Law and Religion Headlines
Sunday, 8 November 2015
Law and religion round-up – 8th November
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
A new Taliban breakaway group claims support for peace and women’s rights
(Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post)
Germany: Migration crisis becomes public health crisis
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
Saturday, 7 November 2015
What comes after the Synod?
(Janet E. Smith, First Things)
Religious Landscape Study
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Church attendance plunges after Nepal becomes a secular state
(Morgan Lee, Christianity Today)
Beth Din “names and shames” man who refuses his wife a get
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Supreme Court accepts challenge to health law's contraceptive mandate
(Robert Barnes, Chicago Tribune)
Supreme Court grants review in 7 cases challenging ACA religious non-profit accommodation on contraceptive coverage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Why Supreme Court is taking up Obamacare contraceptive mandate again
(Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor)
Religious tensions high before Myanmar vote
(Deutsche Welle)
Teaching Islam in public schools: why fear of religious education underscores the need for it
(Ismat Sarah Mangla, International Business Times)
Imam calls for syllabus on Islam to be taught at faith schools
(Patsy McGarry, The Irish Times)
Exhibit showcases Islam through the arts
(Kristal Dixon, Patch.com)
Schools walk narrow line on Islam
(Lori Hinnant, Bowling Green Daily News)
Report: Madrid jihadists planned to kill Jews in Paris copycat action
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Brussels gets 1st gay Jewish organization
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
French Jews ask ministry to probe incitement at rally against Jewish thinker
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
French supermarket chain rejects plea to boycott Israeli products
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Muslim-majority city council may be 1st in USA
(Niraj Warikoo, USA Today)
Christian persecution in China: Journalist interrogated for covering cross demolitions
(Florence Taylor, Christian Today)
Catholic schools to teach Judaism alongside Christianity for first time
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)
Reform Judaism moves to further embrace transgender people
(Florence Taylor, Christian Today)
Islamist vandals attack Spanish church, destroying religious objects and marking wall with the word 'Allah
(Hazel Torres, Christian Today)
Boko Haram: Five terrorist camps liberated by Nigerian army
(Florence Taylor, Christian Today)
Iraqi law forcing children to be Muslim is driving Christianity's extinction, says Bishop
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Church division is breeding Atheism, says Mac Pier in Movement Day declaration
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Russian Orthodox church to offer porn-free and 'pure' Wi-Fi
(Alec Luhn, The Guardian)
Religious children are meaner than their secular counterparts, study finds
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Supreme court to hear Christian argument for contraception exemption
(Reuters)
EVENT, 7 November 2015: Religious Freedom in a Changing World
(University of Utah Law School)
Friday, 6 November 2015
Grand mufti says Daesh un-Islamic
(Arab News)
Bendigo mosque objections 'an attack on freedom of religion'
(Bianca Hall, The Victoria Age)
Montana lawmakers debate tax credits for religious school dontations
(Steve Jess, Montana Public Radilawmo)
Montana draws flak for excluding religious schools in its scholarship programme
(Jonah Hicap, Christian Today)
Religious objections on Obamacare get U.S. Supreme Court Review
(Greg Stohr, Bloomberg Politics)
State plan bans religious schools from scholarship program
(Bob Unruh, WND)
Bishop analyzes religious liberty in Vatican II declaration
(Catherine Owers, The Observer)
Broad swathe of Christian leaders call on States to protect freedom of religion and belief
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Persecution of Myanmar Muslims flayed
(Arab News)
Supreme Court to hear 'Obamacare' case for the fourth time
(Al Jazeera America)
Scant number of refugees resettled in EU, as 10,000 arrive daily
(Lisa De Bode, Al Jazeera America)
Buying a bamboo floor? This company requires religious arbitration; courts uphold clauses
(Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal)
Holy Wi-Fi: Russian Church to offer free, ‘clean’ internet to all
(rt.com)
India: village church attacked, Christians hospitalised
(World Watch Monitor)
Global Church meets to seek unity in face of persecution
(Julia Bicknell, World Watch Monitor)
11 Years after the introduction of the case, the ECHR holds that the Greek-Catholic Parish Sisesti is “no longer a Victim”, as it recovered the property of its church three years ago
(Andreea Popescu, European Centre for Law and Justice)
Hatch speaks on faith and public life in fourth religious liberty address
(Press Release, Senator Orrin Hatch)
First Amendment failure?: Sen. Hatch complains about ‘strict’ church-state separation
(Simon Brown, Americans United for Separation of Church and State)
Senator Hatch criticizes Supreme Court's Establishment Clause jurisprudence
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ben Carson believes Joseph built Egypt’s pyramids to store grain — and it just might get him some votes
(Michael E. Miller, The Washington Post)
Experts dismiss Carson's belief pyramids used to store grain
(Jesse J. Holland and Bill Barrow, Associated Press)
Ben Carson says Egyptian pyramids were Joseph's grain storage facilities
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
ADF to US Supreme Court: Mo. can’t single out church preschool for discrimination
(Press Release, Alliance Defending Freedom)
Cert. filed in refusal by state to allow church school to participate in playground grant program
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Russian court reverses ruling recognizing Muslim book as extremist
(RT)
Russian appeals court reverses extremist labeling of Qur'an excerpts
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Utah Supreme Court weighing child bride’s lawsuit against polygamous trust
(Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Utah Supreme Court hears arguments in suit by FLDS victim against UEP Trust
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Gender-specific abortion – some action, but little progress
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
EVENT, 6-7 November 2015: Law, Religion, and Politics: Challenges to Traditional Borders in Global and Comparative Perspectives
(Graduate Student Workshop, Organized by the Yale Law School and the Yale Divinity School)
EVENT, 6 November 2014: Law & Religion Conference: Irish Context – International Perspectives
(Organised by Neville Cox, Norman Doe, Linda Hogan, Celia G. Kenny, Trinity Colleges Dublin)
Thursday, 5 November 2015
Guy Fawkes wasn't a freedom fighter. He was a religious terrorist, and not even one of the good ones
(Jonn Elledge, New Statesman)
Inaugural religious freedom roundtable held in Australia, attended by 29 members of different religions
(Eliza Meyer, World Religion News)
Muslims and Catholics face ‘alarming emergence’ of religious intolerance in Australia
(Agence France-Presse)
Bigotry in Australia a blight on all religions, says George Brandis
(Kelly McEvers, GPB News)
George Brandis: Catholics and other devout people victims of ‘intolerance’
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)
CSW calls on Cameron to raise religious freedom with Egyptian president
(Independent Catholic News)
How terror threats have hit tourism in Egypt
(Video produced by Ed Ram, BBC News World)
Bosnian court jails Islamic State recruiter for 7 years
(Aida Cerkez, Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Teenage Muslims in Lahore gather to support persecuted Christians
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
Muslims who gangraped Christian girls at gunpoint acquitted by Pakistani court
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Indian Muslim, accused of stealing a cow, is beaten to death by a Hindu mob
(David Barstow and Suhasini Raj, The New York Times)
Prison minister forced to quit for quoting Bible verses
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Hindu extremism rising 7 years after mass slaughter of Christians
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
ISIS hostages freed by US special forces describe horrific physical torture
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Pro-life groups redeem former Texas Planned Parenthood abortion clinic
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Texas megachurch votes to leave Presbyterian Church (USA)
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Canon Andrew White: 'Vicar of Baghdad' on leading a church in Iraq and being in the crosshairs of Isis
(Cole Moreton, The Independent)
Amid security threats, Tunis' only kosher restaurant shutters
(Steve Inskeep, NPR)
Gay hospital chaplain loses discrimination case against CofE
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Secularization in the U.S.: Overblown or underestimated?
(Douglas Laycock, Sightings)
Bosnian imam jailed for recruiting Islamic State fighters
(Daria Sito-Sucic, Reuters)
Japan same-sex couples recognised in two Tokyo districts
(BBC News)
British PM says bomb likely caused Russian airliner crash
(Paul Sandle, Reuters)
Pope Francis expected to visit US-Mexico border in February, adviser says
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
California law adds new twist to abortion, religious freedom debate
(Kelly McEvers, NPR)
Defeat of Houston LGBT-rights measure may have broad impact
(David Crary and Juan A. Lozano, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
UN report focuses on children’s rights
(World Watch Monitor)
This U.S. city has become the first to elect a Muslim-majority city council
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post)
Doctor who championed right to die ends his life
(Saerom Yoo, Religion News Service)
Will religiously divided landfills solve Lebanon's trash crisis?
(Sami Nader, trans. Sami-Joe Abboud, Al-Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)
US Reform Jews set to adopt transgender policy, gender-neutral bathrooms
(Al Jazeera America)
Georgia: State obstructs building new non-Georgian Orthodox places of worship
(Forum 18 News Service)
Christianity's liberation from Albanian anti-religion oppression offers Middle East hope, says bishop
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Russian court revokes ruling that labelled Muslim book extremist
(Russian Legal Information Agency)
Arundhati Roy returns award in protest against religious intolerance in India
(The Guardian)
Six predictions for the future of the Religious Right
(Neil J. Young, OUPblog Religion)
Jury orders $8M in damages, says Diocese of Duluth, Catholic order are responsible for child sex abuse
(Chao Xiong, Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Minnesota jury awards clergy sex abuse victim $8.1 million
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
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