Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 10 April 2014
Judges in Utah gay marriage case question lawyers
(NIcholas Riccardi, Associated Press, ABC News)
Same-sex marriage in Utah now in federal judges' hands
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News)
All eyes of the nation focused on the 10th Circuit Court
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News National Edition)
Islamabad-Pakistan Taliban peace talks: Shifting focus to Afghanistan
(Halimullah Kousary, RSIS Commentaries)
Religious freedom issues in Russia
(Human Rights Without Frontiers)
Gay marriage battle moves back to courts
(David Masci, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)
Do same-sex couples have right to wed? Appeals court hears first post-DOMA case
(Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor)
Same-sex marriage battle escalates to force Supreme Court decision on constitutionality
(Robert Barnes, The Washington Post Politics)
Understanding the arguments before the Tenth Circuit in Utah's Marriage Amendment 3 case, Part 1
(Bill Duncan, The Sutherland Institute, YouTube)
Understanding the arguments before the Tenth Circuit in Utah's Marriage Amendment 3 case, Part 2
(Bill Duncan, The Sutherland Institute, YouTube)
Is the Internet bad for religion?
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Is the internet really killing religion in the US?
(Andrew Brown, The Guardian)
Missouri court denies TRO to prevent same-sex couples' joint tax filings
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
As riot-hit Indian region votes, religious divide favors Hindu leader
(Frank Jack Daniel and Manoj Kumar, Reuters)
A Narendra Modi victory would bode ill for India, say Rushdie and Kapoor
(Jason Burke, The Guardian)
BDS campaigners at Cornell try stealth resolution
(Stuart Winer, The Times of Israel)
Religious atheists? Maria Greene on Unitarian Universalist Humanists
(Chris Stedman, RNS Blog: Faitheist)
Miliband calls Israel ‘Jewish homeland,’ won’t say he’s a Zionist
(Raphael Ahren, The Times of Israel)
The challenge of religious freedom
(Noah Aronin, The Times of Israel)
What Germany owes the Jews
(David Horovitz, The Times of Israel)
U.S. designates Sinai group that attacked Israel as terrorist
(JTA)
West Bank settlers derided as terrorists for turning on their own army
(Joshua Mitnick, The Christian Science Monitor)
Hungarian Jewish leader resigns to protest state's Holocaust commemorations
(JTA, The New York Jewish Week)
UK: Jihadists as "charity workers"
(Samuel Westrop, Gatestone Institute)
Mickey Rooney and faith: Hollywood legend's belief in Christ
(Compiled by Kandra Polatis, Deseret News National Edition)
Jesus’ wife * Evangelical courtship * Pastafarians rejoice: Thursday’s Roundup
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Papyrus referring to Jesus’ wife is more likely ancient than fake, scientists say
(Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times)
Militant Islamic cleric faces U.S. trial on terrorism charges
(Joseph Ax, Reuters)
Islamic political parties make a comeback in Indonesian election
(Ben Otto and Sara Schonhardt, The Wall Street Journal)
Egypt steps up campaign to control mosques
(Tom Perry, Reuters)
Russia: (readers of Said Nursi) "Tired of the unjust treatment of the books, ourselves, and our loved ones"
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)
Free clothes, double rooms and no vote: the life of a North Korea member of parliament
(AsiaNews.it)
Christians ask for less police checkpoints in Jerusalem during Easter celebrations
(AsiaNews.it)
Authorities grab Protestant church in Bishkek, angering faithful who turn to the courts
(AsiaNews.it)
Archbishop of Orissa: Today's vote "worries Christians. But we believe in democracy"
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Losing our religion: On "retaining" young people in the Orthodox Church
(Seraphim Danckaert, Orthodoxy Heterodoxy - doctrine matters)
EVENT, 10 April 2014: Follow the 7th Fundamental Rights Platform meeting live online!
(‘Future fundamental rights priorities in the area of freedom, security and justice – The contribution of civil society’, Held in Vienna, 13:00 CET)
Inside the Mormon Church's online-only missionary army
(Bianca Bosker, Huff Post Religion)
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
ACLU seeks swift ruling to grant freedom to marry to same-sex couples in North Carolina
(ACLU of North Carolina)
After decades of decline, a rise in stay-at-home mothers
(D'Vera Cohn, Gretchen Livingston, and Wendy Wang, Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends)
After World Vision, evangelicals debate boundaries over sexuality
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Banning traditional animal slaughter, Denmark stokes religous ire
(Sidsel Overgarrd, NPR - All Things Considered)
Black Hebrews: Police called us Sudanese, told us to leave Israel
(The Jerusalem Post)
Egypt’s new laws: The stifling of opposition
(M.R., The Economist [Pomegranate: The Middle East])
Evangelism booms, Catholicism suffers in post-genocide Rwanda
(Stephanie Aglietti, AFP, Yahoo! News)
Future of Quebec's separatist party in doubt
(Bejamin Shingler, The Big Story)
Indonesia's Islamic parties surprise with strong showing in election
(Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi, Reuters)
Pastafarians rejoice as Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is granted permission to register as a religion in Poland
(Heather Saul, The Independent)
Profiling rules said to give F.B.I. tactical leeway
(Matt Apuzzo, The New York Times)
Saudi Arabia moves to allow girls to play sports in school
(Al Jazeera America)
Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an
(Juliane Hammer, Religion & Politics)
Ukraine Holocaust monument vandalized with swastikas
(JTA Telegraph)
US and the Middle East: The great problem that needs to be solved
(Elliott Abrams, Gatestone Institute)
Venezuela formally invites Vatican to mediate talks to end protests
(Ezequiel Minaya and Kejal Vyas, The Wall Street Journal)
Will the latest Catholic Mass translation get another overhaul?
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Solidarity and separation: Religious spirit and the Euromaidan
(Irina Papkova, The Revealer)
Turmoil at Al-Azhar: Religion, politics, and the Egyptian State
(Jared Maisin, The Revealer)
Supreme Court declines free speech, gay marriage case
(Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)
County drops bid to turn church into bar
(Press Release / Brad Dacus, Pacific Justice Institute)
China’s ‘lost Jews’ discover their faith
(Patrick Boehler, South China Morning Post)
Quebec election results scuttle controversial parts of proposed Charter of Quebec Values
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pauline Marois loses riding then resigns, as Quebec Liberals hand Parti Québécois a stunning defeat
(Graeme Hamilton, National Post)
California court declines to hear case, saying it should be brought in Iran instead
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy via The Washington Post)
U.S. defends cross, but urges delay
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
More challenges to the Affordable Care Act percolating in D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
(Jessica Mason Pieklo, RH Reality Check)
Philippine Supreme Court upholds most of country's controversial Reproductive Health Act
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
President signs bill granting pension funding flexibility to charities
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Chadian withdrawal leaves CAR's Muslims exposed
(France 24 International News)
Infographic: Jesus more popular than Mao on China’s Twitter
(Bethany Allen, Tea Leaf Nation)
Electoral politics, Erdoğan’s ambitions, and democratic struggles in Turkey
(Güneş Murat Tezcür, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs)
Transgender student denied on-campus male housing at Christian university
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Brandeis cancels plan to give honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a critic of islam
(Richard Pérez-Peña and Tanzina Vega, The New York Times)
Brandeis University’s double standard on honorary degrees
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy via The Washington Post)
Brandeis withdraws honor for Ayaan Hirsi Ali
(Al Jazeera America)
Parliamentary considerations of slavery
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Archbishop welcomes draft modern slavery bill
(Justin Welby, The Archbishop of Canterbury)
Occupied Crimea faces questions of religious liberty
(Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Indonesia: Christian and Muslim women unite for peace in Sulawesi
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
Pyongyang arrests scores for "religious activities", questions 100 people who could end up in concentration camps
(AsiaNews.it)
RNS EVENT, 9 April 2014: Journalism between red lines: Religion reporting in a world of conflict
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Catholic schools can't force student to attend mass, court rules
(Louise Brown, Toronto Star)
UN envoy raises alarm on abuses against Rohingya
(Robin McDowell, ABC News)
Pakistan: 1,000 minority girls forced in marriage every year: report
(Anwar Iqbal, Dawn)
The Indian elections
(V. Mitchell, Arab News)
Diverse analyses of changing Russian law on religion
(Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Chick-fil-A wings in new direction after gay flap
(Bruce Horovitz, USA Today, Religion News Service)
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
4 Pakistani Christians now on death row
(SRN News)
5 reasons religious Millennials aren’t marrying
(Corrie Mitchell, Faith Street)
Another South Korean superlative: Most draft dodgers in prison
(Donald Kirk, The Christian Science Monitor)
Bishop: Ukrainian Church battling to remain legal in Crimea
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic Herald UK)
Is Al Qaeda winning? Grading the administration’s counterterrorism policy
(Benjamin Wittes, Brookings)
Marginalized Indian Muslims ambivalent at election time
(Brianna Sacks, Mint Press News)
Op-Ed: ‘Occupied territories’ is a flawed and biased term
(Alan Baker, JTA)
Op-Ed: The West Bank is under military occupation, and that’s a fact
(Jessica Montell, JTA)
Playing politics with religious freedom: Mississippi and RFRA
(Aaron Weaver, APB News / Herald Blog)
Religious freedom is a human right — for family businesses too
(Paolo Carozza, The Hill)
Senate set to vote on bomination of radical Michelle T. Friedland for 9th Circuit judge; AFA says she disregards Constitution,will trample religious liberties
(Mel Fabrikant, The Paramus Post)
The three-part structure of RFRA's operative provision and the timing of the government's RFRA violations in Hobby Lobby & Conestoga Wood Specialties
(Kevin Walsh, Mirror of Justice)
Toleration dilemmas: Noise and clamour (the Mozilla furor)
(S.M., The Economist [Democracy in America])
Warm welcome for Peres in China
(Greer Fay Cashman, The Jerusalem Post)
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