Law and Religion Headlines
Saturday, 7 December 2013
ACLU file complaint over high school choirs singing in church concert
(GreatFalls Tribune)
Muslim vigilantes jailed for 'sharia law' attacks in London
(Sam Jones, The Guardian)
Dallas theater called to task for blasphemy against Virgin Mary, Bible
(Christian News Wire)
Zambia: Illegal churches face deregistration
(Sarah Tembo, All Africa)
Police seek public help to find shooter of Amish horse
(Amish America)
Pakistan: Sharia court rules blasphemers can only be punished with death penalty
(AsiaNews.it)
One of the oldest mosques in Russia returned to faithful
(AsiaNews.it)
Judge orders Colorado baker to serve gay couples
(Ivan Moreno, AP, NBC News)
Santa trumps the Grinch under Texas’ new Merry Christmas law
(Anna M. Tinsley, Star-Telegram)
Colorado Civil Rights Commission initial decision holds bakery violated law in refusing cake for same-sex wedding
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Friday, 6 December 2013
“Merry Christmas,” the “plastic reindeer rule,” and all that
(Richard Ostling, Patheos Blog: Religion Q&A)
Why businesses should have religious rights
(Jacob Sullum, New York Post)
The priest who faced down the federal government — and won
(Mark Mueller, the Star-Ledger, Religion News Service)
Expelling Santa from school? Holiday observance in a politically correct age
(Celia R. Baker, Deseret News National Edition)
Vatican, Oxford uploading ancient religious texts online
(Herb Scribner, Deseret News National Edition)
Malaysia ruling party tightens embrace of Islam to gain support
(Stuart Grudgings, Reuters)
France: Muslim woman sues over burqa ban
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
Nelson Mandela and 'the foundations of one's spiritual life' (+video)
(Robert Marquand, The Christian Science Monitor)
Shaped by Methodists, Mandela paid tribute to the role of religion
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Madiba's religions, Nobel of dialogue
(MISNA)
On Religion and Apartheid-- As World Mourns Nelson Mandela
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Nelson Mandela death: The man who destroyed apartheid
(Sumi Khan, World Crime and Investigative News)
Bangladesh between 'secularism' and fundamentalism
(Willy Fautré, World Crime and Investigative News)
White House promotes its international human rights agenda
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Libyan assembly votes to follow Islamic law
(reporting by Firas Bosalum; writing by Patrick Markey; editing by Janet Lawrence, Reuters)
Turkish leaders want to convert the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque
(Jacob Resneck, Religion News Service)
Noted convert in Egypt arrested, likely tortured
(Morning Star News)
Missing Syrian nuns appear on Al Jazeera video
(Nina Shea, National Review Online)
Lessons in Religious Freedom: The Catholic Minority in Modern Japan
(Kevin M. Doak, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs)
Armenia: Building places of worship "not appropriate"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Obama wrong to deport home school family seeking religious freedom
(Bob Siegel, Washington Times (blog))
Pope Francis launches commission to tackle sex abuse
(David Gibso, Religion News Service)
Proposal in Ohio State Legislature would allow Jesus into public schools
(Courtney Nunes, Opposing Views - Religion)
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Attacks on churches and mosques in Russia on the rise
(Mairbek Vatchagaev, Jamestown Foundation, RefWorld)
Halki Seminary will remain closed until the mosque in Athens opened: AKP official
(Doğan News Agency, Hürriyet Daily News)
Report available: Women & Human Rights in Israel-Palestine
(Institute for Global Engagement)
Tracking Central Asians' trails to jihad in Syria
(Ron Synovitz and Elenora Beishenbek, EurasiaNet)
Indonesia court sentences 14 Rohingya from Myanmar to 9 months in jail for brawl that killed 8
(Associated Press, Worldwide Religious News)
The Pilling Report, the CofE and human sexuality
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Islamic extremists kill at least 71 Christians in Nigeria
(Morning Star News)
Deputy Milonov proposes easing receipt of Russian citizenship for "spiritually insulted" Europeans
(Interfax-Religion)
Christian care worker loses Sunday working discrimination appeal - Richard Wayman
(1 Crown Office Row, UK Human Rights Blog)
Court of Appeal recognises in law Sunday as Christian rest day
(Christian Concern)
Turkey’s secret 'ancestry codes' track non-Muslim minorities
(Orhan Kemal Cengiz, Al-Monitor)
Armenia releases all imprisoned Jehovah’s Witnesses
(Jehovah's Witnesses Newsroom)
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Egypt's new draft constitution heading toward referendum, including provisions on religion
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Kansas City car dealer gets injunction in Obamacare contraception suit
(Brianne Pfannenstiel, Kansas City Business Journal)
Missing nuns, missing details, in Maaloula (updated)
(Terry Mattingly, Patheos Blog: Get Religion)
UK Parliament is told Christianity is ‘most persecuted religion’
(World Watch Monitor)
Final Summary Report on the RELIGARE Project
RELIGARE Final Booklet on 'Messages to inform policy-making'
Hymn-books, projectors and copyright &c
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
The movies and biblical epics of Cecil B. DeMille
(William D. Romanowski, OUPblog)
The Cross, culture and the law: Onward secular soldiers (on Gedicks and Annicchino)
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Cross, Crucifix, Culture: An Approach to the Constitutional Meaning of Religious Symbol
(Frederick Mark Gedicks and Pasquale Annichino, SSRN)
Russia: Alternatives to "extremism" charges to punish freedom of religion or belief
(Geraldine Fagan, Forum 18 News Service)
Tajikistan: Have "suspended" Islamic schools been closed down?
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Hearing on challenge to Utah's same-sex marriage ban
(Brady McCombs, Associated Press)
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Alleged Sydney anti-Semitic attacker pleads not guilty
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Bishops Sued * Muslims Grounded * Pope Bounced: Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Bishops sued over anti-abortion policies at Catholic hospitals
(Erik Eckholm, International New York Times)
Chabad menorah in Utah vandalized
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Court orders Minnesota dioceses to release information on credibly accused priests
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Croatians approve constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Idaho Supreme Court: Mormon church owed no special duty to child injured at church organized camp out
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge to rule again on controversial sale of Hopi masks in Paris
(Thomas Adamson, AP, Worldwide Religious News)
Kansas school bans fliers with Bible verses
(Matt Sharp | Jeremy Tedesco, Alliance Defending Freedom)
Minaret built in Georgian village at night
(Interfax-Religion)
Notre Dame sues over birth control mandate
(Tom Coyne, AP, Worldwide Religious News)
Only a little pork in the soup: Can religious beliefs be put on hold?
(Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities)
Pro-marriage equality protesters fined one cent for trespassing
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Reward pledged in Tatarstan for info on church arsonists
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Orthodox church urges inquiry into religious cult
(RIA Novosti, Worldwide Religious News)
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Obamacare by Christian university
(Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor)
Swiss alderman seeks ban on Hanukkah ceremony
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Temple Mount closed after Jewish-Muslim brawl
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Tunisia creates new anti-terrorism body
(Monia Ghanmi, Magharebia)
Monday, 2 December 2013
Challenge to ACA employer mandate fails
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
Equality, Christianity and who decides on human rights – the Human Rights Roundup
(Celia Rooney, UK Human Rights Blog)
Jailed Bahraini Shia activist denied early release
(Ahram Online)
Jewish activists set sights on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, raising alarm in Muslim world
(William Booth and Ruth Eglash, Washington Post)
Maaloula: Islamist rebels abduct 12 nuns from the St Thecla Orthodox monastery
(AsiaNews.it)
North Sumatra: Hundreds of Islamists attack Protestant community during prayer service
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
Obamacare attacks religion, but hurts women: Column
(Helen Alvare, USA Today)
Orissa: fears over new Hindu temple built in front of Catholic church
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Religion in Japan: Unity and Diversity
(Andrew Lee, The Japan Times)
Sri Lanka Catholic priest gets death threats from fake intelligence officers
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
Suit by anti-Catholic group challenges IRS revocation of its non-profit status
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Has Angola banned Islam? Not yet, at least
(Syahredzan Johan, The Star Online)
Spiritual Human Rights 2013 Conference - Copenhagen - 10th December 2013
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom)
Religious Freedom: A 21st Century Paradigm
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Defending religious freedom from Obamacare
(Matthew S. Bowman, The Washington Times)
Sunday, 1 December 2013
Address of churches and religious organizations on EU integration of Ukraine
(Institute for Religious Freedom (Ukraine))
Armenia offers alternative civilian service to conscientious objectors
(Jehovah's Witnesses Newsroom)
Echoing John the Baptist at Advent
(Philip H. Pfatteicher, OUPblog)
EU condemns Ukraine excessive force against protestors
(Eurasia Review)
Large Europe majorities for assisted suicide: survey
(Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor, Reuters)
New U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, Kenneth F. Hackett, presents credentials to Pope Francis
(Zenit)
Religion and law round-up – 1st December
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
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