Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Saudi Arabia’s “religious police” arrest doll mascot for breaching Sharia Law
(RT)
New York governor announces regulations banning help for homosexual youth
(Heather Clark, Christian News)
New York regulations aim to end conversion therapy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Gay marriage lawsuit launched in Georgia
(Giorgi Lomsadze, Eurasianet)
Suit in nation of Georgia seeks marriage equality
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Church's state court suit challenges California mandate for health insurance abortion coverage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ban Ki-moon: ‘Close the gap between the world that is and the world that should be’
(The Guardian)
Fear and loathing of refugees in Europe
(Judith Sunderland, Human Rights Watch)
Texas again denied request to bar Syrian refugees
(Al Jazeera America)
Bangladesh church vandalised; priest says religion was not a motive
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
Babies, bathwater, and religion in public schools
(David R. Brockman, The Tennessean)
Scientology churches back U.N. World Interfaith Harmony Week
(PR Newswire)
EUCLID celebrates UN World Interfaith Harmony Week
(The Point)
Singing in harmony: Interfaith and intercultural dialogue in South Texas
(Kathy Hamilton, Today's Zaman)
Military delegation in city to visit faiths groups
(Alan Thompson, Leicester Mercury)
Interfaith dialogue, multiculturalism – only way to address global challenges
(APA)
Interfaith trip offers lessons in coexistence
(Debra Rubin, New Jersey Jewish News)
Federal Court to rule if interfaith custody case can be heard in civil court
(V. Anbalagan, The Malaysian Insider)
Family and Society: Farewell, religious liberty, farewell, conscience
(Augusto Zimmerman, News Weekly)
The paradox of religious laws in a secular Constitution
(Jug Suraiya, The Times of India)
EVENT, 9 February 2016: Elder Dallin H. Oaks to speak at Johns Hopkins on international religious liberty
(Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies)
Monday, 8 February 2016
Catholic and Latter-day Saint leaders discuss religious freedom in Tonga
(Mormon Newsroom)
Female genital mutilation — the numbers keep rising
(Robin Wright, The New Yorker)
Misuse of anti-extremism in January 2016
(SOVA Center for Information and Analysis)
Churches would break the law if they gave sanctuary to asylum seekers – but does it matter?
(Penny Crofts and Jason Prior, The Conversation)
Pope's visit to violent Mexican city highlights broader ills
(Maria Verza, The Virginian-Pilot)
US Catholic-Muslim dialogue launched, Chicago Archbishop Cupich to co-chair
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Thriving indie Jewish communities join forces to create rabbinic fellowship
(Ben Harris, Jewish Journal)
Party-line vote kills Klingenschmitt's religious freedom bill
(Megan Schrader, The Gazette)
Christians fight back in school sports prayer battles
(Bob Cook, Forbes)
James Madison would've backed Phoenix's Satanists
(Noah Feldman, Bloomberg View)
Amid religious freedom concerns, relief over Indiana bill's failure
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Religious “conviction”: A prisoner’s struggle to practice his faith behind bars
(Ashley Merritt, Valpo Law Blog)
What will happen when the Pope meets the Patriarch?
(John Pollard, The Conversation)
Education commissioner's firing followed refusal to spend for religious school
(Charles Wohlforth, Alaska Dispatch News)
Bahrain hosts World Interfaith Harmony Week
(Bahrain News Agency)
UN finds 'extermination' of detainees in Syria
(Al Jazeera)
Turkey and Germany agree on plan to ease refugee crisis
(Al Jazeera)
Senegal fears extremism amid imam arrests, regional attacks
(Baba Ahmed, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Anti-Islam movement PEGIDA stages protests across Europe
(Reuters)
Germany's Catholic Church calls for 'reduction' in refugees
(Agence France-Presse)
Mexico Catholic church accused of bending marriage rules for president
(David Agren, The Guardian)
Bosnia women protest at ban on headscarf
(BBC News)
Bosnians protest hijab ban
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)
State lawmakers look to increase safety for Amish drivers
(Scottie Lee Meyers, Wisconsin Public Radio)
U.S. judge grants injunction against anti-abortion activists
(Dan Levine, Reuters)
Archdiocese of Chicago could close dozens of parishes
(Michael O'Loughlin, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Chinese students are flooding U.S. Christian high schools
(Foreign Policy)
Actor and designer Waris Ahluwalia kicked off plane because of his turban
(Nadya Agrawal, Huffington Post)
Sikh actor barred from flying to US ‘because of turban’
(Mint Press News)
Tajikistan's mutiny participants, leaders of outlawed Islamic Renaissance Party to face court
(Interfax-Religion)
Women, religion and religious freedom
(The Weekly Number)
Egypt: Condemn justice minister’s hate speech
(Human Rights Watch)
Israeli Arabs take their message to the White House
(Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Turkey under pressure to open border to thousands of new Syrian refugees
(Al Jazeera America)
Anti-Islam protests in Dresden, Prague and other European cities
(Al Jazeera America)
Canada to end bombing missions in Iraq and Syria
(Al Jazeera America)
Interfaith harmony conference condemns attack on BKU
(Zubair Qureshi, Pakistan Observer)
Interfaith harmony: Divided in life, united in death
(Basma Siddiqui, The Express Tribune)
Kazakhstan: "What were they afraid of? We didn't take anyone away"
(Forum 18 News Service)
How Malaysia became one of the most anti-Semitic countries on earth
(Jon Emont, Tablet Magazine)
Individual, Community, and State: Mapping the terrain of religious freedom under the Indian Constitution
(Gautam Bhatia, Legally India)
Mexico: Expelled Christians allowed to return home with full religious rights
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)
Southern Baptists
(Martin E. Marty, The University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Families of Islamist militants named and shamed on Uzbek TV
(Joanna Lillis, The Guardian)
Seven ISIL members preparing terror attacks in Moscow, St. Petersburg detained in Yekaterinburg
(Interfax-Religion)
Patriarch, pope meeting 'a mutual step halfway' between Russia, Western world – Peskov
(Interfax-Religion)
Ending FGC: The religious factor
(Katherine Marshall, HuffPost Religion)
FGM in the context of Islam
(Dr. Mohamed Selim Al-Awa, General Secretary of the International Federation of Islamic Scholars)
Church dismisses as "hoax" reports about seizure of church construction site in Paris
(Interfax-Religion)
Lawmakers want to let students express religion on sports uniforms
(Ty Tagami, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
90 mosques across the UK open doors for interfaith dialogue
(Daily Sabah)
Law and religion round-up – 7th February
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Statement from Bishop Paul Butler on George Bell
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Vexatious litigants and the consistory courts
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Georgia proposes 'blasphemy bill' to outlaw religious insults
(The Guardian)
Victim critical of pope on abuse asked to leave Vatican commission
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Victim advocate is asked to take leave from Pontifical Commission on Protection of Minors
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Nevada Democratic caucus overlooks Sabbath observers
(Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Nevada Democratic caucuses pose problems for Sabbath observers
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Why Europe has trouble fighting anti-Semitism (article from July 2014)
(Eylon Aslan-Levy, Tablet:The Scroll)
Colo. school ends speech for all rather than allow former football player to have Bible reference on nameplate
(Press Release, Alliance Defending Freedom)
Suit over religious themed donor plaque dismissed after school removes all plaques
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Hijab-wearing professor to leave Christian college
(Al Jazeera America)
Sunday, 7 February 2016
Wheaton College reverses efforts to fire professor, but she won't return to teach
(Manya Brachear Pashman, Chicago Tribune)
Northwestern professor talks pitfalls of counter-extremism efforts
(Rishika Dugyala, The Daily Northwestern)
Free speech debate continues at UCSB
(Gwendolyn Wu, The Bottom Line)
Anti-Islam movement stages protests across Europe
(Religion News Service)
Can't take freedom of speech for granted; religion in politics is not healthy: Kamal Haasan
(Zee News)
Christians, Muslims must continue to co-exist peacefully – Bawumia
(Pulse.com.gh)
Pakistan calls on world to combat Islamophobia
(Inquirer.net)
Treasure our cultural, religious freedom, urges Lee
(Borneo Post Online)
The World Interfaith Harmony Week: Annal UN Observance Week February 1-7
EVENT, 7 February, 2016: DC Interfaith Leadership Summit
(Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington)
Saturday, 6 February 2016
President Obama: Religious freedom keeps us strong (RNS exclusive - commentary)
(Barack Obama, Religion News Service)
Sabarimala temple: Kerala govt defends ban on women's entry in Supreme Court
(Daily News & Analysis)
Battling Islamophobia : UN moot calls for promoting interfaith harmony
(Daily Times)
Pastor of China's largest church jailed for protesting removal of 1,500 crosses
(Morgan Lee, Christian Today)
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