Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 27 October 2014
Iran acid attacks put 'vice groups' on defensive
(Arash Karami, Al-Monitor)
Ennahda distances itself from Salafists
(Jahd Khalil, Al-Monitor)
Nigeria: Victims of Boko Haram abductions tell their stories (with link to "'Those Terrible Weeks in their Camp': Boko Haram Violence against Women and Girls in Northeast Nigeria")
(Human Rights Watch)
Boko Haram aductee release talks ongoing despite Nigeria's surge in violence; victims recount sex slavery, forced conversions
(Benge Nsenduluka, The Christian Post)
Boko Haram accused of escalating abductions
(Associated Press, Al Jazeera America)
Netanyahu vows to continue building Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem
(Al Jazeera)
Bahrain: Free activists facing free-speech charges
(Human Rights Watch)
In Crimea serious human rights violations and attacks on minorities and journalists require urgent action
(Council of Europe)
Atheists in foxholes: The military chaplaincy's humanist problem
(Ronit Y. Stahl, Religion & Politics)
Turning the Uyghur east (Uyghur history and current situation in China)
(Umar Farooq, The Revealer)
AG orders Ya'alon: Explain why Palestinians banned from Israeli-run buses in West Bank
(Revital Hovel and Chaim Levinson, Haaretz)
Europe rights body condemns Azerbaijan crackdown on activists
(Peter Snyder, Jurist)
Azerbaijan: Stop reprisals against human rights defenders
(Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe)
Final LGBT anti-discrimination rule issued without soliciting public comment; religious freedom issues still unclear
(Michael Gryboski, Christian Post)
Pope calls for end to death penalty out of respect for human dignity
(Ann Schneible, Catholic News Agency)
Surrogacy: A global trade in women's bodies (Sweden's leading feminist lobby regards surrogate motherhood as a revival of serfdom for women)
(Swedish Women's Lobby, MercatorNet)
US judge: "Marriage is the fundamental unit of the political order"
(Brian S. Brown, Conjugality: A Blog on the Future of Marriage)
Rooting for the women fighting ISIS in Syria: But defeating the brutal jihadist group will require international assistance
(Roya Hakakian, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
Assisted suicide debate intensifies in Scotland
(Xavier Symons, BioEdge)
The hidden costs of legalized suicide: What we can learn from Brittany Maynard
(Adam J. MacLeod, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
Kobani, then and now
(Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Form at St. John's University School of Law)
India minister says no special caste status for Christians
(Anto Akkara, World Watch Monitor)
Faith in the face of Ebola: Church in Sierra Leone looks to rebuild society
(John Burger, Aleteia)
U.S. recognizes more same-sex marriages
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUS Blog)
Jay Alan Sekulow, PhD, JD honored with Athenagoras Human Rights Award
(Order of St. Andrew the Apostle)
Number of Rohingya fleeing Myanmar tops 100,000
(Robin McDowell, ABC News)
Secular party set to win Tunisia elections
(Paul Schemm, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
The Pope and the precipice — OpEd
(Ross Douthat, The New York Times Sunday Review)
Afghan Mullah who raped girl in his mosque receives 20-year prison sentence
(Rob Nordland, The New York Times)
Religious liberty and the bullies
(James Tonkowich, Christian Headlines)
Amid atrocity and martyrdom, El Salvador yields a saint
(Oakland Ross, Toronto Star)
Man says devil told him to topple Ten Commandments at Oklahoma capitol
(Reuters)
Abortion capital of Bible Belt? Tennessee vote tests that idea
(Richard Fausset, The New York Times)
North Dakota argues 'right-to-life' measure intent
(James MacPherson, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Human rights worsen in Crimea, report says
(Gabrielle Steinhauser, The Wall Street Journal)
Pastor who performed gay marriage keeps ordination
(Travis Loller, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Private prosecution of 'gender-selection' abortion doctors
(Christian Concern)
Rahmon: OIC countries face global challenges
(Interfax: Religion)
Belgium university to address race issues following Gaza-themed student game
(JTA)
Turkish government aims to 'save' marriages
(Tulia Cetingulec, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Pope to meet Turkish president, Ecumenical Patriarch in November
(Mike Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Tension high in Istanbul grove amid police blockade
(Hürriyet Daily News)
'What is being proposed is not marriage' – Pope calls for defense of family
(Elise Harris, CNA)
Westboro Baptist Church seeks to intervene in Kansas same-sex marriage case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sunday, 26 October 2014
Bangladesh: Another war criminal gone, but Islamists reorganising
(Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, South Asia Monitor)
Feds will recognize same-sex marriages from 6 more states
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religious organizations in the public health paradigm
(Ellen Idler, OUPblog Religion)
Saturday, 25 October 2014
Man destroys Oklahoma Capitol Ten Commandments, saying Satan told him to do it
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants in Ukraine today are more united than ever before, Head of the UGCC
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Suit challenges refusal to approve atheist to perform marriages
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Nashville conference to teach how to defend traditional marriage
(Claudette Riley, The Tennessean)
Minnesota atheists sue over right to perform marriages
(Jon Collins, Minnesota Public Radio News)
Diwali, Hindu festival of lights, is celebrated by more than just Hindus
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)
Will this shocking atheist pamphlet be handed out in some Florida schools?
(Husna Haq, The Christian Science Monitor)
Celebrating the elderly
(Evangelical Alliance UK: IDEA)
Preach to me: More Americans want their churches involved with politics
(The Economist)
Chairman of Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is optimistic about religious freedom
(Kelsey Clark, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Freedom of religion, belief must be protected in workplace says UN expert
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Bielefeldt: Why isn’t the UN protecting religious liberty whistleblowers?
(Emily Belz, World Magazine)
Grace, forgiveness and the Tutu legacy
(Evangelical Alliance UK: IDEA)
Semarang: Church hosts conference to strengthen friendship and dialogue between religions
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
Gulf Cooperation Council vows tough steps to curb ‘media extremism’
(Arab News)
8,000 more Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar
(Robin McDowell, Arab News)
Grand mufti: Bogus sick leaves are sinful
(Arab News)
Egypt, young Catholics: The revolution has been betrayed, but the future belongs to us
(Giulia Mazza inviato, AsiaNews.it)
Muhammad, where are you? - OpEd
(Uri Avnery, Eurasia Review)
Pope urges abolish life prison terms, death penalty; lashes corruption
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Secularism grows as more U.S. Christians turn ‘churchless’
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
US: ISIS generates tens of millions of dollars monthly
(Jason Ditz, Mint Press News)
Attorney General Holder announces Federal Government to recognize same-sex married couples in six additional states
(United States Department of Justice)
Utah governor: Gay marriage may drive religious-freedom law
(Lee Davidson, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Friday, 24 October 2014
Coeur d'Alene says hitching post is exempt from gay rights law
(Jessica Robinson, Boise State Public Radio)
Man accused of smashing Oklahoma Ten Commandments monument is identified
(Rick Green and Jonathan Sutton, NewsOK)
Meeting of Eastern Catholic hierarchs of Europe begins in Lviv
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Religion in Houston: Freedom to speak about anything the government approves
(Bob Siegel, Communities Digital News)
U.S. says Palestinian-American killed by Israeli forces
(Reuters)
WCC congratulates new leadership of the ACT Alliance
(World Council of Churches)
Workshop at ACT Alliance assembly in Dominican Republic focuses on “diakonia”
(World Watch Monitor)
Pope Francis says Christians must campaign to end death penalty, life imprisonment
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Difference and dignity
(Mormon Newsroom)
Women warned anew: Hands off cars!
(Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Arab News)
Nationalism under pressure: Islamic State, Iraq and Kurdistan
(Erlend Paasche, ISN Security Watch)
In the West, a growing list of attacks linked to what?
(Paul Woodward, War in Context)
Vietnam Catholics demand return of land in rare protest
(Radio Free Asia)
The Islamic State "is the world's richest terrorist group"
(AsiaNews.it)
The White Shroud: A Syrian resistance movement to the Islamic State
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
Is a "vocation of friendship" key to gay ministry in the Church?
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
A Canadian murderer, and myths about countering radicalization
(Dan Murphy, The Christian Science Monitor)
Drugs and religion key themes in Ottawa shooter’s troubled life
(Les Perreaux, Patrick White, and Andrea Woo, The Globe and Mail)
Canadian rampage is tip of iceberg: Middle East Christians are being slaughtered by radical Islamists, says a Canadian journalist
(Michael Coren, MercatorNet)
Leading evangelical ethicist David Gushee is now pro-LGBT. Here’s why it matters
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Blog: On Faith & Culture)
From Germany to Iraq: One Yazidi family's war on Islamic State
(Özlem Gezer, Spiegel Online)
PJI files brief in forced religion of Yoga case
(Pacific Justices Institute)
Imprisoned Christian Pakistani Asia Bibi's family speaks out; gives details on her torture, requests help from Obama and Pope
(Sami K. Martin, The Christian Post)
Is next step in war on religious liberty inspection of religious schools? That’s happening in the UK
(Genevieve Wood, The Daily Signal)
Billy Graham and the letter that saved 38,000 lives
(Evangelical Alliance UK: IDEA)
Idaho city: Chapel owners exempt from discrimination law
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Coeur d’Alene apparently changes stance, agrees that for-profit chapel need not perform same-sex weddings
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Is California forcing churches to pay for abortions?
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Two Wahabis get long prison terms for plotting terror act at Russia's chemical arms disposal plant
(Interfax-Religion)
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