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Thursday, 29 October 2015

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi awarded Sakharov human rights prize
(BBC News)

Saudi blogger awarded Sakharov prize
(Isabel McCardle, UK Human Rights Blog)

Hindu ‘cattle patrols’ in India seek to protect cows from beef eaters
(Rama Lakshmi, The Washington Post)

Polish vote marks resurgence of conservative Catholic values
(Justyna Pawlak, Reuters)

Study: College experiences can boost Jewish identity for children of mixed marriage
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Praying coach's suspension opens split on religion in school
(Gene Johnson and Lisa Baumann, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Court: Anti-Muslim slurs get legal protection
(Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press)

Texas woman used in 'blood ritual' while being held captive
(David Warren, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Neighbors challenge church's rodeo arena
(Todd Unger, WFAA)

Organization behind Camp Joy El sues PSP over grounding of bus fleet
(Vicky Taylor, Public Opinion News)

Suit questions whether released time church buses must meet school bus standards
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

LDS First Presidency letter encourages help for refugees
(Genelle Pugmire, Daily Herald)

Marco Rubio takes lead among evangelical leaders, study says
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)

Appeals court rules Missouri law denies gays protection from harassment, firing
(Rudi Keller, Columbia Daily Tribune)

Appeals court: Sexual orientation not covered by Missouri's ban on sex discrimination in employment
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Rob Schenck, long opposed to abortion, now opposes gun violence
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Christian lawyers call for Chinese colleagues' release
(Anto Akkara, World Watch Monitor)

Anti-Muslim group wins appeal in Arab fest case
(Robert Snell, The Detroit News)

Two Sudan churches destroyed, one for a ‘marketplace’
(World Watch Monitor)

6th Circuit en banc: 1st Amendment protects Christian proselytizers at Dearborn's Arab International Festival
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Hobby Lobby owners said to be cooperating with probe of importation of religious artifacts from Iraq
(Lindsey Bever, The Washington Post)

Why you shouldn’t defend a high school coach praying on his football field
(Linda K. Wertheimer, The Washington Post)

Dispatches: Censorship is back in Indonesia
(Andreas Harsono, Human Rights Watch)

Iran: End ban on women at volleyball matches
(Human Rights Watch)

Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi awarded rights prize
(Al Jazeera America)

“Three-parent babies” in UK from today?
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Testimony of USCIRF Chairman Robert P. George on "The Crisis of International Religious Freedom"
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Michel Houellebecq and the Islamist Future of Europe
(Robert Carle, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

Advocates chide US – stop ignoring religiously-motivated violence
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)

House panel probes 'Global Crisis' of religious freedom
(Christian Broadcasting Network)

Communiqué: World Council of Churches, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, Evangelical Lutheran Church in German
(World Council of Churches)

“European solidarity must be strengthened”
(World Council of Churches)

World Council of Churches supports South African nuclear move at UN
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Rent Watch: Is atheism protected under religion fair housing rules?
(Anky Van Deursen, Los Angeles Times)

Conversations with kids: Teaching tolerance & interfaith principles in the home
(Syreeta Martin, Philly Voice)

Elder Quentin L. Cook addresses the role of faith and values in the quest for knowledge
(Deseret News)

Bremerton High coach Joe Kennedy, who prayed after games, placed on leave
(Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times)

Religious freedom: the forgotten liberty?
(Spiked)

ERLC honors civil rights activist-minister John Perkins and theologian J.I. Packer
(Ray Nothstine, The Christian Post)

World's oldest bible on show as British Museum tracks Egypt's religions
(Al-Arabiya)

Life and Death Matters: The Cosmic Man
(Anna Lise Seastrand, Sightings)

Four people lynched in Central African Republic's capital - sources
(Reuters, Thomson Reuters Foundation)

Politics and perils of Muslim bashing on the campaign trail
(Charles C. Haynes, Newseum Institute: Inside the First Amendment)

UN Commissioner: Time running out for Christianity in the Middle East
(Gregory Tomlin, Christian Examiner)

Religious freedom matters: USCIRF conversation with UN High Commissioner Guterres
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi wins EU’s Sakharov rights prize
(Reuters, Religion News Service)

EVENT, 29 October 2015: The Magna Carta’s Legacy 800 Years Later
(Professor Mark Hill QC, Università di Macerata)

EVENT, 29 October 2015: Religion, Human Development, and Democracy in Africa: Lessons from Nigeria
(Kellogg Institute for International Studies)

EVENT, 29 October 2015: Religious Accommodation in the Workplace
(Chamber of Commerce, Lewiston, Maine)

Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Catholicism and the family: Pope Francis can embrace contradictions—unlike most of his bishops
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

FULL TEXT: Pope Francis homily at the closing Mass of the XIV General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops
(Ecumenical News)

Pakistan supreme court warns against false blasphemy accusations
(The Guardian)

India's Supreme Court to examine Muslim divorce law for gender discrimination
(Michelle Marks, International Business Times)

SC to examine Muslim personal law, aim to end gender bias
(Bhadra Sinha, Hindustan Times)

Pope Francis urges world religions to fight extremism, fundamentalism
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)

Refugees could instigate attacks against Germans, group warns
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Evangelicals to host first-ever pro-life conference ahead of 2016 election
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Italian court says gay couples can't wed abroad, register at home
(Agence France-Presse)

Why Pakistani Hindus leave their homes for India
(BBC News)

Israel sends Islamic Movement sheik to prison for incitement
(William Booth and Ruth Eglash, The Washington Post)

Gay priest decries 'inhuman' treatment of homosexual Catholics
(Caroline Wyatt, BBC News)

Startups cater to Muslim millennials with dating apps and vegan halal soap
(Monique Parsons, NPR)

Muslim truck drivers refuse to deliver beer, win $240,000 lawsuit
(Molly Jackson, The Christian Science Monitor)

Student: Teacher taught 'God is not real'
(Josh Chapin, USA Today)

American killed in Palestinian attack was peace activist
(Ian Deitch, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

In Indonesia, minorities under threat from Muslim hardliners
(Kanupriya Kapoor, Reuters)

Polish vote marks resurgence of conservative Catholic values
(Religion News Service)

Ben Carson’s religion isn’t hurting him with evangelical voters
(Michelle Boorstein, Katie Zezima, and Karen Tumulty, The Washington Post)

Sixth Circuit rejects ‘heckler’s veto’ as to anti-Islam speech by ‘Bible Believers’
(Eugene Volokh, The Washington Post)

UN rights chief, Palestine's Abbas, warn of Holy Land strife worsening along religious lines
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Syria's 'holy war'
(Sami Nader, Al-Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)

Even fatwas don't bring Egyptians out to vote
(Rami Galal, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

Austria to build border fence to 'control' refugee movement
(Al Jazeera America)

Defrocked priest decries Vatican treatment of gays
(Al Jazeera America)

Azerbaijan: "Residents wanted to worship. Instead, they came face to face with police truncheons"
(Forum 18 News Service)

2015 Lantos Prize Laureates Announced: Rebiya Kadeer, Irshad Manji, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali
(Lantos Foundation)

Some fear refugee center planned for Amsterdam’s Jewish heart
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

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World Congress of Families opens as LDS apostle preaches love for all
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune)

Balancing LGBT rights? Mormon leader speaks at 'natural family' conference
(Brady McCombs, Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor)

Tooley, Vicari speak at World Congress of Families IX in Salt Lake City
(Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism: The Institute on Religion & Democracy's Blog)

Austria proposes a different kind of border fence
(Deutsche Welle)

Balkans wary of EU plan as migrant flood continues
(Deutsche Welle)

Today is International Religious Freedom Day
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

International Religious Freedom Day
(Press Statement, John Kerry, United States Department of State)

Congress and president reaffirm international religious freedom
(Robert P. George and Eric P. Schwartz, The Hill (blog))

Subcommittee Hearing: The Global Crisis of Religious Freedom
(The Honorable David N. Saperstein, Robert P. George, Ph.Dh., House Committee on Foreign Affairs)

Debunking 4 myths about religious freedom
(Russell Moore, The Gospel Coalition)

LDS doctrine 'completely linked' to traditional family, Elder M. Russell Ballard tells World Congress of Families
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)

Pope Francis: ‘World expects religions to work together for peace’
(Catholic Herald)

Pope marks 50 years of Catholic-Jewish relations with call for more interfaith friendships
(Nicole Winfield, Huffpost Religion)

50 Years of the Jewish-Christian dialogue – the way forward
(Ron Kronish, Huffpost Religion: The Blog)

‘Attacks on Jews are anti-Semitism, as are attacks on Israel,’ Pope Francis tells Jewish leader
(World Jewish Congress)

Nostra Aetate fifty years on
(Jonathan Sacks, First Things)

Fears mount in Vietnam as religion law nears debate
(UCA News)

Hymns (and other things) to avoid?
(Guest Post: Michael Ainsworth, Law & Religion UK)

The Interfaith Living Museum: A message of peace from young Jews and Muslims
(Interfaith Center of New York (blog))

Homeless shelter's challenge to permit revocation dismissed as not yet ripe
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Designate Pakistan as country of concern on religious freedom: US lawmakers
(Business Standard)

GOP 2016 contenders sling God talk, prep for debate
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)

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