Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Lawyer on UK Churches: 'no legal grounds to resist' gay marriage
(Devan Jacobson, Digital Journal)
Longtime journalist Suarez surprised by religion’s role in 2012 election
(Chase Squires, University of Denver)
Military halts class teaching anti-Islam material
(Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press via Huffington Post)
Pew Forum Weekly Religion News Update
Protesters gather in Topeka to oppose ‘Religious Freedom’ bill
(Adam Strunk, The Kansas City Star)
Pursuing progress on human rights with Vietnam
(Dan Huynh, UNAVSA)
Religious liberty: Why a battle 1,700 years ago is relevant today
(Cindy Wooden, PilotCatholicNews.com)
Religious organizations try to change 3-Strikes law
(Nannette Miranda, ABC7)
Religious peace and tolerance in Mali: The other Ansar dine
(Brian Peterson, Think African Press)
Row flares between MEPs over human rights report (Cameron block EU accession to ECHR)
(Martin Banks, The Parliament)
Rural religious communities in Montana fighting state imposed labor law
(Associated Press, Fox News)
Salvatori Prize goes to advocate of religious liberty, Kevin "Seamus" Hasson
(The Heritage Foundation)
Secretary Sebelius on religious freedom protections
(Jeanne Monahan, FRC Blog)
Teacher says Catholic school fired her over IVF
(Associated Press, Fox News)
The Freedom From Religion Foundation targets cross on Rhode Island war memorial
(Matt Harrigan, Syracuse.com)
When there is peace among religions: OpEd
(Steve McSwain, Huffington Post Blog)
Will Rome be the new world capital for religious freedom?
(John Graz, Adventist News Network)
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
China plans to eradicate house churches
(Sarah Page, Compass Direct News)
A religious approach to Mideast peace
(Kenneth H. Carter, Tampa Bay Online)
Amnesty: Europe must fight anti-Muslim prejudice
(Angela Charlton, Associated Press)
Australia: Urge human rights improvements in Vietnam
(Human Rights Watch, AlertNet)
Azerbaijan: Waiting for state approval to sell religious books
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Bombers attack center in Christian area of Jos, Nigeria
(Compass Direct News)
California workplace religious freedom bill moves ahead
(The Daily Democrat)
Canada marks 30th anniversary of Charter of Rights and Freedoms
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Dalai Lama: World belongs to 'humanity,' not leaders
(Catherine Shoichet, CNN)
Gambia's president refuses to 'offend God for foreign aid' amid homosexual rights push
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Indonesia: Muslims, Catholics sign MoU on humanity
(Katharina R. Lestari, UCA News)
Mali: Confronting 'Talibanization' - the other Ansar Dine, popular Islam, and religious tolerance
(Brian J. Peterson, AllAfrica.com)
Marriage debate moves to North Carolina
(Thomas Messner, The Foundry)
Monumental Hindu temple planned for New Hampshire
(Eurasia Review)
Muslims in Switzerland “lack legal protection”
(Clare O'Dea, SwissInfo.ch)
Norway: Breivik and the death of multiculturalism – OpEd
(New Civilisation, Eurasia Review)
Philippines agrees breakthrough with Muslim rebels
(AFP)
Positive omen for Hindu community in Pakistan
(Faisal Farooq, News Pakistan)
Post-Brighton: The future of the European Court of Human Rights
(Angela Patrick, Public Service Europe)
Religion Journal: Protecting vultures, and an ancient religion
(Joanna Sugden, India Real Time)
Religion news in brief
(Associated Press )
Religion-based parties banned under new Libya law
(AFP)
Religious liberty issues take center stage at prayer breakfast
(Mark Pattison , Catholic San Francisco)
Russian patriarch calls priests who opposed prayer service 'traitors'
(Sophia Kishkovsky, The Christian Century)
Settlement OK'd over Mojave cross on US land
(Associated Press)
South Carolina’s “Holy Islamville”
(Ryan Mauro, The Institute on Religion and Democracy)
Thailand’s young Buddhist nuns challenge social conventions
(Reuters Staff, Reuters)
The changing face of religion in Switzerland
(SwissInfo.ch)
The Problem with European 'human rights'
(Jacob Mchzngama and Aaron Rhodes, Wall Street Journal Online)
Trial begins in suit against proposed Tenn. mosque
(Travis Loller, Associated Press )
Vietnam sentences pastor to 11 years imprisonment
(Stefan J. Bos, BosNewLife)
What makes a Catholic patriot? OpEd
(Mathew N. Schmalz, Washington Post)
Workplace religious freedom bill moves ahead
(Daily Democrat)
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Amnesty says veil bans rob Muslims of jobs, education
(Tim Castle, Chicago Tribune)
Animus and the Kansas Preservation of Religious Freedom Act
(Caroline Mala Corbin, Jurist)
Brighton Conference: Court reform strengthens Europe’s Human Rights system, says Thorbjørn Jagland
(Council of Europe)
British churches would be required to solemnize same-sex unions, legal expert warns
(Catholic Culture.org)
Check your References — Religion and politics since 1945
(Jessica Pellien, Princeton University Press Blog)
Column: Our forefathers got it right -- no religious test
(Michael Medved, USA Today)
Contradictions of religious freedom and religious repression
(Mathijs Pelkmans, The Immanent Frame)
Egypt comedian found guilty of offending Islam
(Aya Batrawy, Associated Press )
Growing up Hindu in Pakistan: Kidnapped, converted and married
(Suhag A. Shukla, Esq., Huffington Post Blog)
In Egypt race, battle is joined on Islam's role
(David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times)
Islamists clash with Tunisia state TV employees
(Associated Press )
Kazakhstan: Ahmadi Muslims closed down everywhere, Methodist congregation next?
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Michael Novak on the religion of the Foundation Fathers
(Michael Novak, YouTube Inverview)
Muslim women in India seek gender equality in marriage
(Nilanjana S. Roy, New York Times)
NYC church policy challenged in court filing
(Tom Strode, Baptist Press)
Protecting freedom of religion in the secular age
(Cécile Laborde, The Immanent Frame)
Settlement clears way for cross in Mojave Desert
(Robert Jablon, Associated Press )
St. Louis County Jail changes policies to address Muslim concerns
(Jennifer Mann, STL Today)
Taxpayer-funded crisis pregnancy centers using religion to oppose abortion
(Sofia Resnick, Huffington Post)
The Brighton Declaration
(Council of Europe)
Vanderbilt University's religious groups lose recognition
(Katherine Weber, The Christian Post)
What Egypt's leading Islamist presidential candidate thinks about Christians
(Cornelis Hulsman, Christianity Today)
Who's Who at the Seventh World Congress
(International Religious Liberty Association)
World religious freedom congress opens with call to avoid secular society’s lead
(Mark Kellner, Adventist Review)
Monday, 23 April 2012
60 Minutes: Christians of the Holy Land – OpEd
(Paul Woodward, Eurasia Review)
Catholic bishops take on Obama
(Vincent Phillip Muñoz, The Weekly Standard)
Cornish teachers should 'explore' Paganism, Church of England says
(Lucy Sherriff , The Huffington Post UK)
Free speech found guilty by Europe
(Soeren Kern , Jewish Press)
Freedom of religion = Freedom of worship?
(David Cortman, The Christian Post)
Hindus in Pakistan accuse Muslims of kidnapping teens as wives
(Alex Rodriguez, Chicago Tribune)
Intersection of religion, politics isn’t always right
(David Sirota , Chicago Sun-Times)
Lebanese pastor explains his conversion to Christianity
(Chase Wright, The Hour)
Moscow, tens of thousands with Kirill in defense of the faith
(Nina Achmatova, AsiaNews.it)
Mosque responses ignorant
(Ryan Plesh, Huffington Post Blog)
No to forced conversions to Islam and marriage without consent, says Justice and Peace
(AsiaNews.it)
Palestinian sentenced to death for selling a home to Jews
(Daniel Halper, The Weekly Standard)
Russia: Standing firm for faith
(VOR, Eurasian Review)
School vouchers and the religious subversion of church-state separation
(Katherine Stewart, The Guardian)
Sudan, South Sudan swap accusations of attacks, church raided
(Alexander Dziadosz and Hereward Holland, Reuters)
Tanzania's remarkable religious coexistence impresses neighbors
(Lawi Joel, Tanzania Daily News)
Teaching intolerance
(Eman Al Nafjan , Foreign Policy Magazine)
The bishops on freedom
(Louise Melling, New York Times)
Turkish Catholic Church calls for a return of 200 properties. Better to ask for legal recognition
(AsiaNews.it)
Vatican and Japan, 60 years of dialogue
(Pino Cazzaniga, AsiaNews.it)
West Java, Islamic extremists attacked an Ahmadi mosque
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
Why we have gone to court against the Obama mandate
(William Armstrong, Ken Smith, and Joe Aguillard from the Becket Fund, The Wall Street Journal)
Sunday, 22 April 2012
China begins crack down on terror in areas bordering PoK
(Ananth Krishnan, The Hindu)
Commission publishes research on European Court of Human Rights judgments relating to UK government
(Equality and Human Rights Commission)
Depriving women of inheritance violates Islam: Egyptian cleric
(Dina Al-Shibeeb , Al Arabiya News)
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