Law and Religion Headlines
Sunday, 28 September 2014
Utah gay marriage case first in line at Supreme Court
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News)
Saturday, 27 September 2014
China's draconian sentence against her Mandela is suicidal - OpEd
(Dr. Habib Siddiqui, Eurasia Review)
Federal court says state court should act first in challenge to eruv zoning decisions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pope Francis calls for 'Biblical welcoming' of immigrants
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Small-town U.S. politician emerges as unlikely foe of Modi
(David Ingram, Reuters)
Summons issued against Modi by a US Federal Court
(ICAN)
New Bishop for Guildford speaks up for moderate Muslims
(Tim Wyatt, Church Times)
Welby backs airstrikes against IS but says wider vision is needed
(Tim Wyatt, Church Times)
Accreditation commission gives Gordon College a year to review, update policies on gays
(Amanda Ostuni, Salem News)
The global ball is rolling for religious freedom & business
(Brian J. Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Law Society of B.C. to hold binding referendum on Trinity Western law school
(CBC News | British Columbia)
As IS subjugates women, NEW analysis shows gender inequality HIGH as Religious Freedom is LOW
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Russian parliament gets closer to changes in religion law
(Russian Religion News)
The liberal religion of “tolerance”
(Paul G. Kengor, The Center for Vision and Values: Grove City College)
Proposed Egyptian law to reduce restrictions on building churches
(Ahmed Fouad, Al-Monitor)
Bay’ah to Baghdadi: Foreign Support for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State (Part 2)
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
Justice Department to ban profiling by federal law enforcement
(Timothy M. Phelps, Los Angeles Times)
Religious law and the problematic marriage law
(Joeni Arianto Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post)
Justices poised to tackle constitutional right of same-sex marriage
(Bill Mears, CNN)
Supreme Court prepares for another round of same-sex marriage arguments
(Michael Doyle, The Sacramento Bee)
Hindus take over Indian church, convert it to a temple
(Henri Rose Cimatu, Ecumenical News)
Somalia's Shebab stone woman to death for polyandry
(AFP, Yahoo! News)
Christian-Buddhist-Jewish leaders condemn anti-Hindu vandalism in Virginia
(Rajan Zed, Sirulu)
ISIL is a threat to Turkey
(Guven Sak, Hurriyet Daily News)
Can Muslim women wear a headscarf at work in Germany?
(Deutsche Welle)
French Muslims hold nationwide protest marches after beheading
(Gregory Viscusi, Bloomberg Business Week)
Christians who support LGBT community say it's time for rest of religion to change
(Cole Avery, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans))
The outspoken Spanish Nun who's made herself a political force
(Lauren Frayer, NPR)
Urgent action required to mend Britain’s helplessness in the face of crises in the Middle East
(The Telegraph)
Winning the war of ideas in the Arab World: A view from the UAE
(Ambassador Omar Saif Ghobash, Foreign Policy Research Institute)
Mission relaunched: The fight against Islamic State will help define America’s role in the world
(The Economist)
The limits of the ‘sectarian’ framing in Yemen
(Stacey Philbrick Yadav, The Washington Post)
In U.S., support for daily prayer in schools dips slightly
(Rebecca Riffkin, Gallup Politics)
The great debate over Hobby Lobby
(Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute)
Friday, 26 September 2014
Confusion persists over Turkey's position on IS
(Cengiz Çandar, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Hezbollah squeezed out of Golan by Jabhat al-Nusra, Israel
(Jean Aziz, trans. Sami-Joe Abboud, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Kurdish politician proposes segregating Arabs, Kurds in Iraq
(Vager Saadullah, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Lawsuit accuses Indian PM of role in 2002 violence
(Matthew Pennington, AP, Providence Journal)
Sri Lanka nationalists to host controversial Myanmar monk
(Yahoo! News)
Tunisia's president says IS, Syrian regime must go
(Raghida Dargham, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Majority of Americans still favor daily prayer in school
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Men sentenced to prison for ‘homosexual activity’ in Egypt
(Egyptian Streets)
China issues freedom of religion policy, sentences Ilham to life imprisonment
(Gary Sands, Foreign Policy Association)
UK Parliament votes to authorize airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq
(CNN)
Muslims urged to report Islamophobic attacks to police amid growing tension
(Oliver Milman, The Guardian)
Backlash at Catholic high school over firing of pregnant gay teacher
(Mark Guarino, The Guardian)
Online hate speech stokes fear of religious violence in Sri Lanka
(UCAnews)
Dalai Lama: A Conclave to choose my successor
(AsiaNews.it)
Proposed Egyptian law to reduce restrictions on building churches
(Ahmed Fouad, Al-Monitor)
Qatari women withdraw from Asian Games over hijab rule
(Associated Press, Al Jazeera America)
To earn superpower status, "India needs to protect its minorities"
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
For Paul Bhatti, Christian leader's death in prison is unsettling, state should protect citizens
(AsiaNews.it)
Political prisoners routinely tortured in Uzbekistan: Human Rights Watch
(Dmitry Solovyov, Reuters)
Kenyan 'radical madrassa' closed in Machakos
(BBC News)
Radical preacher Anjem Choudary among nine held for supporting banned terrorist group
(Paul Peachey, The Independent)
Pope sacks Paraguayan bishop accused of protecting abuser priest
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
Louisiana gay marriage case on fast track at appeals court
(Andy Grimm, The Times-Picayune)
Republicans rallying behind religious liberty
(Steve Peoples and Ken Thomas, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Gaming the Supreme Court
(Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine)
Bombay HC ruling mirrors US law on employment
(Times of India)
Brazil candidates carefully tread religious divide
(Chris Wright, Yahoo News)
ECLJ affiliate demanding justice for a Christian victim of attempted rape
(European Center for Law and Justice)
Madrassa shut down in 'counter-terrorism' operation
(MINSA)
Neighbors sue US pastor and church for unbearable noise
(Henri Rose Cimatu, Ecumenical News)
High school football coach suspended for leading team prayers
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Safeguarding America’s God given liberty
(Rick Plasterer, Juicy Ecumenism)
Christianity will live on in Iraq
(David Skeel, USA Today)
Climate worship at the cathedral
(Mark Tooley, The American Spectator)
Does the IRS recognize plural marriage?
(Will Baude, The Volokh Conspiracy)
What do Satanists really believe?
(Susan E. Wills, Aleteia)
EVENT, 26 September 2014: Is there a role for religious actors in countering radicalization and violent extremism?
(United States Institute of Peace)
Relying on the Koran, 120 Muslim scholars refute Islamic State ideology
(AsiaNews.it)
Open Letter to Al-Baghdadi (English, with signatories)
(Muslim Scholars)
Muslim scholars present religious rebuttal to Islamic State
(Tom Heneghan, Reuters)
Modi in US to repair relations and boost India’s economy
(Dean Nelson, The Telegraph)
What is the threat of Islamic State to the Church worldwide?
(World Watch Monitor)
Scotland, piety and social action: The mystical and the practical
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and Public Policy])
Uzbekistan: Rehabilitation Centre suspended, leaders under criminal investigation
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18)
Ukrainian Army occupied a church in Donetsk and fires from it
(Interfax Religion)
Two jailed in Azerbaijan for plotting mosque bombing
(Interfax Religion)
Ban on gay propaganda among minors doesn't restrict sexual minorities' rights - Russian Constitutional Court
(Interfax Religion)
Bath Abbey plagued by buskers
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Boko Haram Nigeria Abubakar Shekau Africa Boko Haram militant leader is dead, Nigerian military says
(France 24 International News)
Only 12 Jews left in Egypt, community leader says [LINK REPAIRED]
(JTA, The Times of Israel)
Egypt's Jewish community's lost future
(Interview, Sally Nabil, BBC News Asia)
Editorial: Ilham Tohti, the professor who terrifies Beijing
(Editorial Board, Washington Post)
China: USCIRF condemns harsh sentence for Ilham Tohti
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Switzerland: Land of jihad
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
Officials now say 50 died in Xinjiang blasts
(Al Jazeera America)
Thursday, 25 September 2014
‘Our country’s like Germany in the war': Thousands of Russians protest Moscow’s role in Ukraine crisis [news from September 21]
(Nataliya Vasilyeva, Associated Press, National Post)
EEOC sues Feldman Automotive for religious discrimination
(Press Release, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
Megachurch leader T.D. Jakes to sue Young Jeezy, Kendrick Lamar over sampled speech on 'Holy Ghost' remix
(Nancy Dillon, New York Daily News)
Nuncio Gullickson: Russian actions destabilize Ukraine, harm Catholic Church
(Apostolic Nunciatura, Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Uzbekistan: Prison, torture for critics, says HRW
(Eurasia Review)
New attacks in Xinjiang, 12 dead and over 100 injured
(AsiaNews.it)
As U.S. takes on the Islamic State, al-Qaeda remains degraded but not defeated
(Greg Miller and Kevin Sieff, The Washington Post)
One of the girls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria's Chibok freed – police
(Tim Cocks, Reuters)
The myth of religious violence
(Karen Armstrong, The Guardian)
Islamic State crisis: 'More than 3,000' Europeans join IS
(BBC News)
High stakes as Arab countries join strikes on Islamic State
(Gerald Butt, Church Times)
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