Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 25 September 2014
“Religion in the Public Square” (Uitz, ed.)
(John Boersma, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
Baylor researcher refutes reports of religion’s decline in America
(Press Release, Baylor University)
Editorial: Religion in public life is not a zero-sum game
(Deseret News National Edition)
Our new culture war issue: Religion’s public role
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Utah will appeal federal judge's 'Sister Wives' bigamy ruling
(Daniel Wallis, Reuters)
Israel ready to extradite Russian priest Grozovsky - source
(Interfax-Religion)
Liberty Counsel defends homeowners' right to religious yard art
(Michael F. Haverluck, One News Now)
ADF to top human rights court: Christian convert in Sweden faces risk of persecution in Iran
(Paul Coleman | Robert Clarke, Alliance Defending Freedom)
Texas, Louisiana same-sex marriage cases linked
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
Hungary: New Religion Law at Variance with OSCE Standards and the European Convention on Human Rights
(posted by Erich Mayer, Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Hardline Indian Hindu group aim to exclude Muslims from festival
(Rupam Jain Nair, Reuters)
Arizona town urged to stop discriminating against houses of worship
(Press Release, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
Ba Giong Parish to have a pilgrimage centre dedicated to Vietnamese martyrs
(Trung Tin, AsiaNews.it)
Bombay HC ruling on freedom of conscience hailed
(Vinaya Deshpande, The Hindu)
Commentary: Civil Society and the Church
(First in a five-part series on civics and religion, Mormon Newsroom)
Has the headscarf been permitted in the name of ‘more freedom?’
(Ahmet Hakan, Hurriyet Daily News)
Rawalpindi, Christian leader accused of blasphemy murdered in prison
(Jibran Khan, AsiaNews.it)
Radical Hindus against Muslims participating in traditional dances to seduce Hindu women
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Pakistani police officer shoots Briton convicted of blasphemy
(Jon Boone, The Guardian)
EU warns of risk of attacks by upstaged Al Qaeda
(Adrian Croft, Reuters)
Vatican oversees first criminal trial of defrocked Archbishop accused of sexual abuse
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Olympic anti-discrimination clause introduced after Sochi gay rights row
(Owen Gibson, The Guardian)
NGOs slam performance of National Human Rights Commission
(Yen Snaing, The Irrwaddy)
Aceh: Sharia to be applied to non-Muslims
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
Missouri's first same-sex marriage case heads to court today
(Doug Moore, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
New York politicians criticize anti-Islam ads due to run on buses
(Jonathan Allen, Reuters)
Narendra Modi’s US visit elicits mixed reactions from Indian-Americans
(Sonia Paul, Al Jazeera America)
EEOC files first transgender lawsuits based on Civil Rights Act
(Roger Clegg, National Review Online (the Corner blog))
Same-sex marriage: Is this the term?
(Tierney Sneed, U. S. News)
The top five myths about LGBT nondiscrimination laws debunked
(Coleman Lowndes and Carlos Maza, Advocate.com)
Russian aggression, Ukraine corruption, harm Church, says Vatican envoy
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Forget radicalisation in mosques - 'Sheikh Google' is the real threat to young Muslims
(Radhika Sanghani, The Telegraph)
New UN document opens door for churches to do more for indigenous rights
(World Council of Churches)
To substitute another thirst: an antidote to moralism in the same-sex marriage debates
(Wesley Hill, First Things)
The fight of their lives: The White House wants the Kurds to help save Iraq from ISIS; the Kurds may be more interested in breaking away
(Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker)
The case against intervention
(Adrian Bonenberger, Commonweal Magazine)
Bishop offers prayer of “Earth and Cosmos” at climate march
(Jeffrey Walton, Juicy Ecumenism)
Passages: a glimpse into the Hobby Lobby family’s Bible Museum
(Rachel McBride Lindsey, Religion & Politics)
Hindu radicals raze 40 meat shops in Mohali
(Diljot Singh, The Times of India)
Muslim speaker at Pakistan forum urges 'follow Jesus' to promote peace
(Henri Rose Cimatu, Ecumenical News)
New book: “The Experiences of Face Veil Wearers in Europe and the Law” (E. Brems ed.)
(Saïla Ouald Chaib, Strasbourg Observers)
Religious freedom and central Europe: A slippery Magyar slope
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and Public Policy])
Mumbai: Church pitches for ‘good governance’ over ‘secular parties’
(Joseph Dias, ICAN)
Feminism, fashion and religion: Why Muslim women choose to wear the veil
(Radhika Sanghani, The Telegraph)
Scottish Referendum: What next?
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Tension between religion clauses sharply divides Americans
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
JewishPress.com’s State of the Union Address 5774-5775
(Stephen Leavitt, The Jewish Press)
The rule of law needs reaffirmation
(Julinda Beqira and Lawrence Mcnamara, UK Human Rights Blog)
Uman fines Jewish community for pilgrims’ unlicensed tent city
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Miss. rabbi says he was booted from restaurant for being Jewish
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
EVENT, 25-27 September 2014: First International Conference on Uyghur Studies: History, Culture, and Society
(Central Asia Program Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University)
EVENT, 25 September 2014: IGE Conference Call: The Role of Faith-Based Trauma Healing for Victims of Religious Persecution
(Institute for Global Engagement)
Police lock Arab rioters inside Al Aqsa Mosque
(Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, The Jewish Press)
How Turkey plans to "combat anti-Semitism"
(Burak Bekdil, Gatestone Institute)
Utah will appeal polygamy ruling
(Ben Winslow, Fox 13 (Utah))
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Algerian Islamic militants behead French hostage
(Paul Schemm and Karim Kebir, Associated Press -The Big Story)
Church boots AA group over gay weddings
(Troy Washington, KSLA)
Connecting the dots between Euro anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism
(Jonathan S. Tobin, The Jewish Press)
Hamas, Fatah announce return of unity government to Gaza
(AFP and Times of Israel Staff, The Times of Israel)
ISIS' harsh brand of Islam is rooted in austere Saudi creed
(David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times)
On eve of the Synod on the Family, new book by cardinals revives debate over divorce and remarriage
(Daniel Backman, Aleteia)
Rebuild Afghanistan's giant Buddhas? Foot-shaped pillars give legs to debate
(Magherita Stancati, The Wall Street Journal)
Southern Baptist leaders cut ties with California LGBT-affirming church
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Turkey must tread carefully against Islamic State - Analysis
(Stratfor)
UN moves to curb extremism as Syria airstrikes resume
(Deutsche Welle)
Obama to U.N.: Terrorists have perverted Islam
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Today is 2014 "see you at the pole" prayer event
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Muslim scholars tell Islamic State: You don’t understand Islam
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Preacher claims health department job offer was withdrawn because of his religious views
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New mediation efforts in Milwaukee Archdiocese bankruptcy fail
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Spain's PM scraps hardline abortion reform
(Sonya Dowsett and Emma Pinedo, Reuters)
For Australian Muslims, security crackdown is code for racial profiling
(Matt Siegel, Reuters)
Barbie as the Virgin Mary? Ken as Jesus? Italian Catholics are not amused
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
All Hail Satan, First Amendment Champ
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
What's lost in not recognizing campus religious groups
(Karen Swallow Prior, The Atlantic)
Op-Ed: Islamist indoctrination of children through education
(Ozgur Korkmaz, Hurriyet Daily News)
Full text of Barack Obama's speech to the UN General Assembly
(Barack Obama, The Telegraph)
Obama forbids FBI to use religion in identifying terror threats, as ISIS recruits openly in U.S. mosques
(Breitbart News)
Europe’s anti-Semitism comes out of the shadows
(Jim Yardley, The New York Times)
Gay marriage ruling to go to La. Supreme Court
(Janet McConnaughey, The Town Talk)
President sends greetings for Rosh Hashanah
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
India & Pakistan: millions of children at risk of trafficking following floods
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
Citizen can declare that he does not belong to any religion: Bombay High Court
(The Indian Express)
Turkish government may have released ISIS militants in exchange for 49 hostages held by Islamic state
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Latest partisan divide: religion and politics should mix
(David Hawkings, Roll Call)
False hopes arise that Nigerian army has freed Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamic militants
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Obama praises Islam in United Nations address while condeming ISIS
(Josh Craddock, Aleteia)
Israeli forces re-open Aqsa compound after heavy clashes
(Ma'an News Agency)
N.J. case puts pledge, religion in spotlight
(Rita Giordano, Philly.com)
New study released on Israeli religion-state public opinion
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
His religion caused state to rescind job offer, man claims
(Aaron Gould Sheinin, The Atlanta Journal Constitution)
Kurds not giving up on education in mother tongue
(Fréderike Geerdink, Al-Monitor)
ADF asks US Supreme Court to uphold freedom of churches to meet in NYC public schools
(Press Release, Alliance Defending Freedom)
This is what limiting religious groups on campus does to some colleges
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Lawsuit: Inmate not allowed to worship Satan
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Nigerian Bishops: ‘Stop playing politics, protect innocent citizens’
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)
Jordanian cleric Abu Qatada acquitted of terror charges
(Al Jazeera America)
Jordan acquits radical cleric of terrorism charges
(Karin Laub, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Teen prepares for major court battle with atheists over God and the Pledge: ‘It is not their right to silence me’
(Billy Hallowell, The Blaze)
Disputes over religion return to Supreme Court
(Richard Wolf, USA Today)
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