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Monday, 23 November 2015

Why monotheists quarrel: Abraham's children fight because they have so much in common
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

LDS apostle visits refugee camps, praises Germany for letting them in
(Daniel Woodruff, KUTV.com)

Blocking yoga classes: Multiculturalists succeed where Christian conservatives failed
(Eugene Volokh, The Washington Post)

Ban on Lord's Prayer ad in UK cinemas bewilders Church of England
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Should refugees be vetted on the basis of religion?
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

Law and religion round-up – 22nd November
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Press freedom groups condemn prosecution of reporters in Vatican leaks case
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

MWC, MCC join international summit calling for religious freedom
(Karla Braun, Mennonite World Review)

This Indiana Nativity scene will have the Bill of Rights, not baby Jesus
(Kristine Guerra, Indianapolis Star)

Muslim mothers in Belgium say stigmatizing community alienates youths
(Aleksandra Eriksson, Al Jazeera America)

Migrants, refugees stranded in Greece call for hunger strike
(Al Jazeera America)

Turkey has 'all but closed its borders' to Syrian refugees, HRW says
(Philip J. Victor, Al Jazeera America)

Singapore’s lesson for Modi: Smart cities don’t work without religious freedom
(Cherian George, Quartz India)

Freedom vs. fear: Restricting religious liberty isn't the answer to terrorism
(Rob Boston, Americans United (blog))

ISIS terror: One Yazidi's battle to chronicle the death of a people
(Kelly Cobiella, Yuka Tachibana, NBC News)

Terrorism has nothing to do with religion - ISESCO director
(Elmira Tariverdiyeva, Anahanum Khidayatova, Trend)

Limerick school to allow student opt out of religious education
(RTE News)

Religion in Hong Kong schools: teach it, don’t preach it
(Gweneth Rehnborg, South China Morning Post)

PM delinks terror from religion in Malaysia: to keep the radical right at bay
(Shubhajit Roy, The Indian Express)

Here are the growing number of U.S. governors saying no to Syrian refugees
(David Francis, Foreign Policy)

Sunday, 22 November 2015

Blocking Syrian refugees blocks religious right to help them
(Lisa Falkenberg, Houston Chronicle)

Religious liberties under strain for Muslims in France
(Emily Badger, The Washington Post)

Obama on the fight against ISIS: ‘Absolutely false’ we are at war with an entire religion
(Pam Key, Breitbart)

Islam religion of 'peace, love, fraternity’
(Mehr News Agency)

BJP, Cong use religion for political ends: CSDS prof
(The Tribune)

We wouldn’t tolerate the politics of religion anywhere else – so why in Northern Ireland?
(Robin Wilde, Forge Press)

Tough to separate politics from religion in poll-bound Punjab
(Vikas Vasudeva, The Hindu)

Failing faith schools worry they might lose their religion
(Andrew Ellson, The Times)

Ban Christmas ads if you don’t like religion, Church tells cinemas
(Emily Gosden, The Telegraph)

Delink religion from terror, need new strategies, says PM
(Business Standard)

Saturday, 21 November 2015

Islamic gunmen attack Mali hotel, release hostages able to recite Quran
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

France sends elite special forces to help hotel hostages in Bamako, Mali
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)

Islamic 'indoctrination' claims forces Tenn. board to review school curriculum
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Could America survive without religion?
(Robert P. George, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

EVENT, 21-23 November 2015: American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
(Atlanta, Georgia, American Academy of Religion)

Friday, 20 November 2015

General Synod: Synod Members and NCI employees
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Muslims are disliked, violent and unpatriotic: Three graphs of US public opinion
(Tobin Grant, RNS Blog: On the Corner of Church and State)

Interreligious dialogue: FBK appoints Marco Ventura
(L'Adigetto.it)

What you should know about the Syrian refugee controversy
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)

Evangelical groups urge Compassion for Syrian refugees
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)

French Muslims attend Friday prayers under tight security
(Elizabeth Bryant, Religion News Service)

Australian Christian Lobby asks donors for war chest to fight marriage equality
(Shalailah Medhora, The Guardian)

5 killed in Tel Aviv and West Bank by Palestinian attackers
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)

Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
(David Batty, The Guardian)

French imams preach against violence at Friday prayers
(Tom Heneghan, Reuters)

Muslims defend Islam from being hijacked by ISIS
(Jonah Bromwich, The New York Times)

Why the question of Christian vs. Muslim refugees has become so incredibly divisive
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)

Candidate Ted Cruz is organizing a national prayer team to support his bid
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Donald Trump’s call for Muslim registry denounced by Democrats
(Maggie Haberman, The New York Times)

Trump's call for registration of U.S. Muslims criticized by Democrats and many fellow-Republicans
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Republican rivals blast Trump for Muslim database comments
(Ginger Gibson and Susan Heavey, Arab News)

About 27 dead after Islamists seize hotel in Mali's capital
(Tiemoko Diallo, Reuters)

Saudi court rules a Palestinian poet must die for apostasy, rights group claims
(Religion News Service)

Boko Haram ‘more deadly terror group’ in 2014 than IS
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)

Syria: Fears for life of free expression advocate
(Human Rights Watch)

Official says Pakistan has executed at least 300 people in past 11 months, think tank reports
(Ecumenical News)

'Religion, Peace and Violence' is theme for Christian-Muslim meeting days after Paris, Berut attacks
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

How Iraq just legalized discrimination of minorities
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Veiled women detained, handcuffed spark public outcry in Turkey
(Riada Asimovic Akyol, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Yazidis wary of going back to liberated Sinjar
(Mahmut Bozarslan, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

After IS threat, Turkey’s Alevi community on alert
(Sibel Hurtas, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

How ISIL’s ‘cultural cleansing’ of history is affecting Syria, Iraq
(Ryan Loughlin, Al Jazeera America)

Religious groups urge GOP to welcome Syrian refugees to US
(Marisa Taylor, Al Jazeera America)

Governors' anti-Syrian rhetoric spurs death threats, refugee group says
(Wilson Dizard, Al Jazeera America)

Azerbaijan: Conscientious objector (again) one of 20 current prisoners of conscience
(Forum 18 News Service)

Tennessee will review Islamic indoctrination curriculum concerns
(Carly F. Gammill, American Center for Law and Justice)

Religious intolerance: Lagos clamps-down on hate preachers
(Olasunkanmi Akoni, Vanguard)

Nigerian state will monitor churches and mosques to fight hate preaching
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

EEOC issues Fiscal Year 2015 performance report
(Press Release, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)

EEOC releases its 2015 performance report
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Suit convinces eighth PL to revise meeting room policy to allow religion, politics
(Bob Warburton, Library Journal)

Library settles challenge to use of meeting rooms and changes its rules
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Thursday, 19 November 2015

Explaining Mormons and their idiosyncratic view of religious liberty
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Church members encouraged to assist refugees
(Mormon Newsroom)

Church court unimpressed by Moors Murder speculation
(Law & Religion UK)

That question once again after Paris: Is Islam a 'religion of peace'?
(Richard Ostling, Get Religion (blog))

Want to terrorize a terrorist? Try a bit of ‘freedom’
(Gene Policinski, Newseum Institute: Inside the First Amendment)

Interfaith alliance presents religious freedom convocation
(Charley Walquist, Iron County Today)

Why evangelicals are torn about admitting refugees to the US
(Trevin Wax, Religion News Service)

After Myanmar election, few signs of a better life for Muslims
(Austin Ramzy, The New York Times)

Boko Haram ranked ahead of ISIS for deadliest terror group
(Dionne Searcey and Marc Santora, The New York Times)

Italian shot in latest attack on foreigners in Bangladesh
(Serajul Quadir, Reuters)

Islamic State attack on 'Crusader France' also killed Muslims
(Tom Heneghan, Reuters)

Seminaries embrace NASA and Darwin to understand God's mysteries
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)

U.S. investigators struggle to track homegrown ISIS suspects
(Michael S. Schmidt, Eric Schmitt, and Matt Apuzzo, The New York Times)

Effigy of haredi Jew burned at Polish protest against refugees
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Jewish group’s report: Nationalism, anti-Semitism appear in some Polish textbooks
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

2 Jews killed in Tel Aviv stabbing attack while praying
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Pakistanis beat global median in religious freedom, says Pew survey
(Dawn)

Defense Authorization Act encourages religious diversity in the armed forces
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Jesus portrait in Breathitt courthouse could draw lawsuit
(Bill Estep, Lexington Herald-Leader)

County tries to neutralize courthouse drawing of Jesus by hanging many other paintings
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

CORRECTION: No injunction issued against California's Reproductive FACT Act; case still pending
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

LAUNCH EVENT, 19 November 2015: The OSCE/ ODIHR- Venice Commission Guidelines on the Legal Personality of Religious or Belief Communities in Turkish language
(Istanbul, Freedom of Belief Initiative)

Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Freemasonry, charitable aims and religion: an update
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Rep. Keith Ellison defends Muslim Syrian refugees’ First Amendment rights
(S.A. Miller, The Washington Times)

On Syrian refugees, AP finds it easier to talk about Christians than to them
(Jim Davis, Get Religion (blog))

Australia's first Muslim Party aims for senate seats
(BBC News)

China accused of trying to 'co-opt and emasculate' Christianity
(Tom Phillips and Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)

Liberals drop controversial Supreme Court of Canada niqab appeal
(Tonda MacCharles, Toronto Star)

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