Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Why the Gulf isn't to blame for Syrian refugee crisis
(Barın Kayaoğlu, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Charlie Hebdo stirs new controversy with migrant cartoons
(Brian Love, Reuters)
Palestinians, Israeli police clash at Jerusalem shrine for third day
(Ammar Awad, Maayan Lubell, and Ali Sawafta, Reuters)
Azerbaijan doesn't need Western values - President Aliyev
(Interfax-Religion)
Religious liberty at the Founding
(Douglas Laycock, Constitution Daily (blog))
Indonesian government needs to do more to prevent persecution of religious minorities, says report
(Christianity Daily)
Niger's Muslims and Christians join forces for peace
(Boureima Hama, Agence France-Presse)
County recommends denial of Amish religious waiver
(Lindsay Veremis, WEAU)
Ma Ba Tha flaunts political clout with celebration of contentious laws
(Lawi Weng, The Irrawaddy)
Christian lobbyists say Sunday trading proposals could harm family life
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
Chile Catholic Church rocked by e-mail scandal
(Eva Vergara, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
How the hijab has made sexual harassment worse in Iran
(The Guardian)
Jewish man dies as rocks pelt his car in West Bank
(Diaa Hadid, The New York Times)
Thai police chief links Bangkok blast to Uighur trafficking
(Nattasuda Anusondisai, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Kuwait mosque attack: Seven sentenced to death
(BBC News)
Replacement named for US bishop who didn't report abuse
(Heather Hollingsworth, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Half of U.S. adults raised Catholic have left the church at some point
(Carlyle Murphy, Pew Research Center FactTank)
One in five Syrians say Islamic State is a good thing, poll says
(Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post)
Hungary slams door on refugees: 'We were lucky, we got through the border'
(Dan McLaughlin, Al Jazeera America)
National Geographic with Pope Francis on front cover banned by Saudi Arabia
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Saudi Arabia: Child offender at risk of execution
(Mint Press News)
EU: Deflecting responsibility to protect refugees
(Human Rights Watch)
Saudi Arabia not taking refugees despite having 100,000 empty, air conditioned tents
(Mint Press News)
US advocates for Syrian refugee resettlement find unexpected allies
(Jacob Wirtschafter, Religion News Service)
Poll: 29 percent still think Christian Obama is Muslim
(David Jackson, Religion News Service)
As pope visits, Afro-Cuban religion hopes for recognition
(Jaime Hamre, Reuters)
Georgia school district repudiates baptisms on football field
(Rich McKay, Reuters)
‘God’s United Front’ and the battle over China’s crosses
(Zhao Sile, Foreign Press)
Pope warns religious orders: Take in refugees, or pay property taxes
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Refugee crisis reminds Europe there is a real war in Syria
(Alessandro Bruno, Geopolitical Monitor)
Senior religious leaders in Nigeria call for dialogue to build peace
(Press Release, Religion News Service)
A better look at religion's influence on political attitudes
(Tom Robinette, University of Cincinnati)
CALL FOR PAPERS, deadline 15 September 2015: "Religious freedom, discrimination, and equality"
(The Third Law and Religion Research Meeting and the First OJLR Colloquium in Brazil - Uberlandia (14-15 October 2015), Law and Religion Research Group in collaboration with the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion Academy)
Former papal envoy says Francis will press Cuba on religious freedom
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Romeoville church claims village has violated religious acts
(Scott Viau, Patch)
Hyper-nationalists celebrate four ‘race and religion’ laws
(Aung Kyaw Min, Myanmar Times)
Monday, 14 September 2015
Faith communities urge U.S. to resettle more Syrian refugees
(Naveen Qayyum, World Council of Churches)
A few states are protecting religious freedom
(Mary Reichard, World Magazine)
Mo. conservative group proposes 'religious freedom' legislation
(Matthew Musacchia, The Missourian)
Iain Duncan Smith backs religious freedom at work
(The Christian Institute)
Court: Test doesn’t violate Rastafarian’s religious freedom
(Bob Collins, Minnesota Public Radio)
Filipino troops rescue 9 road workers seized by militants
(Jim Gomez, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
This prayer comes from a Catholic priest who died on 9/11
(Herb Scribner, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Phoenix synagogue celebrates reopening on Rosh Hashanah
(Miguel Otarola, The Arizona Republic)
Your holiday cheat sheet to Rosh Hashanah
(Wendy Thomas Russell, PBS Newshour)
Religion and law round-up – 13th September
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Putin suggests creating Christian historical-cultural center in Sevastopol
(Interfax-Religion)
8 things to know about this year's Rosh Hashanah
(Payton Davis, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Rosh Hashanah in Tunisia: a rabbi reflects on the power of Muslim-Jewish solidarity
(Sarah Souli, Quartz)
Rosh Hashanah 2015: When is the Jewish New Year?
(International Business Times UK)
Jewish beekeepers sweeten New Year, teach wisdom of the hive
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
On eve of holiday, Israeli police and Palestinians clash at Al Aqsa mosque
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)
Renewed clashes at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque
(Al Jazeera America)
U.S. calls for restraint on all sides in Jerusalem violence
(Arshad Mohammed, Reuters)
Preliminary findings of country visit to Bangladesh by Heiner Bielefeldt, Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
(United Nations Human Rights Press Release, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Bangladesh: a secular State with a State religion?
(United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Atheist bloggers flee Bangladesh
(Deutsche Welle)
The history of religion in the United States: Liberty and theocracy
(Marci Hamilton, Constitution Daily)
Kidnapped Nigerian bishop has been freed unharmed
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)
Catholic village tells Protestant man to convert or go to prison
(Florence Taylor, Christian Today)
Office Depot apologizes for refusing to print Christian woman's pro-life prayer flyers, calling it 'persecution' against abortion
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Pastor tells students 'take an F' to protest against Islam 'indoctrination'
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Indian clerics issue fatwa against makers of Muhammad: The Messenger of God
(Ben Child, The Guardian)
South African teacher killed for resisting witchcraft is beatified
(Pierre Donadieu, Agence France-Presse)
South African opposition politicians slammed for Israel trip
(Haaretz, Forward)
Nepal rejects calls to make nation Hindu, sparking violence
(Binaj Gurubacharya, The Associated Press)
Lebanese minister: Islamic State jihadis 'may be posing as Syrian refugees'
(The Telegraph)
Migrant or Refugee? There is a difference, with legal implications
(Somini Sengupta, The New York Times)
Vicar to Jerusalem is moderately optimistic that dispute over Catholic schools will be settled
(Asia News)
What shouldn't we compare to the Holocaust? A refugee crisis, for starters
(J.J. Goldberg, Forward - Opinion)
Europe's refugee crisis: Germany imposes border controls
(The Economist)
India’s President meets victims of persecution against Christians in Orissa
(Asia News)
Britain's Cameron urges support for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan
(Sylvia Westall and Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Reuters)
French residents greet Syrian refugees warmly, but many are wary
(Elizabeth Bryant, Religion News Service)
Thousands protest migrants in Eastern Europe: 'Islam will be the death of Europe'
(Worthy News)
Christians and other faith leaders condemn plans for extremism register
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)
Britain plans registry of religious leaders, will require government-specific training, security checks
(Andrew Bingham, The Telegraph, via The National Post)
Orthodox and secular Jews fight over shaping Jerusalem's character
(Michele Chabin, USA Today)
Christian bus driver fired for refusing to drive gay-pride themed bus
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
One dead in Jerusalem as Israeli-Palestinian tension mounts during Jewish New Year
(Reuters, Religion News Service)
The paradox at the heart of Catholic World Meeting of Families (Commentary)
(Tom Krattenmaker, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis: ‘Jesus was popular and look how that turned out’
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Gay and celibate, Ron Belgau is the official face of gay Catholicism for Pope Francis’ visit
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Kentucky clerk case divides religious liberty advocates
(Travis Loller, Associated Press, The Big Story)
Defiant Kim Davis still won’t sign marriage licenses, but won’t stop others
(Mike Wynn, Religion News Service)
British parliament rejects right-to-die law
(Al Jazeera)
Abu Yahia al-Hamawi, Ahrar al-Sham’s New Leader
(Aron Lund, Syria Comment (Joshua Landis))
Kentucky clerk won't block, or authorize, gay marriage licenses
(Steve Bittenbender, Reuters)
A closer look at Catholic America
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center FactTank)
The pope, Cuba and Venezuela: Left-wing regimes pose a moral challenge for Pope Francis
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Max Beauvoir, the biochemist who became Haiti’s chief voodoo priest, dead at 79
(Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post)
Max Beauvoir, Haiti's supreme leader of voodoo dies
(Peter Granitz and David Adams, Reuters)
Village in Dnepropetrovsk Region speaks against going over to "Kiev Patriarchate"
(Interfax-Religion)
Jerusalem Patriarch calls Ukrainian schismatics 'lost'
(Interfax-Religion)
Analysis: How the presidential campaign got religion
(Melinder Henneberger, SunHerald)
Buhari vow to protect right to freedom of worship
(Clement Ejiofor, NAIJ.com)
South Sudan must silence the guns to have peace, says churches leader
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
NE India - Manipur violence sparks fears of religious conflict
(Ann J. Denail, World Watch Monitor)
Sanders reaches across culture-war line in speech at Christian university
(Al Jazeera America)
In Maryland, faith leaders and law enforcement fight radicalization
(Aaron Miguel Cantu, Al Jazeera America)
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