Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Israeli brothers jailed for Jewish-Arab school arson
(Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky, Reuters)
Baptist leaders join call for national strategy on global religious persecution
(Ken Camp, Baptist News Global)
Abortion challenge fails in London court but mother and daughter to take fight to the Supreme Court and Europe
(Jilly Beattie, Belfast Live)
City to study display complaint
(Ryan Henry, Houston County News)
Proposed constitution threatens religious freedom in Nepal
(Christine Kim, Christianity Daily)
Religion needs protection
(Kevin Aquilina, Times of Malta)
Emory receives $1 million gift for religious freedom work
(Patti Ghezzi, Emory News Center)
Seattle officials join push for Sharia-compliant mortgages, loans
(Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News)
Australian Muslim leader blasts government's deradicalization drive
(Matt Siegel, Reuters)
For these Muslim comedians, it's all about testing the boundaries of religion and humor
(T.J. Raphael, PRI)
Austrian court jails Chechen for joining jihadis in Syria
(Shadia Nasralla, Reuters)
Appeals court permanently blocks North Dakota 'heartbeat' abortion ban
(David Bailey, Reuters)
Jerusalem to fund non-Orthodox groups
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Pope Francis's popularity in America takes a hit ahead of his first US trip
(The Guardian)
Washington Post petitions U.N. to help free journalist held in Iran
(Joby Warrick, The Washington Post)
Islamic charities in UK fear they are being unfairly targeted over extremism
(Alex Delmar-Morgan, The Guardian)
Norway honors 77 victims of extremist attacks in July 2011
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Top Egypt militant urges holy war against Egyptian president
(Sarah El Deeb, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
10 US mayors join Pope Francis in pledging to combat climate change, trafficking
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis’ US approval rates slump sharply, led by conservative dismay
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Ky. county clerk invokes God in denying gay marriages
(Mike Wynn, Religion News Service)
Charleston church shooting suspect Dylann Roof charged with federal hate crimes
(Kevin Johnson, Religion News Service)
Two Christian colleges allow hiring of gay married professors; Goshen board sought guidance in prayer before final decision
(Vincent Funaro, The Christian Post)
Native Americans protest at the US Capitol against $6BN mine on sacred Apache land
(Mint Press News)
Christian mother on Pakistan's death row gets last chance to escape blasphemy execution
(Christianity Today)
Asia Bibi's last chance for freedom
(World Watch Monitor)
Execution of Christian mother Asia Bibi temporarily suspended; Bibi faces death row accused of saying: 'My Christ died for me, what did Muhammad do for you?'
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Dispatches: re-examining Pakistan’s dangerous blasphemy laws
(Saroop Ijaz, Human Rights Watch)
Pakistan Supreme Court to hear Christian woman's blasphemy case
(Mubasher Bukhari, Reuters)
Pak court suspends death sentence for Christian woman
(Arab News)
This town has resisted Islamic State for 18 months. But food is running low
(Loveday Morris, The Washington Post)
Thousands of Christians who fled ISIS are facing a long term future in refugee camps
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
Few around the globe live where all religions are free & equal
(Tobin Grant, RNS Blog: Corner of Church and State)
Parishioners in Massachusetts vigil trespassing, church lawyer argues
(Scott Malone, Reuters)
Most ancient Hebrew document since the Dead Sea Scrolls deciphered – it's Leviticus
(Nir Hasson, Haaretz)
Japanese Anglicans urge rejection of Security Bills
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Stifling freedom of expression in UK schools
(Simon Hooper, Al Jazeera)
Tunisia faces legacy of religious oppression in fight against radicalism
(Alice Su, Al Jazeera America)
Christians rally in Alabama after atheists force removal of Christian flag by threatening legal action
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Government has failed, but religious schools have succeeded, at closing race-based education gap, study finds
(Ray Nothstine, The Christian Post)
'Are you stupid?' Gay baker rips LGBT community for forcing Christian bakers to make cakes for same-sex weddings
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Ecumenical Institute for the Middle East will train young Christians
(World Council of Churches)
WCC congratulates Bishop Hovakim Manukyan – new primate of Armenian Church of UK and Ireland
(World Council of Churches)
Philippine bishops campaign for action at Paris climate summit
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Boko Haram: Nigeria borrows $2.1 bn from World Bank to rebuild North-East
(Ibanga Isine, Premium Times)
Egypt militant calls for jihad against "new pharaoh" - recording
(Aswat Masriya)
Denver church’s security efforts highlight new reality
(Axel Gerdau, The New York Times)
Deradicalisation program is pointless, says influential Muslim association
(Shalailah Medhora, The Guardian)
Israeli government clashes with liberal Jewish streams
(Tia Goldenberg, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
'Oldest' Koran fragments found in Birmingham University
(Sean Coughlan, BBC News)
Outspoken pastor ousted from the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
(Lilly Fowler, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Abercrombie & Fitch pays $25,000 to settle headscarf lawsuit
(Adam B. Lerner, Politico)
Can churches take a stern line on climate change?
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
"The inside story of the British suicide bomber of Ramadi"
(Tam Hussein, Syria Comment (Joshua Landis))
EVENT, 22 July 2015: Nigeria: A Conversation with President Muhammadu Buhari
(United States Institute of Peace)
Archdiocese of Newark suing New Jersey over law that prevents headstone sales
(Katie Reilly, Reuters)
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
In the heart of Africa, a sudden upsurge of radical Islam
(John Pontifex, Aid to the Church in Need)
Pope Francis is making Christianity radical again
(John Gehring, On Faith)
Council says it can't fine people who feed nuisance seagulls because 'it may offend religions'
(Jez Hemming, Wales Online)
Exempt Muslim students from beauty contests – Muslim student leaders
(Portia Arthur, Pulse)
Emory receives $1 million gift for religious freedom work
(Patti Ghezzi, Emory News Center)
New Jersey archdiocese sues challenging restrictions on its cemeteries selling headstones
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Coeur d’Alene seeks to dismiss religious-freedom suit
(Scott Maben, The Seattle Times)
Participants seek religious freedom, indigenous identity, Karnali State
(Ekantipur Report)
Ukraine bishop who shielded hundreds of Jews recognized by Pope Francis
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Jordanians question Chattanooga shooter's family in Mideast
(Karin Laub and Adam Schreck, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
A Florida gun range owner has declared a ‘Muslim-free zone’
(Abby Ohlheiser, The Washington Post)
Nigerian leader: Forces ready soon to take on Boko Haram
(Matthew Pennington, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Boko Haram militants attack Nigerian army chief's home
(Lanre Ola and Julia Payne, Reuters)
Syrian Islamists, courting West, say they will protect minorities
(Sylvia Westall, Reuters)
U.S. officials accuse Oregon imam of hiding militant past
(Shelby Sebens, Reuters)
State Duma deputy asks Russian foreign minister to initiate international tribunal for ISIL
(Interfax-Religion)
Saudi Arabia foils terror plots in major crackdown; over 400 suspects arrested
(Monica Cantilero, Christian Today)
Turkey denies turning blind eye to Islamic State as bombing stokes anger
(Mehmet Emin Caliskan, Reuters)
Turkish president an ISIS 'collaborator,' Kurds say after suicide bomber kills 30
(Monica Cantilero, Christian Today)
'People's faces burned off, you could smell burned bodies:' survivors share horror of ISIS' attack in Turkey
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
White House honors 12 faith leaders as climate-change ‘champions’
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
UAE criminalizes insult to religion
(Arab News)
The UAE’s new anti-discrimination law is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Mississippi school district fined over $7,500 for 'proselytizing Christianity' after minister prays at event
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Burundi: Hopelessness and fear as election tensions heat up
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
Cameroon: Nine students burned to death in suspected Boko Haram attack
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
OSCE trains police and prosecutors of Ukraine about religious freedom standards
(Institute for Religious Freedom)
EU Parl Intergroup welcomes the inclusion of FoRB action points in the adopted EU Action Plan on Human Rights
(Alfiaz Vaiya, European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom)
The ethnic roots of China’s Uighur crisis
(Usaid Siddiqui, Al Jazeera America)
Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem in battle with religious council officials over religious services in the city
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
Christians forced to convert to Hinduism or be denied benefits lifting them out of poverty as 'untouchables' in India
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
China: The best and the worst place to be a Muslim woman
(Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Foreign Policy)
World mayors at Vatican seek 'bold climate agreement'
(Al Jazeera America)
Malaysian activists question role of Muslim 'fashion police'
(Trinna Leong, Reuters)
In new sign of Assad’s troubles, Syria’s Druze turn away from president
(Hugh Naylor, The Washington Post)
Despite animosity, Moscow's Muslims change the city
(Mansur Mirovalev, Al Jazeera)
African clergy to protest Obama’s gay-rights ‘agenda’ on trip
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Gay rights 'non issue', Kenyan president says ahead of Obama visit
(Peter Martell, Agence France-Presse)
Obama backs Nigerian president Buhari in war against Boko Haram; pledges $5 million to fund Nigeria's military
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Italy failing same-sex couples says European court
(Reuters)
Lawsuit challenging Hall County school prayer dismissed
(Tyler Estep, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
90 years after 'Scopes Monkey Trial', the creation vs. evolution debate carries
(Compiled by Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
The Turkish enigma
(George Friedman, Geopolitical Weekly, Stratfor)
Religion in schools lawsuit settled
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
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