Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Saudi Arabia takes swipe at Norway's human rights record
(Ludovica Iaccino, International Business Times)
How the new pope-saints embody the principles of Vatican II
(Fr Dwight Longenecker, Aleteia)
North Carolina's new gay marriage lawsuit could turn 'everything on its head'
(Lila Shapiro, Huff Post Gay Voices)
For Bangui's last Muslims, to stray outside the safe haven is to court death
(Chris Stein, Global Post)
London cleric wanted jihadists to train in Oregon, U.S. jury told
(Joseph Ax, Reuters)
Cobblestones to remember murdered Jews multiply in Berlin
(Christopher Alessi, Reuters)
Kerry: US taking a pause, reassessing after peace talk failure
(the Jerusalem Post)
Kenyan bishops protest against pay-to-preach law
(Julius Mbaluto, World Watch Monitor)
Islamist group condemns Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood death sentences
(Sami Aboudi, Reuters)
What's really stalling the Israel-Palestinian peace process
(Christopher J. Fettweis, Los Angeles Times)
Egyptian Synod delays action on women's ordination
(Chris Meehan, Christian Reformed Church)
Syria jihadists execute seven, two by crucifixion
(Gulf News)
Obama and the paradoxes of progressive Christianity: an interview with James Kloppenberg
(Tiffany Stanley, Religion and Politics)
China denies church demolition is persecution of Christians
(Zoe Li, CNN On China)
China blames religious extremists for station bombing
(Michael Martina, Reuters)
Bombing in Xinjiang: Holes in the iron wall
(J.M., The Economist: Analects China)
British Humanist Association distributes Atheists handbook to high school students
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Egypt's Jewish problem
(Michael J. Totten, World Affairs: Dispatches)
Kenya’s new polygamy law bad for families, Christian leaders say
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Traditional marriage group accuses Notre Dame of censorship
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post U.S.)
Freedom to marry, freedom to disagree: a public statement
(Dale Carpenter, the Volokh Conspiracy)
PM to push basic law that will define Israel as 'Jewish state'
(Herb Keinon, The Jerusalem Post)
In Britain, secularism is only skin deep
(Roland Flamini, World Affairs: Corridors of Power)
The Fatah-Hamas agreement
(Richard Kemp, Gatestone Institute)
Russia: "They'll punish you .. whether or not you committed a crime"
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)
Women raise their voices on the walls of Afghanistan
(Pina Sadar, Mint Press News)
Design of Nazi occupation statue etched in stone, Hungary’s Orban tells Jews
(JTA)
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations rejects J Street’s membership bid
(JTA)
North Carolina’s gay-marriage ban Is challenged by church
(Michael Paulson, The New York Times)
The Muslims of America lose
(Eugene Volokh, the Volokh Conspiracy)
Mistranslation and the Holocaust
(Paul Liben, The Jerusalem Post)
Ukraine crisis: Small numbers, global impact
(Tim Lister, CNN)
Ukraine and Christian disunity: Earthly causes, spiritual effects
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
CofE’s top female cleric: I would have ‘no problem’ with blessings for gay marriages
(John Bingham, The Telegraph)
French "far-right" marches toward European elections
(Associated Press, Aleteia)
Vatican pendulum swings from theater to substance
(John L. Allen Jr., The Boston Globe)
Jewish tourism in Tunisia: Causing a fuss
(E.B., The Economist [Pomegranate: The Middle East])
Church-state groups skeptical about Hobby Lobby Bible curriculum
(Bob Allen, ABP News)
Why the death of western Catholicism is great for the Church
(David Carlin, Aleteia)
More than 250 Evangelical pastors urge immigration reform on Capitol Hill
(Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post)
Guatemala: suppressing dissent at home and abroad
(Patricia Davis, Foreign Policy in Focus)
British tourist arrested and about to be deported from Sri Lanka because of her Buddha tattoo
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Are religious prisoners specially entitled to conjugal visits?
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Sultan of Brunei unveils strict sharia penal code
(Agence France-Presse, The Guardian)
Brunei adopts sharia law amid international outcry
(Arshiya Khullar, CNN)
What Sharia law may bring for non-Muslims in Brunei
(World Watch Monitor)
Brunei’s new Shariah penal code is awful—and about to get even worse
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Nigerians demand government do more to bring home kidnapped girls
(Faith Karimi and Vladimir Duthiers, CNN)
Religion and culture in the discourse of the European Court of Human Rights: the risks of stereotyping and naturalising
(Lourdes Peroni, International Journal of Law in Context)
Ecumenical delegation to visit South Sudan amidst conflict
(World Council of Churches, Anglican Communion News Service)
A fundamental fight: Fatwa on Salman Rushdie
(Paul Elie, Vanity Fair)
Transgender inmate suing over hormone treatments
(Andrew Welsh-Huggins, The Big Story)
Botched execution could renew 'cruel' challenges
(Andrew Welsh-Huggins, The Big Story)
US executions evolved from hanging to injection
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
EVENT, 7 May 2014: Marriages, Civil-Unions, Partnerships and Religions in South-Africa after 1996
(Professor Pieter Coertzen, KU Leuven)
Maliki is ‘certain’ his political bloc will win
(With Associated Press and AFP, Al Arabiya News)
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Fears for China's churches as Christianity rises
(Tom Phillips, The Telegraph)
Georgian Church protests adoption of anti-discrimination legislation recommended by EU
(Interfax-Religion)
KS school district changes free speech policy after student lawsuit
(Carrie Dedrick, Christian Headlines)
Who knew? The late Cardinal John O’Connor’s mother was born Jewish
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Governor calls for review after botched execution
(Bailey Elise McBride and Sean Murphy, The Big Story)
A look at major players in Iraq national elections
(Associated Press, Aleteia)
Vicious attack at women's prison in Iran
(Shadi Paveh, Gatestone Institute)
Newspaper wars, Israel-style
(Ben Sales, JTA Telegraph)
Is a secular state the best option for Christians in Iraq?
(Aid to the Church in Need, Aleteia)
Abbas pumps new life into Hamas
(Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute)
UK government rules out inquiry in 1971 killings of Catholics
(David Young, Belfast Telegraph)
Ecumenical Patriarch criticizes nationalist tendencies within Eastern Orthodoxy
(RISU)
Mariupol Rabbi managed to pass three block posts to help chief rabbi of Donbass to ransom his grandson
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian patriarch urges clergy to remain "above fighting" in Ukraine, to stay within "Divine Mandate"
(Interfax-Religion)
Glenn Beck preaches Mormon theology at Liberty University
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Blog: On Faith & Culture)
USCIRF issues its 2014 Annual Report - 15th Anniversary Retrospective: Renewing the Commitment
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: Annual Report 2014
Annual report on the world’s worst religious freedom abusers comes with a new twist
(Knox Thames and Elizabeth Cassidy, On Faith)
Shrinking religious freedom in South Asia
(Knox Thames, Sahar Chaudry, Foreign Policy)
REPORT: State Department should double list of worst religious freedom offenders
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
Site of proposed Ground Zero mosque may become a museum
(Omar Sacirbey, Religion News Service)
Adventist leaders host Mormon leaders, highlighting religious freedom commitment
(Ansel Oliver, Adventist News Network)
Schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria married off to their abductors - report
(Maria Caspani, Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Chibok abductions: Nigeria girls' taken abroad'
(BBC News Africa)
Women politicians in South Asia face violence, threats, abuse-report
(NIta Bhalla, Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Amid widespread discrimination, he ministers to Nairobi’s gays and lesbians
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Victims demand action as Vatican abuse panel gets down to work
(Josephine McKenna, RNS)
Newark Archdiocese wins court case on legality of its headstone business
(Mark Mueller, Religion News Service)
Allah=God? * Jedi Revelations * Jesus’ Divorce: Wednesday’s Roundup
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Islam, scripted: Egypt reins in Friday sermons at mosque
(Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor)
Assad's reelection campaign matters—really
(Andrew Tabler, The Atlantic)
Researcher: No real increase in anti-Semitic incidents in Ukraine
(JTA)
Polygamous murderer fights Pa. prison ban on conjugal visits with his multiple wives
(Matt Miller, PennLive.com)
The first-ever Sikh prayer at the Pentagon
(Valerie Kaur, Huffington Post)
Yuba City Sikh barred from jury duty for refusing to remove religious dagger
(CBS Sacramento)
President Uhuru Kenyatta signs Kenya polygamy law
(BBC News Africa)
Hindus say minority rights ignored in Kenya’s new polygamy law
(Updated News)
Review of Annabel Brett's "Changes of State: Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law"
(Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Forum)
ADF lawsuit prompts Kan. school district to end ban on religious speech
(Press Release, Alliance Defending Freedom)
State Churches, disendowment and peaceful enjoyment of property
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Afghanistan: Unspoken realities of candidates and the presidential election - analysis
(Hamed A. Aziz, Eurasia Review)
Some Nepalis to be asked to "reconsider their faith" to get their ID papers
(Christopher Sharma, AsiaNews.it)
Indian Jesuit: General Election, amid a political vacuum and emergence of Narendra Modi
(Cedric Prakash sj, AsiaNews.it)
Iraq, 22 million people vote in first election since the withdrawal of U.S. troops
(N/A, AsiaNews.it)
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