Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Xi Jinping visits Xinjiang, the "front line against Islamic terrorism"
(AsiaNews.it)
Amicus History: Hobby Lobby Supreme Court amicus briefs among record levels
(The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
More on Hobby Lobby / Conestoga Wood
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
'Rebel priest' prays for Ukraine gunmen, denies doing more
(Thomas Grove, Reuters)
An interview with Philip Jenkins on The Great and Holy War
(Thomas Kidd, Patheos Blog: The Anxious Bench)
Australia: Christian Youth Camp liable for declining booking from homosexual support group
(Neil J Foster, From the Selected Works of Neil J Foster)
C. African Republic: Militants decapitate Muslim
(Associated Press, The Big Story)
Campus divestment votes surge, but pro-Palestinian activists don’t get many wins
(Talia Lavin, JTA)
Contextualizing anti-Semitism in modern America
(Simran Jeet Singh, Council for a Parliament of World's Religions)
Erdogan wants U.S. to extradite powerful former ally
(Jamie Tarabay, Al Jazeera America)
Geert Wilders and Dutch Jews — end of the affair?
(Cnann Liphshiz, JTA)
Hospital that silenced “God Bless America” responds with more censorship
(Pacific Justice Institute)
Human rights activists have noticed negative tendency with religious freedom in 2013
(Translated by Victor Vityuk, Institute for Religious Freedom (Ukraine))
Idaho’s first out gay GOP candidate says his conservative views are “stigmata” for some voters
(Gideon Resnick, Buzz Feed Politics)
Iran: "Blood money" saved 358 people from the gallows
(AsiaNews.it)
Iraq elections: Sectarian strife threatens to upend gains
(Jamie Tarabay, Al Jazeera America)
Israel honors history with Holocaust remembrance day
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Jewish groups consider including J Street
(Michael Paulson, The New York Times)
Methodists approve same-sex marriage benefits
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Morality study: What would you do for a million dollars?
(David Briggs, The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA))
Mosque in Israeli-Arab town vandalized in ‘price tag’ attack
(JTA)
N.C. group sues, alleging gay marriage ban is affront to religious freedom
(Al Jazeera)
N.Y. City Council joins efforts to punish French rail firm SNCF for profiting from Holocaust
(JTA)
Pahang: Ignore letter to remove Bibles from hotel rooms, Malaysian lawyers tell hoteliers
(AsiaNews.it)
Religions freedom and conflict: A review of the evidence
(Roger Finke and Robert R. Martin, The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA))
Same-sex marriage advocates launch 'southern strategy'
(Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition)
Same-sex marriage backers debate whether traditional-marriage-only supporters should have a voice
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post Politics)
Statement by President Obama on the canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II
(Office of the Press Secretary, The White House)
Statement by the President on Yom HaShoah
(Office of the Press Secretary, The White House)
Wenzhou: authorities begin to tear down Sanjiang Church
(AsiaNews.it)
What is the religion of George Clooney’s fiancé, Ms. Amal Alamduddin? Druze? Muslim?
(Omid Safi, RNS Blog: What Would Muhammad Do?)
Why Christian leaders put aside differences to push immigration reform (+video)
(Lourdes Medrano, The Christian Science Monitor)
Why Saudi is sending this Scandinavian country a harsh message
(Al Bawaba News)
Narendra Modi trying to divide Bengalis on the lines of religion
(Mamata Banerjee)
WCC general secretary speaks on themes of justice and peace in DRC
(World Council of Churches)
10,000 set out from Auschwitz to commemorate Holocaust victims in March of the Living
(Daniel K. Eisenbud, The Jerusalem Post)
International Holocaust Memorial Day
(United States Holocaust Memorial)
Two U.S. soldiers lose bid to dress according to religious custom
(David Alexander, Reuters)
Turkey to seek cleric Fethullah Gulen's extradition
(BBC News Europe)
Cornwall, minorities and the law
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
When religion and politics collide: are there lines that need to be drawn?
(Gillan Scott, God & Politics in the UK)
Rastafarian inmates now enjoy religious privileges in prison
(Voice-Online UK)
Western elites have already lost intellectual dispute, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin believes
(Interfax-Religion)
Monday, 28 April 2014
As Pakistani Catholics pray against sexual violence against children, more rapes reported in Punjab
(Jibran Khan, AsiaNews.it)
Five members of Hizb ut-Tahrir sentenced for extremism in Bashkortostan
(Interfax-Religion)
For Palestinians, empathy with Jewish suffering in Holocaust is complicated (+video)
(Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor)
Gunmen ambush Muslim convoy in Central African Republic, two killed
(Siegfried Modola, Reuters)
Islam convert from Judaism sentenced for encouraging attacks on Jews
(JTA)
Nigeria: surging bloodshed strains 'marriage of irreconcilables'
(Issac Abrak, Time Cocks and Pascal Fletcher, Reuters)
Protecting religious freedom or legalizing LGBT bullying?
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Same-sex marriage decisions in other states argued in Utah case
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News)
SDMU “Ummah” Mufti said Ismagilov: Ukrainian Muslims don’t live separately in ghettos, Russian aggression unites us
(Tetiana Mukhomorova, RISU)
The Church in Brazil is dying. This young woman is desperately trying to save it
(Mychelle Oliveira Coelho, Aleteia)
Why fear Boko Haram
(Eliza Griswold, Slate)
Historic Riverside Church recommends first woman as senior minister
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Yad Vashem rite launches Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration in Israel
(JTA)
Nation comes to standstill as sirens wail for 6 million lost
(The Times of Israel)
Israel comes to a halt to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day (PHOTOS)
(The World Post)
A Palestinian student defends her visit to Auschwitz
(Zeina M. Barakat, The Atlantic)
Abbas’s Holocaust condemnation was sincere, says rabbi who solicited it
(Rebecca Shimoni Stoil, The Times of Israel)
Closing ceremonies of Holocaust Remembrance Day
(The Jerusalem Post)
Georgian Church speaks out against anti-discrimination bill
(Civil Georgia, Civil.ge)
The unlikely friendship of Rabbi Marc Schneier + Imam Shamsi Ali
(Lorena O'Neil, Ozy)
Religious progressives celebrate rise with eye on lurking perils
(Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition)
Under the radar: Interviews with historians you should know
(Arlene Sanchez Walsh, Religion in American History)
United Church of Christ lawsuit says North Carolina laws restrict freedom of religion
(News Release, United Church of Christ)
Obamacare religious exemption hard to get
(Kathleen O'Brien / The Star-Ledger, Religion News Service)
Conservative Anglican leaders back Uganda anti-gay law
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
Antisemitism Worldwide 2013 - General Analysis Draft
(Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry)
New survey of anti-Semitism has grim narrative
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Expert Interview with Dr Matthew Feldman: The Far-Right in the UK
(On Religion)
Deciphering René Girard
(Reverend Keith Hebden reviews James Warren’s book, On Religion)
United Church of Christ sues over NC ban on same-sex marriage
(Michael Gordon, The Charlotte Observer)
Cantor demands Kerry apologize to Israel
(Erik Wasson and Rebecca Shabad, The Hill)
Kerry apologizes for 'apartheid' comments
(Ben Jacobs, The Daily Beast)
Supreme Court denies review in case of disciplinary sanctions on former Kansas AG for abortion clinic investigations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religious campaign to halt EU abortion funding 'lacks mercy'
(Liz Ford, The Guardian)
CAR crisis: Peacekeepers escort Muslims out of Bangui
(BBC News Africa)
Looting follows evacuation of Muslims from Central African capita
(Emmanuel Braun and Chrispin Dembassa-Kette, Reuters)
Azerbaijan: Three year prison terms for Koran study?
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
These accounts from Arab Americans show why an Israeli visa waiver plan is so controversial
(Adam Taylor, The Washington Post)
Resilience of Rwandans kept nation alive – Kagame
(The New Times)
China accused of anti-Christian campaign as church demolition begins
(Tom Phillips, Shanghai, The Telegraph)
Jewish Mayor of eastern Ukrainian city Kharkiv shot, fighting for life
(The Jerusalem Post)
Our bodies, their battleground: Boko Haram and gender-based violence against Christian women and children in north-eastern Nigeria since 1999
(Atta Barkindo, Benjamin Tyavkase Gudaku, Caroline Katgurum Wesley, for the World Watch Research Unit of Open Doors International, Netherlands)
The cold chill of the legal profession’s rejection of religious freedom
(Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities)
Time to annoint Muslim Prime Minister in India - OpEd
(Seema Sengupta, Eurasia Review)
Sako: "In 10 years there will only be a few thousand Christians left in Iraq"
(AsiaNews.it)
Palestinians aiming to join dozens of international bodies, agreements
(JTA)
Uzbekistan: Under pressure from imams, Christians cannot be buried in state-owned cemeteries
(AsiaNews.it)
Stay voids 3 legal same-sex marriages in Tennessee
(Heidi Hall, The Tennessean)
Egyptian court sentences 683 people to death
(Al Jazeera)
Egypt sentences top Islamist and over 680 others to death
(David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times)
Hungarian government moves against religious minorities, in disregard of ruling by European Court of Human Rights
(Central-European Religious Freedom Institute)
More than a third live in countries with high religious diversity
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Is Britain a Christian country and, whatever the case, what then?
(Bob Morris [guest post], Law & Religion UK)
EVENT, 28 April 2014: Moral Dilemmas of Partisanship: Ethical Obligations and Limitations for Political Partisans
(Bunn Intercultural Center Auditorium, Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life)
EVENT, 28 April 2014: Religion and Social Entrepreneurship: What's Faith Got to Do With It?
(held at the Advisory Board Company, 2445 M St. NW, D.C., The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Council of Europe Briefing: An attempted strike against minority religions fails, a landmark victory for freedom of religion or belief
(All Faiths Network & European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom)
Sunday, 27 April 2014
Francis presides over historic day of 4 popes
(Nicole Winfield and Daniela Petroff, Associated Press, Yahoo! News)
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