Law and Religion Headlines


Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Does the Air Force ‘encourage atheism’ and ‘prosecute Christianity’?
(Chris Stedman, Religion News Service)

9/11 museum at New York City's World Trade Center to open May 21
(Associated Press via ABC 7)

New hope for Central African Republic?
(M. Zuhdi Jasser and Sam Gejdenson, World Affairs Journal)

UN rights chief blasts Israel over colony construction
(Reuters, Gulf News)

Mich. governor deflects same-sex marriage questions
(Paul Egan, USA Today)

Priests and same-sex marriage – further insights from Oxford
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Pope tells Sicilian Mafia: You will end up in hell
(Jim Kouri, Eurasia Review)

Syrian conflict takes center stage at Arab summit
(Ma'an News Agency)

700 Egypt Islamists in court after mass death sentences
(Ma'an News Agency)

Mrs. Smith goes to Ottawa: Ending sex trafficking in Canada
(John Stonestreet - Breakpoint, Christian Headlines)

The Kurdish peace process in the shadow of Turkey’s power struggle and the upcoming local elections
(Galip Dalay, Al Jazeera Center for Studies)

A look at Mideast judicial systems
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)

Supreme Court takes up Hobby Lobby’s challenge to the contraception mandate
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Entrenching a ‘duty to do wrong’ in medicine: Canadian government is funding a project to suppress freedom of conscience and religion
(Sean Murphy, MercatorNet)

Stanford to fund pro-traditional marriage event after claims of censorship
(Jason Hardy, Deseret News National Edition)

Hobby Lobby case provokes a twitterstorm
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)

Commentary: What Pope Francis can teach President Obama this week
(Mary Ann Walsh, Religion News Service)

High-level Philadelphia delegation to invite Pope to visit
(Mary Beth McCauley, Religion News Service)

US lobbies Vatican for pope visit in 2015
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)

Court OK's firing of 3 by Adventist University for violating church doctrine
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Analysis: Can Pope Francis help ‘reset’ frayed ties between Obama and the Catholic bishops?
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)

Big day at the Supreme Court for contraception mandate
(Katie Pavlich, Townhall.com)

Crowds gather at SC for Obamacare contraception mandate cases
(Townhall.com)

How the Supreme Court justices reacted to today's Hobby Lobby arguments
(Derrick Morgan, Hans von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery, The Foundry)

The left's contraception deceit
(Guy Benson, Townhall.com)

Opposing Morsi but defending democratic legitimacy
(Sreven Sotloff, World Affairs Journal)

What does Christianity suggest about human uniqueness
(William Hurlbut, Big Questions Online)

The war on Hobby Lobby
(Rich Lowry, National Review Online)

Russia's most wanted terrorist reported killed
(Andrew Foxall, World Affairs Journal)

Some schools teach Creationism and accept voucher students. Why that’s fine.
(Derrick Morgan, Hans von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery, The Foundry)

Uzbekistan: Detained for religious materials in electronic devices
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

City council members have legislative immunity in suit over zoning vote
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Live Blog: Contraception Cases at Supreme Court
(The Wall Street Journal - Washington Wire)

Live blog of opinions | March 25, 2014
(SCOTUSblog)

Supreme Court Hobby Lobby case revisits divisive political issues (VIDEO)
(Stephanie Condon, CBS News)

Oral arguments are underway inside #SCOTUS. At stake: whether Americans forfeit their religious freedom when they start a business
((Tweets), Inagist)

Ibn al-Haytham: The Muslim scientist who birthed the scientific method
(Ross Pomeroy, Real Clear Science)

Not just for Catholics: A reflection on Roman pilgrimage (review of Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches by George Weigel)
(Timothy George, First Things)

CALL FOR PAPERS, due 7 April 2014: Constitution and Religion June Workshop
(June 5-7, 2014, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), Bielefeld, Germany)

Britain’s baby burning: On repugnance and religion
(Tom Wilson, First Things)

Monday, 24 March 2014

To my haredi brothers (on serving in the military)
(Robert Stark, The Jerusalem Post)

U.S. says glad 'noxious' U.N. rights envoy for Palestine leaving
(Louis Charbonneau)

Little girl taken out of Christian school after told she's too much like a boy
(James Gherardi, ABC News)

Most Palestinians back extending talks if more prisoners freed
(JTA)

Canadian court orders seizure of Iranian assets for terror victims
(JTA)

Yad Vashem rejects Hungarian memorial initiative
(JTA)

Religious freedom in the workplace (attire and facial hair)
(Tanique Williams, Legislative Gazette)

Egypt’s miscarriage of justice
(The New York Times Op Ed)

'God's Not Dead': What low-budget hit says about Christians and Hollywood
(Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor)

A new crusade: Aid proposed to stop Christian persecution in the Middle East
(Meredith Somers, The Washington Times)

Anti-genocide group sounds warning about Myanmar
(Associated Press, The Big Story)

'Story of the Jews' is personal for historian Schama
(Bill Keveney, USA Today)

Kaduna villages’ death toll rises to 150, including pastor’s wife and three children
(World Watch Monitor)

Let’s give the pope’s abuse commission a chance
(Mark Silk, RNS Blog: Spiritual Politics)

Gunmen kill six in attack on Kenyan church
(Joseph Akwiri, Reuters)

Jimmy Carter: Religion part of pay inequity
(Tal Kopan, Politico)

Commentary: The bad theology behind opposing the contraception mandate
(Cheryl B. Anderson, Religion News Service)

Bible verses in newsletter wasn't part of the deal, Buddhist worker says
(Courthouse News Service)

World Vision to recognize employees’ same-sex marriages
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)

A major Christian charity lifts its same-sex marriage ban for employees
(Abby Ohlheiser, The Wire)

Monday round-up: The Court to hear Hobby Lobby tomorrow, March 25
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)

Background sources for tomorrow's Supreme Court arguments in Hobby Lobby/Conestoga
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

5 questions about the Hobby Lobby case and contraceptive coverage
(David Masci, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)

EVENT, 24 March 2014: Everybody's Business: The Legal, Economic, and Political Implications of Religious Freedom
(12 noon - 5:30 pm, Religious Freedom Project of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

A comparative analysis of laws pertaining to same-sex unions
(W. Cole Durham, Robert Theron Smith & William C. Duncan, SSRN)

Economic growth higher where governments do not regulate women's headscarves
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)

The Law Society’s practice note on sharia-compliant wills
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Sharia law in UK: calls for Parliamentary inquiry
(John Bingham, The Telegraph)

Sharia law to be adopted into UK legal system for first time
(RT)

Confucianism, democratization, and human rights in Taiwan
(Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs)

Religious exemptions — a guide for the confused
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy via The Washington Post)

High court with vocally devout justices set to hear religious objections to health-care law
(Robert Barnes, The Washington Post)

In our opinion: In Hobby Lobby case, freedom is under threat
(Editorial, Deseret News)

Religious case at Supreme Court could affect Obamacare and much more
(David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times)

Survey: Up to 40 percent of Hungarians accept anti-Semitic attitudes
(JTA)

UN envoy rules out new Syria talks 'for time being'
(The Daily Star (Lebanon))

Marriage equality: In America today the rich have the money and the social capital
(R. R. Reno, First Things)

Germany publishes guide aimed at Jewish tourists
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Harris needs Christian right for GOP NC Senate win
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)

Pope appoints former victim to sex abuse commission
(Eric J. Lyman, USA Today)

Why some Israeli settlers are willing to live in a Palestinian state
(Joshua Mitnick, The Christian Science Monitor)

Pope taps women, victims for sex abuse commission
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press, The Big Story)

Francis shows political instincts in naming antiabuse panel
(John L. Allen, Jr., The Boston Globe)

Vatican No. 3 finds blame within in abuse scandal
(Associated Press, The New York Times)

Iran’s oppressed Christians
(Liana Aghajanian, The New York Times)

Uzbekistan: Seven Muslims amnestied, but ailing Muslim prisoner waits for operation
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

Taxpayers fund creationism in the classroom
(Stephanie Simon, Politico)

Nutter, Corbett, and Chaput embark on a Vatican mission
(Jessica Parks and Claudia Vargas, Philly.com)

Church of England Sunday attendance continues downward slide
(Trevor Grundy, Religion News Service)

Xinjiang’s cycle of violence
(Ananth Krishnan, The Hindu)

Montreal Catholic school fighting for the right to teach ethics and religious culture in its own Jesuit style
(Joseph Brean, National Post)

Chechnya president inaugurates new $10 million mosque in Arab village in Israel
(US News and World Report)

Young advocate seeks pope's aid on immigration
(Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times)

More U.S. troops to aid Uganda search for Kony
(Helene Cooper, The New York Times)

Government intervenes at school 'taken over’ by Muslim radicals
(Andrew Gilligan, The Telegraph)

Ugandan official: US cuts up to $6 million in aid over anti-gay law
(ABC News)

Countries divided on future of ancient Buddahs
(Rob Nordland, The New York Times)

German customs seizes cocaine addressed to Vatican
(Chicago Sun-Times)

The Catholic roots of Obama’s activism
(Jason Horowitz, The New York Times)

Vatican Chief Justice: Obama’s policies ‘have become progressively more hostile toward Christian civilization’
(CBS St. Louis)

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