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Tuesday, 16 February 2016

Religious freedom ambassador gets temporary reprieve as Liberals mull future of the office Conservatives built
(Lee Berthiaume, National Post)

Georgia's 'pastor protection act' now much more likely to become law
(Aaron Gould Sheinin, Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Montenegro accused of threatening religious freedom
(Dusica Tomovic, Balkan Insight)

WV medical groups oppose Religious Freedom Restoration Act
(Kate White, Charleston Gazette-Mail)

Religious freedom law lets couple provide soup
(Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online)

EVENT, 16-17 February: Doha Conference of Interfaith Dialogue 2016
(The Peninsula)

Monday, 15 February 2016

Blame Belgium! How France ignores its homegrown terror problem
(John Rosenthal, Geopolitical Monitor)

Evolution
(Martin E. Marty, The University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

WCC welcomes meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill for unity and peace
(Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, World Council of Churches)

Ghosts in Syria: Christians caught in the war are ignored in Washington Post
(Jim Davis, Get Religion (blog))

Why Boko Haram is the world’s deadliest terror group
(Vincent Hiribarren, The Conversation)

Record number of Brazilian Jews moving to Israel
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

British gov’t to prevent publicly funded bodies from boycotting Israeli goods
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Gay rights and same-sex marriage will dominate C of E summer synod
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)

Use of boys' locker room by a transgender sparks controversy in California school
(Jonah Hicap, Christian Today)

German city to protect Christian immigrants facing harassment in asylum camps
(Katherine Weber, The Christian Post)

ISIS sex slave survivor: 'what they are doing to women is more difficult than death'
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Catholic leaders say Zika doesn’t change ban on contraception
(Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times)

Abortion restrictions in Latin America remain despite Zika virus spread
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Parents can move ahead with claims their daughters were lured into religious cult at school
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Defamation suit stemming from Ground Zero mosque plans dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Israel’s Supreme Court: Public ritual baths must accept non-Orthodox, too
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)

Top court rules public ritual baths open to all Jewish conversions
(Times of Israel)

Israel's high court forbids discrimination against Conservative, Reform converts in public mikvehs
(Judy Maltz, Haaretz)

Israel Supreme Court says public-funded mikvehs must be open to Reform and Conservative conversions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Understanding Islamic State: where does it come from and what does it want?
(James L Gelvin, The Conversation)

Do we need a new human rights commissioner? Yes, but it’s complicated …
(Adam Fletcher, The Conversation)

Patriarch Kirill says he has discussed with Pope Francis ways to prevent global war
(Interfax-Religion)

Soldiers tussle with Buddhist monks heading to Thai rally
(OA Online)

College barred me for marrying outside religion: Kerala student
(Hindustan Times)

BJP incites fight among different religion: Rahul Gandhi
(Bikash Singh, The Economic Times)

Qatar- HE Minister of Justice to inaugurate interfaith dialogue conference
(MENAFN)

Interfaith dialogue to open in Doha
(Gulf News Qatar)

Forum brings together religious leaders in the name of peace
(PR Newswire)

New York Times (#saywhat) interrupts papal tour for a dash of 'Da Vinci Code'
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion (blog))

Will religious liberty die with Scalia?
(David Catron, The American Spectator)

Justice Scalia dies; author of Smith decision
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

What the death of Justice Antonin Scalia means for religious liberty
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)

With Scalia's death, Catholic dioceses lose reliable ally in appeal
(aaron Aupperlee, Trib Live)

With Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, the battle for the US Supreme Court begins
(Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, The Conversation)

Sunday, 14 February 2016

The Death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
(National Law Journal)

Antonin Scalia, Justice on the Supreme Court, dies at 79
(Adam Liptak, The New York Times)

Three times Justice Antonin Scalia stood up for religious liberty
(K. Daniel Glover, PJ Media)

How Scalia’s faith reshaped the Supreme Court
(Elizabeth Dias, Time)

It's impossible to praise or attack Justice Scalia without covering his Catholic faith
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion (blog))

With Scalia death, US Supreme Court could have 4-4 splits
(Ken Bredemeier, Voice of America)

Why politics cannot be divorced from religion
(Learnmore Zuze, New Zimbabwe)

ISIS, al-Qaeda using religion as per convenience: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
(The Economic Times)

Understand all faiths, says Prince of Arcot
(The Times of India)

Interfaith custody tribunal a good idea, says Nancy Shukri
(Robin Augustin, Free Malaysia Today)

World Interfaith Harmony Week celebrations conclude
(Dispatch News)

My view: Obama's speech at mosque and religious freedom
(Hannah Smith, Deseret News)

The Church of England and “Festival Churches”
(Guest Post: Trevor Cooper, Law & Religion UK)

9 things you should know about Justice Antonin Scalia (1936–2016)
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)

Saturday, 13 February 2016

Terrorism has nothing to do with race or religion, says OIC
(Alekhbariya)

UAE condemns efforts by some states to use religion to justify, support terror
(Devirupa Mitra, The New Indian Express)

Free speech vs. Islamic law?
(Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute)

Foreign Policy magazine: Chinese students in U.S. are converting like crazy
(Julia Duin, Get Religion (blog))

The Pope, the Patriarch — and a little bit of Putin
(Reid Standish, Benjamin Soloway, Foreign Policy)

Turkey’s Alevis seek official recognition, end to longstanding discrimination
(Harun Odabaşi / Şeyma Ercanli, Sunday's Zaman)

The Pope and the Patriarch: Something more than politics
(Daniel Philpott, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)

Divine Command Theory and moral obligation
(John E. Hare, OUPblog Religion)

Friday, 12 February 2016

Controversy over church to mosque plan in Chicago
(Ray Hanania, AlJazeera)

History in Havana: Pope seeks to end 1,000-year schism
(Nick Miroff and Briah Murphy, The Washington Post, Star-Telegram)

Silence on sex abuse? Nope, 'The Vatican' didn't tell that to its bishops
(Jim Davis, Get Religion (blog))

Full Text: Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill
(Vatican Radio)

Why the Christian community should steer clear of the RSS 'hand of friendship’
(John Dayal, Scroll.in)

Europe's churches find new spirit from unexpected source: Muslim refugees
(Elisabeth Braw, Contributor Sara Miller Llana, Staff writer, The Christian Science Monitor)

Analysis: Saudi Arabia and its links to Islamic State
(Irfan Al-Alawi, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)

Egypt: Coptic teens tried for video 'mimicking jihadists'
(World Watch Monitor)

German churches tone down refugee welcome as problems mount
(Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service)

In UK Christian believers are more likely found in ethnic minorities, study finds
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Syria's Sharia courts
(Asaad Hanna, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)

After 27 years, men and women will be able to pray together at Western Wall
(Mordechai Goldman, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Millennium after split, pope and Russian patriarch meet in Cuba
(Al Jazeera America)

Will I be a future victim of ever-narrowing diversity?
(Jessie Legaree, National Post)

Magistrate refuses to dismiss suit against anti-Falun Gong organization
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Judge OKs Muslim cemetery in Castle Rock Township
(Tory Cooney, Farmington (MN) Independent)

Denial of permit for Muslim cemetery was arbitrary and capricious
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Title VII suit dismissed under ministerial exception
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Catholic bishops not obliged to report clerical child abuse, Vatican says
(Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian)

Pontifical Commission on minors concludes plenary
(Vatican News)

Vatican sends mixed messages on protection of abuse victims
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Vesture: House of Bishops Consultation
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

The death of the most generous nation on Earth
(James Traub, Foreign Policy)

Little Sisters of the Poor on Supreme Court case: Why we can’t “just sign the form”
(Sister Constance Veit, l.s.p., Catholic Review)

Rome meets Russia: Media bury role of persecution in historic summit (# LOL update)
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion (blog))

Patriarch Kirill arrives in Cuba for meeting with Pope Francis
(Interfax-Religion)

What you should know about religious and national origin discrimination against those who are, or are perceived to be, Muslim or Middle Eastern
(U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC))

Editorial: O come all ye tolerant
(The Jakarta Post)

Muslim woman leads prayer on floor of Wisconsin Assembly
(Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel)

In Canada especially, faith groups play large role in refugee settlement
(Jodie Shupac, The Canadian Jewish News)

Winners and losers in Deepa interfaith custody battle
(V. Anbalagan, The Malaysian Insider)

Pakistan bans Valentine’s Day as ‘insult to Islam’
(Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D, Breitbart News)

Georgia House passes ‘Pastor Protection Act’
(Aaron Gould Sheinin, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Agudath Israel seeks to overturn religious freedom ruling in Supreme Court case
(Menachem Rephun, JP Updates)

Religious freedom tightening in former Soviet republics (column)
(Martin Roth, BosNewLife)

Trudeau accused of ‘radical secularism’ over apparent plan to shutter religious freedom office
(Steve Weatherbe, Lifesite)

Anniversary of the 21 Coptic Christians martyred in Libya
(Statement by His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, The Coptic Orthodox Church UK)

Egypt: Coptic teens tried for video 'mimicking jihadists'
(World Watch Monitor)

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