Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Court rules on various Establishment Clause challenges to veterans memorial
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Greenwich synagogue files suit against town
(Brittany Lyte, Greenwich Time)
Olympia diocese, departing members reach amicable settlement
(Episcopal News Service)
Statement of the Heads of Evangelical Protestant Churches of Ukraine on religious persecution in Donetsk and Luhansk
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
What’s God got to do with the Arkansas Senate race?
(Arlette Saenz And Shushannah Walshe, ABC News)
Young Tunisian terrorist warns against jihad
(Mona Yahia, Magharebia)
Religious slaughter and pre-stunning – again
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Morocco counters jihadism with religion
(Hassan Benmehdi, Magharebia)
In Paris, Sharansky warns of ‘beginning of end’ for European Jewry
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The demise of the Middle East
(Ozdem Sanberk, The Journal of Turkish Weekly)
In Mandalay, 362 people arrested after sectarian violence but culprits still free
(AsiaNews.it)
Referendum on democracy also in Macau
(AsiaNews.it)
What the Supreme Court did (and didn’t do) to religious freedom last week
(Dwight G. Duncan, MercatorNet)
Pakistan officials agree on creating National Commission for Minorities
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Consensus reached on Minorities’ Commission
(Javaid-Ur-Rahman, The Nation)
Another challenge to Idaho's same-sex marriage laws-- Now by lesbian veteran over burial rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Belfast bakery faces suit over refusal to decorate cake in support of gay marriage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Diocese objects to Louisiana Supreme Court decision on priest-penitent privilege
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Church warns that sanctity of confessional at risk in lawsuit
(Joe Gyan, Jr., The Advocate)
Obama’s faith-based advisers divided over religious exemption for anti-gay discrimination
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Uzbekistan: Almost incommunicado in Investigation Prison
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18)
Correction: United Nations – gay marriage story
(Maria Sanminiatelli, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Muslims banned from forcing Shariah law on people by India Supreme Court
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post)
17 killed at CAR church shielding thousands of Christians
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post)
Complaint filed against 36 Pennsylvania United Methodist clergy who blessed gay wedding
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Bert and Ernie gay marriage cake refused by Northern Ireland bakery
(Henry McDonald, The Guardian)
Central African Republic fighters attack church sheltering civilians
(Crispin Dembassa-Kette, Reuters)
China denies entry to an American scholar who spoke up for a Uighur colleague
(Edward Wong, The New York Times)
France set to prevent jihadists going to fight or train abroad
(Reuters)
Islamic State threatens Iraq's cultural artifacts
(John Burger, Aleteia)
Abuse victim calls meeting Pope Francis a ‘life changing experience’
(Ines San Martin, The Boston Globe)
Families of slain Israeli and Palestinian teens turn to each other for comfort
(Sigal Samuel, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Detroit man admits to burning Qurans
(Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press)
Buddhist monks face jail time for July 4 fireworks display
(NPR)
European court decides church autonomy case; Russian judge calls clerical celibacy a human rights violation
(Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
Fired for saying “blessed”?
(Chelsen Vicari, Juicy Ecumenism)
Vet sues after burial with gay partner is denied
(Rebecca Boone, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Not just theology: Catholic seminarians go to summer school to learn management skills
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Reverend Paul Kwong tells congregation that pro-democracy advocates should keep quiet
(Lai Ying-kit, South China Morning Post)
Children of same-sex couples are happier and healthier than peers, research shows
(Lindsey Bever, The Washington Post)
California’s outrageous state budget made even worse when considering Governor Jerry Brown’s faith
(Rebecca Downs, Juicy Ecumenism)
Meet the Obamagelicals
(Steven Miller, Real Clear Religion)
The Supreme Court’s secular Jewish cabal’s war on religious freedom?
(David Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Accurately interpreting [Islamic] doctrine to promote religious harmony [Simplified Chinese]
(Wang Zuoan, Chinese Communist Party News)
Nursed by same woman, couple face separation after 8 children
(Arab News)
Chhattisgarh: village bans non-Hindu activities
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Fifty people hold up Catholic church in Boldipukur
(Sumon Corraya, AsiaNews.it)
Monday, 7 July 2014
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and the rise of the ISIS
(Kanchi Gupta, Observer Research Foundation)
Bahrain kicks out US diplomat for meeting with opposition group
(Al Jazeera America)
Did nostalgia for Islamic caliphate become a reality?
(Ali Mamouri, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)
EEOC sues Shadescrest Healthcare for religious discrimination and retaliation
(Press Release, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
India Supreme Court will not recognize Shariah law
(AP, StarNews Online)
Iraqi Shia families flee death threats in Kirkuk
(Tahsin al-Zergani, Institute for War & Peace Reporting)
Kashmiri Pandits: Rekindled hopes of return? - analysis
(Gaurav Dixit, Eurasia Review)
Macedonia PM vows to stop ethnic unrest
(Sinisa Jakov Marusic, Balkan Insight)
Official statement of the Diocese of Baton Rouge with respect to Supreme Court of Louisiana and First Circuit Court of Appeals
(Diocese of Baton Rouge)
Recent events in Lebanon threaten religious coexistence
(Jean Aziz, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)
S.A.S. v France: Living together or increased social division?
(Erica Howard, EJIL:Talk!)
Supreme dump: Court expands reach of Hobby Lobby on eve of holiday weekend
(Gregg Levine, Al Jazeera America)
County clerk asking Supreme Court to stay decision allowing same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Algeria plans to reopen synagogues, though few Jews left in country
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Obama administration working a way around Hobby Lobby
(Team Aleteia, Aleteia)
Why the hysteria over Hobby Lobby?
(Rachel Lu, Aleteia)
Court: Islamic law holds no legal sway in India
(Associated Press)
Persecution of Muslims in Arakan State traps Buddhist minority in limbo
(Thin Lei Win, The Irrawaddy)
Religious non-profits win injunction from Supreme Court in aftermath of Hobby Lobby
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Missouri Governor signs student religious liberty bill into law
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Large, growing UMC conferences overwhelmingly reject LGBTQ agenda
(John Lomperis, Juicy Ecumenism)
Where was Justice Breyer in the Wheaton College fight? (Updated)
(Tom Goldstein, SCOTUS Blog)
Pod people: White House vs. the Wheaton College covenant
(Patheos)
After Hobby Lobby, time to face the real war on religion
(John Allen Jr., The Boston Globe)
The next batch of RFRA religious accommodation cases
(Sasha Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Is providing women with cost-free birth control a “compelling government interest”?
(David Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy)
No, the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision is not based upon a scientific mistake
(Jonathan H. Adler, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Unanswered questions in the Wheaton College litigation
(Will Baude, The Volokh Conspiracy)
United Reformed Church moves towards same-sex marriage
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Constitutional Court (Turkey): Headscarf ban against religious freedom
(Daily Sabah)
Turkey makes progress in theological studies after reforms (Istanbul U offers Master of Theology in English)
(Nurbanu Kızıl, Daily Sabah)
An analysis of Tunisia’s draft counterterrorism law
(Human Rights Watch)
Plea to stop same-sex marriages in Pennsylvania (UPDATED)
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
ISIS: a bigger threat than Al-Qaeda – Analysis
(Brig (Retd) Anil Gupta, Eurasia Review)
Is 'crisis of secularism' in Western Europe result of multiculturalism? Analysis
(Peny Sotiropoulou, Eurasia Review)
Relation between law, religion brought to fore
(Satya Prakash, Hindustan Times)
National pro-life conference set to turn the page in Christian Unity
(Sarah Howell, Christian News Wire)
Bank teller fired for telling customers to 'have a blessed day'
(Brownie Marie, Christian Today)
50 Thousand Assyrians: Report on the flight from Al Hamdaniya July 2014
(Assyrian Federation of Sweden)
British jihadist warns of 'black flag of Islam' over Downing Street
(Press Association, The Guardian)
Michael Gove: we must defend liberal values against Islamist extremism
(Press Association, The Guardian)
Islamist terror threat to West blown out of proportion - former MI6 chief
(Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian)
EVENT 9 July 2014, Workshop: Politics, religion and conflict online in Central Asia
(Noah Tucker, Sarah Kendzior, Courtney Ranson, Elliott School of International Affairs - CERIA Initiative)
Symposium: No free lunch, But dinner and a movie (and contraceptives for dessert)?
(John Eastman, SCOTUSblog)
Wheaton College gets a pass from Supreme Court on contraception mandate
(Richard Wolf, Religion News Service)
Should Congress repeal the law behind the Hobby Lobby case?
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Questions remain on contraception coverage after ruling
(Jayne O'Donnell and Kaitlyn Krasselt, Religion News Service)
The ‘Splainer: RFRA and the Hobby Lobby case
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Eden Foods fight against covering contraception gets boost from Hobby Lobby case
(Brent Snavely, Detroit Free Press)
Is the Shiite/Sunni conflict really only about religion?
(World Religion News)
Do Wiccans have freedom of religion?
(Krista R. Burdine, World Religion News)
Nigerian women and girls 'escape from Boko Haram'
(BBC News)
Ukraine: Army prepares to liberate Donetsk and Luhansk as military offensive gathers pace
(Matthew Luxmoore, KyivPost)
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