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Tuesday, 17 February 2015

The death of religion and the rise of faith
(Will Long, Harvard Political Review)

Attempt made to rob Russian convent in Jerusalem
(Interfax: Religion)

Newspaper in India shut down for printing 2006 Charlie Hebdo cover
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Is a church a “community asset”? – redundant churches and the Localism Act 2011
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Bishops’ Pastoral Letter: 2015 General Election
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Battle rages for town where Ukraine rebels reject ceasefire
(Anton Zverev, Reuters)

Holt v. Hobbs and the struggle over religious freedom
(Steven Smith, JURIST)

EVENT, 17 February 2015: CCS 2015 International Symposium on Magna Carta: "Why what happened at Runnymeade 800 years ago still matters today"
(Gordon Wood; UK Magna Carta Project Members; Gedicks & Kirkham (BYU); Gunnarson, Utah Valley University)

Three Australian rabbis resign as result of government inquiry into sex abuse scandals
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

No to Netanyahu: Danish Jews’ loyalty to Denmark runs deep
(Religion News Service)

Copenhagen attacks challenge soft Nordic approach to radicals
(Sabina Zawadzki and Erik Matzen, Reuters)

Monday, 16 February 2015

Media ignores Canadian Muslim murder
(OnIslam)

Varanasi, spiritual leaders: Religious diversity, foundation of peace and dialogue
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)

Religious groups take to the streets to protest against political violence in Bangladesh
(Sumon Corraya, AsiaNews.it)

European leaders reject Israeli call for mass immigration of Jews despite recent attacks
(Lori Hinnant, Associated Press, US News and World Report)

Trying to counter extremism at home, U.S. faces a risk: Sowing more mistrust
(Julie Eilperin, The Washington Post)

Senior Orthodox rabbis resign in wake of Australia’s sex abuse probe
(JTA)

Top rabbi quits after calling sex assault victim’s father a 'lunatic'
(Shannon Deery, Melbourne Herald Sun)

Canon Andrew White: Christians shouldn't combat ISIS because they are 'hopeless at fighting'
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today - World)

Catholics repeat calls to overturn DC reproductive health laws
(Mark Yapching, Christian Today World)

Another bloody chapter in the story of Egyptian Copts
(Zahra Vieneuve, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)

Coptic Christians increasingly feel endangered in Libya and Egypt
(Monique El-Faizy, Religion News Service)

Thousands mourn Egyptian victims of Islamic State in disbelief
(Treza Kamal, Reuters)

Egypt seeks international help against IS after 21 Copts beheaded
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)

Five French teens held for vandalising Jewish graves
(Cedric Simon, AFP, France 24 International News)

Egypt launches air strikes against the Islamic State in Libya, after the beheading of 21 Copts
(AsiaNews.it)

Hundreds of Jewish graves vandalised in France
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)

Five French teens held for vandalising Jewish graves
(Cedric Simon, Agence France-Presse)

Tennessee lawmaker wants Bible to be state's official book
(Angie Chui, Christian Today)

Egypt strikes Islamic State targets in Libya
(Tamer El-Ghobashy and Matt Bradley, The Wall Street Journal)

Obama administration is quietly racking up court victories for birth control, despite Hobby Lobby
(Ian Millhiser, Think Progress)

Obscene phrases painted on RI Muslim school
(WHDH 7 News (Boston))

Jordan jails senior Brotherhood official for criticising UAE
(Sleiman Al-Khalidi, Reuters)

Child soldiers still being recruited in South Sudan
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)

Niqabs, colanders and our right to freedom of religion
(Gordon Clark, The Province)

Egyptians grieved over slain fellows by IS in Libya
(Mahmoud Fouly, Xinhuanet)

Turkish media watchdog scrutinizes 'The Simpsons'
(Sibel Hurtas, trans.Sibel Utku Bila, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Yemen's last Jews eye exodus after Islamist militia takeover
(Mohammed Ghobari, Reuters)

Queensland MMM cult leader tracked down and confronted in Vanuatu
(9 News)

Denmark Chief Rabbi nourns loss of 'irreplaceable' Jewish guard following attack
(Joset Federman, Associated Press, Huff Post Religion)

Azerbaijan: Nakhichevan detentions without trial, beatings and attempted kidnapping
(Forum 18 News Service)

Woman charged in attack on neighbor to force Christian belief
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Philadelphia church members sue claiming board misappropriation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Open letter to French politicians
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom (EIFRF))

Lettre ouverte aux politiciens français
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom (EIFRF))

3rd Circuit upholds ACA’s accommodation rules for religious organizations
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Isis posts video allegedly showing mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages
(Jared Malsin, Chris Stephen and agencies in Cairo, The Guardian)

Islamic State carries out mass beheading of Christians
(John Burger, Aleteia)

After Copenhagen attack, Netanyahu calls on European Jews to come ‘home’
(JTA)

‘Anti-theist’ murders at Chapel Hill
(Mustafa Aykol, Hürriyet Daily News)

Live: Latest updates on Copenhagen attacks
(The Local (Denmark))

Religion and violence: When ideology meets tragedy
(Patheos Writers, Patheos)

Religion, Europe and Denmark: Shooting at cartoonists, again
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus blog: Religion and Public Policy])

Lincoln's take on judicial supremacy
(Robert P. George, Philly.com)

What will prevent another Copenhagen?
(Jay Michaelson, The Jewish Daily Forward)

Shots fired, Jews targeted, religious slogans shouted, and journalists scratch their heads
(Jim Davis, Get Religion)

Same-sex marriage spreads in Alabama (UPDATED)
(Lyle Denniston, Lyle Denniston Law News)

Groups seek Alabama Supreme Court mandaumus to stop same-sex marriage licenses
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Nebraska clerks, couples prepare for ruling on same-sex marriage
(Robynn Tysver, Omaha World-Herald)

6th Circuit upholds damage award to critic of judge for expressing religious views
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

ISIL video purports to show beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya
(Al Jazeera)

Denmark terror attacks: Suspect was 'well-known' to police
(Holly Yan and Susanne Gargiulo, CNN)

Sub-Report commissioned to assist the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism
(David Feldman, Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism - Birkbeck University of London)

Swedish Mohammad cartoonist did not expect Muslim backlash
(Niklas Pollard, Reuters)

Pope denounces slaying of Egyptian Copts by Islamic State
(Associated Press: The Big Story)

Pope decries beheading of Egyptian Christians in Libya
(Reuters)

Statement by the Press Secretary on the murder of Egyptian citizens
(The White House Office of the Press Secretary)

David Cameron condemns 'barbaric' IS beheadings in Libya
(BBC)

2 men suspected of helping Copenhagen gunman are arrested
(Melissa Eddy, The New York Times)

After attacks, Europe fights call for mass migration of Jews
(Lori Hinnant, Associated Press: The Big Story)

Egypt conducts airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Libya
(David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times)

The Palestinians' EU-funded campaign against Israel
(Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute)

Libya faces ISIS crisis: Italy wants NATO intervention
(Cassandra Vinograd, NBC News)

Letters regarding religious minorities, forced expulsion and mistreatment of asylum seekers, and imprisoned Baha'i citizen in Yemen
(European Parliament Intergroup on FoRB & RT)

The Origins of Judicial Activism in the Protection of Minorities: Letter to European Union High Representative/Vice President
(Denis de Jong, MEP, European Parliament)

Safeguarding update
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Denmark attacks: Two men charged in Copenhagen
(BBC News Europe)

Egypt launches second wave of airstrikes on ISIS in Libya
(Jethro Mullen, CNN)

Egypt bombs IS targets in Libya after video of Christians' beheadings
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Female suicide bomber kills 10 in Nigerian bus station
(Joe Hemba and Ardo Abdallah, Reuters)

A battle lost, a campaign still to win: Malaysian cleric who lost ‘Allah’ case says it was not in vain
(Matt K. George, World Watch Monitor)

Sunday, 15 February 2015

Sisi warns of response after Islamic State kills 21 Egyptians in Libya
(Ahmed Tolba and Michael Georgy, Reuters)

Christian Idaho woman converts Jewish neighbor — by attacking her
(JTA, The Forward)

Zion members allege misuse of assets in lawsuit
(Larry Miller, The Philadelphia Tribune)

Tennessee Supreme Court upholds spiritual healing exemption interpreted narrowly
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Political cartoonists face threats worldwide
(Amel Ahmed & Hashem Said, Al Jazeera America)

Newspaper in India pays a price for reprinting Charlie Hebdo cartoon
(Neha Thirani Bagri, The New York Times)

National Episcopal Church asks judge to reconsider ruling
(Associated Press, The State (South Carolina))

No religious text should be Tennessee's official book
(David Plazas, The Tenneseean)

Terror attacks by a native son rock Denmarl
(Andrew Higgins and Melissa Eddy, The New York Times)

Multifaith aid to refugees may yield new narrative for Israeli-Syrian relations
(Jacob Kamaras, Jewish News)

Hundreds of tombs defaced in French Jewish cemetery
(Agence France-Press, The Guardian)

Hundreds of Jewish tombs damaged in northern France
(Reuters)

Copenhagen shooting suspect killed by police
(Charles Duxbury and Anna Molin, The Wall Street Journal)

France to cut Qatar funding of mosques in crackdown on islamic fundamentalism
(Christina Okello, RFI)

Lawyer Karahan: Hate crimes against Hizmet can be prosecuted at ECtHR, ICC
(Yonca Poyraz Doğan, Sunday's Zaman)

Religion and Law round-up – 15th February
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

British Muslims in Numbers: A Demographic, Socio-economic and Health profile of Muslims in Britain drawing on the 2011 Census
(The Muslim Council of Britain)

Germany: Anti-Islamization movement faces uncertain future
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)

Critics of Islam prevented from entering UK to attend Lee Rigby rally
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)

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