Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
In our opinion: Court should stand up for religion in public square
(Deseret News)
Faith-based education is a force for good
(Archbishop Richard Clarke, The Irish Times)
Gobble tov! American Jews ready for Thanksgivukkah
(Leanne Italie, My Fox NY)
Ex-Mormons aren’t ‘lazy or sinful,’ church leader Dieter Uchtdorf says
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, Religion News Service)
When Catholic schools fire gay teachers, laity push back
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Yale’s humanists lose bid for campus recognition
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Jewish feminists say they’d accept Western Wall prayer compromise
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
First Amendment does not protect diocese from discovery request
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ohio hospital can force Amish girl to resume chemotherapy, court rules
(CBS News)
Russian leader proposes inviting Indonesia to Geneva II conference
(Interfax)
In Belgrade Patriarch Kirill speaks of importance of Europe's Christian roots
(Interfax)
'Yid Army': Football teams' 'Jewish' identities questioned
(Hendrik Buchheister, Spiegel Online International)
Priest blames paganism for Povetkin's defeat
(Interfax)
Monday, 7 October 2013
As Saskatoon City Council considers prayer policy, should Regina follow suit?
(Vanessa Brown, The Leader-Post)
Azerbaijan's policy on religious is model for other countries: British MP
(Aynur Jafarova, Azer News)
City council in hot water for starting meetings with prayer
(Fox News)
Danish Jewry dwindling due in part to anti-Semitism, community leader says
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Give us this day, our daily Senate scolding
(Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times)
Hobby Lobby president says chain will carry Hanukkah items
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Is Buddhism a religion?
(Michael McGhee, The Guardian)
Judge admonished for publicly refusing to perform same-sex marriage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Kazan imam calls believers to boycott Elton John's concert
(Interfax)
Let religious freedom reign
(Patrick Dacey, Times Live)
Make your pick: Do Mainline Protestants need a new name?
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
Nebraska Supreme Court rules 16-year-old ‘not mature enough’ for abortion
(George Chidi, Raw Story)
No place for Jesus in RE, but there’s always Gandhi
(Cristina Odone, The Telegraph)
Pakistan: An Islamic country cannot protect its minors from sexual assault and the perpetrators enjoy impunity
(Asian Human Rights Commission)
Peres calls on Council of Europe to reconsider anti-circumcision resolution
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Religious freedom forum to offer advice to people of faith
(Baird Helegson, Star Tribune)
Religious institutions' pensions prove not guaranteed
(Associated Press, Daily Herald (New Jersey))
Religious leaders weigh in on government shutdown
(Herb Scribner, Deseret News)
Religious order urges action to stem chaos in Central African Republic
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service)
Russian military chaplains include two Muslims, one Buddhist
(Interfax)
Supreme Court won’t reconsider Montana decision to make Hutterites pay worker’s comp insurance
(The Washington Post)
Suspected recruiter of Hizb ut-Tahrir terror group arrested in Moscow
(Interfax)
The rabbi who brought religion into Israeli politics
(Noah Feldman, Bloomberg)
The religious alternative to Obamacare's individual mandate
(NPR)
Two Islamists convicted in Russia's Tatarstan
(Interfax)
Winners and losers in the Pew Research poll on American Jews
(Menachem Wecker, Religion News Service)
Women of the Wall agrees to pray in egalitarian space, with conditions
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
World religion classes in Columbia high schools broaden student horizons
(Jill Ornitz, KBIA)
Young Nepali Hindus becoming Catholic to stop discrimination
(Kalpit Parajuli, AsiaNews.it)
Sunday, 6 October 2013
A plea for civility at annual Red Mass in D.C.
(Tony Mauro, The Blog of Legal Times)
Global Islamic extremists wage war on Russian Federation – OpEd
(Brett Daniel Shehadey, Eurasia Review)
The promise and peril of Pope Francis
(Ross Douthat, The New York Times)
Saturday, 5 October 2013
The wave from Syria: Flow of refugees destabilizes Lebanon
(Samiha Shafy, Spiegel Online International)
Oregonians are spiritual, not necessarily religious
(The Daily Astorian)
Texas using non-teacher Creationists to review biology textbooks
(Michael Allen, Opposing Views)
For many U.S. Jews, religion not core of identity
(Rachel Zoll, Columbia Daily Tribune)
The religion of Australian politics
(Cardinal George Pell, The Daily Telegraph)
Spiritual but not religious? Path may still lead to Church
(John Longhurst, Winnipeg Free Press)
Stop writing epitaphs for the 'Religious Right'
(Abby Ohleheiser, The AltanticWire)
Friday, 4 October 2013
Bosnia holds first census since 1992-94 war, reviving ethnic and religious splits
(Daria Sito-Sucic)
An antidote to religious strife in Egypt: nationalism
(Monique El-Faizy, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 6-8 October 2013: Twentieth Annual International Law and Religion Symposium
(International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University)
The Tactical and Strategic Problems of Preemptive State Regulation of Religious Literature
(Chris Pieper, U Law Today)
Echmiadzin Journal: Armenian Church, survivor of the ages, faces modern hurdles
(David M. Herszenhorn, The New York Times)
A rabbi and a Palestinian farmer are neighbors, partners – and friends
(Margarida Santos Lopes, The Christian Science Monitor)
Xi Jinping hopes traditional faiths can fill moral void in China: sources
(Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard, Reuters)
Quebec’s coup d’etat against religious freedom
(Sean Murphy, Mercator Net)
Should schools teach about religions?
(Kevin Ryan, Mercator Net)
The meaning of martyrdom: Ways to bear witness
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Saudi cleric supports expansion of Grand Mosque
(Foreign staff, The Guardian)
How many people convert to Islam?
(J.D., The Economist explains)
More white evangelicals than American Jews say God gave Israel to the Jewish people
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center: Factank)
A medieval saint in modern times
(Kandice Rawlings, OUPblog)
‘Surprise’ release of Moroccan jailed for 30 months for evangelism
(World Watch Monitor)
Scrap Metal Act now in force – modified rapture!
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Military-political decisions and Christian witness
(Frank Turner SJ, EuropeInfos)
In contraceptive mandate case, court allows only limited delay for DOJ because of government shut-down
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Youths burn church, riot in Kenya's Mombasa after imam killed
(Joseph Akwiri, Reuters UK)
Tunisian Jews are fearful following attacks, rights group says
(News Brief, JTA)
Saskatoon shifts to non-specific religious prayer, but fight not over for atheist who made complaint
(Sarah Boesveld, National Post)
12 “blasphemous” artworks censored or vandalized by angry believers
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
Myanmar Muslims hide amid deadly sectarian clashes
(Khin Maung Win and Robin McDowell, Associated Press, ABC News)
Judicial Watch asks: Why did the Air Force Academy remove "God" from its inductee oath?
(Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times)
Insight: Saudi Arabia boosts Salafist rivals to al Qaeda in Syria
(Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Reuters)
Syria's top five insurgent leaders
(Joshua Landis, Syria Comment)
Ethnicity cannot be listed as Israeli, Supreme Court in Israel rules
(News Brief, JTA)
Vatican considers establishment of national ecclesiastical tribunals to deal with clerical sex-abuse cases
(Andrea Tornielli, Vatican Insider)
Should humanist groups seek church status ?
(Peter J Reilly, Forbes)
IRS asks for input on Form 1023 used by applicants for non-profit tax status
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
UK Charity Commission permits Hamas charity
(Samuel Westrop, Gatestone Institute)
Some businesses balk at gay weddings
(Nathan Koppel and Ashby Jones, The Wall Street Journal)
Bangladeshi Christians told to close church, convert to Islam
(World Watch Monitor, Christian Today)
George and Barbara witness a wedding: When a private act sends a public message
(Albert Mohler, Religion Today)
Kazakhstan: Offences a pretext for deportation?
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
A portrait of Jewish Americans
(Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project)
10th Circuit tells district court to abate proceedings in contraceptive mandate case until SCOTUS disposes of Hobby Lobby
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Muslim schoolboys banned from lessons for refusing to shave
(Rhiannon Williams, The Telegraph)
Lost in Syria's black hole for doing their jobs
(Human Rights Watch)
Supreme Court poised to turn right in 2013 term
(Richard Wolf, USA Today)
Update: Hobby Lobby apologizes for Hanukkah flap
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Poll: Catholics agree with Pope Francis that church is ‘obsessed’ with moral issues
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
NY Methodist Hospital not religious institution for ministerial exception doctrine or RFRA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Circumcision is here to stay
(Dr. Aviad Hacohen, Israel Hayom)
Bridgewater ordered to re-examine mosque plans without controversial ordinance
(Bill Wichert, NJ.com)
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Indonesia: Islamist militants block the construction of a Catholic church that has a valid permit
(Agenzia Fides)
Morocco organises interfaith debate
(Siham Ali in Fez, Magharebia)
Western Wall rabbi to Haredi girls: Avoid plaza for Women of the Wall service
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
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