Law and Religion Headlines

Tuesday, 1 September 2015

Kentucky clerk, citing God, defies courts on gay marriage
(Claire Galofaro, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Islamophobia rising: FBI warns ‘militia extremists’ are targeting Muslims
(Kit O'Connell, Mint Press News)

India's Supreme Court suspends and grants review of state court decision outlawing santhara
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Judge allows moral, not just religious, contraception exemptions
(Adam Liptak, The New York Times)

District court expands contraceptive coverage exemption to secular pro-life employers and employees with religious objections
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Protect Fayetteville files lawsuit challenging validity of civil rights ordinance
(KFSM News)

Suit challenges Fayetteville, Arkansas anti-discrimination ordinance
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

ECHR judges dissent on embryo comments - 'embryos cannot be reduced to constituent parts of anyone else’s identity'
(Times of Malta)

European Court upholds Italy's ban on donation of IVF embryos for scientific research
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Grand Chamber judgment Parrillo v. Italy - Banning a woman from donating embryos obtained from in vitro fertilisation to scientific research was not contrary to respect for her private life
(Press Release, European Court of Human Rights)

Embryo freezing and surrogacy
(Fr Robert Soler, Times of Malta)

Cancelled play highlights UK counter-extremism debate
(Simon Hooper, Al Jazeera)

Gay couples ask judge to punish defiant Kentucky clerk
(Mike Wynn and Richard Wolf / USA Today Network, Religion News Service)

Supreme Court says Kentucky clerk must let gay couples marry
(Adam Liptak, The New York Times)

Supreme Court refuses to stay order requiring Kentucky clerk to issue same-sex marriage licenses
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Federal government’s allowing Big Mountain Jesus statue on federal land in Montana doesn’t violate the Establishment Clause
(Eugene Volokh, The Washington Post)

9th Circuit rejects challenge to Big Mountain Jesus statue
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

'Big Mountain Jesus' gets OK from 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
(Vince Devlin, Independent Record)

Afghan man and woman given 100 lashes in public for adultery
(Mirwais Harooni and Jalil Ahmad Rezaee, Reuters)

White supremacist should die for three Kansas murders, prosecutor argues
(Kevin Murphy, Reuters)

Palmyra temple was destroyed by ISIS, U.N. confirms
(Annie Barnard and Hwaida Saad, The New York Times)

Anti-Muslim Buddhist group moves toward Myanmar’s mainstream
(Timothy McLaughlin and Hnin Yadana Zaw, Reuters)

Pope Francis asks priests to forgive the sin of abortion
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

Monday, 31 August 2015

Tajik Justice Ministry gave ten days to shut down Islamic Renaissance Party
(Interfax-Religion)

Fourteen suspected ISIS propagandists detained in Tajikistan
(Interfax-Religion)

Appearance of ISIS militants in Kyrgyzstan shows stability is fragile - Atambayev
(Interfax-Religion)

ISIS beheads 91 people, including 39 of its own fighters, for sorcery and sodomy in 1 month
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

ISIS fighters hoist Iraqi prisoners over flames and burn them alive in barbaric new video
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Persecuted Christians walk 10 hours in dark of night to escape ISIS, praise God for still being alive
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Islamic State destroys part of Syria's Temple of Bel: monitors
(Sylvia Westall, Reuters)

Indians debate whether religious freedom means being able to starve yourself to death
(Annie Gowan, The Washington Post)

India top court lifts ban on Jains' santhara death fast
(BBC News)

India's top court suspends ban on Jain suicide ritual
(Al Jazeera)

Court agrees with Becket—Protects World War II monument from atheist attack
(The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)

Christian mother Asia Bibi on death row for blasphemy must be allowed to see her family in jail, court says
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)

Christian man killed by Muslim in-laws after wife gives her life to Jesus
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Boko Haram Islamist extremists kill 56 in remote village in Nigeria's north-east
(The Guardian)

Poland's mixed feelings over memorial to rescuers of Jews
(Vanessa Gera, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Influential Christian sect ends protests in Philippines
(Jim Gomez, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Federal government should leave nuns alone
(Ingrid Jacques, Detroit News)

Israel has failed to reform Jewish radicals, critics charge
(Daniel Estrin, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Northern Virginia teen sentenced to 11 years for aiding Islamic State
(Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post)

How a once-white church broke down racial barriers
(Rachel Martin, NPR)

US and Saudis furnish hajj travel information to Americans
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Court rejects Second Amended complaint in RLUIPA land use case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Tax court upholds penalties against promoters of evasionary "corporation sole" tax scheme
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Pastor's bail set at $2 million
(Christie Smythe and David Voreacos, Bloomberg News)

Former Morgan Stanley VP to be released on $2 million bond
(Nicole Hong, Wall Street Journal)

Securities fraud defendant gets bail because of religious affiliations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Illinois governor signs bill to label non-cow milk
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Illinois milk law change was pushed by orthodox Jewish group
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Death penalty under review: Ninth Circuit to rule on "dysfunctional" system
(Marcia Coyle, National Law Journal)

Anti-abortion group wins constitutional challenge to health care law
(Zoe Tillman, Legal Times)

Don't manipulate Census data to support half-truths
(Faizan Mustafa, Hindustan Times)

Ethiopia’s underground Jews see small gains in tolerance
(Johnny Magdaleno, Al Jazeera America)

Hundreds rally in St. Petersburg over destruction of demon motif
(Al Jazeera America)

Obama bristles at anti-Semitism charges during interview with Jewish newspaper
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Anti-ISIS coalition falling short, says Canada PM
(David Ljunggren, Reuters)

Philippine Christian group ends protest blocking Manila highway
(Karen Lema, Rosemarie Francisco, and Manny Mogato, Reuters)

Another fifty shades of vilification
(Fr Joe Borg, Times of Malta)

Christian unity marks visit of WCC delegation to Pentecostal Church in Chile
(World Council of Churches)

Religious leaders and civil society actors explore ways of ending violence against children
(World Council of Churches)

A Syrian monastery: IS destroys ideals as it destroys buildings
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Varieties of atheism: Ways of getting along
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

The new racists: Christians who hate Israel
(Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute)

USCIRF crucial to religious freedom
(Tim Strode, Baptist Press)

The identity of the new ICLARS–Ashgate Book Series
(Silvio Ferrari and Russell Sandberg, International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies)

‘Abrahamic religions’ – From interfaith to scholarship
(Guy G. Stroumsa, OUPblog Religion)

Commemoration of World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit
(Scoop News)

Berlin's 'Long night of Religions'
(Deutsche Welle)

ISIS damages Bel, Syria's 'most important temple,' rights group says
(Don Melvin and Schams Elwazer, CNN)

Santhara – Supreme Court upholds Jains’ right to freedom of religion
(Niti Central)

Slovenia: Maribor synagogue given national landmark status
(jhe, Jewish Heritage Europe)

Israel and the significance of religion on culture and economics
(Sarah Stanley, Action Institute Power Blog)

U.S. national industrial union endorses BDS of Israel
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Has Jewish music star Matisyahu got a Middle East problem?
(Emily Shire, The Daily Beast)

Passports at the junction of international and domestic law – Richard Alton
(1 Crown Office Row, UK Human Rights Blog)

Draft law on the Freedom of Religion in Montenegro raises concern
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Myanmar's president signs off on law seen as targeting Muslims
(Hnin Yadana Zaw, Reuters)

Lebanese business leader connects religious freedom to economic development
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)

Sects, witches, and wizards—from Pythagoreans to Kepler
(Snezana Lawrence, OUPblog Religion)

Economic development and religious freedom by Fouad Makhzoumi
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

Religion and law round-up – 30th August
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Germany's Muslim demographic revolution
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)

Indonesia's checks on Islamist extremism flawed, evangelical research body finds
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

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