Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Court hears atheists’ challenge to Ground Zero cross
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Hong Kong's dirty secret: thousands of asylum seekers left waiting in squalor
(Tania Branigan, The Guardian)
The language of assisted suicide
(John Stonestreet, Religion Today)
China's female imams carrying on ancient Islamic tradition
(Huey Fern Tay, Australia Network News)
Right-wing extremism: Germany's new Islamophobia boom
(Spiegel Online International)
Why Christian photographers should work at gay weddings
(Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic)
Nigeria ‘at war’ with Boko Haram
(World Watch Monitor)
Trainer admits guilt in New Jersey violent Jewish divorce scheme
(Dave Warner, Reuters)
A nation divided: Venezuela’s uncertain future
(José R. Cárdenas, World Affairs)
Belarus: Homeless shelter officially closed; Baptists fined
(Olga Glace, Forum 18 News Service)
EU meeting on Ukraine: David Cameron’s speech
(The Rt Hon David Cameron MP, Gov.UK)
David Cameron: Russia should face 'consequences' for Ukraine invasion [video]
(The Telegraph)
Crimea votes to join Russia, accelerating Ukraine crisis
(Alissa de Carbonnel and Luke Baker, Reuters)
Ukraine PM rejects Crimea referendum, vows to defend country
(Thomson Reuters, World Affairs)
Obama orders sanctions, says Crimean move to join Russia violates international law
(Karen DeYoung and Anne Gearan, The Washington Post)
Gay weddings and religious liberty: The dignity of toleration
(W.W., The Economist [Democracy in America])
Baking cakes for Caesar: Why we need freedom to say 'no'
(John Stonestreet, Religion Today)
The Crimean war: The key to conflict
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
USCIRF Vice Chair Katrina Lantos Swett calls for a global coalition on religious freedom
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Youth from Asian churches invited to apply for YATRA 2014
(World Council of Churches)
Religious freedom vs. gay rights: The picture-book edition
(Julie Wiener, JTA Telegraph)
More white evangelicals than American Jews say God gave Israel to the Jewish people
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center)
Egypt’s young Coptic Christians energized to fight for civil rights
(Monique El-Faizy, Religion News Service)
U.S. government sues Philadelphia schools over beard policy
(Dave Warner, Reuters)
John Ortberg’s Menlo Park Presbyterian votes to leave PCUSA despite $8 million fee
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Pyongyang arrests "accomplices" of South Korean missionary: they risk being shot
(AsiaNews.it)
Catholics call Pope Francis ‘a change for the better’
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis: Church could support civil unions
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Dignity denied: North Korean atrocities revealed
(Ryan Kaminski and Mark Lagon, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs)
North Korea's unspeakable atrocities
(Eric Metaxas, Religion Today - Break Point)
Event announcements: Court’s decision in the challenges to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate
(Kali Borkoski, SCOTUSblog)
Judge enlists police, border services to apprehend Lev Tahor children
(Tim Alamenciak, The Star (Canada))
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Analysis: Reconciliation looks remote in Egypt
(N/A, IRIN)
Chapel perilous: Notes from the New York occult revival
(Don Jolly, The Revealer)
Pope Francis names six Toronto monsignors
(Evan Boudreau, The Catholic Register)
Temple tax: European court rules LDS Church must pay local property tax for Preston England temple
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Taxing the temple
(Sam Brunson, By Common Consent)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v. the United Kingdom
(Neil Addison, Religion Law Blog)
Why euthanasia slippery slopes can’t be prevented
(Margaret Somerville, MercatorNet)
Confused logic approves NYPD surveillance of Muslims
(Rozina Ali, Aljazeera America)
Ukraine situation risks turning into tragedy
(Daniella Peled, Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
Inside the Cloister
(Casey N. Cep, The New Yorker)
Mauritania: Nouakchott Qu'ran protest turns deadly
(Bakari Gueye, Magharebia)
Orthodox seminary in Turkey awaiting reopening
(Ayse Wieting, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Survey: Most religious people don't hate gays
(Anna Pulley, SF Weekly)
Indonesian clerics issue fatwa to protect wildlife
(Agence France-Presse, The Guardian)
Baptist, Methodist pastors in Miss. oppose discrimination based on religious freedom
(Bob Allen, ABP News)
Gay activists sign joint statement with Planned Parenthood backing Obamacare contraception mandate
(Kirsten Andersen, LifeSiteNews)
The 160-year Christian history behind what's happening in Ukraine
(Philip Jenkins, Christianity Today)
Members of Jewish sect Lev Tahor detained in Trinidad as Ontario court delays child welfare hearing
(Allison Jones, The Canadian Press, National Post)
Ukraine Jewish leaders criticize Putin in open letter
(JTA)
Atheist-turned-believer Sara Miles’ radical Ash Wednesday practice
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Blog: On Faith & Culture)
Pope hits out at criticism of Church over sexual abuse
(BBC News)
Missionary says North Korea interrogated him daily
(Rod McGuirk, Associated Press, Yahoo! News)
WCC congratulates new leadership of the South African churches
(World Council of Churches)
Turkey: Malatya murder suspects to be set free
(Open Doors)
Kuala Lumpur: Court adjourns trial on the disputed use of the word Allah
(AsiaNews.it, AsiaNews.it)
Kerry and Lavrov hold crucial talks over Ukraine in Paris
(EuroNews via World Affairs)
Ukraine's Chief Rabbi refutes Putin's anti-Semitic charges
(Alexander J. Motyl, World Affairs)
Sketch: Step by step, David Cameron's exhausting plan for Ukraine
(Tom Rowley, The Telegraph)
Israel and the rest of the world
(Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute)
Cert. petition seeks SCOTUS review of latest Mt.Soledad Cross decision ahead of 9th Circuit
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Shaun Casey talks about leading the State Department’s Faith-Based Office
(Mara Willard, Religion & Politics)
Affidavit does not establish applicability of ministerial exception doctrine
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Analysis: Evacuation dilemma in the Central African Republic
(IRIN, IRIN)
Chaldean Patriarch calls for a stop to the exodus to preserve the origin and history of Iraq's Christians
(Joseph Mahmoud, AsiaNews.it)
India, dates set for general elections. 814 million voters estimated
(AsiaNews.it)
Pakistani Christians fast and pray for peace and persecuted minorities
(Jibran Khan, AsiaNews.it)
Samir Khalil Samir: Hamas ban also good for Palestinians
(Samir Khalil Samir, AsiaNews.it)
Strasbourg on Mormons and their temples
(David Hart QC, UK Human Rights Blog)
For Christian leader, victims in Orissa and Gujarat should be treated the same way
(AsiaNews.it)
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Andhra Pradesh is India’s emerging hotbed of anti-Christian violence
(Robin G. Jordan, Anglicans Ablaze)
Court bans activities of Islamist Hamas in Egypt
(Yasmine Saleh, Reuters)
Exiled Uighur leader urges calm after China attack
(Ben Blanchard, Reuters)
French far right: No funds for religious groups
(Elaine Ganley, Associated Press, The Big Story)
Head of Ukraine Catholic Church calls on people to be prepared to die for country
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post World)
In Jerusalem, Jews, Muslims clash over mosque loudspeakers
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
Kentucky AG won't defend anti-gay marriage bill, but governor will (+video)
(Elizabeth Barber, The Christian Science Monitor)
Nigerian army losing grip on northeast as Islamists rampage
(Joe Brock, Reuters, Daily Maverick)
U.S. evangelicals on the defense over Uganda’s new Anti-Homosexuality Act
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Ukraine and the 'Little Cold War'
(George Friedman, Stratfor)
LDS temple in Preston not a “place of public religious worship”
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
With Venezuela in a tailspin growing number of Jews opting for Plan B
(Uriel Heilman, The Global Jewish News Source)
Patriarch: 'Church will do everything to make Georgia EU member'
(N/A, Civil.ge)
Church calls for an international investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
Analysis: 3 reasons religious freedom laws are nothing like Jim Crow
(Napp Napworth, The Christian Post Politics)
German homeschoolers, Romeike family, will not be deported, DHS says
(Napp Napworth, The Christian Post Politics)
Makaburi blames state
(The Star)
His Majesty the King, Commander of the Faithful, responds favorably to Côte d'Ivoire's request on training of Ivorian Imams and preachers in Morocco
(Kingdom of Morocco Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation)
Death toll rises in Nigeria car bombings
(Deutsche Welle)
An equal share of wealth equals lasting peace in CAR
(Matthew Newsome, Inter Press Service)
'Fake Frum' con man scams more than dozen Orthodox Jews
(Frimet Goldberger, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Boko Haram strikes again, with over 30 dead in latest attack, officials say (+video)
(Haruna Umar, The Christian Science Monitor)
One dead in Quran vandalism protest in Mauritania
(Press TV)
State of Michigan's first witness in gay marriage ban trail barred from testifying
(Jake Neher, WEMU)
Republicans from the West give support for gay marriage
(Erik Eckholm, The New York Times)
Ex-magistrate censured in Messiah name change case
(Travis Loller, ABC News)
Russia: Still no mosque for Sochi, Protestants struggle to keep church
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)
Apple joins Hobby Lobby, values corporate causes before profits
(Compiled by Eric Schulzke, Deseret News National Edition)
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