Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Religious freedom and business
(RGJ.com)
‘Celebrate Freedom Week’ raises cheers and eyebrows
(Brad Cooper, The Kansas City Star)
League City residents discuss prayer in council meetings
(Jennifer Bauer, Click2Houston)
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Questions follow acid attack on British women in Zanzibar
(Katrin Bennhold, The New York Times)
Mormons, anti-Mormons, and anti-anti-Mormons
(S. Brent Plate, Huff Post Religion)
Tunisian Islamists, secularists gird for rival shows of strength
(Tarek Amara, Reuters)
New book recounts church gardening as peacemaking ministry
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Curfew in Colombo as tensions rise after mosque attack
(AFP, Emirates 24/7)
Military chaplains weathering 'front wave' of culture shift
(Mike Ebert, Baptist Press)
Jean Bethke Elshtain, a political scientist unafraid to talk God, has died
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Jean Bethke Elshtain, scholar of religion and political philosophy, 1941-2013
(Susie Allen, UChicago News)
Police launch hate crimes probe of Toronto Arab leader
(The Jewish Press)
America's oldest synagogue and first congregation wrestle over sale of Torah finial bells
(Associated Press, Haaretz)
Why the Palestinian prisoner release mattered
(Karl Vick, Time World)
On the eve of talks, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators get ready for an unlikely deal
(Ilene Prusher, Time World)
Israel frees 26 Palestinian prisoners, but approves 952 new settlements
(AsiaNews.it)
‘Islamic militants’ gun down 56 in Nigerian mosque
(The Jewish Press)
Does belief in free will make us better people
(Jonathan Schooler, Big Questions Online)
'The glass ceiling is incredibly low for Muslim women'
(The Guardian)
Papua: soldier damage St Mary Magdalene Parish Church
(Mathias Haryadi, AsiaNews.it)
Offering Eid prayers: Not a given for everyone
(Danish Hussain, The Express Tribune)
In Rwanda, first lady opens Adventist Church’s International Women’s Congress
(Jean Pierre Bucyensenge, Adventist News Network)
Another contraceptive coverage mandate challenge; DOJ wants Gilardi to be test case in DC circuit
(Catholic News Live)
Xinjiang, Uyghurs sentenced to death for "terrorism"
(AsiaNews.it)
Marijuana legalization is freedom of religion cause
(Eliyahu Federman, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Students rate 'looking good' as more important than religion
(The Irish Examiner)
Why are almost all Wisconsin voucher schools religious?
(Jack Craver, The Capital Times)
The George Washington University Law School National Religious Freedom Moot Court Competition
White House responds to Romeike petition: Understands why parents value freedom to homeschool
(Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post)
Millennials will save marriage
(Chris Marlink, Marriage Generation)
Buddhism beyond the nation state
(Richard Payne, OUPblog)
Court permits 40 solar panels on “Arts and Crafts” church
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Britain denounces attack on mosque that killed 44 in northeast Nigeria
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Gays are not guaranteed the right to wed in church
(Anita Creamer, The Sacramento Bee)
Dissecting political correctness
(Stella Morabito, The Witherspoon Institute (Public Discourse Blog))
State Department finds religion, but whose?
(Melani Mcalister, Religion Dispatches)
Another contraceptive coverage mandate challenge; DOJ wants Gilardi to be test case in DC Circuit
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause blog)
Pastor Donnie McClurkin 'uninvited' from MLK Memorial Concert over 'ex-gay' testimony?
(Nicola Menzie, The Christian Post)
'Coercion test' could preserve religious freedom
(Robert Knight, Townhall.com)
French police arrest soldier for mosque attack plan
(The Jewish Press)
Israeli team fined for not playing Davis Cup match on Yom Kippur
(The Jewish Press)
Monday, 12 August 2013
Fresh Myanmar clashes signal growing Muslim desperation
(Andrew R.C. Marshall, Reuters)
Islamist Nour Party to help shape new Egyptian constitution
(Shaimaa Fayed, Reuters)
Invoking God in America
(Joseph Margulies, Los Angeles Times)
Note from across the pond: Church-state separation isn’t for everyone
(Linda Woodhead, Religion Dispatches)
French Muslims fear surge in attacks by far-right militants
(reporting by Chine Labbe; writing by Catherine Bremer; editing by Mark Heinrich, Reuters)
Monday’s Religion News Roundup: Baby Messiah * Islam Nation * Phone Heaven
(Religion News Service)
Identity, religion, migration: Three British Asians in conversation
(Web Desk, The International Herald Tribune)
US State Department Faith Chief is good fit – OpEd
(William Donohue, Eurasia Review)
Tajikistan Islamic Renaissance Party claims that govt scheming against it
(Interfax)
Nigeria: Jonathan is playing ethnic and religious politics – El-rufai
(Wale Odunsi, Daily Post)
Sports and civil religion (guest post by Robert Greene)
(Ben Alpers, U.S. Intellectual History Blog)
Ethiopia: Where’s the religious freedom movement headed? – OpEd
(Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, Eurasia Review)
Syria: Vows of ‘occupation until martyrdom’ – OpEd
(Franklin Lamb, Eurasia Review)
Sri Lanka: Government shuts mosque after Buddhist monk violence
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
Korea: Health of Christian missionary held in Pyongyang labour camp deteriorates
(AsiaNews.it)
Anti-Catholic Facebook pages worry Latino communities
(Catholic News Agency)
Embassies open, but Yemen stays on terror watch
(Eric Schmitt, The New York Times)
France arrests soldier over attack on mosque
(Xinhuanet)
5 facts about religion-related terror, as two U.S. outposts remain closed
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Parents sue Mass. school district for anti-Semitic bullying of son
(JTA)
Support grows for fired gay Catholic schoolteacher
(Lilly Fowler, Religion News Service)
How to push back against our culture’s anti-religious secularism
(Ashby D. Boyle II, JD PhD, Meridian Magazine)
Court ordered religion: Is it constitutional?
(Article 3)
India: Omar trying to divide people on religion: PDP
(The Hindustan Times)
Serbian religious experts advise continued diligence to avoid conflicts
(Ivana Jovanovic, Southeast European TImes)
Where the godless don't go
(Tiffany Gee Lewis, The Guardian (UK))
Physics prof a victim of ‘double standard’ in academia
(Bob Kellog, One News Now)
Religious freedom arguments in the abortion debate
(Eoin Daly, Human Rights in Ireland)
Court battle over who is Bishop of Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina after schism
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
A pulpit for bullies
(Anthony Esolen, The Witherspoon Institute (Public Discourse Blog))
Bangladesh activist who posted news about Islamist massacre arrested
(Sumon Corraya, AsiaNews.it)
A Presbyterian problem: Spoiling the wrath
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Pakistani Christians ensure police arrest key murder suspect
(World Watch Monitor)
Religion and law round up – 11th August
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Proposed Amendment to s25 Burial Act 1857
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
NJ judge to hear gay marriage case on DOMA ruling
(Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press)
Contraception mandate applies to business: Our view
(The Editorial Board, USATODAY)
Religious freedom? Mostly not.
(Robert Hunt, Patheos)
Partisan fighting spells trouble for church insurance under Obamacare
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post)
'No Muslim parking' signs prompt outrage at Westview shopping center in Texas
(Katherine Bindley, Huffington Post Religion)
Israel staying mum on airstrike near Egyptian border
(JTA)
Buddhist-majority countries just as complicated as Muslim-majority
(Haroon Moghul, Religion Dispatches)
Evangelical ‘messy middle’ is more accepting of gays
(Corrie Mitchell, Religion News Service)
Assemblies of God defies denominational decline
(Mark I. Pinsky, The Washington Post)
Israel tennis team fined $13K for Yom Kippur boycott
(The Jewish Daily Forward)
Tenn. Judge rules baby can't be named 'Messiah'
(ABC News)
Parents say son bullied, sue Carver school officials
(Maria Papadopoulos, Patriot Ledger)
Jerusalem’s Temple Mount reopens to Jews post-Ramadan, but freedom of worships remains elusive at holy site
(The Algemeiner)
Ministry of Interior Affairs hearing on Temple Mount Prayer
(Kochava Rozenbaum, Israel National News)
What's prayer got to do with it?: Local atheist group protests religious invocations at City Council meetings
(Ashley Gebb, ChicoER News)
U.S. welcomes all religions
(Joseph H. Whaley, Knoxnews.com)
Vatican religious prefect: Gender inequality exists in church
(Joshua J. McElwee, National Catholic Reporter)
“Burka Avenger”: Pakistan’s middle class gets a feminist cartoon
(M. Sophia Newman, Religion Dispatches)
Inmates sue Greene County sheriff, deputies for religious discrimination
(KBIA)
Religious freedom applies to businesses
(Mark Rienzi, USA Today)
Sunday, 11 August 2013
British Equalities Office implements long process to implement ban on caste discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Buddhists attack Sri Lankan mosque, 12 Injured
(Ranga Sirilal & Shihar Aneez, Reuters)
Egypt's affluent uneasy with mix of politics, Islam
(Amro Hassan, Los Angeles Times)
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