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Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Azerbaijan: UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention condemns prisoners of consciences' jailings
(Forum 18 News Service)

Anti-abortion groups join battles over frozen embryos
(Tamar Lewin, The New York Times)

Iraq's oldest Christian monastery destroyed by Islamic State
(BBC News)

ISIS destroys oldest Christian Monastery in Iraq
(Jack Moore, Newsweek)

What's important for Latinos and African-Americans when it comes to family life and love?
(Lois M. Collins, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)

Faith is family-friendly for African Americans and Latinos
(Anne E. Bromley, Family Studies)

How the U.S. strikes a delicate religious freedom balance around the world
(Brian Hardzinski and Suzette Grillot, interview with Elizabeth Cassidy, KGOU / NPR)

Hollman Report: Proposals of religious exclusion undermine religious liberty
(K. Hollyn Hollman, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Pakistan attack: Nothing changed after Peshawar, says Fatima Bhutto
(Jack Moore, Newsweek)

List of schools allowed to discriminate against LGBT students will be published online
(Dominic Holden, BuzzFeed News)

Little happiness, a lot of danger – interfaith couple brave threats
(Aamir Majeed, Pakistan Today)

S’pore Mufti: Isolationist tendencies are worrisome
(Ng Jing Yng, Today Online)

Baptist Healing Trust takes on federal agency
(Holly Fletcher, The Tennessean)

Baptist Healing Trust asks court to delay arbitration in dispute with Feds
(J.R. Lind, Nashville Post)

$100 Million at stake in Nashville court battle between Baptist charity and hospital retirees
(Tony Gonzalez, Nashville Public Radio)

Suit seeks "church plan" designation to avoid liability for bankrupt pension plan
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Adventists file lawsuit against U.S. city for banning literature Evangelism
(Adventist Review)

Adventists sue town over required license for door-to-door solicitation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Anti-Semitic incidents in France down by 5 percent in 2015
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Court marshal: It's time to examine the law on 'religious sentiments'
(Gyanant Singh, Daily Mail India)

The 10 habits of highly effective countries: The steps Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi needs to take to ensure democracy
(Suzanne Nossel, Foreign Policy)

The FAQs: Pastor Saeed Abedini released from Iranian Prison
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)

Niger: a year after 70 churches destroyed in anti-‘Charlie’ riots
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)

Religious contempt law for persecution, not protection
(Amira El-Fekki, Daily News Egypt)

Regulating out-of-school education
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Trial begins against polygamous towns in discrimination case
(Jacques Billeaud, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Tuesday, 19 January 2016

French Jews, struggling to find work in Israel, consider going home
(Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA)

A reign of terror for Jews in France
(Erin Zaleski, The Daily Beast)

Bayonne community center: Embracing religious freedom or ruining quality of life?
(Jeannette Josue, Hudson County View)

China frames new law to fight against religious extremism; Minority Muslim Uyghurs distress
(Lawyer Herald)

Muslim women's segregation in UK communities must end - Cameron
(BBC News)

Thousands brave cold to attend Chicago anti-abortion march
(Renita D. Young and Mary Wisniewski, Reuters)

What is a “church” in English law?
(Guest Post: Simon Hunter, Law & Religion UK)

Wife of pastor Saeed Abedini, jailed in Iran for his faith, explains the ‘shock’ of his release
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post)

Accused al-Shabaab fighter came from heart of Baltimore's African-American Muslim community
(Ian Duncan, The Baltimore Sun)

Episcopal leader: Church will not reverse gay marriage stand
(Rachel Zoll, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Four Brooklyn men claim they were kicked off flight for looking too Muslim in lawsuit
(Christina Carrega-Woodby, New York Daily News)

Ejected Muslim and Sikh airline passengers sue
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Jehovah's Witnesses file lawsuit against Vyborg customs that seized their holy books at border
(Interfax-Religion)

Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia sue over blocking of Bible imports
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Donald Trump receives hero’s welcome at Liberty University
(Tessa Berenson, Time)

Trump speaks at Liberty University with outreach to Evangelicals
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Conference underlines need for greater cooperation in refugee and migrant crisis
(World Council of Churches)

Raise your hand, if you know the definition of 'blasphemy' in modern Pakistan
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion (blog))

Boy’s response to blasphemy charge unnerves many in Pakistan
(Waqar Gillani and Rod Nordland, The New York Times)

Ayatollah Khamenei warns Iran’s government against U.S. ‘deceptions’
(Thomas Erdbrink, The New York Times)

A tragic case of modern bioethics
(Philip Hawley, Jr., MercatorNet)

Alberta gets transgender-friendly schools
(Michael Cook, Conjugality: A Blog on the Future of Marriage)

After Rome’s synagogue, Pope Francis now set to visit mosque
(Inés San Martín, Crux)

Western Europe faces Jewish exodus, community leader tells Putin
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

What religion is Barack Obama?
(Edward J. Blum, OUPblog Religion)

No time to think
(Paul Proese, OUPblog Religion)

New book charts rise of corporate religious liberty
(re: "The Rise of Corporate Religions Liberty" ed. by Schwartzman, Flanders, Robinson (OUP), University of Virginia School of Law)

Religious organisations, internal autonomy and other religious rights before the European Court of Human Rights and the OSCE
(Sylvie Langlaude Doné, Social Science Research Network)

Is Wheaton College getting a fair shake? (Commentary)
(Trevin Wax, Religion News Service)

Terrorism tops Turkish citizens’ list of concerns in 2015
(Riada Asimovic Akyol, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Fed-up Iranian women organize to take more seats in parliament
(Zahra Alipour, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)

Doctors Without Borders slams EU border closures
(Al Jazeera America)

Religion is the number one topic on Facebook – again
(Gregory Tomlin, Christian Examiner)

Seventh-day Adventists sue White Hall over ordinance requiring permits for door-to-door religion messaging
(Max Brantley, Arkansas Times)

Religion has been a force for good but also used as tool for intolerance, terror: Shanmugam
(Lim Yan Liang, The Straits Times)

Religion often intersects with Tennessee politics
(Holly Meyer, The Tennessean)

Azerbaijan’s interfaith tolerance, harmony applauded in Los Angeles
(Amina Nazarli, Azernews)

Religious freedom laws don't guarantee the right to disrupt production lines
(Nik Bonopartis, Opposing Views)

Human rights group slams Cuba on religious freedom
(Andre Puglie, Latin Post)

Banning the veil: A triumph for women's freedom or state interference with religion?
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)

Legislators prepared to push religious freedom bill
(The Brunswick News)

Local administrations main violators of religious freedom
(Hans Nicholas Jong, The Jakarta Post)

Poll: Best and Worst ECtHR Judgment of 2015
(Stijn Smet, Strasbourg Observers)

Religious freedom arguments used to weaponize the First Amendment
(Irin Carmon, MSNBC)

Boys removal from Christian parents case 'to be reopened'
(Alex Williams, Premier.org)

Saudi: Most victims of extremism globally are Muslim
(Middle East Monitor)

Qatar to fund construction of cathedral mosque and Islamic university in Ingushetia
(Interfax-Religion)

Kyrgyz police officer suspected of selling arms to religious extremists
(Interfax-Religion)

Monday, 18 January 2016

Fractured Christian world(s)
(Martin Marty, The University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

Muslim cleric arrested in Pakistan for inciting teenager to saw off hand
(Jon Boone, The Guardian)

Fighting Boko Haram: 'Ghosts' haunt otherwise fine New York Times report
(Jim Davis, Get Religion (blog))

Caste and religion collide in Indian protests following student's suicide
(Omar Farooq, Metro News)

Religious freedom and America: Jefferson's heirs still find tyranny easier to define than freedom
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

The Economist explains: What happened in the Thirty Years War?
(P.C., The Economist)

MLK on the law
(Daniel Philpott, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)

What is World Religion Day 2016? International holiday celebrates human unity, shared religious values
(Michael Kaplan, International Business Times)

Presidential proclamation: Religious Freedom Day, 2016
(Press Release, The White House)

Presidential proclamation: Religious Freedom Day
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Religious Freedom Day 2016
(Libby M. Grammer, HuffPost Religion)

In our opinion: Why Religious Freedom Day is essential
(Deseret News)

On Religious Freedom Day, stand for the persecuted abroad
(Robert P. George, Thomas J. Reese, Religion News Service)

Memorial visitors see King as a spiritual leader
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Why we need a prophetic voice in America (Commentary)
(William J. Barber ll, Religion News Service)

How King’s dream of freedom from bondage tied him to the Jewish people
(A. James Rudin, Religion News Service)

Religious Freedom Day celebrates nation’s pluralism: Becket launches RFRA website showing its role protecting Native Americans, Sikhs, Muslims, and Buddhists
(The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)

Facets of Faith: World Religion Day and interfaith goals
(Leila Pitchford-English, The Advocate)

Organization announces religious freedom pledge for businesses
(Nate Madden, Conservative Review)

Corporate Pledge on Religious Freedom Public Launch, Washington, D.C.
(Brian J. Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

'Unprecedented' crackdown on churches as religious persecution spikes
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)

The constitutional case against India's blasphemy law
(Gautam Bhatia, The Wire)

Some Jewish-American groups welcome Iran deal but remain wary
(Religion News Service)

Dispatches: Protecting Pakistan’s girls isn’t ‘blasphemy’
(Heather Barr, Human Rights Watch)

German interior minister underlines churches' role in refugee response
(World Council of Churches)

Managing European refugee crisis needs involvement of churches, says German Interior minister
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

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