Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Future of Quebec's separatist party in doubt
(Bejamin Shingler, The Big Story)
Indonesia's Islamic parties surprise with strong showing in election
(Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi, Reuters)
Pastafarians rejoice as Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is granted permission to register as a religion in Poland
(Heather Saul, The Independent)
Profiling rules said to give F.B.I. tactical leeway
(Matt Apuzzo, The New York Times)
Saudi Arabia moves to allow girls to play sports in school
(Al Jazeera America)
Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an
(Juliane Hammer, Religion & Politics)
Ukraine Holocaust monument vandalized with swastikas
(JTA Telegraph)
US and the Middle East: The great problem that needs to be solved
(Elliott Abrams, Gatestone Institute)
Venezuela formally invites Vatican to mediate talks to end protests
(Ezequiel Minaya and Kejal Vyas, The Wall Street Journal)
Will the latest Catholic Mass translation get another overhaul?
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Solidarity and separation: Religious spirit and the Euromaidan
(Irina Papkova, The Revealer)
Turmoil at Al-Azhar: Religion, politics, and the Egyptian State
(Jared Maisin, The Revealer)
Supreme Court declines free speech, gay marriage case
(Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)
County drops bid to turn church into bar
(Press Release / Brad Dacus, Pacific Justice Institute)
China’s ‘lost Jews’ discover their faith
(Patrick Boehler, South China Morning Post)
Quebec election results scuttle controversial parts of proposed Charter of Quebec Values
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pauline Marois loses riding then resigns, as Quebec Liberals hand Parti Québécois a stunning defeat
(Graeme Hamilton, National Post)
California court declines to hear case, saying it should be brought in Iran instead
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy via The Washington Post)
U.S. defends cross, but urges delay
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
More challenges to the Affordable Care Act percolating in D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
(Jessica Mason Pieklo, RH Reality Check)
Philippine Supreme Court upholds most of country's controversial Reproductive Health Act
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
President signs bill granting pension funding flexibility to charities
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Chadian withdrawal leaves CAR's Muslims exposed
(France 24 International News)
Infographic: Jesus more popular than Mao on China’s Twitter
(Bethany Allen, Tea Leaf Nation)
Electoral politics, Erdoğan’s ambitions, and democratic struggles in Turkey
(Güneş Murat Tezcür, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs)
Transgender student denied on-campus male housing at Christian university
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Brandeis cancels plan to give honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a critic of islam
(Richard Pérez-Peña and Tanzina Vega, The New York Times)
Brandeis University’s double standard on honorary degrees
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy via The Washington Post)
Brandeis withdraws honor for Ayaan Hirsi Ali
(Al Jazeera America)
Parliamentary considerations of slavery
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Archbishop welcomes draft modern slavery bill
(Justin Welby, The Archbishop of Canterbury)
Occupied Crimea faces questions of religious liberty
(Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Indonesia: Christian and Muslim women unite for peace in Sulawesi
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
Pyongyang arrests scores for "religious activities", questions 100 people who could end up in concentration camps
(AsiaNews.it)
RNS EVENT, 9 April 2014: Journalism between red lines: Religion reporting in a world of conflict
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Catholic schools can't force student to attend mass, court rules
(Louise Brown, Toronto Star)
UN envoy raises alarm on abuses against Rohingya
(Robin McDowell, ABC News)
Pakistan: 1,000 minority girls forced in marriage every year: report
(Anwar Iqbal, Dawn)
The Indian elections
(V. Mitchell, Arab News)
Diverse analyses of changing Russian law on religion
(Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Chick-fil-A wings in new direction after gay flap
(Bruce Horovitz, USA Today, Religion News Service)
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
4 Pakistani Christians now on death row
(SRN News)
5 reasons religious Millennials aren’t marrying
(Corrie Mitchell, Faith Street)
Another South Korean superlative: Most draft dodgers in prison
(Donald Kirk, The Christian Science Monitor)
Bishop: Ukrainian Church battling to remain legal in Crimea
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic Herald UK)
Is Al Qaeda winning? Grading the administration’s counterterrorism policy
(Benjamin Wittes, Brookings)
Marginalized Indian Muslims ambivalent at election time
(Brianna Sacks, Mint Press News)
Op-Ed: ‘Occupied territories’ is a flawed and biased term
(Alan Baker, JTA)
Op-Ed: The West Bank is under military occupation, and that’s a fact
(Jessica Montell, JTA)
Playing politics with religious freedom: Mississippi and RFRA
(Aaron Weaver, APB News / Herald Blog)
Religious freedom is a human right — for family businesses too
(Paolo Carozza, The Hill)
Senate set to vote on bomination of radical Michelle T. Friedland for 9th Circuit judge; AFA says she disregards Constitution,will trample religious liberties
(Mel Fabrikant, The Paramus Post)
The three-part structure of RFRA's operative provision and the timing of the government's RFRA violations in Hobby Lobby & Conestoga Wood Specialties
(Kevin Walsh, Mirror of Justice)
Toleration dilemmas: Noise and clamour (the Mozilla furor)
(S.M., The Economist [Democracy in America])
Warm welcome for Peres in China
(Greer Fay Cashman, The Jerusalem Post)
WCC general secretary meets with Korean church leaders
(World Council of Churches)
Where is the virtue?
(Anthony Esolen, The Witherspoon Institute)
Wish for change animates voters in India election
(Ellen Barry, The New York Times)
Hungary’s registration of religious groups breaches Arts. 9 & 11 ECHR
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Priest assassinated * Vatican bank * Jesus People : Tuesday’s Roundup
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Court keeps new Arizona abortion rules on hold
(Tom Horne, Associated Press, The Big Story)
Among Ukraine’s Jews, the bigger worry is Putin, not pogroms
(Andrew Higgins, The New York Times)
Muslim shrine stands as a crossroads in Syria’s unrest
(Anne Barnard, The New York Times)
Long a survivor in Syria, a Dutch priest is slain
(Anne Barnard, The New York Times)
New versions of martyrdom: A truth worth witnessing
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
The secret Jewish history of Tax Day
(Seth Rogovoy, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Is refusing to photograph a gay marriage properly considered discrimination based on sexual orientation?
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy via The Washington Post)
AHA sues for equal treatment of humanist inmates in federal prisons
(Press Release, American Humanist Association)
ADF files suit against school district that censored Pa. 1st grader’s John 3:16 valentine
(Matt Sharp | Jeremy Tedesco, Alliance Defending Freedom)
Pundits: plans to close down faith-based Turkish schools abroad arbitrary, political vandalism
(Today's Zaman)
Historic Afghan polls: People's rebuff to the Taliban - analysis
(C Uday Bhaskar, Eurasia Review)
Marginalized Sikhs 'don’t care' about Afghan election
(Frud Bezhan, Radio Free Europe)
Court ruling on Philippines RH bill met with mixed responses
(Catholic News Agency)
Suharto's ghost stalks Indonesian election
(Nithin Coca, Al Jazeera)
IRS guidance on qualified retirement plans and same-sex spouses
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Rule on Va. campus preaching suspended after lawsuit
(Bill Sizemore, PilotOnline.com)
Appeals Court reverses St. Paul priest's sex conviction
(Rochelle Olson, SarTribune)
Lords consider gender-selective abortion
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Western atheists: You aren’t illegal in Saudi Arabia
(Chris Stedman, Religion News Service)
Athens mayor candidates split on mosque referendum
(Associated Press via ABC News)
China, on the feast of the dead, authorities block the commemoration of Tiananmen victims
(AsiaNews.it)
Philippine Supreme Court backs law promoting birth control
(Al Jazeera America)
Kyrgyzstan: 14 year church ownership annulled
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
The Black Church and Gay Marriage: A New Agenda
(Delman Coates, Religious Freedom Project of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Scottish Independence: Role of religion 'should be recognised'
(BBC News)
Jewish Mormons celebrate two cultures, eye one faith
(Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News)
A school board that overlooks its obligation to students
(Michael Powell, The New York Times)
Re Muslim Brotherhood, Cameron feeling the heat
(Linda S. Heard, Arab News)
Monday, 7 April 2014
Churches fighting Hawaii schools lawsuit
(Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Associated Press, SF Gate)
Patriarch Kirill compares events in Ukraine to 1917 revolution
(Interfax-Religion)
Recognition of Jewish Israel is critical for Palestinians
(Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaacov Amidror, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies)
Muslim Brotherhood warns against British government investigation
(Trevor Grundy, Religion News Service)
From Alsatian town, France’s oldest matzah-maker sells to the world
(Toni L. Kamins, JTA)
Russian lawmakers approve bill making Holocaust denial illegal
(JTA)
Indonesia: In a nation of Muslims, political Islam is struggling to win votes
(Joe Cochrane, The New York Times)
Syria's latest battle: The PR fight over sanctuary for Christians
(Martin Armstrong, The Christian Science Monitor)
Ravaged by war, Syrians mourn the slain Father of Homs
(Alia Malek, Al Jazeera America)
Syria's war: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
(S.B. and F.V.T., The Economist [Pomegranate: The Middle East])
Site of Park51, the former 'Ground Zero Mosque,' will soon be razed
(Jennifer Fermino, Oren Yaniv, New York Daily News)
Secular groups attack plan to make religion part of Scottish constitution
(Herald Scotland)
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