Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 16 June 2014
Methodist Church pension board links divestment to firm’s role in Israeli prisons
(Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times)
Losing streak lengthens for foes of gay marriage
(David Crary, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Hobby Lobby aims for Obamacare win, Christian nation
(Stephanie Simon, Politico)
The decline of evangelical politics
(Steven P. Miller, OUPblog Religion)
The future of ISIS and the sectarian Response: ISIS has picked a fight it cannot win
(Joshua Landis, Syria Comment)
Sunday, 15 June 2014
Illegal to be faithful: One-quarter of the world has blasphemy laws
(Elise Hilton, Acton Institute PowerBlog)
Religion and law round up – 15th June
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
European Court of Human Rights upholds church autonomy
(Press Release, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
Saturday, 14 June 2014
Martyrdom and terrorism: a Q&A
(Dominic Janes and Alex Houen, OUPblog Religion)
Facebook not liable for delay in removing page containing anti-Jewish threats
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Iraq, Syria and the Middle East – An essay by Tony Blair
(The Office of Tony Blair)
Bloodiest day in Ukraine conflict as rebel missiles bring down military jet
(Alec Luhn, The Guardian | Observer)
Ukrainian military plane shot down; all 49 aboard dead [VIDEO]
(Laura Smith-Spark and Ray Sanchez, CNN World)
Transgender resolution passes at Southern Baptist Convention with little protest
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post)
Supreme Court likely to decide Trinity Western’s fate
(Sunny Dhillon, The Globe and Mail)
Messianic Jewish groups critical of Presbyterian Church (USA) divestment proposal
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Life in a Christian 'fundamentalist' school
(Tim Johns and Emma Hallett, BBC News)
Religion makes an appearance on reality TV landscape
(Andrea Seikaly, Variety)
Colleges and evangelicals collide on bias policy
(Michael Paulson, The New York Times)
Bishops migrate to Washington
(Nicholas G. Hahn III, The American Spectator)
Catholics against capitalism
(Kevin D. Williamson, National Review)
U.S. deploys 80-man drone force to help find Nigerian girls
(Jim Miklaszewski, Courtney Kube and Erin McClam, NBC News)
Jewish Republicans are not exotic
(David Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Modi’s eerie silence over Pune murder
(Nilofar Suhrawardy, Arab News)
Oasis in Sarajevo: War and reconciliation between religions
(AsiaNews.it)
Illinois mosque faces an increasingly common zoning problem
(Yasmina Blackburn, Al Jazeera America)
EVENT, 14 June 2014: “The Manifestation of Religion or Belief in the Public Sphere”
(Cube Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford in partnership with the Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey)
Ukraine crisis: Video shows Russia sending tanks, rocket launchers into separatist conflict, US says
(ABC News Australia)
Tanks, of unknown origin, roll into Ukraine
(Andrew E. Kramer, The New York Times)
UK judge orders 13-year-old girl to have abortion against her wish
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Friday, 13 June 2014
100 days of the prayer tent in Donetsk
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Arson attempt at Mosque in Simferopol
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
European court reaffirms the right to autonomy of religious organizations
(Grégor Puppinck, LifeSiteNews)
Judge ends gay marriage ban, but stops weddings for now
(Jason Stein, Patrick Marley and Dana Ferguson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Judge rules Yakima diocese not at fault in assault case
(Dan Morris-Young, National Catholic Reporter)
Judge: Evict polygamous families not paying fees
(Brady McCombs, The Associated Press, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Muslim convert sues Tulsa church after being tortured for beliefs
(Nathan Altadonna, KTUL.com)
Muslim who converted to Christianity sues Tulsa church after torture in Syria
(Richard Clark, NewsOn6.com)
Sudanese woman appeals against death sentence for apostasy
(K. O. Peppeh, East Africa News)
Utah pushes for resolution to FLDS land battle
(Ben Winslow, Fox 13 Salt Lake City)
The Commission, the Council and the Parliament debate the future of the European Union with religious leaders
(Press Release, Europa.EU)
The Commission, the Council and the Parliament debate the future of the European Union with religious leaders
(List of Participants, Europa.EU)
Iraq’s Sunni divide may be too great
(Harith Hasan, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)
Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Syria
(Fabrice Balanche, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
Bowdoin College says gays must be allowed to join and vie for leadership in Christian groups on campus
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Gay Muslims come out in Toronto photo exhibit
(Omar Sacirbey, Religion News Service)
Facing uphill battle, gay marriage opponents to rally in Washington
(Heather Adams, Religion News Service)
Arab refugees grateful for sanctuary offered by Kurds in Kirkuk – for now
(Fazel Hawramy, The Guardian)
Why would yeshivas reject pre-K program designed for them?
(Josh Nathan-Kazis, Forward.com)
Consent decree entered in suit over devotional exercises in school
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Some abducted schoolgirls may never return: Nigerian ex-president
(Andrew Heavens, Reuters)
America not immune to secularization, says Al Mohler in SBC 2014 report
(Stephanie Samuel, The Christian Post)
Former Muslim sues Oklahoma Christian church for allegedly publicizing his conversion
(Jessica Martinez, The Christian Post)
Why Christians are under pressure to exit Iraq
(World Watch Monitor)
Hillary Clinton's gay-marriage problem
(Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic)
Is Google replacing God?
(Christine Rosen, The Wall Street Journal)
UN urges action on Papua New Guinea sorcery attacks
(BBC News Asia)
100,000 Party at Israel gay parade, area's biggest
(Ian Deitch, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Somalia's al-Shabab militants impose dress code
(BBC News Africa)
Iraq crisis: Shia volunteers confront Sunni insurgents in Samarra
(Martin Chulov and Peter Walker, The Guardian)
Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric issues call to fight jihadist rebels
(Raheem Salman and Isra Al-Rubei'i, Reuters)
Methodists to sell shares as a protest over Israel
(Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times)
U.S. bishops seek to match Vatican in shifting tone
(Michael Paulson, The New York Times)
Southern Baptists’ Paige Patterson apologizes for Muslim student as other schools work across faiths
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Federal judge could give green light to gay marriage in Wisconsin
(Brendan O'Brien, Reuters)
Thousands of Iraqis volunteer to battle militants
(Ammar Karim, The Daily Star (Lebanon))
The pro-Israel lobby and the growth of the ultra-conservative movement
(Frederick Reese, Mint Press News)
Derrida on the madness of our time
(Simon Glendinning, OUPblog Religion)
Abdication? Reigns in Spain and the ‘A’ word (again) in the UK
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
ISIS rampages, the Middle East shakes
(Daniel Pipes, National Review Online)
Iraq’s top Shiite cleric issues call to stop ISIL juggernaut
(Raheem Salman & Isra Al-Rubei'i, Arab News)
Iraqi Church: A word from Pope Francis, an "important" step for peace in the country
(AsiaNews.it)
Blasphemy and atheist rituals: An interview with S. Brent Plate
(Chris Stedman, RNS Blog: Faitheist)
Modi: Will spare no effort for release of fr. Kumar, abducted in Afghanistan
(AsiaNews.it)
Archbishop of Mosul: anarchy in the city; Muslims defend churches from assaults and raids
(AsiaNews.it)
Malaysian Christian leader: With return of our Bibles it's time for forgiveness
(AsiaNews.it)
Police clash with 200 Christians in Wenzhou as they defend their churches’ cross (video)
(AsiaNews.it)
Salafi-Jihadists: "A persistent threat" to Europe and America
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
Thursday, 12 June 2014
American Humanist Association successfully settles lawsuit against Fayette R-III school district
(Press Release, American Humanist Association)
Bloody Toll: Boko Haram behind deadliest killing spree since 9/11
(Robert Windrem, NBC News)
EU religious leaders call on Sudan to release Meriam Yahya Ibrahim
(Vatican Radio, News.VA)
Mayor de Blasio's instructions to religious schools in prekindergarten program outrages liberal partners
(Ben Chapman and Stephen Rex Brown, New York Daily News)
Ted Cruz joins demonstrators in front of White House; calls on Obama to help imprisoned Sudanese Christian woman
(Michael Gryboski, Christian Post)
U.S. condemns Sudanese conviction and continued imprisonment of Meriam Ishag
(John Kerry, U.S. Department of State)
Iraq: ISIS advance threatens civilians
(Human Rights Watch)
Participation of Sunnis key to Iraqi reconciliation
(Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)
Brazil's churches in the spotlight as World Cup begins
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News National Edition)
Bhubaneswar, the government demolishes 30 Christian homes and a church
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Advocacy groups woo US lawmakers amid fervor over prayer at Temple Mount
(Sarah Posner, Al Jazeera America)
U.S. agency urges Myanmar to scrap proposed religion laws
(Muhammad Iqbal, Business Recorder)
Rouhani says Iran ready to 'fight and combat' terrorists in Iraq
(Ali Hashem, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Two possible outcomes of the Supreme Court’s HHS Mandate decision
(Edward White, ACLJ)
Two major victories for religious freedom at the European Court of Human Rights
(Matthew Clark, ACLJ)
ECtHR Grand Chamber finds no violation of rights of married Catholic priest in Fernández Martínez v. Spain
(Press Release, European Court of Human Rights)
ECtHR finds Article 9 violation in Biblical Center of the Chuvash Republic v. Russia
(First Section Judgment, European Court of Human Rights)
Turkey hostage to crisis in Iraq
(Henri Barkey, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Scotland's patron(s): One saint or two?
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and Public Policy])
The capture of Mosul: Terror’s new headquarters
(The Economist)
Groups ask Holder to withdraw memo allowing religious hiring preferences in federal grant programs
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
In Iran, headlines blame foreigners for ISIS advances
(Arash Karami, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
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