Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 11 September 2015
Assisted Dying Bill defeated by substantial majority
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
British Parliament rejects controversial right-to-die bill
(Trevor Grundy, Religion News Service)
Detroit suburb rejects proposed mosque
(Steve Friess, Al Jazeera America)
Sudanese forces raped, murdered and burned civilians alive in Darfur, human rights group says
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
First South African to be beatified by Catholic church
(Agence France-Presse)
Obama holds conference call with U.S. rabbis in advance of Rosh Hashanah
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Readout of the President’s call with American rabbis
(The White House)
Public school parents and children file lawsuit to declare Nevada vouchers unconstitutional
(Press Release, Educate Nevada Now)
Second suit filed challenging Nevada's school voucher law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Keep faith-based hiring discrimination, religious leaders tell Obama
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Judge gives Oklahoma a month to remove Ten Commandments from Capitol
(Heide Brandes, Reuters)
Uzbelistan: "Threatened we will be put in prison if we don't stop visiting each other for prayers"
(Forum 18 News Service)
New York City repeals circumcision informed consent rule
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Advancing Freedom of Religion or Belief for All: Final Statement
(Theological School of Halki, Hebeyliada Island, Turkey, Conference of European Churches)
Thursday, 10 September 2015
Does religious liberty apply to Muslims?
(Dean Obeidallah, The Daily Beast)
Member of US religious freedom commission finds inspiration in Orthodox beliefs
(Daniel Mark, The Jerusalem Post)
The U.S. is betraying the Kurds — again
(Adil E. Shamoo, Foreign Policy in Focus)
New York City health board repeals rule on consent forms for circumcision ritual
(Michael M. Grynbaum, The New York Times)
Bipartisan resolution introduced: Persecution of Mideast Christians is 'genocide'
(Lauretta Brown, CNS News)
Board to discuss Islam in schools
(Tim Hodge, The Daily Herald)
Netanyahu seeks UK support against 'militant Islam'
(Agence France-Presse)
Bangladesh urged to tackle religious intolerance
(UCA News)
Kentucky clerk sparks more debate on a Ga. Religious Freedom Bill
(WSB Atlanta)
Saigon Church launches scholarships and free courses for poor children
(Thanh Thuy, Asia News)
Church opens the first Christian museum in Basra, southern Iraq
(Asia News)
Shanghai opens park to honor its 20,000 Jewish Holocaust refugees
(Brian Schaefer, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Jewish journalist sees refugees bringing out the best in Germans
(Judith Kessler, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Ingushetia's leader calls for stronger information counteraction to spreading of religious extremism
(Interfax-Religion)
Moscow gay pride organizer seeks Swiss citizenship
(Interfax-Religion)
230 Assyrian Christian hostages closer to freedom as negotiators compel ISIS to lower demands
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
7th grade students required to write 'Allah is the only God' in Tennessee public schools
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Islamic centre teachers jailed for a year for beating 10-year-old
(Steven Morris, The Guardian)
Chechen leader demands judges who banned Islamic work be punished
(Alec Luhn, The Guardian)
Saudi Arabia bans National Geographic cover featuring Pope Francis
(David Kenner, Foreign Policy)
Al-Qaeda leader criticizes Islamic State for dividing jihadist ranks
(Missy Ryan, The Washington Post)
Islamic State group's attacks in Saudi test security of hajj
(Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Archdiocese: School parents must sign 'Catholic identity' pledge
(Kathy Boccella, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Church, rising at Trade Center site, will glow where darkness fell
(David W. Dunlap, The New York Times)
Sikh-American man beaten in alleged hate crime in Chicago area
(Marisa Taylor, Al Jazeera America)
Love and loathing greet pope's appeal for parishes to host refugees
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
Pope adds Kenya, scene of attacks on Christians, to Africa trip
(Isla Binnie, Reuters)
French opinion rapidly swings in favor of refugees, poll shows
(Brian Love, Reuters)
Bangladesh arrests three more Islamists over killings of secular bloggers
(Ruma Paul, Reuters)
Wilders tells Dutch parliament refugee crisis is 'Islamic invasion'
(Yoruk Bahceli, Reuters)
California Assembly approves right-to-die legislation
(Patrick McGreevy and Phil Wilton, Los Angeles Times)
EU: Five steps to tackle refugee crisis (How to save lives and protect people)
(Human Rights Watch)
Maiduguri 'open' again despite renewed Boko Haram activity
(World Watch Monitor)
Companies plead guilty to conspiracy over halal exports
(The Associated Press, Des Moines Register)
Guilty pleas in indictment for exporting meat falsely labeled as Halal
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Second Oregon judge ends wedding services after gay marriage allowed
(Emily E. Smith, The Oregonian)
Oregon judge who refused gay marriages says freedom of religion violated
(Shelby Sebens, Reuters)
Oregon judge faces ethics charges over refusing same-sex weddings and other matters
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Planned Parenthood practice of fetal harvesting under Congressional microscope this week
(Chelsen Vicari, Juicy Ecumenism: The Institute on Religion & Democracy's Blog)
Fayetteville voters OK anti-bias law
(Joel Walsh, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
Fayetteville voters approve controversial anti-discrimination law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The battle over kapparot goes to court
(Edmon J. Rodman, Jewish Journal)
Windsor decision is based on a lie written into New York Marriage Equality Act
(RenewAmerica)
Suit challenges kapparot ceremonies under California's Unfair Competition Law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Antievolution lawsuit dismissed in West Virginia
(National Center for Science Education)
Suit challenging teaching of evolution dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religious diversity is good for business
(Brian Walsh and Brian Grim, Real Clear Religion)
Russia's Muslim clerics concerned over court ruling on Islamic book
(Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty)
Charitable status of un-popular opinion
(Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Churches)
Refugees in Europe: Exodus
(The Economist)
Drones in the sky: 'Up, Up ... and NOT going away'
(Gene Policinski, Newseum Institute: Inside the First Amendment)
Time to take religion, segregation out of schools
(Fa Abdul, Free Malaysia Today)
Myanmar's religion laws a 'death knell' for peace
(John Zaw, UCA News)
Assisting suicide in Scotland: Ross (For Judicial Review)
(Frank Cranmer, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Missouri Alliance for Freedom offers model legislation to protect religious liberty
(Missouri Scorecard)
The plight of Syria's Druze minority and U.S. options
(Waleed Rikab, Syria Comment)
Brazil Pentecostal church welcomes gays spurned elsewhere
(Jenny Barchfield, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Religious groups push U.S. to take in 100,000 Syrian refugees
(Reuters)
There are more atheists and agnostics entering Harvard than Protestants and Catholics
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post)
Israel outlaws Muslim groups that protest at key holy site
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
The Christian militia taking on Islamic State in Iraq
(Dan Damon, BBC News)
India Muslims condemn Islamic State, calling it 'un-Islamic'
(Nirmala George, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Group urges Republican candidates to defund Planned Parenthood
(Ginger Gibson, Reuters)
Built by immigrants, U.S. Catholic churches bolstered by them once again
(Tom Gjelten and Marisa Penaloza, NPR)
Relatively few U.S. Catholics skipped annulment because of cost or complications
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center FactTank)
Participants in workshop are equipped to address statelessness in Middle East
(World Council of Churches)
The secret Christians of Brooklyn
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Islamic cleric killed in Dagestan
(Interfax-Religion)
Azerbaijan: Can segregated beaches be "positive discrimination"?
(EurasiaNet)
NYC Board of Health repeals regulations on circumcision rite
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Pope Francis reforms Church law in marital nullity trials
(Vatican Radio)
Apostolic Letters on marriage annulment law
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Pope radically simplifies Catholic marriage annulment procedures
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
WCC affirms strong role of churches in Colombian peace process
(World Council of Churches)
China marks Tibet anniversary with rallying cry against Dalai Lama
(Sui-Lee Wee, Reuters)
China sticks to freedom of religious belief
(Xinhuanet)
'Banistan': Four-day meat ban in India's Mumbai sparks outrage
(Swati Bhat, Reuters)
Palestine: The end or a new beginning? – OpEd
(Alan Hart, Eurasia Review)
Israel bans Palestinian activists behind Jerusalem shrine protests
(Dan Williams and Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters)
The latest manifestation of the debate regarding state-religion relationship in Israel
(Joseph Gold, The Jerusalem Post)
Al Qaeda calls Islamic State illegitimate but suggests cooperation
(Omar Fahmy, Reuters)
Apocalypse now: For Islamic State, the end is definitely nigh
(Charles Cameron, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Migrants and Australia: Why Australia is accepting 12,000 more Syrian migrants
(The Economist)
4 reasons we should think before acting rashly on migrant crisis
(Deborah Lipstadt, Forward)
Unhappy Arabia: The religious and cultural heritage being ruined by Yemen's war
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
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