Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Iran considers ban on vasectomies in drive to boost birthrate
(Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian)
New York drops unit that spied on Muslims
(Matt Apuzzo and Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times)
Crosses spark a constitutional fight
(Jocob Gershman, The Wall Street Journal)
Capital murder among charges for suspect in Kansas shooting
(Steven Yacinno, The New York Times)
Womb service: Italy’s baby-making troubles
(Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Daily Beast)
Suspected Islamist rebels abduct over 100 Nigerian schoolgirls: teacher
(Lanre Ola, Reuters)
India's top court recognizes third gender category
(Nirmala George, The Big Story)
David Cameron urged to raise blasphemy law concerns with Pakistan
(Christian Today Society)
Nigeria: Christians and Muslims join hands in defiance of Boko Haram attacks
(Christianity Today World)
Ukrainian crisis: Fallout may affect India, region – Analysis
(Monish Gulati, Eurasia Review)
Why do racists and anti-Semites kill?
(Kathleen Blee, CNN Opinion)
U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists
(Peter Bergen and David Sterman, CNN Opinion)
LDS Church reaffirms stance on immigration
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Ecumenical consultation urges elimination of human trafficking
(World Council of Churches)
Easter 2014: Opportunity for Christian unity and common witness
(World Council of Churches)
India takes to the polls: An interview with Matthew Rudolph
(Georgetown Journal of International Affairs)
India election: ‘Idealistic banker’ represents anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party
(Global Post, Mint Press News)
Modi: Democrat or divider?
(John Lloyd, Reuters Opinion)
India’s Muslims worried about controversial Hindu leader as national elections begin
(Annie Gowen, The New York Times World)
Have we lost our ability to disagree?
(Sheila Liaugminas, MercatorNet)
A court in Paris has dismissed a case brought against American singer Bob Dylan on charges of inciting hatred following an interview in which he allegedly compared Croats with Nazis
(France 24 International News)
Why blasphemy laws are actually anti-Islamic
(Faisal Kutty, The Huffington Post Canada)
If a student says homosexuality is a sin in school, is it bullying?
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Hobby Lobby’s Steve Green launches a new project: a public school Bible curriculum
(David Van Biema, Religion News Service)
Russia: European Court request enough to protect Uzbek asylum seeker?
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
The failed pretext for war: Seymour Hersh, Eliot Higgins, MIT rocket scientists on Sarin gas attack
(Carmen Russell-Sluchansky, Mint Press News)
The Council of Europe on sects: update
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Central African Republic - Muslims and Christians in Bangui at peace amidst war
(Nyeko Caesar Poblicks, TransConflict)
Kachin, Burmese Army raids rebel stronghold: thousands of refugees and humanitarian crisis
(Francis Khoo Thwe, AsiaNews.it)
Saudi court shuts down liberal forum
(N/A, AsiaNews.it)
Women decry Lebanon's domestic violence law
(Tamara Qiblawi, Aljazeera America)
OSCE Annual Report 2013
(Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe)
EVENT, 15 April 2014. Yoruba Traditions and the Religious Meaning of Africa
(Tracey Hucks, Religious Freedom Project of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Monday, 14 April 2014
ACLU seeks to oppose Wyo. diocese in birth control suit
(Ben Neary, Associated Press, SF Gate)
Appeal granted in Lev Tahor case, children do not have to go to Quebec
(Tim Alamenciak, The Star (Canada))
Elections in India and Afghanistan: Perspective from Pakistan
(Salma Malik, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies)
FBI to investigate Kansas shooting as hate crime
(Al Jazeera America)
Girls are being forced to convert to Islam in Pakistan, but because they are Christian nobody cares
(Nasir Saeed, Christianity Today Comment)
Hanuman Jayanti 2014: Hindus celebrate the birth of the Monkey God (PHOTOS)
(Antonia Blumberg, Huff Post Religion)
Has Malala become a puppet of the West?
(Nico HInes, The Daily Beast)
In Crimea, the Tatars fear a repeat of a brutal history
(Mike Eckel, Al Jazeera America)
Israeli officer killed on way to Seder in West Bank
(Jodi Rudoren, The New York Times)
Jehovah's Witnesses portrayed as dangerous in Russian propaganda
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News - Stetson University)
Passover in Jewish Eastern Europe
(GLenn Dynner, OUPblog)
Scores dead in bomb attack at Nigerian bus station
(Al Jazeera America)
Swiss suicide clinic helped 2nd British woman 'tired of life' to die
(James Fielding, The Express)
The accused Kansas killer's neo-pagan religion
(Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog)
The Internet-driven atheist reformation
(Jeffrey Cavanaugh, Mint Press News)
Why Evangelical support for Israel is waning
(Dale M. Coulter, First Things)
In Berlin, giving wronged Olympians their glory
(Hillel Kuttler, JTA)
Dialogue touches on role of religion in society, impact on common good
(Catholic Sentinel)
Statement from the President on Passover
(Barack Obama, The White House)
President Obama announces presidential delegation to the Holy See to attend canonization mass
(Office of the Press Secretary, The White House)
President Obama hosts annual Easter prayer breakfast at the White House
(David Hudson, The White House Blog)
White House Easter prayer breakfast gets benediction by gay bishop
(Sarah Posner, Religion Dispatches)
In an unprecedented symbolic act senior cleric calls for religious co-existence in Iran
(xistence in Iran M. Kimya Hedayat-Zadeh, Iranian.com)
Man with history of anti-Semitism jailed in fatal shooting of three at Johnson County Jewish centers
(Laura Bauer, Dave Helling, Brian Burnes, The Kansas City Star)
Three dead in Kansas City shooting, KKK link alleged
(Al Jazeera America)
Shootings at Kansas Jewish Community Centers: a case of domestic terrorism
(Omid Safi, RNS Blog: What Would Muhammad Do?)
Kansas City shootings highlight threat of ‘lone wolf’ attacks
(Rom Kampeas, JTA)
Israeli families gather for ritual Passover meal
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Passover, the Jewish holiday for Gentiles
(Laruen Davidson, The Atlantic)
Charities, religious groups and pre-election lobbying
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Backlog, backlash and beyond: debating the long term future of human rights protection in Europe
(Alice Donald, UK Human Rights Blog)
Lesbian couple make history with first same-sex church wedding
(John Bingham, The Telegraph)
New Ian McEwan novel The Children Act to take on religion
(Richard Lea, The Guardian)
State Dept. issues warning against terror threat
(JTA)
The Vatican's precious manuscripts go online
(Liam Moloney, The Wall Street Journal)
Twenty-five Birmingham schools inspected over Islamist 'takeover plot'
(Helen Pidd, The Guardian)
UK: Gove is right to fail schools for religious bias
(Andrew Gilligan, The Telegraph)
Video: Nick Clegg backs probe into school extremism claims
(The Telegraph)
Extremist 'takeovers' in Birmingham schools?
(BBC News)
Vienna Philharmonic to return Nazi-looted painting
(JTA)
Cornell student gov’t votes to table divestment resolution
(JTA)
Pakistan and Israel: a study in contrasts
(Yasser Latif Hamdani, Daily Times - Pakistan)
U.S. Muslims cite progress but say they still fight bias
(Louis Aguilar, The Detroit News - Religion)
Malaysia: No answers from Putrajaya on child conversion
(Malaysiakini)
John Paul II’s legacy can help us win back religious liberty
(Ryan Eggenberger, Ignitum Today)
Paris auction of Nazi memorabilia canceled after Jewish groups protest
(JTA)
Two militants suspected killers of Dagestan village imam
(Interfax-Religion)
Civil law and religious law cannot co-exist
(Marion Tharsis, Free Malaysia Today)
Fiji's Methodists told not to mix politics and religion
(Reverend Tevita Nawadra Banivanua, General Secretary, Fiji Methodist Church, Radio Australia)
ACLU files friend of the court brief supporting Affordable Care Act
(Tom Morton, K2 Radio)
U.S. Sikhs say military's ban on long hair and beards keeps them out
(Lalita Clozel, Los Angeles Times)
Temple Mount closed after violence flares
(The Jewish Daily Forward)
Warsaw Jews donate Passover food to Ukrainian community
(JTA)
Commentary: What Gethsemane teaches us about suffering
(James Martin, Religion News Service)
Young Unification Church members prepare for arranged marriages
(ABC News Nightline, Yahoo! News)
Tony Blair’s advisers and their 'ties to extremist group’
(Robert Verkaik and Robert Mendick, The Telegraph)
Obama welcomes 150 Christian leaders for White House Easter Prayer Breakfast
(Leslie Larson, NY Daily News)
Chabad gears up for biggest ever Mexican-style Seder
(Tamara Zieve, The Jerusalem Post)
Barbara Brown Taylor tells Christians to embrace darkness
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Blog: On Faith & Culture)
Islamophobia and the left: A convenient adversary?
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
A year after Boston bombing, Muslim group seeks to curb extremist tendencies
(Tamara Audi, The Wall Street Journal)
Broader same-sex marriage ruling in Ohio
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
Judge to Ohio: Recognize out-of-state gay marriage
(Amanda Lee Myers, The Big Story)
Mayor allows religious services in public-school buildings
(Mara Gay, The Wall Street Journal)
UN to grill Vatican again on clergy sex abuse
(Associated Press, The Big Story)
Goa communists accuse Church, BJP, Congress of spreading hatred
(Indian Christian Activist Network)
Passover Seders move to nights that work for busy lives
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
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