Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 13 April 2015
Court upholds decision to dismiss suit on gay conversion ban
(The Herald)
A Muslim champion in the fight agains anti-Semitism
(Donald Snyder, The Jewish Daily Forward)
I’ve seen the Taliban’s brutality in Afghanistan. Boko Haram might be worse.
(Kevin Sieff, The Washington Post)
Bennett demands to have veto on religion-state bills in next cabinet
(Jonathan Lis, Haaretz)
Vaccination and religion in Australia
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
EVENT, 13 April 2015: Constitutional Symposium on Religious Freedom
(Center for Constitutional Studies, Utah Valley University (Orem, Utah))
EVENT, 13 April 2015: Mormons and Catholics: From the Margins to the Mainstream
(Keynote Address His Excellency Archbishop Bernardito Auza Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, Utah Valley University)
Sunday, 12 April 2015
Catholic Conference asks lawmakers to drop bill barring religious cemeteries' headstone sales
(Glenn Blain, New York Daily News)
In the name of the nation: the burqa ban, French values and Islam
(Daniela Alaattinoğlu, London Centre for Social Studies)
Majority of Israelis in favor of some arrangement for Jewish prayer rights at Temple Mount
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
Religion and law round-up – 12th April
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
A British conference on Israel's right to exist: Really?
(George Phillips, Gatestone Institute)
Jindal tells NRA that after religious liberty challenges comes challenge to 2nd Amendment rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Saturday, 11 April 2015
Orthodoxy and the Soviet past: The place of the skull
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Long arm jurisdiction upheld against churches using plaintiff's men's ministry logo
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
European Court will hear case of Greek Muslim widow contesting inheritance rules
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
ADF: IRS 'playing games' with Americans on church politicking
(Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow.com)
Group files FOIA suit seeking disclosure of new IRS church audit procedures
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Nigeria: Nimasa boss counsels against religious politics in Taraba
(Charles Akpeji, allAfrica)
Bangladesh braces for protests after islamist's execution
(Julhas Alam, ABC News)
Muslim extremists attempt to burn alive a Christian youth in Pakistan
(Pakistan Christian Post)
Welby: Murdered Kenyan students are martyrs
(Madeleine Davies, The Church Times)
Pope says Church to return to basics in Holy Year proclamation
(Steve Scherer, Reuters)
Vatican, France in showdown over gay ambassador
(Agence France-Press, Yahoo! News)
Friday, 10 April 2015
Religion and politics: Faith in the party
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
SA's first Aboriginal Anglican bishop, Christopher McLeod, to focus on reconciliation efforts in new role
(Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
How Ed Miliband lost Britain's Jewish voters
(Liam Hoare, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Jindal to NRA: Liberals will crush 2nd Amendment next
(Joey Garrison, The Tennessean)
Commentary: Religious freedom laws provide for liberty, not bigotry
(Jim Minnery, Alaska Dispatch News)
Michigan firm stays out of gay marriage case
(Katelyn Polantz, The National Law Journal)
Will “religious liberty” dominate the 2016 presidential race? (Opinion)
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Church of Pakistan ‘still seeks to grow’
(Madeleine Davies, The Church Times)
Tories can count on the C of E, voters tell polls
(Tim Wyatt, The Church Times)
Cremation “ashes” and their legal definition
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Why people are still talking about this theologian who plotted to kill Hitler
(Compiled by Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
USCIRF Congratulates Nigerians on peaceful election
(Calls on President-Elect to govern inclusively and address inter-faith tensions, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Cuban, Latin American, US, world churches speak up for normalizing of Cuba-US relations
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Twitter says it suspended 10,000 ISIS-linked accounts in one day
(Rick Gladstone, The New York Times)
Malaysia toughens sedition law penalties
(BBC News)
Anti-bias ordinance falls in Springfield, Missouri, after push by Christian conservatives
(Eli Yokley, The New York Times)
Dowling Catholic students protest decision not to hire gay teacher
(Katherin Klingseis, The Des Moines Register)
US states face fierce protests from anti-vaccine activists
(Andrew Gumbel, The Guardian)
Cubans love the pope and the Catholic Church, but they’re just not that into religion
(Scott Clement, The Washington Post)
Nazi chants at Dutch soccer game expose an ugly blot on ‘the beautiful game’
(MIchael E. Miller, The Washington Post)
A world full of Muslims?
(Aijaz Zaka Syed, Arab News)
Spain Islamists accused in Jewish bookstore bomb plot
(Reuters, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Iraqi militants 'executed 300 civilians'
(Panorama)
Malaysian church group says Kelantan hudud law requires constitution rewrite
(Desmond Davidson, UCA News)
Muslim woman tries to close Thrace’s sharia inheritance law loophole
(Adéa Guillot, The Guardian)
India Supreme Court lifts ban on staging of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' musical
(UCA News)
Bosnia indicts four over recruiting militants for IS
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Justice and peace in Pakistan: Islamic terrorism, the rotten fruit of relationship between state and religion
(Shafique Khokhar, AsiaNews.it)
Openly atheist Greek leader has tense meeting with Russian patriarch
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
North Korea should be held accountable for persecuting Christians (Opinion)
(Olivia Enos, The Heritage Foundation)
Moscow Muslims venerate Tatar woman who helped keep Islam alive in Soviet Capital
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
The man fighting for Americans to learn the truth about Hinduism
(Sheela Bhatt, Religion News Today)
Interfaith Alliance applauds president's statement supporting bans on "conversion therapy"
(Religion News Today)
After attack and backlash, Kenya faces battle to win over Muslims
(Edith Honan and Drazen Jorgic, Reuters)
India plans new townships to resettle Hindus in Muslim-majority Kashmir
(Sanjeev Miglani, Reuters World News)
MI5 and police partly to blame for radicalisation – say four in 10 British Muslims
(John Bingham, The Telegraph)
ISIS begins embedding itself in terrorist organizations working in Russia - FSB
(Interfax-Religion)
Senior Hamas official: Hamas ready to deal with ICC
(Middle East Monitor)
PM Modi speaks at UNESCO: 'Every citizen of every religion has an equal place'
(DNA India)
Saudi women increasingly demand higher positions
(Arab News)
Texas businesses warn of 'Indiana-like backlash' if state introduces similar religious freedom law
(Mark Yapching, Christian Today)
Religious-freedom laws add to schools' complex duties
(Mark Walsh, Education Week)
‘ISIS is violating religious laws'
(Faizel Patel, Eyewitness News)
What everyone gets wrong about the persecution of Christians in Iraq (Opinion)
(Jeremy Courtney, The Week)
School admissions and religion
(Andrew Doyle, The Irish Times)
Attack on religious places has dented Modi govt's image, won't be tolerated: Naqvi
(Zee News)
Government neutrality helps religion
(Linda Valdez, AZ Central)
Hope - and anxiety - after Buhari's win
(World Watch Monitor)
EVENT, 10 April 2015: Making Time: Discipline and Religion in America’s Prisons
(Hakim 'Ali, Tanya Erzen, Robin McGinty, Angela Zito, moderator Laura McTighe, NYU, The Center for Religion and Media)
Britain ‘has become less Christian’
(Tim Wyatt, The Church Times)
Secularism in 2050: huge changes in population make a secular UK even more urgent
(Benjamin Jones, National Secular Society)
Thursday, 9 April 2015
Educate Together describes religious monopoly over Irish schools as “shocking”
(National Secular Society)
The Future of World Religions report: One in ten Europeans will be Muslim by 2050
(Kasmira Gander, The Independent)
Would it have been better to let the Indiana Religious Freedom Law stand and let the Internet and free marker work?
(Timothy Geigner, Techdirt)
Regular interfaith prayer for peace and for the victims among Christians held in Kyiv
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Religious freedom vs. civil rights: Massachusetts religious leaders weigh in on national debate
(Susan Spencer, Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
Florida House approves bill letting adoption agencies refuse gay couples for religious reasons
(Elahe Izadi, The Washington Post)
Religious freedom forum set for Monday at Iowa Capitol
(William Petroski, The Des Moines Register)
US Supreme Court considers religious accommodations
(Stephen A. Miller and Kaitlin M. DiNapoli, The Legal Intelligencer)
Workers say Methodist church day-care center fired them for being gay
(Jeff Kunerth, Orlando Sentinel)
Religion and public education
(Anito Rao and Frank Stasio, WUNC 91.5)
Support for death penalty by religious affiliation
(Joanna Piacenza, Public Religion Research Institute)
Religion will again play a role in elections
(Tim Rutten, Daily Democrat)
Q/A: How we projected the future of world religions
(David Masci and Conrad Hackett, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)
How race, religion, culture split voters as campaigns begin
(David Lauter, The Seattle Times)
Can religion help at-risk youth?
(John Longhurst, Mennonite World Review)
A globalising papacy: Easter is for extroverts
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Kenya mourns students 'killed while praying'
(World Watch Monitor)
Kenya cracks down on al-Shabab funding and recruitment after Garissa attack
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
An atrocity in Kenya: Could things get worse?
(The Economist)
Kenyan government name drops alleged mastermind of university attack
(Mark Yapching, Christian Today)
Nigeria’s election: Three cheers for democracy
(The Economist)
Appellate victory in pastor's visa battle
(Rose Bouboushian, Courthouse News Service)
3rd Circuit invalidates portion of religious worker visa rules
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Southern Baptist Convention urges prayer sessions on morning of same-sex marriage arguments
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Obama to call for end to ‘conversion’ therapies for gay and transgender youth
(Michael D. Shear, The New York Times)
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