Law and Religion Headlines


Friday, 6 September 2013

Leading religious scholar (Eboo Patel) to speak at President's Associates dinner
(The Oklahoma Daily)

Letter: Marois can learn from federal government’s religious accommodation
(The Montreal Gazette)

Marriage bill threat to freedom of religion
(Ian Dunn, Scottish Catholic Observer)

NALT alliance says Not All (Christians are) Like That on homosexuality
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)

Parents' outrage as extremist US religious cult hand out creationist books and preach to kids at Scottish school
(Daily Record)

Pope Francis’ peace appeal for Syria marks Vatican’s return to global stage
(Alessandro Speciale, Religion News Service)

Prayer before football game causes controversy
(Megan Brantley, WRCBTV.com)

Quebec Liberals would enshrine religious neutrality of the state in charter
(Macleans)

Religious dating sites a detriment to a mixed culture society
(The Daily Cougar)

Religious leaders mad at media for aligning them to political parties
(Ghana Lately)

Russia calls for protection of Christian holy places in Maalula
(Interfax)

Russia: Six-month "extremism" sentence for St Petersburg Nursi reader
(Geraldine Fagan, Forum 18 News Service)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Gay marriage shows Constitution's genius
(Associated Press, Politico)

SRI LANKA: The debate on multiculturalism, uniculturalism and monoculturalism
(Dr Leonard Pinto, Asian Human Rights Commission)

Why isn’t the West getting any better at handling religious conflict? Or are we?
(Bill McKenzie, Dallas News: Texas Faith blog)

With Obamacare, business doesn’t have a prayer
(Mark Bowman, The Washington Times)

More on the Transparency of Lobbying (etc) Bill
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Thursday, 5 September 2013

Kabul: Taliban militants raid Shia mosque. Three wounded
(AsiaNews.it)

Nghe An: police crack down hard on Catholics protest
(Asianews.it)

Oman's government sues newspaper over story about gays
(Reuters)

Rabbis urge Congress to back Obama on Syria
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Mother Teresa quotes on the anniversary of her death
(Huff Post Religion)

Pledge of Allegiance Massachussetts court battle continues
(Jeffrey Macdonald, RNS, Huff Post Politics)

Shana tova * Evangelical opposition * Whites only: Thursday’s Religion News Roundup
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Commentary: Don’t surrender Islam to the Islamists
(Qanta Ahmed, Religion News Service)

Cold War politics and the world’s churches
(World Council of Churches, CrossMap)

WEA Secretary General urges religious liberty for Arab Christians at conference in Jordan
(Timothy K. Goropevsek, World Evangelical Alliance, CrossMap)

Test cases for the freedoms of religion and conscience
(Michael Brown, Townhall.com)

Brutality of Syrian rebels posing dilemma in West
(C.J. Chivers, The New York Times)

New from RFIA: “Religious Freedom Research in East and Southeast Asia”
(Stephen Bailey and Jiexia Zhai Autry, eds., The Review of Faith & International Affairs)

IGE to lead a delegation to Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar
(Institute for Global Engagement)

US Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives interview with Chris Seiple
(Venn Institute)

Afghan president decrees reserved parliamentary seat for Hindus, Sikhs
(Associated Press, Star Tribune)

German raid on home-schooling family draws condemnation
(Catholic News Agency)

Al-Qaeda-linked rebels attack Christian village in Syria
(RT)

Multiculturalism and Muslims in Britain and France
(Tariq Modood, Public Spirit)

United Kingdom: From multiculturalism to muscular liberalism? Faith and the future of integration
(Public Spirit)

In Macedonia, church construction draws a protest
(Klaudija Lutovska, Southeast European TImes)

End-of-life care and assisted suicide in Canada: recent developments
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Which bad Syria option do you prefer?
(Greg Myre, NPR Parallels)

Rosh Hashanah 2013: The Jewish New Year explained
(Huff Post Religion)

‘Don’t be afraid’ - funeral told of Seamus Heaney ’s last words
(Eoin Burke-Kennedy, The Irish Times)

Duma to consider bill depriving gay parents of parental rights
(Interfax)

Saudi Arabia must choose freedom
(Robert P. George and Katrina Lantos Swett, The Hill)

Israel orders school textbook publishers to remove sex education material
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)

'We are next': Greek Jews fear rise of far-right party
(Joanna Kakissis, NPR Parallels)

Dan Savage rails against Hawaii religious leader
(Honolulu Civil Beat)

Religious leaders call for peace in Syria
(Anya Sostek, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Saudi religious police face opposition to hire women
(Emirates 24/7)

Teachers’ union opposes Quebec's headwear ‘witch hunt’
(Ingrid Peritz, The Globe and Mail)

Religious studies enhances liberal education
(Spencer Lindsay, The Badger Herald)

Where do we draw the line on religious abuse?
(Roy Speckhardt, Huff Post Religion)

Test cases for the freedoms of religion and conscience
(Michael Brown, Town Hall)

Majority of Israelis support freedom of religion, marriage
(Adiv Sterman, The Times of Israel)

Reparative therapy defenders remain active
(Baptist Press)

Religion News in Brief
(Associated Press, The Washington Post – On Faith)

Iranian president's surprising message to Jews
(Daniel Burke and Mitra Mobasherat, CNN Belief Blog)

Kazakh activist released from pretrial detention
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)

Pope Colbert? * Banning Yoga * Hot Hasid: Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Fight erupts in Hollywood over religion in charter schools
(Uriel Heilman, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Sinai's St. Catherine's starves, monastery shuts down
(Mohannad Sabry for Al-Monitor, Almonitor)

Canada: Keeping religion (and atheism) out of public schools
(Chris Selley, National Post)

61% of Israelis: Separate state, religion
(Rabbi Levi Brackman, Jewish World)

Religion: UK courts failed to protect rights of Christian employee prevented from wearing cross at work
(Editor's choice, Xpert HR)

Freedom From Religion Foundation to investigate new complaints about 'religiosity' at Troy University
(Evan Belanger, All Alabama)

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne criticizes Quebec’s plan to restrict religious symbols — without directly naming province
(Canadian Press, National Post)

French high court set to rule on Scientology Case
(Rhonda Richford, The Hollywood Reporter)

Coptic Christians killed for ransom in Egypt
(Raymond Ibrahim, The Christian Post Opinion)

Kazakhstan: Atheist freed, but criminal case continues; Pastor transferred from psychiatric hospital
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Netanyahu in New Year’s message spotlights Jewish unity, Israeli democracy
(News Brief, JTA)

Dozens of ‘noisy’ churches silenced in Cameroon
(World Watch Monitor)

The Islamic world: Religion, Philosophy, Politics and History
(Abdallah Zbir, Morocco World News)

Mubarak to Morsi, Assad to Sisi: To rebel or not rebel? – OpEd
(Reza Pankhurst, New Civilisation)

India: New anti-Christian violence in Karnataka, but religious freedom non-negotiable for Sajan George
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)

Tongren, Guizhong: Religious affairs bureau interrupts house church gathering, detains preachers, requires church to join Three-Self Patriotic Movement
(China Aid)

Mass. Supreme Court weighs challenge to Pledge of Allegiance
(G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Religion News Service)

Religious freedom, beyond the First Amendment
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)

10 years after Gene Robinson, African Anglicans to take stock
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)

Tel Aviv eyeing way to let businesses open on Sabbath
(News Brief, JTA)

Ambiguous religion policy backfires on Tunisia's ruling Islamists
(Tom Heneghan, Reuters)

Jordan slams new Western Wall Plaza area for egalitarian prayer
(News Brief, JTA)

Legitimizing Israel's destruction
(Samuel Westrop, Gatestone Institute)

Adventists stage anti-abuse campaigns throughout South America
(Adventist News Network)

The changing face of Egyptian Constituent: 5 women and 20 Christians
(AsiaNews.it)

Diocese of Gallup in NM to file for reorganization
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Vegetarian inmate says he was told fish isn't meat
(Pat Eaton-Robb, Associated Press via ABC News)

Vermont federal court has general jurisdiction over New York diocese in abuse case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

President Obama announces intent to appoint Dr. James J. Zogby to USCIRF
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Gunmen kill 16 members of Shi'ite family in Iraq
(Kareem Raheem, Reuters)

Jordan calls ‘Women of the Wall’ prayer site an ‘attack on Islam’
(Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, The Jewish Press)

Arabs stone Temple Mount visitors, try to block Jewish entry
(Tazpit News Agency, The Jewish Press)

Five Saudi 'Qaeda' members go on trial in Yemen
(Ahram Online)

Iranian regime intensifies crackdown on Christians
(International Christian Concern, Religion Today)

Senate committee approves resolution authorizing U.S. strike on Syria
(Anne Gearan, Ed O’Keefe and William Branigin, The Washington Post)

Christians in Middle East: U.S. attack on Syria would be detrimental
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)

What will become of Syria?
(A Syrian priest, EuropeInfos)

Striking Syria: Illegal, immoral, and dangerous
(Phyllis Bennis, The Palestine Chronicle)

The Arab divide on Syria
(C. Raja Mohan, Observer Research Foundation via Eurasia Review)

Canon law, schools admission and the state
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

UK judges have breathed new life into Human Rights Convention, says former court president – Sanchita Hosali
(1 Crown Office Row, UK Human Rights Blog)

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