Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Christian Heathrow worker takes unfair dismissal claim to court of appeal
(The Guardian)
India's holy men to advise on Modi's Ganges river cleanup
(Krishna N Das, Reuters)
Web preaches jihad to China's Muslim Uighurs
(Jeremy Page and Ned Levin, The Wall Street Journal)
Influential cleric calls for Sunni-Shi'ite dialogue in Iraq
(Amena Bakr, Reuters)
For same-sex marriage pioneer, a very busy year
(Richard Wolf, USA Today)
Call for justice interrupts former Nazi guard's quiet life in U.S.
(Matt Pearce and Maya Srikrishnan, Los Angeles Times)
Seattle archdiocese settles abuse lawsuits for $12 million
(Paige Cornwell, The Seattle Times)
Methodists reinstate pastor, deepening church’s rift over gays
(Michael Paulson, The New York Times)
French ban on religious dress in schools not a bar to deportation to France
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Tuesday, 24 June 2014
'Maybe we live, maybe we die': Syrian children used as suicide bombers
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
3rd Circuit: No statute of limitations for establishment clause challenge to still-existing display
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
American Atheists asked by court to explain why it finds Ground Zero Cross 'offensive, repugnant'
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Anti-vaccination movement strikes out in Bible Belt states
(Amy Maxmen, Newsweek)
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin believes confrontation of civilizations inevitable
(Interfax-Religion)
Catholic priest, Father Brian Lucas, kept no record of abuse talks, royal commission hears
(Dan Box, The Australian)
China opens 24 police stations in monasteries in Labrang
(AsiaNews.it)
Church urges to bring up Russian youth as nation of winners, not victims
(Interfax)
Egyptian Christian jailed for contempt of religion
(Haggag Salama, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Excommunicated Mormon activist says she has no plans to change
(Whitney Evans, Deseret News)
Fact sheet: Advancing the human rights of LGBT persons globally
(Office of the Press Secretary, The White House)
For Indian bishop, a uniform civil code should not be used to impose Hinduism on minorities
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Hillary Clinton on gay marriage: did she evolve, or just wait?
(Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet)
Hillary's evenhandedness means blaming Israel for failed peace talks
(Noah Pollak, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
IBLP: Gothard was inappropriate, not criminal
(Warren Cole Smith, WORLD News Service)
Israel debates assisted suicide
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
Malaysian court to Christians: You can't say 'Allah'
(Sophie Brown, CNN World)
Marriage of clergy to same-sex partners
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Measles outbreak in Ohio leads Amish to reconsider vaccines
(Sarah Jane Tribble, NPR)
Meriam is free, but countless Christian women are not
(Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet)
Methodist pastor defrocked for holding gay marriage wins church appeal
(The Guardian)
Muslim voices screened
(Sofiya Ballin, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Opt-out organ donation: UK
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Preacher challenges Pakistani leaders
(Salman Masood, The New York Times)
Putin backs Iraq govt's efforts to counter Islamists in talks with Obama
(Interfax-Religion)
Religious freedom associated with stronger global competitiveness
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Scottish rights group back right to die for children
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
Sri Lanka to Muslim countries: We'll protect our Islamic community
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
Sudan death row woman Meriam Ibrahim 'detained'
(BBC News)
Sudan re-arrests Christian woman one day after release from death row
(Yasmine Saleh, Reuters)
Sudanese 'apostasy' woman detained at airport following release
(Al Jazeera America)
The new campaign to end gay conversion therapy
(Katy Steinmetz, TIME)
US polls send mixed signals on assisted suicide
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
Who is ISIS (aka ISIL) and why you should care
(Krista R. Burdine, World Religion News)
Will Joe Biden stop the tide of child "refugees?"
(Michael Cook, MercatorNet)
Monday, 23 June 2014
Court voids Austin pregnancy-center law
(Chuck Lindell, Austin American-Statesman)
Federal judge grants Catholic diocese Obamacare injunction
(Saranac Hale Spencer, The Legal Intelligencer)
Presbyterians and boycotts: A measured step or a slippery slope?
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and Public Policy])
SCOTUS securities law decision involves charitable fund that supports Milwaukee Archdiocese
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Strasbourg, religion and human rights: Lord Phillips and Lady Hale
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The Economist explains: How professional sportsmen cope with Ramadan
(B.R., The Economist)
Archbishop: Church must be free to imitate Christ through service
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
Sudanese Christian mother sentenced to death for apostasy is freed
(World Watch Monitor)
Miriam Ibrahim, imprisoned Christian mother, freed in Sudan, lawyer confirms
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post)
Activists aiming to steer Israeli government funding to non-Orthodox
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Sunni caliphate or Shiite imamate? - analysis
(Sufyan bin Uzayr, Eurasia Review)
Egypt: Jazeera convictions miscarriage of justice, says HRW
(Eurasia Review)
Court rules in Allah case, rejects appeal by Malaysian Christians, denies religious freedom
(Asianews.it)
Central Java: Celebrating Marian shrine in Sendangsono, venerated by Christians and Muslims
(Mathias Hariyadi, Asianews.it)
Bangladesh, convicted to death 8 Islamists for New Year's massacre
(Sumon Corraya, Asianews.it)
Wenzhou, police threaten Christians who want to protect churches and crosses
(Asianews.it)
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in China
(Wilhelm K. Muller, Svd, Asianews.it)
Top Malaysian court dismisses 'Allah' case
(Al Jazeera America)
Largest UK Muslim organization declares female circumcision un-Islamic
(Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America)
The coming Methodist split?
(Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism)
38 House members write to Kerry about persecuted Sudanese Christian Meriam Ibrahim
(Faith McDonnell, Juicy Ecumenism)
Southern Baptists and racial reconciliation
(Richard D. Land, The Christian Post)
Was Jesus Christ married? A look at the Bible facts
(Jack Wellman, What Christians Want to Know)
Presbyterians become the silly church
(Mark Tooley, The American Spectator)
Clericalism and Common Core
(Rod Dreher, The American Conservative)
Small but dedicated 'March for Marriage' crowd occupies patch of Capitol grounds
(Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition)
Camp Ukraine
(Erik Tryggestad, The Christian Chronicle)
Pope Francis denounces the Mafia, but praises drug prohibition – the main source of the Mafia’s income
(Ilya Somin, The Volokh Conspiracy)
As FIFA attempts to curb racism at the World Cup, a look at hate speech laws worldwide
(Angelina Theodorou, Pew Research Center)
Presbyterians join the anti-Israel choir
(Jonathan Marks, The Wall Street Journal)
Moravians in 13 states vote to ordain gay clergy
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
As Sunni jihadists plunder Iraq, Shi'ite cleric warns US to stay out
(Frances Martel, Breitbart)
Pope Francis says Mafia members are ‘excommunicated’
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
France’s new chief rabbi calls for inclusiveness
(Elizabeth Bryant, Religion News Service)
Two Baptist institutions with controversial leaders face accreditation trouble
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
The British jihadis in Syria might be driven by more than just religion
(Joanna Bourke, The Guardian)
Atheists told to explain 'offensiveness' of Ground Zero cross by appeals court
(Brownie Marie, Christian Today)
Missouri church gives away AR-15 assault rifles to woo men to follow Jesus
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
World's first church, mosque, synagogue in one? Berlin may be home to 'house of one'
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Egypt sentences journalists to 7 years in prison; Amnesty Int'l calls verdict a 'sham'
(Katherine Weber, The Christian Post)
Conservative Anglican Church in North America elects new archbishop
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Second gay priest marries partner against Church of England rules, while first has clergy rights revoked
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Influential cleric calls for Sunni-Shi'ite dialogue in Iraq
(Amena Bakr, Reuters)
Arizona church facing foreclosure raises $68,000 to stay open
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
What are micro churches and how can you start one yourself?
(Emily Murdoch, World Religion News)
Awaiting Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling, public favors contraception mandate
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
Greek Orthodox and Presbyterian churches collaborate on Habitat for Humanity project
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Meriam Ibrahim released from death row in Sudan
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Atheist to offer invocation in N.Y. town at the center of public prayer case
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Young Saudis embrace internet satire, reject Wahhabism
(Global Post, Mint Press News)
Another church shelled in Slavyansk
(Interfax-Religion)
Rabbi Kogan compares current events in Ukraine with times of fascist occupation
(Interfax-Religion)
Russians have less dislike for nudists than for transsexuals - poll
(Interfax-Religion)
Muslim Council of Britain says female genital mutilation is 'un-Islamic'
(Alexandra Topping, The Guardian)
Iraq's beleaguered Christians make final stand on the Mosul frontline
(Richard Spencer, The Telegraph)
Reading, writing and allegations: Muslim school at center of debate
(Katrin Bennhold, The New York Times)
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