Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 4 July 2014
Meriam Ibrahim's Islamic relatives trying to prove she is Muslim; lawsuit could further delay departure to US
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Why Hobby Lobby is not about women's health
(Nicole M. King, MercatorNet)
Mother bodies, father bodies: how parenthood changes us from the inside out
(Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet)
The Sunni Ramadan offensive and the lessons of Tet
(George Friedman, MercatorNet)
This is Iraq's darkest hour
(Louis Raphaël I Sako and Oliver Maksan, MercatorNet)
Killing me softly: a New Zealand report on euthanasia
(Carolyn Moynihan, Careful! - MercatorNet)
Brazilian public school accused of forcing Jew to say Christian prayer
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Sectarian violence: Burmese authorities impose curfew in Mandalay
(AsiaNews.it)
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Morocco strengthens youth role in democracy
(Siham ali, Magharebia)
When ‘religious freedom’ includes Satanism
(Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun)
Baghdadi vows revenge in announcing 'Islamic State'
(Abdallah Suleiman Ali, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Coming out: Growing up gay and Muslim in America
(Edward Wyckoff Williams, Al Jazeera America)
Hamas denies link to murders of Israeli students
(Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Christians displaced again by Iraqi violence
(Shaida al-Ameen, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)
Sri Lanka military rebuilding homes after anti-Muslim violence
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
China bans Ramadan fasting in Muslim northwest
(Al Jazeera America)
New Pakistan anti-terror law raises fears over civil rights
(Al Jazeera America)
Complaint filed against UMC "Philadelphia 36" over same-sex union
(John Lomperis, Juicy Ecumenism)
Judge approves settlement in KY Baptist homes case, appeal coming
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Broader right to object to birth control
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUS Blog)
After Hobby Lobby
(E. J. Dionne Jr., Commonweal Magazine)
Liberty Fund comments on Hobby Lobby
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
BJC’s Brent Walker, others react to Hobby Lobby decision
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Symposium: RFRA post-Hobby Lobby: what now?
(Carter Snead, SCOTUS Blog)
Hobby Lobby decision protects free exercise of religion but could boomerang
(Marv Knox, ABP News)
The good news according to Hobby Lobby
(Anna Su, Religion and Politics)
Female religious extremist group seized in Uzbekistan
(Interfax)
Church denies that Patriarch Kirill going to visit Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)
Peru bishops reject therapeutic abortion for gender equality decree as 'immoral, unconstitutional'
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Church's sex offender housing shutdown by state
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post)
Planned Parenthood employees are salesmen for abortion, says former clinic director
(Melissa Barnhart, The Christian Post)
Pastor fights deportation after lying on immigration papers
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post)
Gay Christian conservative employee sues gay bar for sexual, religious harassment
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Iraq: Kurdish president proposes independence referendum
(The Guardian)
As violence spreads in Iraq, a new challenge to Maliki emerges from the Shiite south
(Loveday Morris, The Washington Post)
Gay, widowed and fighting for what they’re due
(Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times)
Colorado leaders seek gay-marriage resolution
(Ivan Moreno, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Religious health care provider loses free exercise claim against Medi-Cal managed care plan
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Gov. Nixon vetoes 72-hour waiting period for abortions in Missouri
(Virginia Young, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Faith leaders ask Obama to include religious exemption in planned LGBT non-discrimination executive order
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The Lost Spring: U.S. policy in the Middle East
(Walid Phares, Gatestone Institute)
Geneva State Council president welcomes WCC Central Committee
(World Council of Churches)
Clergy blacklists, blue files and the Archbishops’ List
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Observatory and ADF host event on freedom of expression at OSCE in Vienna
(Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)
Hobby Lobby: The ruling and its implications for religious freedom
(RESPONSES ONGOING from the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Cornerstone: A Conversation on Religious Freedom and Its Implications for Religious Freedom)
RFRA worked in Hobby Lobby; what’s next?
(Thomas C. Berg, Cornerstone Blog)
Can we all just get along? Yes.
(Jennifer Marshall, Cornerstone Blog)
Hobby Lobby spells doom for mandate 2.0
(Kyle Duncan, Cornerstone Blog)
Hobby Lobby, benefit corporations, and religious nonprofits
(Stanley Carlson-Thies, Cornerstone Blog)
Is religious freedom necessary for other freedoms to flourish?
(Thomas Farr, Big Questions Online)
Aryan Jews * No More Godfatha * Cowardly Weapons: Thursday’s Roundup
(Kevin Eckstrom, Religion News Service)
Hobby Lobbying: how corporations got consciences
(Patricia Miller, Religion Dispatches)
Hobby Lobby is decided, but the fights over religious accommodation are not
(Jonathan H. Adler, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Space for 625,000 more created at Grand Mosque
(Arab News)
Shiites train for battle in Iraqi Holy City
(Maria Abi-Habib, The Wall Street Journal)
Radical Buddhists need to be restrained: Lankan minister
(MD Rasooldeen, Arab News)
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Concern about religious extremism is growing even in Muslim countries
(AsiaNews.it)
Hobby Lobby is already creating new religious demands on Obama
(Molly Ball, The Alantic)
Sudanese Christian woman: 'There's a new problem every day'
(Nima Elbagir and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN World)
The Hobby Lobby ruling: Disingenuous
(S.M. | San Diego, The Economist [Democracy in America: American politics])
Torah too R-rated for some Hasidim, so they edited it
(Uriel Heilman, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Hobby Lobby in the long run
(Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle, Cornerstone Blog)
French defense minister sees progress against Mali terrorism
(Denis Simonneau, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Palestinian unity may not survive fallout from Israeli youth murders
(Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Hamas, Islamic Jihad warn Israel about retaliation in Gaza
(Asmaa Al-Ghoul, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Iraq's Assyrian Christians fear ISIS threat to heritage
(Mohammed A. Salah, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Did Shiite fatwa save Baghdad from 'Islamic State'?
(Ali Hashem, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
The Hobby Lobby impact: A Q&A
(David Masci, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)
Italian archbishop calls for 10-year ban on godparents to stop Mafia infiltration
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
What's in a name? Islamic banking rebrands in attempt to go mainstream
(Bernardo Vizcaino, Reuters)
Myanmar police fire rubber bullets to end sectarian trouble in Mandalay
(Jared Ferrie and Aung Hla Tun, Reuters)
New York's Yeshiva University faces tough money choices
(Mike Vilensky and Rob Copeland, The Wall Street Journal)
True or false? Hobby Lobby banned birth control
(Kelsey Harris, The Daily Signal)
SAS v France: Does anything remain of the right to manifest religion?
(Stephanie Berry, EJIL: Talk!)
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's message as Caliph
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Gatestone Institute)
Wyoming Catholic College, Cheyenne Diocese win relief from HHS Mandate
(Cardinal Newman Society, Catholic Education Daily)
Sudan's Christian convert woman faces new lawsuit
(Reporting by Maaz Alnugomi in Khartoum, Writing by Yasmine Saleh; editing by Ralph Boulton, Reuters Africa)
Podcast on Hobby Lobby
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
Will Hobby Lobby open the religious exemption floodgates?
(Nick Ramsey, MSNBC)
The religion behind the Hobby Lobby case
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Founder of Hobby Lobby’s law firm pioneered debate over religious freedom
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
How the Hobby Lobby decision affects us all
(Krista R. Burdine, World Religion News)
Hobby Lobby: A modest comment on a (prudently) modest decision
(Steven D. Smith, Cornerstone Blog)
Hobby Lobby is only the beginning
(Paul Horwitz, The New York Times)
After Hobby Lobby ruling, contraception-coverage alternatives face hurdles
(Louise Radnofsky, The Wall Street Journal)
Hobby Lobby continues trend of expanding corporate rights
(Jonathan Allen and Greg Stohr, Bloomberg)
Ladies, don’t be fooled: women won in the Hobby Lobby ruling
(Chelsen Vicari, Juicy Ecumenism)
Open secret: Censorship in Pakistan
(Saim Saeed, Al Jazeera America)
Vatican bank's head to quit as shake-up bites, sources say
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
This Buddhist temple is huge, beautiful, and stirring up controversy
(Emily Murdoch, World Religion News)
Egyptian Christians still waiting for El-Sisi's protection
(Kyle Glatz, World Religion News)
50 killed in Nigerian church attacks
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)
Vatican gives official backing to exorcists
(The Guardian)
Vatican gives thumbs up for exorcist association
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Colorado woman accused of supporting Islamist insurgents in Iraq and Syria
(Keith Coffman, Reuters)
Defiant Al Jazeera faces conservative backlash after Arab Spring
(Amena Bakr, Reuters)
New Pakistan anti-terror law raises fears over civil rights
(Katharine Houreld, Reuters)
Arbitrator awards damages for diocese's breach of settlement agreement in clergy sex abuse cases
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
District court grants preliminary injunction, quoting same-day's SCOTUS opinion in Hobby Lobby
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
5th Circuit: Defer to state court proceedings in church property dispute
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Email Subscription
The International Center for Law and Religion Studies maintains a Law and Religion Headlines service covering news about freedom of religion or belief internationally. All interested may subscribe to this service, free of charge, using the link below.
Subscribe