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Friday, 27 March 2015

Ukrainian Churches are facing imminent ban in Crimea
(Institute for Religious Freedom)

Islamists storm Mogadishu hotel with gov't officials inside
(Edith Honan, Reuters)

Congress’ failure to vote on new AUMF against Islamic State would be the real blank check (Opinion)
(Kate Martin, The Hill)

Sounding Off: Richardson-area readers discuss whether a religious body has a right to worship in neighborhood zoned for residential use
(The Dallas Morning News)

Christian, Jewish and Muslim cantors against terror
(Anna Lindh Foundation)

The Islamic State, Boko Haram and the evolution of international jihad
(Nathaniel Allen, The Washington Post)

Bills aim to block D.C. laws opponents say violate religious liberty
(Nate Madden, Catholic News Service)

Egyptian lawyer drops case declaring Hamas ‘terrorist group’
(Al Bawaba)

Islamic Movement of Israel leader gets 11-month sentence for incitement
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Assyrian Christians flee jihadists to southeast Turkey
(World Watch Monitor)

True confessions of a non-Zionist Jew
(Todd Gitlin, Tablet)

Tajik imams call for Islamic party's closure at Friday prayers
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

Lavrov meets with Orthodox monastery abbess in Guatemala
(Interfax-Religion)

New Russian-language guide describes how to join Islamic State
(Anna Dolgov, The Moscow Times)

Give Muslims self-rule or ‘count body bags’: Philippines’ Aquino
(AFP, Al Arabiya News)

Kansas Jewish center shooter to be arraigned
(The Jerusalem Post)

Following grave desecration, Tunisian president vows to defend Jews
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

No new church law until autumn frustrates Hungarian minorities
(Sources: Idea Spektrum, trans. Nicky Seadon, Evangelical Focus)

EVENT, 27 March 2015: Freedom of Religion or Belief in the Education System
(Norwegian Helsinki Committee Freedom of Belief Initiative and Ankara University Human Rights Centre, Venue: Ankara University Faculty of Political Science Mülkiye Şeref Salonu)

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Satanic temple urges "discrimination transparency" amendment to Michigan's proposed RFRA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Secularism with a slightly militant edge
(Celestine Bohlen, The New York Times)

California court rules that Sun Worshipping Atheism is not a religion and requires no accommodation
(Travis Gettys, Raw Story)

'Megamosque' deadline pushed back as government denies extremist links
(Dominik Lemanski, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)

Egypt's Coptic Christians are politically divided
(Ruth Michaelson, RFI English)

GCC attacks Shias in Yemen: How will Iran react? - OpEd
(Zaher Mahruqi, Eurasia Review)

West Bengal, death threats against a Catholic girls' school
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)

Muslim and Christian leaders against prejudices, for “still possible” peace in Mindanao
(AsiaNews.it)

Jakarta, hijab for policewomen gets go ahead to joy of extremist opposition
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)

A grave problem – NJ ban on religious headstone sales could violate constitution
(Kevin J. Jones, Catholic News Agency)

London Catholic school believes government order threatens its identity
(Catholic News Agency)

Reformed jihadist now fights extremist ideology
(Waleed Abu al-Khair, Al-Shorfa)

Marriage equality and religious freedom can co-exist, Americans United says
(Americans United for Separation of Church and State)

Russians trained by ISIL may be used against home country
(Interfax-Religion)

Boko Haram conflict sees spike in civilian deaths: rights group
(Al Arabiya News)

Human Rights Campaign hopes to fight Arkansas’ religious freedom bill by scaring away Silicon Valley
(Niraj Chokshi, The Washington Post)

In Inter-America, Congress promotes religious freedom across the region
(Shirley Rueda, Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventist)

Is religious liberty declining around the world? One panel thinks so.
(Ken Camp, Baptist News Global)

‘Religious liberty’ bill tabled; future in doubt
(Aaron Gould Sheini, AJC News)

What's the role of religion in post-Maidan milieu?
(Nikolas Kozloff, The World Post)

D.C. city council violates Catholic schools' right to free exercise of religion
(Michael Root, First Things)

Does one swallow make a Spring? Artistic and literary freedom at the European Court of Human Rights
(Eleni Polymenopoulou, Social Science Research Network)

Iranian big-budget film causes controversy by depicting Muhammad
(Andrew Pulver, The Guardian)

Indiana enacts religion bill some say discriminates against gay people
(Joanna Walters, The Guardian)

Four arrested for Mumbai church attack
(Angie Chui, Christian Today)

Nigeria: How churches are responding to Boko Haram
(Katie Harrison, Christian Today)

Turkey unveils Great Synagogue as Jewish population fades
(Ayla Jean Yackley, Reuters)

The man who talks to Boko Haram
(World Watch Monitor)

Aid-in-dying bill passed by California Senate panel
(Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times)

Kansas lawmakers pass ban on abortion procedure
(Brad Cooper, The Wichita Eagle)

Arkansas senate OKs Ten Commandments monument
(Andrew DeMillo, Associated Press, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)

A couple of constitutional snippets
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Tennessee church removes Satan billboard message on equal rights
(Mark Yapching, Christian Today)

Michigan passes bill allowing adoption refusal for faith-based reasons
(Christian Today)

Right-to-die bill, advocated by Brittany Maynard, passes California Senate committee
(Religion News Service)

Calif. AG asks judge to halt initiative to kill gays
(William M. Welch, Religion News Service)

Afghan President to US Congress: moderate Muslims must speak out
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

N.J. to Archdiocese of Newark: get out of the headstone business
(Mark Mueller, Religion News Service)

NJ governor signs law keeping religious cemeteries out of headstone and funeral business
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

The Satanic Temple launches petition for 'discrimination transparency'
(My Fox Detroit)

Honoree Joseph Weiler calls religious liberty ‘most fundamental freedom in society’
(Nate Madden, CatholicPhilly.com)

6 facts about public opinion in Nigeria before election day
(Jacob Poushter, Pew Research Center FactTank)

How the U.S. compares with the rest of the world on religious restrictions
(Peter Henne, Pew Research Center FactTank)

Religion and speech: Free to appal
(B.C. | London, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Russian occupiers want to put all Crimean mosques under single bureaucracy
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)

Putin: number of terrorism-related crimes decreased by over 60 percent in 2014
(Russian Legal Information Agency)

Supporting Christianity differs from establishing a religion (Opinion)
(Scot Wall, Cypress Creek Mirror)

Charged killer and victim argued over 'religion' before drive-by shooting
(Brett Hambright, Lancaster Online)

U.S. should put religious liberty front and center in foreign relations (Opinion)
(Jay Evensen, Deseret News)

Germany bans extremist Islamist group 'Tauhid Germany'
(Deutsche Welle)

Pakistan to recruit 2,000 Christian, Hindu policemen
(Aamir Latif, The Journal of Turkish Weekly)

Indiana enacts religious objections bill
(Al Jazeera America)

Christian, Muslim students condemn religious intolerance at Abuja conference
(Kukogho Iruesiri Samson, Pulse)

Study guide to facilitate intra-church and inter-religious dialogue
(World Council of Churches)

Crimea: Only one percent of religious organisations re-registered
(Forum 18 News Service)

Jeff Mateer urges conference of pastors to stand for religious freedom—and tells them how
(Liberty Institute)

110 Jews from eastern Ukraine arrived to Israel
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)

Holy See requests the charitable organisations of the Catholic Church to provide assistance to Ukraine
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)

French and Palestine presidents to take part in Tunis anti-terror rally
(Middle East Monitor)

N.Y. teen charged with hate crime for anti-Semitic graffiti in Arabic
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

UK's first husband and wife team of bishops announced by Church of England
(Victoria Ward, The Telegraph)

Betwixt politics and religion (Opinion)
(Olaniyi Olayimi, The Guardian (Nigeria))

Jerome: a model scholar?
(Christa Gray, OUPblog Religion)

Egypt: State confiscates assets of sentenced defendants, charity organisation for Brotherhood affiliation
(Aswat Masriya (Thomson Reuters Foundation))

The veil: how do courts adjudicate between the state and human rights?
(Tom Lewis, The Times Law [paywall])

Religion is the final Democratic frontier
(Camille Galles, The Minnesota Daily)

Vaccine rates vary widely in West Michigan, even among religious schools
(Sue Thoms, MLive)

Local Government (Religious etc. Observances) Bill – Passed
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

CONFERENCE CALL, 26 March 2015: “The Future of Iraq”
(Dr. Chris Seiple, Institute for Global Engagement)

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Amman forum calls for practical steps to confront extremism
(Mohammad Ghazal, Al Shorfa)

We don’t bless war but the defense of our homeland
(Interview with Father Stepan Sus, Religious Information Service of Ukraine)

Jordan proposes ban on “insults to religions” at next Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting
(National Secular Society)

Consideration of requests for the inclusion of an emergency item in the Assembly agenda
("Respect for religions and religious symbols, respect for freedom of opinion and expression " (submitted by the delegation of Jordan), Inter-Parliamentary Union)

Court blocks jihadist website used to recruit Turks to Islamic State
(Ceylan Yeginsu, The New York Times)

Ghani addresses Congress, eager to rebuild Afghan-U.S. ties
(Matthew Rosenberg, The New York Times)

Ghani thanks Americans for sacrifice, warns about Islamic State
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

Egypt and the complexities of keeping Christians safe
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Covering all things Catholic)

Sisi: Islamic world need "revolution for religion"
(Aswat Masriya (Thomson Reuters Foundation))

Society will appeal court decision in Trinity Western law school matter
(Nova Scotia Barristers' Society)

The strange case of Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society appeal of the TWU ruling
(Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities)

Christian leaders say faith under attack in Canada by governments, regulators
(Laura Payton, CBC News)

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