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Monday, 23 February 2015

Martyred Copts witnessed their faith, and courage
(Interview of Samuel Tadros by Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online)

Religious freedom win in Texas
(US Daily Review)

Religious liberty in China: the key to a stable, peaceful, and harmonious order
(Doug Bandow, CHINA US Focus)

Switzerland: Initiative targets religious headgear in schools
(Swissinfo.ch)

Syria Kurds retake territory in anti-ISIL offensive
(Al-Shorfa)

Immigration ruling: 'beyond mere enforcement'
(David Roach, Baptist Press)

Bengaluru: Indian United Christian Forum welcomes PM Modi’s statement
(ICAN)

The florist, the baker and the photographer- religious freedom and small business
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Britain, London and Christianity: Setting the Thames on fire
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Scandinavian Jews see silver lining in strong Muslim response to Denmark shootings
(Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA)

Religion and Law round-up – 22nd February
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Church statement on living wage
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Sweden shuts down job seeker service amid ISIS fears
(Al Arabiya News)

French Muslim leaders to boycott Jewish council dinner
(Haaretz)

Marginalizing extremists is priority as religions envoy, David Saperstein says
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Terrorist group Al-Shabaab threatens to attack Mall of America, 'Jewish-owned shopping centers'
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Palestinian groups must pay U.S. terrorism victims over $218 million
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Business, faith groups unite to oppose religious ‘right to discriminate’ laws
(Eric Galatas, Colorado News Connection)

Freedom Indiana opposing 'religious freedom' bill
(Tony Cook, USA Today)

UT legislators getting closer to unveiling non-discrimination and religious liberty legislation
(Bob Bernick, Utah Today)

Al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists urge attacks on ‘American or Jewish’ malls
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Russell Moore responds to amicus brief in the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals case on same-sex marriage
(Elizabeth Bristow, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission)

Religious freedom bills back before Michigan Legislature
(Beth Dalbey, Plymouth-Canton Patch)

A threat to Europe: The Islamic State's dangerous gains in Libya
(Mirco Keilberth and Christoph Reuter, Spiegel Online)

France bans six from travel to join ISIS
(Al Arabiya News)

Debate over religion in schools, Common Core back again in Legislature
(Craig Currier, Petoskey News)

Turkey criticizes UK over missing schoolgirls
(Al Arabiya News)

LGBT Georgians find unlikely ally in former defender of State's anti-sodomy law
(Jim Redmond, Towleroad)

Ukrainian Catholic leader urges pope to be tougher on Russia
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)

Attacks on religion doubled in U.S., survey says
(Nate Madden, Catholic News Service)

SD House panel reviews state standard for courts mulling religious freedom infringement claims
(James Nord, Daily Journal)

Sri Lankan President pledges to ensure religious freedom in the country
(Colombo Page)

King: Zero tolerance for terror
(Arab News)

Grand mufti: Fighting terror is Islamic duty
(Arab News)

For head of Al-Azhar, religious education reform is needed to stop Islamic extremism
(AsiaNews.it)

India secures release of Jesuit priest Fr Alexis Prem Kumar from captivity in Afghanistan
(Karthick S, The Times of India)

Cardinal Zen demands truth over fate of Chinese bishop
(ICAN)

UK Jewish charity says claims it is interfering in Israeli elections are false
(Jerry Lewis, The Jerusalem Post)

Bomb damages Bahrain mosque as police detain "terrorist cell"
(The Jerusalem Post)

Use religion to campaign, pay N1m fine, INEC tells Bauchi politicians
(Saliu Gbadamosi, The Nigerian Tribune)

UCLA Board objects to Jewish student’s appointment on account of her religion
(The Tower)

Racial and religious politics has crept into Sabah’s political system, says Leiking
(Kota Kinabalu, The Rakyat Post)

Judge OKs atheist's 'reason station' in Warren City Hall
(Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press)

Zionism debate at heart of bitter Israeli vote
(Dan Perry, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Moderate Sunni Islam leader blames Zionism and 'new colonialism' for Middle East collapse
(Richard Spencer, The Telegraph)

Abercrombie's fashion rules land at the Supreme Court
(Sam Baker, National Journal)

Church of England pays some workers below living wage
(BBC News)

Pope, Merkel discuss Ukraine and fight against poverty
(Daniela Petroff, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Gay unions getting nod in voting by Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
(Peter Smith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Religious objection bills reemerge in MI state Legislature
(Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press)

First Jew sworn in as US ambassador for religious freedom
(The Jerusalem Post)

Public school has students 'bowing to the sun god'
(Bob Unruh, WND)

Lebanon may try TV figure over 'insulting Islam' on Twitter
(Daily Star: Lebanon)

Lebanese satirist under criminal investigation for allegedly blasphemous anti-Islamic State image
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Azerbaijan’s religious leaders address international community and ECHR regarding Khojaly genocide
(Mubariz Aslanov, APA)

Idaho’s faith-healing debate pits child welfare against parental rights
(Leah Sottile, Al Jazeera America)

Azerbaijan: Latest secret police prisoners – two female Jehovah's Witnesses
(Forum 18 News Service)

Oslo synagogue ‘peace ring’ marred by organizer’s anti-Israel remarks, some Jews say
(JTA)

North Alabama Presbyterians narrowly OK same-sex marriages
(Kay Campbell, AL)

Evangelical Protestants put Labour as their number one choice in a recent survey
(Ed West, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)

Australian court says polyamory is not "sexual orientation" under sex discrimination act
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Catholic church sacks woman for being too 'polyamorous'
(Marianna Papadakis, Financial Review)

Can returned extremist fighters be rehabilitated?
(Barbara Slavin, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)

Islamic State pull out of strategic town of Tel Afar
(Karzan Sabah Hawrami, BasNews)

Islamic State creates brigade for children
(BasNews)

'A Message Signed with Blood to the Nation of the Cross'
(Mark Durie, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)

As Utah lawmakers debate LGBT and religious rights, advocates say discrimination persists
(Jennifer Dobner, Salt Lake Tribune)

Saudi artist sues Swiss watchmaker for plagiarism
(i24 News)

Saudi Artist sues watch company for appropriating his hajj etching
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

First monument to the martyrs of anti-Christian pogroms erected in Odisha
(Santosh Digal, AsiaNews.it)

Afghanistan, Indian Jesuit freed after eight months in captivity
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)

Tibet, thousands of Buddhists celebrate the Dalai Lama’s birthday in public
(AsiaNews.it)

Freedom to proselytize associated with lower religious hostilities, finds new analysis
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)

Islamic State militants kidnap 13 women in Mosul
(Hazhar Mamuzini, BasNews)

Sunday, 22 February 2015

How does your state rank in church attendance?
(Kate Scanlon, The Daily Signal)

Modi’s secular pitch can give BJP a new face
(ICAN)

New ISIS video shows Peshmerga soldiers in cages
(Yousuf Basil, Holly Yan, Word News Report)

Bishops push for Congress to support conscience rights in health care act
(Catholic News Agency)

Girl suicide bomber kills five in Nigeria: witnesses
(Al Arabiya News)

Damascus livid after Turkey sends tanks into Syrian territory
(Macedonia International News Agency)

Among the Navajos, a renewed debate about gay marriage
(Julie Turkewitz, The New York Times)

Will a Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage apply to tribal governments?
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Judge reprimanded for questioning defendant over religious head covering
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Saturday, 21 February 2015

After ‘Charlie’: latest incident of Pakistani Christians targeted by Muslim anger
(Asif Aqeel, World Watch Monitor)

Moroccan court jails former Spanish soldier on terror charges
(Aziz El Yaakoubi, Al Arabiya News)

Road blocks in international HR mechanisms: Review of "The Twilight of Human Rights Law" by Eric Posner
(Kumar David, Sunday Island)

NZ: Bible lessons lead to court
(Laura Walters, Stuff.co.nz)

Remarks at the swearing-in ceremony for Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom David Saperstein
(John Kerry, U.S. Department of State)

Norway's Muslims form protective human ring around synagogue
(Balazs Koranyi, Reuters)

Grand Mosque imam: Promote values through new media
(Arab News)

Washington florist rejects settlement offer after court rules she can’t refuse service to gay weddings
(Abby Ohlheiser, The Washington Post)

Coptic Christian bishop in UK: I forgive ISIS
(Daniel Burke, CNN)

Muslims around the world give something up for Lent in solidarity with Christians
(Zoe Romanowsky, Aleteia)

Muslim students struggle to pay tuition due to religious law
(Dan Taekema, CBC News)

Leaders of the Houston "arson attack" mosque responded to Islamophobia in the best way!
(Al Bawaba News)

Saudi scholars decry religious extremism
(Arab News)

Coptic Catholics consecrate first church in Sinai, against backdrop of martyrdom
(Oliver Maksan, Catholic News Agency)

Against backdrop of ISIS beheadings, Egypt's Coptic Catholics consecrate first church in Sinai
(Oliver Maksan, Aleteia)

Non-party campaigning: donations update
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Sexual orientation and sexual behaviour: can they be distinguished?
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

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