Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 3 June 2014
Murfreesboro mosque fight laid to rest after Supreme Court ruling
(Bob Smietana, Religion News Service)
Midwife lodges legal challenge against a Swedish County Council for denial of her right to freedom of conscience and religion on abortion
(Pat Buckley, National Right to Life News Today)
Monday, 2 June 2014
'Millions denied end-of-life drugs'
(Tulip Mazumdar, BBC News Health)
Gay cakes * Zombie guru * Camp Kill Jews: May’s Religious Freedom Recap
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Southern Baptists face a moment of decision on gay marriage (and you will too)
(Al Mohler, Christian Headlines)
US Supreme Court refuses to hear Tenn. mosque case
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Supreme Court won't hear Murfreesboro mosque case
(Scott Broden, The Tennessean)
Reuven Rivlin, Israeli presidential front-runner, champions pluralism in politics but not Judaism
(Ben Sales, JTA)
Laws forbidding conversion and inter-faith marriage shake Mynamar
(Lizabeth Paulat, Care2)
Rafiq Hayat: Religious extremists 'devoid of faith'
(PR Newswire)
Making religious excuses for human mistakes is wrong, top religious official says over Soma
(Zeynep Gürcanli, Hürriyet Daily News)
Is Ndanga persecuting Christian churches in Zimbabwe?
(Etiwel Mutero, Bulawayo 24)
Turkey labels Christian church website pornography
(Worldchurch)
Indonesia: SBY condemns attack on Catholics
(Jakarta Post)
Boko Haram is not an Islamist group
(Al-Hakim Andanu, Nigerian Tribune - Letters)
Clerics seek to whip Iranians into religious shape
(Camelia Entekhabi-Fard, Al Arabiya News)
Joel Osteen say he's not a 'prosperity' gospel minister [VIDEO]
(Yasmine Hafiz, Huff Post Religion)
Israel learns the Palestinian narrative
(Akiva Eldar, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)
Israel to mandate teaching evolution in middle schools
(Al Jazeera America)
Religion and psychiatry: Mixing soul medicines
(H.G. and B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and Public Policy])
Judges question use of archdiocese trust fund
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Pastor gave over $240,000 to Republican Senators, may be the largest contributor among U.S. Clergy
(Tobin Grant, Religion News Service)
Survey: More than four in 10 Americans support controversial contraception mandate
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Parallel lives: the Brussels suspect and the Toulouse shooter
(Charlotte Boitiaux, France 24 International News)
HS2, burial grounds, the Church of England and hybrid bills
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Tolerating campus anti-Semitism: Does NYU have a Jewish problem?
(Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Leila Beckwith, New York Daily News)
The Church in Europe. We have a dream: Two voices, but a shared vision, in times of crisis
(Fr. Patrick H. Daly & Jorge Nuño Mayer, europeinfos)
France arrests four suspected of Syria jihadist recruitment
(AFP, France 24 International News)
If you serve your country, do you have to serve God?
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Religious freedom in America
(Sarah Bartel, Catholic News Agency)
Terrorists and Europe's "newspeak"
(Peter Martino, Gatestone Institute)
Religious freedom linked to economic growth, finds global study
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Is Religious Freedom Good for Business?: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis
(Brian J. Grim (Georgetown University), Greg Clark (Brigham Young University), and Robert Edward Snyder (Brigham Young University), Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion (Baylor University))
Sudanese Muslims risking their lives for a Christian woman sentenced to death
(Tina Ramirez, Hardwired)
Sudan retracts claim that Meriam Ibrahim will be freed
(Agence France-Presse, The Guardian)
Meriam Ibrahim death sentence draws formal complaint against Sudan
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Lawyer: 'absurd' that Christian Sudanese mother will be freed in days; family has no idea
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Syrians working to preserve Jewish cultural heritage - OpEd
(Franklin Lamb, Eurasia Review)
The appalling apartheid state of the Rohingyas must end - OpEd
(Dr. Habib Siddiqui, Eurasia Review)
The choices ahead for Afghans - OpEd
(Aziz Amin Ahmadzai, Eurasia Review)
Tajikistan: 'Insult' ruling against news outlet
(Eurasia Review)
What does Erdogan mean by 'Alevis without Ali?'
(Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)
Yogyakarta, another attack on Sleman’s Christains
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
Quran burning pastor Terry Jones to protest Sharia law at Michigan mosque
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post)
Italian priests, Canadian nun freed in Cameroon months after kidnapping
(Katherine Weber, The Christian Post)
Looking for love in one of the world's tiniest religions
(Jihii Jolly, The Atlantic)
Three kidnapped missionaries are freed in Cameroon
(Adam Nossiter, The New York Times)
Pakistan's slow but steady progress on ending child marriage
(Mohammad Zia-ur-Rahman, The Guardian)
Evolution to be taught in Israel middle schools for first time; ultra-Orthodox group calls decision a 'mistake'
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
President Obama proclaims June LGBT month; celebrates extending immigration, family benefits to gay couples
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Government says there is no controversy in unusual contraceptive mandate case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
College embroiled in ilteral Adam and Eve controversy to lay off 20 employees
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post)
Court urged to wait on same-sex marriage
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
Ukrainian Orthodox Church may become separate from Moscow Patriarchate – secretary of head of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
(Interfax-Religion)
Religion and law round up – 1st June
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Luhansk priest arrested on charge of leading armed attacks on polling stations
(Interfax-Religion)
Orthodox believers hold a flashmob against homosexual propaganda in downtown Moscow
(Interfax-Religion)
Orthodox people of Donbass respond to military action by fasting
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Orthodox Church has conciliatory stance on Ukraine - Legoyda
(Interfax-Religion)
Egypt court calls Islamists sentenced to die 'demons'
(AFP)
Covenant Life Church pastors face scrutiny over ex-church member’s abuse
(Dan Morse, The Washington Post)
Israel surrogate law a victory for gay rights
(Mazal Mualem, trans. Danny Wool, Al Monitor)
Israel’s newest cyberwarriors: ultra-Orthodox Jews
(Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor)
Nearly 800 killed in Iraq’s bloodiest month this year: U.N.
(Reuters)
South Korean missionary sentenced to life in prison for forming underground churches
(Carrie Dedrick, Christian Headlines)
South Korean missionary who founded church in North Korea sentenced to life in prison
(Brownie Marie, Christian Today)
South Korea urges release of its missionary sentenced to life in North Korea
(Reuters)
Netanyahu urges world not to recognise Palestinian unity government
(Jeffrey Heller, Reuters)
Republicans question U.S. prisoner swap with Taliban
(Warren Strobel, Reuters)
Taliban leader says release of five Guantanamo Bay prisoners a 'great victory'
(Carrie Dedrick, Christian Headlines)
Nigeria bomb kills at least 14 at northeast football TV showing
(Lanre Ola and Imma Ande, Reuters)
U.S. Embassy warns of terror threat against Christians in Uganda
(Ruth Kramer, Mission Network News)
'It's offensive and un-American,' says lawyer of ruling forcing Christian baker to produce cakes for gay weddings
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Bakery will stop making wedding cakes after losing discrimination case
(CBS Denver)
School superintendent defends prayer at off-campus Veterans Day event
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Sunday, 1 June 2014
America doesn’t see its religious minorities
(Michael A. Helfand, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Becket Fund, ACLU hit Florida over denial of kosher food to Jewish prisoners
(Press Release, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
Brodsky Synagogue at the heart of the Ukrainian capital
(Tatiana Muhomorova, Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Enhancing Interfaith Dialogue as a Means of Democratic Development
(Religion & politics conference in Kosovo, Interfaith Kosovo)
Four-in-Ten Pakistanis say honor killing of women can be at least sometimes justified
(Neha Sahgal and Tim Townsend, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)
Iran: 35 Gonabadi Dervishes sentenced to a total of 85 years of discretionary imprisonment
(Majzooban Noor)
Jesus + Religion: Review of book by Jefferson Bethke
(Dennis Di Mauro, First Things)
Prosecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses continues in Taganrog, Russia
(Jehovah's Witnesses)
Ukraine favors Europe over Russia, new CNN poll finds (from May 14)
(Richard Allen Greene, CNN World)
Visitors fault Sept. 11 museum’s portrayal of Islam
(Sharon Otterman, The New York Times)
Turkey: Gezi spirit not easily subdued
(Dorian Jones, Eurasianet.org)
Iran: Rohani responds to critical Imams
(Radio Zamaneh)
Why Ayatollah Khamenei is pessimistic about relations with the United States
(Seyed Hossein Mousavian & Shahir Shahidsaless, Iran Review)
Fired principal of Seventh Day Adventist school can pursue her claim
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Police arrest suspect in Belgium Jewish Museum killings
(Samantha Murphy Kelly, Mashable US & World)
Brussels Jewish Museum killings: Suspect 'admitted attack'
(BBC News Europe)
Saturday, 31 May 2014
Catholicism and same-sex marriage: Engagement or retreat?
(Joseph Bottum, Commonweal Magazine)
Children should go to same-sex couple despite birth parents' wishes, says top family judge
(Christian Concern)
Ukraine: Orphan rescue
(Jill Nelson, WORLD News Service)
Canada on verge of banning Christians from professional life
(Lea Singh, Front Page)
Christian leaders may return to Nicaea: What does it mean?
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Husband of condemned Sudanese woman reiterates commitment
(Catholic News Agency)
A litany of 'thou shalt nots': Catholic teachers challenge morality clause
(Susan Candiotti and Chris Welch, CNN)
Meriam Ibrahim: Sudan 'to free' death row woman
(BBC News Africa)
Sudanese death sentence woman to be freed soon: government official
(Khalid Abdel Aziz and Yasmine Saleh, Reuters)
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