Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 25 September 2015
Greek students now can become exempt from religious education classes more easily
(Philip Chrysopoulos, Greek Reporter)
Pope Francis in America: The pontiff on the Hill
(J.A., The Economist)
Pope's visit boosts Little Sisters' Supreme Court challenge
(Tonay Mauro, Legal Times, National Law Journal)
Pope calls for abolition of the death penalty as Supreme Court justices watch
(Mike Sacks, The National Law Journal)
Representatives of ecumenical agencies will visit Hungary amidst refugee crisis
(Naveen Qayyum, World Council of Churches)
“Children are the heroes of the aboriginal residential schools story”
(Kristine Greenaway, World Council of Churches)
What Pope Francis can teach the US Catholic Church about Thomas Merton (Commentary)
(Rose Marie Berger, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis assembles a squad to fight religious extremism
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Ecumenical prayer of Community of Taizé on border between the two Koreas
(Stephany Sun, Asia News)
Trafficking of women in Bangladesh: victims of poverty, ignorance and a chauvinist mentality
(Sumon Corraya, Asia News)
Vicar of Jerusalem wants to see the school year begin, but not at any cost
(Asia News)
Christian woman barred from taking her Bible into the UK wins first-ever caste discrimination case
(Vincent Funaro, The Christian Post)
US facing difficult alliance with Russia in fight against ISIS as Kremlin backs Assad
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Thousands of Christian counselors gather in Nashville to discuss 'epidemic' of suicide in church, race and refugees
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
PCUSA appoints first-ever openly gay executive director to legally embattled mission agency
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Yazidis urge ICC to open probe into IS atrocities
(Agence France-Presse)
Israel's soaring population: Promised Land running out of room?
(Tova Cohen and Steven Scheer, Reuters)
Hajj stampede: Saudis face growing criticism over deaths
(BBC News)
What’s a sin? Catholics don’t always agree with their church
(Carlyle Murphy, Pew Research Center FactTank)
Muslim Republicans at odds with their party in Tennessee
(Chas Sisk, NPR)
Long Beach convent's reopening helps boost the shrinking ranks of nuns
(Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times)
Evangelicals aim to strengthen their political influence
(Greg Bluestein, The Atlanta Journal Constitution)
Hundreds attend World Meeting's only panel on homosexuality
(Michael Matza, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Persecuted by Islamic State, Yazidis turn to ICC for justice
(Toby Sterling, Reuters)
Norway says asylum arrivals may raise threat from right-wing extremists
(Stine Jacobsen, Reuters)
White House announces new appointments to faith-based advisory council
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Challenge to city council invocation policy is moot
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pope Francis steers clear of politics in NYC homily
(Rick Hampson, USA Today)
Read what Pope Francis said at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral
(Emily Shapiro, ABC News)
Pope Francis’ Homily at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
(The New York Times)
At St. Patrick's, Pope Francis talks of Muslims, sex abuse scandal and liberal nuns
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Synagogue worker: I was fired for having sex before marriage
(Jamie Schram, New York Post)
Suit against synagogue alleges pregnancy discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Suit against former pastor for financial misdeeds dismissed on church autonomy grounds
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Addressing Congress, pope urges U.S. to end hostility toward immigrants
(Philip Pullella and Scott Malone, Reuters)
Islamic State frees Kurdish photographer in prisoner swap: press watchdog
(John Davison, Reuters)
Iraq says winning battle against Islamic State, wants more bombing
(John Irish, Reuters)
Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric says snubbing reforms will revive protests
(Stephen Kalin, Reuters)
Tajikistan: Communities' foreign contacts blocked, websites banned, Central Asia's only legal religious-based political party banned
(Forum 18 News Service)
Parliamentarians from 50 countries call for greater religious freedom
(Baha'i International Community)
Americans more worried about threats to religious freedom
(The Columbus Dispatch)
Poll: One-third of Americans would refuse to hide a Jew during the Holocaust
(Paul Bond, The Hollywood Reporter)
Opinion: Why does everybody sound so anti-Semitic all of a sudden?
(J.J. Goldberg, Forward)
‘Don’t use religion to propagate hate, violence’
(Ghana Web)
Top ten facts about Buddhism
(Damien Keown, OUPblog Religion)
Refugee crisis: Many migrants falsely claim to be Syrians, Germany says as EU tries to ease tensions
(AFP, The Telegraph)
Is the European Convention Working? Grieve advocates before Faculty of Advocates
(David Scott, UK Human Rights Blog)
Horrific child abuse must be properly investigated
(Adam Wagner, RightsInfo)
EVENT, 25 September 2015: The Power of the Pope and the UN Secretery-General in World Politics
(Jodok Troy, Eric Patterson, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
EVENT, 25 September 2015: Religious Freedom in a Multicultural World
(University of Newcastle (Aus.) and Freedom For Faith)
Resist uniformity, embrace diversity: Pope at New York attack site
(Scott Malone and Sebastien Malo, Reuters)
Pope expresses closeness to world's Muslims after haj stampede
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
Pope Francis: Pro-life cause ‘primary reason’ for U.S. visit
(Joel Gehrke, National Review)
Obama urged to press China on rights
(Tom Strode, Baptist Press)
U.S. leaders should call for the release of imprisoned Chinese human rights lawyers
(Chen Guangcheng and Katrina Lantos Swett, USA Today)
Thursday, 24 September 2015
Focus on family unites Catholics with other faiths in Philadelphia
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Religious freedom: What the Chinese Catholic church can teach us
(Dominic Chiu, Hong Kong Free Press)
Religious freedom remains 'severly restricted' in Saudi Arabia, says UK government
(Hannah Tooley, Premier)
Pope speaks broadly about religious freedom, human life at every stage
(Shannon Muchmore, Modern Healthcare)
‘No justification whatsoever’ for homelessness, Pope Francis says in Washington
(Scott Malone, Reuters, The Jewish Journal)
Much of Pope Francis' speech resonates with Utah congressional delegation
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News)
Indonesian church holds 100th service outside Presidential palace
(World Watch Monitor)
Analysis: Latin American Christians need protection from organized crime
(World Watch Monitor)
Pope before Congress, families at Philadelphia meeting focuses on meaning and value of family
(Lois M. Collins, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Nepal: The birth of new freedoms? – OpEd
(Dr. Gyan Basnet, Eurasia Review)
The more polite brand of Greek anti-Semitism
(Forward)
Progress in Ukraine: Look west, Maidan
(The Economist)
Migrants and labour markets: More vacancies than visitors
(The Economist)
China: USCIRF Calls on the release of Ilham Tohti and other prisoners of conscience
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Religious freedom can be an antidote to religious extremism
(Robert P. George and Katrina Lantos Swett, The Washington Examiner)
Iran: USCIRF marks three-year anniversary of Saeed Abedini’s imprisonment
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Pastor Saeed Abedini tasered, threatened with new charges and more time in Iran prison as wife pleads for his release
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
USCIRF supports the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2015 (S. 2078)
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Abortion in European Law: Human rights, social rights and the new cultural trend
(Grégor Puppinck, Ave Maria International Law Journal)
'ISIS killing Muslims': Defectors seen as potential partners in exposing jihadist lies
(Shianee Mamanglu-Regala, Christian Today)
Belarus: Orthodox Archbishop denied entry, another conscientious objector show trial
(Olga Glace, Forum 18 News Service)
Why Thailand’s demigod king and military junta are cracking down on ‘blasphemy’
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
Women's veils a sign of backwardness, says official in China's Xinjiang
(Megha Rajagopalan, Reuters)
No 'direct linkages' between halal certifiers and terrorism, inquiry hears
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)
Yemen suicide bombing in Sanaa mosque 'kills 25'
(BBC News)
'You worry they could take your kids': is the Prevent strategy demonising Muslim schoolchildren?
(Homa Khaleeli, The Guardian)
WGN-TV Chicago apologizes for Nazi symbol in Yom Kippur segment
(Katie Rogers, The New York Times)
Full text of Pope Francis’ remarks to Congress
(Larisa Epatko, PBS NewsHour)
Pope Francis implores Congress to accept immigrants as their own
(Marc Fisher and Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Pope makes appeals to Congress, tells US nuns 'I love you'
(Nicole Winfield and Erica Werner, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
The Pope addressed a Congress that's much more Christian than America
(Tanara Keith, NPR)
Pope Francis addresses joint session of Congress
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
5 facts about Communion and American Catholics
(Aleksandra Sandstrom, Pew Research Center FactTank)
Putin opens new mosque in Moscow amid lingering intolerance
(Neil MacFarquhar, The New York Times)
Russia's Muslims will promote development of inter-ethnic, interreligious dialogue - Putin
(Interfax-Religion)
Lebanon says to provide schooling for up to 100,000 more Syrian refugees
(Reporting by John Davison; Editing by Dominic Evans, Reuters)
Defending the right to life in Europe and abroad
(Joseph Williams, ACLJ)
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon reinforces Scottish opposition to repeal of the Human Rights Act
(Fraser Simpson, UK Human Rights Blog)
ECLJ supports Freedom of conscience of medical staff in Sweden
(European Centre for Law and Justice)
Airline High School's religious activity questioned by ACLU
(Shreveport Times)
What's a Jew to do with the Pope comes on Yom Kippur?
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Mosque can proceed with RLUIPA challenge to denial of use variance
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
S.C. Supreme Court hears arguments in Episcopal Church breakup saga
(Jennifer Berry Hawes, The Post and Courier)
Law meets religion as SC Supreme Court takes on Episcopal split
(John Monk, The State)
South Carolina Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Episcopal Church split
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
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