival of Hope in Warsaw
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Supreme Court unanimously sides with pro-life group in 'Obamacare' abortion funding ads case
(Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post)
Texas megachurch promises 100 percent refund in tithe challenge if 'God doesn't hold true to His promise of blessings'
(Nicola Menzie, The Christian Post)
Conservative Methodists respond to petition calling on individual churches to determine stance on homosexuality
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
California student speaks openly about his Christian faith in graduation speech defying school's order
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Oklahoma Senator quotes Genesis 1:29 to seek marijuana legalization
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
UK's Cameron signals tougher line on home-grown Islamist radicalism
(Andrew Osborn, Reuters)
Ukrainian militants shell the church not far from Slavyansk
(Interfax-Religion)
Biblical park to be set up in Moscow
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Church to open a center for studying Orthodox culture in Shanghai
(Interfax-Religion)
Obama Administration backs religious discrimination in employment
(Mark Silk, Religion News Service)
This is not a test: Israeli harassment of Palestinian TV stations
(Patrick O. Strickland, Mint Press News)
Pope, Archbishop of Canterbury battle trafficking
(Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Competing halal standards leave food industry with indigestion
(Stuart Grudings and Trinna Leong, Reuters)
Sri Lanka Muslims killed in Aluthgama clashes with Buddhists
(BBC News)
Iraqi Christians flee homes amid militant push
(Diaa Hadid, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Public schools in Indonesia feel Islamic pressure
(Yenni Kwok, The New York Times)
US willing to work with Iran to halt advance of extremists in Iraq – Kerry
(Paul Lewis, The Guardian)
Gunmen singled out non-Muslims in Kenya attack
(Tom Odula and Jason Straziuso, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Mid-Atlantic United Church of Christ leaders vote to boycott Redskins games and gear
(Theresa Vargas, The Washington Post)
David Brat’s victory comes with a rise in the crossroads of religion and economics
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
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