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Tuesday, 12 May 2015

As Utah anti-discrimination law takes effect, some LGBT residents worry it will do little
(Michelle Price, Associated Press, US News & World Report)

New Utah law raises landlord concerns over transgender tenants
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News)

UTAH: S.B. 296 Antidiscrimination and Religious Freedom Amendments
(Utah State Legislature)

Religious freedom panel: Terror, violence spreading worldwide
(J.C. Derrick, Christian Headlines)

Religious groups fight bill striking gay adoption ban
(Garin Flowers, WTSP)

Texas sen. doesn't want clergy 'coerced' into officiating same-sex marriages
(Wade Goodwyn, National Public Radio)

Alabama bill would allow religious instruction for academic credit
(Alexandra Woolbright, The Anniston Star)

The price of freedom: Syrians smuggle Yazidis from IS, at a cost
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

Central Asian militants return to northern Afghanistan
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

Indiana church plans pot-smoking worship service in test of religious freedom
(Steven Nelson, US News and World Report)

State of religious freedom in India
(Kashif-ul-Huda, Two Circles)

Change Region Religious freedom bill: majority of state residents are opposed, according to poll
(Kevin Litten, The Times-Picayune)

European court condemns Georgia over gay rights march
(AFP, Expatica)

Same-sex marriage yes vote could have EU impact, claims research group
(Patsy McGarry, The Irish Times)

Armenia: Conscientious objectors contribute to the well-being of people in need
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

New Pew Research Center study examines America’s changing religious landscape
(Press Release, Pew Research Center)

America’s Changing Religious Landscape
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)

How the religious makeup of the U.S. has changed
(Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)

Pew Report: Jews and Hindus are most highly-educated in US
(Michelle Malka Grossman, The Jerusalem Post)

Pew survey: Percentage of US Catholics drops and Catholicism is losing members faster than any denomination
(Michael O'Loughlin, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)

New report finds percentage of Christians in U.S. declining; unaffiliateds increase
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Christians lose ground, ‘nones’ soar in new portrait of US religion
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)

Moscow wants greater control over the financial activities of religious organizations
(AsiaNews.it)

Russia: Petition drive to remove Dvorkin from expert analysis committee
(Russia Religion News: Stetson University)

Cambodia welcomes home 10th century statue of a Hindu god
(Sopheng Cheang, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Spain Sephardic citizenship plan hits snags, unlike Portugal
(Alan Clendenning and Tia Goldenberg, The Associated Press)

Turkey's religious body publishes Koran in Armenian
(Fulya Ozerkan, Agence France-Presse)

Muslims flee to Malaysia and Indonesia by the hundreds
(Thomas Fuller, The New York Times)

ISIS-affiliated hackers threaten cyberattacks, 'electronic war' on US, Europe
(Alessandria Masi, International Business Times)

Bangladeshi blogger who wrote on site promoting secularism is killed
(Julfikar Ali Manik and Nida Najar, The New York Times)

A third "anti-Islam" blogger murdered in Bangladesh this year
(Sumon Corraya, AsiaNews.it)

Amish schools find ways to serve special needs kids
(Heather Adams, Religion News Service)

Texas Senate OKs bill allowing clergy to refuse gay marriage
(Will Weissert, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Tex. bill would bar local officials from issuing same-sex-marriage licenses
(Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post)

Attorney seeks community service, no prison time for D.C. rabbi
(Keith L. Alexander and Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)

Clues on Twitter show ties between Texas gunman and ISIS network
(Rukmini Callimachi, The New York Times)

Ministerial exception bars discrimination claims against Salvation Army
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Why Americans are fleeing organized religion — and what it means for Jews (Opinion)
(Jane Eisner, Jewish Daily Forward)

Catholics, Evangelicals team up to fight poverty
(Michael O'Loughlin, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)

Obama: Christians need to act more like Pope Francis
(Michael O'Loughlin, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)

Turkish PM's visit to Gülen 'was approved' by Erdoğan
(Hürriyet Daily News)

EU MEPs stress Turkey must put democracy and fundamental rights first
(Eurasia Review)

Anti-Semitism and Israel’s moral imperative
(Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, TransConflict)

Rabbis honor French PM in fight against anti-Semitism
(Hana Levi Julian, The Jewish Press)

Hindus laud new South Wales MP for swearing on Bhagavad-Gita
(Eurasia Review)

Catholics mourn the death of Mgr Van Nghi, defender of religious freedom in Vietnam
(AsiaNews.it)

Mothers and widows remember the attacks on Youhanabad churches
(Silent Thinker, AsiaNews)

Court of Faculties hearing in Cardiff
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

A holding corporation called old America: Charles Mingus’ religious multitudes
(Jason C. Bivins, OUPblog Religion)

New Palestinian saints highlight region’s beleaguered Christians
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

Singapore teen blogger guilty of insulting Christians
(Jane Onyanga-Omara and Elizabeth Weise, Religion News Service)

HDP candidate says AK Party using religion to remain in power
(Today's Zaman)

Banned Muslim Brotherhood members trickle home to Syria
(Reuters)

Alabama governor signs student religious liberties act
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

UN rights office calls for inquiry into Angolan 'sect' massacre
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Indonesia’s transgender priests face uncertain future
(Kate Lamb, Al Jazeera America)

Tajikistan promises amnesty for returning jihadis
(Edward Lemon, Inside the Cocoon)

Spain arrests two suspected of distributing Islamic State propaganda
(The Jerusalem Post)

Israel demolishes a historic shrine near Nablus and seizes its stones
(Middle East Monitor)

Freedom of Religion in Marriage Protection Act set for Alabama Senate committee vote
(Erin Edgemon, Alabama Legislature)

Religious mockery "deserve protection but not sympathy"
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Singapore convicts teenager of obscentiy and insulting religious feelings
(Austin Ramzy, The New York Times)

50 Years of German-Israeli diplomatic relations
(German Missions in the United States)

Tuesday Briefing: How the Supreme Court’s marriage ruling could affect religious liberty
(Meredith Flynn, Illinois Baptist Briefing)

Religion, poverty take center stage at Georgetown
(Joy-Ann Reid, MSNBC)

Leave religion out of Carnival
(Latrare Rahming, The Bahamas Weekly)

Zambia: religion, politics, and the state
(Henry Kyambalesa, Lusaka Times)

Politics at home and abroad, and other issues of religion and state
(Breaking Israel News)

Update on the latest religion news
(Washington's Top News)

Vietnam: communism a stumbling block for religious freedom
(Julie Oosterhouse, Mission Network News)

Zion shall be redeemed with (in)justice (Opinion)
(Yizhak Laor, Haaretz)

Religious liberty, marriage equality clash, creating legal confusion
(Ken Camp and Jeff Brumley, Baptist News Global)

EVENT, 12 May 2015: Faith, Freedom, and Foreign Policy: A Colloquium with the Fellows of the Transatlantic Academy
(Oxford Journal of Law and Religion Academy, held at Balliol College, Oxford)

Monday, 11 May 2015

After surviving Boko Haram, returnees face hunger in Nigerian towns
(Julia Payne, Reuters)

Iran’s Kurds rise up as their leaders remain divided
(Amberin Zaman, Al Monitor: Iran Pulse)

Expert warns against Muslim immigration: 'it's a religious obligation to spread Islam'
(Alex Swoyer, Breitbart News Network)

Danish school to pay moral damages to Muslim girl who was made to eat pork
(Alexander Ward, The Independent)

Austrian Catholic and Protestant churches apologize to Jews
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Israel’s Supreme Court rejects removing Muslim Quarter from Jerusalem Day route
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Australian state offers $500,000 security grant to Melbourne Jewish center
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Washington religious freedom group threatens lawsuit
(Adam Lawson, Lincoln Times-News)

David Cameron appeals to Hindu community in re-election
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)

Seeking mutual respect amid conflicts over religion
(Michael Gerson, GazetteXtra)

Texas lawmakers advance 'pastor protection act,' continue full-fledged assault on same-sex marriage
(John Wright, Towleroad)

Catholic university investigated for offending Muslims by having too many crosses
(John Hayward, Breitbart News Network)

EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch: Religious apparel clashes with potential employer's fashion sense
(Mark C. Dean, The National Law Review)

Several anti-gay marriage bills making way through Capitol
(LeAnn Wallace, Time Warner Cable News)

Anti-mosque act, FOB report: "It violates EU's rules"
(Freedom of Belief)

Muhammad Cartoons: Free speech and respect for religion
(Matthew Geiger, The Washington Outsider)

Bay of Bengal people-smuggling doubles in 2015 - UNHCR
(Tom Miles, Reuters)

Five Egyptian Christian children arrested for making 'blasphemous' prayer video
(Czarina Ong, Christian Today)

Tens of thousands flee fighting in South Sudan, aid groups withdraw
(Denis Dumo, Reuters)

Sex traffickers prey on vulnerable Nepali girls in aftermath of earthquake
(Lucinda Borkett-Jones, Christian Today)

Catholic church warms to liberation theology as founder heads to Vatican
(Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Jonathan Watts, The Guardian)

French radio station takes on new role after Paris attacks
(Nadine Achoui-Lesage, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Tagore statue installation at Belgium’s Leuven Catholic University welcomed
(Rajan Zed)

Business: A powerful force for supporting interfaith & intercultural understanding and peace
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)

Good news in Nigeria, but not for Chibok girls, yet
(World Watch Monitor)

Worldwide Hindus want Auckland Shiva statue to stay
(Rajan Zed)

Rohingya migrants' boat rescued off Indonesia
(BBC News)

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