Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
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)
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)
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