Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 4 October 2013
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)
British Education: Creeping Sharia
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
Religious order files HHS lawsuit; Catholic college joins another suit
(St. Louis Review)
Obamacare mandates threaten religious freedom: Column
(John Kennedy, USA Today)
Catholic clerics mugged at gunpoint in Central African Republic
(World Watch Monitor)
Charter of Quebec Values: Women’s coalition calls for calm, respect
(Katherine Wilton and Kevin Dougherty, The Montreal Gazette)
Indonesia: Letter to Obama ahead of summit urges him to raise religious freedom concerns
(Christian Today)
Religion carries weight in decisions about marriage and kids
(Herb Scribner, Deseret News)
Egypt's defense minister warns of religious conflict
(APA)
Political, religious leaders hold conference on navigating health care reform
(Danny Kelleher, The Daily Northwestern)
Religious speaker responds to controversy
(Divya Kumar, The Oracle)
Arab countries drafting religious defamation law to prosecute non-resident violators
(Business Standard)
College students evenly split among religious, spiritual, secular
(Jamshid Ghazi Askar, Deseret News)
Catholics continue to have lowest divorce rates, report finds
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
India: 'Religious leaders should look beyond rituals, places of worship'
(Times of India)
There’s a time and a place for religion in college
(Lauren Thompson, The Buchtelite)
Skeptics wonder if ex-clergy should lead atheist movements
(Ken Chitwood, Religion News Service)
Meet the ‘Nominals’ who are drifting from Judaism and Christianity
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
Judge won't recuse self in archdiocese's cemetery trust case
(Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel)
In Scotland, nonreligious surpass the Church of Scotland
(Trevor Grundy, Religion News Service)
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Quebec: Violence against Muslim women on the rise, group says
(CBC News Montreal)
Death and Somalia – OpEd
(Margaret Kimberley, Eurasia Review)
EVENT, 1-2 October 2013, "Jewish Life and Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Europe," Conference in Budapest
(The Lantos Foundation and the Tom Lantos Institute)
EVENT, 2-4 October 2013: International Symposium, The Governance of Religious Diversity. Territorial and Personal Law - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
(The research group Cultural Rights and Diversity (GIDD), University of Barcelona (Spain))
Jewish Life and Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Europe
(Conference Agenda, Tom Lantos Institute)
For Nairobi Jews, mall attack undermines already fragile sense of security
(Cnann Liphshiz, JTA)
Coming soon on Big Questions Online
(Ansley Roan, John Templeton Foundation)
Hobby Lobby called out for absence of Hanukkah goods, alleged slur
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Hungary vows to ‘crack down’ on Antisemitism
(JNS News Service, Jewish Press)
European Council passes anti-ritual circumcision resolution
(Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, Jewish Press)
Ban on gay propaganda won't affect sexual minorities' rights - Naryshkin
(Interfax)
Council of Muftis complain to U.S. reps about disrespect for Muslims in Russia
(Interfax)
Captain America’s turban * A Jewish Pope? * Shutdown Theology: Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Religious expert on the offer to destroy churches in the Arabian Peninsula: Wahabis got cocky
(Interfax)
Al-Qaeda claims Timbuktu suicide bombing
(Magharebia)
Al-Qaeda terror returns to Kenya
(Irfan Al-Alawi, Gatestone Institute)
Bahrain jails 4 Shiites 15 years over a bomb
(Ahram Online)
Kazakhstan: Threats, fear, and independent mosque closures
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
What do Millennials really seek from religion?
(Dana Sand, USA Today)
Judges weigh religious exemption for health care law
(Frederic J. Frommer, The Sedgwick County Post)
Supreme Court considers two cases involving religious liberties
(The Daily Caller)
Amid violence, a religious center near Kenya’s stricken mall is symbol of compassion and unity
(The Washington Post)
Tripura to check religious structures on government land
(Business Standard)
Is Christian-owned Hobby Lobby boycotting Hanukkah?
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Three reasons the American church is ignoring Christian persecution
(Jonathan Merritt, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis fires a warning shot at church’s ‘top-down’ bureaucracy
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
10th Circuit requires strict notice for religious accommodation, ruling in favor of Abercrombie & Fitch
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Anti-gay pastor announces plans to run for Governor of Mass.
(Edge)
NJ rabbi's money-laundering sentence affirmed
(San Francisco Gate)
Court backs Arizona on use of taxpayer-funded 'scholarships' to send kids to private schools
(Howard Fischer, Arizona Daily Star)
Suit on use of community rooms for religious programs settled
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Disgruntled church member can proceed on various claims against church and its personnel
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Myanmar govt vows to cooperate to prevent recurrence of racial, religious conflicts
(Global Times)
Little Sisters fight for religious freedom
(National Review Online)
Jewish Americans less religious but proud of identity, report finds
(Aljazeera America)
Turkey's democratization package proves disappointing for non-Muslim communities
(E. Bariş Altintaş, Today's Zaman)
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
A French debate: To shop or not to shop on Sunday?
(France 24)
Frank Schaefer, Pennsylvania pastor who officiated gay son's wedding, will face trial at Methodist panel
(James Nichols, Huff Post Gay Voices)
God is everywhere in Egypt
(Laura King, Los Angeles Times)
Persian Peace? * Mass Martyrdom * Erotic Sermons: Religious Freedom Recap: Sept. 23-30
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
Saintly Popes * Rent-a-Womb * Christians and Scientologists Together: Monday’s Religion News Roundup
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Turkey’s headscarf ban lifted in assault on the secular state
(Alexander Christie-Miller in Istanbul and Jenny Booth, The Times Europe)
Algeria cracks down on Syria-bound jihadists
(Walid Ramzi, Magharebia)
Moroccan al-Qaeda suspect caught in Europe
(Hassan Benmehdi, Magharebia)
Top Tunisia imam calls Eid strike
(Monia Ghanmi, Magharebia)
Suspicious fire guts two Israeli-owned kosher restaurants in Florida
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Recognize Yom Kippur as official holiday, Israel asks U.N.
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Council of Europe votes on circumcision as human rights violation
(Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, The Jewish Press)
"Pussy Riot" convicts vow to do no more scandalous shows in churches
(Interfax-Religion)
Tibet, at Mani prayer festival a new self-immolation against the Chinese occupation
(AsiaNews.it)
Jordanians arrested for supporting Egypt Islamists
(Ahram Online)
Saudi cleric warns driving could damage women's ovaries
(Mohammed Jamjoom, CNN News)
Pussy Riot defense lawyer is great grandson of the saint who was Patriarch Tikhon's cellarer
(Interfax-Religion)
How promotion of religious freedom can help prevent extreme violence
(Gwen Ifill, PBS)
Searching for the right religion in Sunraysia
(Fred Hooper, ABC Mildura-Swan Hill)
A scholar’s brush with religious ire
(Gordon Hardy, Harvard Gazette)
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