Law and Religion Headlines
Saturday, 14 February 2015
Card Zen and Catholics protest against Beijing over the fate of Mgr Cosma Shi Enxiang
(Victoria Ma, AsiaNews.it)
Sexual abuse allegations against imam stir rifts in insular Illinois community
(Matt Apuzzo, The New York Times)
House holds hearing on RFRA and RLUIPA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Humanist celebrant: ‘Schools are dominated by the Catholic Church’
(Kelly O'Brien, Irish Examiner)
UN, Russia take lead in Syria diplomacy
(Al-Monitor: Week in Revie)
Arbitrary detentions and 'suspect communities’ in the 'New Turkey’
(Muhammet Keleş, Today's Zaman)
Welby is shocked by a rise in anti-Semitism
(Tim Wyatt, Church Times)
Tunisia: The Last of the Arab Jews
(Lucette Lagnado, The Wall Street Journal)
Swedish cartoonist lives with a target on his back
(Dominic Chopping, The Wall Street Journal)
Prosecutors want same sentences in Amish beard cuttings
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Survey: College freshmen distancing themselves from religion
(Rachel Rosenbaum, Religion News Service)
Saudi women driving activists released from prison
(Al Jazeera)
Turkey’s Erdogan scolds Obama for being ‘silent’ on slain Muslims students
(Al Jazeera America)
Arson eyed in Houston-area mosque fire
(Wilson Dizard, Al Jazeera America)
Friday, 13 February 2015
Egypt sees al-Azhar as key to Africa
(Ayah Aman, trans. Rani Geha, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Al-Azhar refuses to consider the Islamic State an apostate
(Ahmed Fouad, trans. Tyler Huffman, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Delhi, more attacks on the Church as Catholic school targeted
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Prosecutor says DC rabbi filmed 152 women in mikvah
(Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel)
Rabbi may be charged in up to 88 cases of voyeurism
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Hearing: Oversight of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
(Lori Windham, Gregory S. Baylor, Nelson Tebbe, Craig Parshall, US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee)
Tennessee Supreme Court upholds mother's faith healing conviction
(Associated Press, Times News)
RIP David Carr: A struggling Catholic voice at The New York Times is gone
(Terry Matingly, Get Religion)
The Assembly of the Council of Europe denounces intolerance and discrimination against Christians
(European Centre of Law and Justice)
Pope Francis is poised to change Catholicism forever (Analysis)
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Turkey's mosque-building diplomacy
(Thomas Seibert, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
The Francis effect on Benedict’s vision for Europe and more
(Interview with Brian Grim, Vatican Radio)
British Christians speak out for religious freedom
(Paul Hobson, Ethics Daily)
Bible retreat centre to rise in Ghana
(Angie Chui, Christian Today)
A resolution of the European Parliament calls for the release of Raif Badawi and his lawyer
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Vatican does not recognize officially the annexation of Crimea, Roman Catholic Bishop in Ukraine
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
A majority of Christians believe God has called them to care for the world
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Why Raif Badawi matters to the Jews
(Debbie Hall, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Anti-terrorism summit reinforces 'fear and hate' towards Muslims, critics warn
(Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian)
Challenging ideological colonization: The Philippines is nearly the only country in the world without divorce. An expert on marriage law explains why
(Johnpaul Menchavez, MercatorNet)
Islamic State disfigure 15 women with acid
(Hazhar Mamuzini, BasNews)
Chinese Catholics seek answers to Bishop’s fate
(Michael Forsythe, The New York Times)
Pakistani Taliban attack Shia mosque in Peshawar
(BBC News)
Modi presses India police to catch culprits in Christian attacks
(Suryatapa Bhattacharya, The Wall Street Journal)
Obama denounces outrageous murders of Muslim students as FBI opens probe
(Doug Stanglin, USA Today, Religion News Service)
I used to be a Muslim fundamentalist. Here's my story
(Ladan Archin, The World Post)
Selling the sacred cow: India's contentious beef industry
(Sena Desai Gopal, The Atlantic)
ACN Religious Freedom Report 2014: Seven European countries "worrying”
(Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)
Myanmar’s religious noise pollution annoys locals and sleepless neighbors
(Mann Kyaw and Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
Letter to Eric Holder from Muslim advocates group re Chapel Hill murders
All-Ukrainian Council of Churches encourages faithful to defend their homeland
(Filaret, Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine, AUCCRO Presiding Chair, Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
When diplomacy prevails over the principles of the faith
(Myroslav Marynovych, Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
We're all Hegelians now in Alabama
(George Conger, The Media Project)
White House omits Jews as ISIS targets in war proposal
(Dana Bash, CNN)
Pentecostals persecuted in Ukrainian rebel areas
(Russia Religion News)
The death of the rule of law in Alabama
(Robert L. McFarland, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
Congress demands answers in Army Chaplain Joe Lawhorn religious freedom case
(The Global Dispatch)
Porn goes mainstream
(Paul S. Loverde, First Things)
Gender, violence and religion: When north and south agree
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Kachin rebels snub Myanmar ceasefire deal after women's murders
(World Watch Monitor)
Religious protesters rally for a Utah LGBT non-discrimination law
(Brian Carlson, Good 4 Utah)
Obamacare: Federal court nixes religious contraceptive mandate challenge
(Breitbart News)
Obama makes formal request for war authorization against Islamic State
(Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post)
Boko Haram could 'destabilize' the African continent, Nigerian archbishop says
(Julia Craven and Ryan Grim, Huff Post Politics)
Boko Haram’s attacks spread into Niger sparking mass exodus
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)
WCC hails the Ukraine ceasefire agreement
(World Council of Churches)
US House Subcommittee Hearing on RFRA, RLUIPA
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Russia: Racism and Xenophobia in January 2015
(SOVA Center for Information and Analysis)
NLRB makes inroads at Catholic colleges
(Anne Hendershott, The Catholic World Report)
Cancel the oral arguments! Justice Ginsburg ready to legalize gay "marriage"
(Susan E. Wills, Aleteia)
Public school sued over rule about God
(Christine Coppa, Yahoo! Parenting)
The missing key to more effective US diplomacy: Religious Liberty
(Thomas Farr, Lecture at Roanoke College, Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Do church bells violate human rights? One Austrian thinks so
(Rick Noack, The Washington Post)
Utah bill would OK discrimination on religious grounds
(Michele Richinick, MSNBC)
Turkey rolls back secular education for 'pious generation'
(Susan Fraser, Associated Press, Yahoo! News)
Turkish police use water cannon on protesters decrying religion in schools
(Jonny Hogg, Reuters)
Activists, journalists detained amid school boycott across Turkey
(Today's Zaman)
Turkish ruling party’s targeting of the Gülen movement constitutes a crime against humanity
(Sami Karahan, Today's Zaman)
Introductory Note to the European Court of Human Rights’ Judgment on the Legality of a Ban on Wearing Full-Face Veils in Public (Case of S.A.S. v. France)
(Tom Syring , Norwegian Immigration Appeals Board, International Legal Materials / SSRN)
Heirs to forgotten kingdoms: The Middle East’s disappearing religions
(Robert Joustra, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice (Daniel Philpott))
Arkansas House supports religion, anti-discrimination bills
(Associated Press, THV 11)
Dozens detained around Turkey in school boycott
(Hurriyet Daily News)
Lords Spiritual (Women) Bill – Second Reading
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Pakistani-born Bishop says Britain must address immigration injustice
(Dominik Lemanski, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Eating hummus with the 'enemy': from aversion to affection
(Tracy Hollister and Jacob Hess, Huff Post Impact: What's Working)
New museum of the Bible being built in Washington, D.C.
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Private Bible museum to be built in heart of Washington, D.C.
(Haaretz)
Federal district court orders Alabama county to resume issuing marriage licenses
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
European court says Bulgaria's treatment of Word of Life member violated religious freedom
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Thursday, 12 February 2015
Sin but no devil: Church of England debates its baptismal liturgy
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today - Church)
Fight ISIS on the ideas front, too
(Nina Shea, NRO Online)
WCC member church in South Sudan launches educational resource on reconciliation
(World Council of Churches)
Bulgaria’s treatment of Evangelical minority group breached Article 9: <em>Dimitrova v Bulgaria</em>
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Challengers move toward success In fraud suit against conversion therapy provider
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Former prison chaplain pleads guilty to passing messages from imprisoned hit man
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
3rd Circuit upholds ACA contraceptive coverage accommodation for religious non-profits
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Former NYPD officer sues claiming anti-Semitic harassment from co-workers
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Former cop sues NYPD for $150 million over anti-Semitic abuse
(Adam Kredo, JNS.org)
Georgia school sued over classroom prayers
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The results are in: Poll on best and worst ECtHR judgment of 2014 [Hint: SAS v. France is in the list]
(Stijn Smet, Strasbourg Observers)
Cautious optimism on religious freedom in Vietnam
(Nigel Cory, Center for Strategic and International Studies: cogitASIA blog)
Despite limits on liberty, Vietnam's new cardinal-designate sees hope
(Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service)
Egypt court releases Al Jazeera English journalists
(Today's Zaman)
Canadian court invalidates no-veil policy in taking citizenship oath
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Veil ban for citizenship oath struck down
(Tara Carman, Regina Leader-Post (Canada))
The religious change in Latin America
(Carlos Martínez García, Evangelical Focus)
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