Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 5 May 2014
Special jobs for women at courts set
(Arab News)
Police disperse crowd gathered for anti-Semitic event in Brussels
(JTA)
Israel’s marriage blacklist said to break privacy laws
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Noah: we caused the flood
(Nathalie Baptiste, Foreign Policy in Focus)
Pope: follow God for pure intentions rather than personal gain
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Ex-NYPD cop charged for spraying anti-Semitic graffiti
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
U.S. negotiators blame Israel for collapse of talks
(JTA)
Nuns from Mexico minister in Columbus parishes
(JoAnne Viviano, The Columbus Dispatch)
'Gospel of Jesus's Wife' documentary affirms artifact 'is not historical proof' Christ was married but imagines titillating possibilities anyway
(Nicola Menzie, The Christian Post)
UK rules exclude pro-life medical professionals from diploma
(Kevin Jones, Catholic News Agency)
Italy’s March for Life draws global participation
(Kerri Lenartowick, Catholic News Agency)
How murder of Esther Lebowitz changed Jewish Baltimore forever
(Michael Kaplan, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Vatican accused of “torture” in latest UN attack
(Austen Ivereigh, MercatorNet)
Boko Haram leader admits to abducting 200 schoolgirls; says Allah told him to sell them
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post World)
Sunday, 4 May 2014
Sri Lankan leaders seek action to stop harassment against Muslims
(MD Rasooldeen, Arab News)
220 schoolgirls haven't been 'abducted' by Boko Haram, they have been enslaved
(Nick Cohen, The Guardian)
Berkeley kosher slaughter workshop canceled amid outcry
(JTA)
Palestinian Authority joins 5 U.N. global treaties
(JTA)
Christians underwrite uptick in Ukrainian Jews immigrating to Israel
(Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor)
Netanyahu pushes to define Israel as nation state of Jewish people only
(Peter Beaumont, The Guardian)
Court invalidates limits on Muslim worship in Texas prisons
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Osceola judge ordered not to give away Bibles in courtroom
(Bailey Myers, News 13 Orlando)
Saturday, 3 May 2014
"The mission of the Church is neither political nor social-economic but, above all, it is a religious one." Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh)
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
102 Sentenced as Egypt's Presidential Race Starts
(Maamoun Youssef, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
20 are held and curfew is imposed after attacks on Muslims in India
(Nida Najar, The New York Times)
After peace talks collapse, experts counsel a wait-and-see approach
(Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Al Qaeda's leader says Iraqi branch in Syria must return to fight at home
(Angus McDowall and Louise Ireland, Reuters)
Archbishop Aquila: teaching on marriage must be rooted in Christ
(Catholic News Agency)
At least six killed in blast in Somali capital: police
(Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar, Reuters)
At Wrigley Field, Orthodox vendors going the way of Cubs wins
(Uriel Heilman, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Behind the masks in Ukraine, many faces of rebellion
(C.J. Chivers and Noah Sneider, The New York Times)
Book on Persecution of Ukrainian Catholics under Soviet regime published in English
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Burma: repression marks press freedom day
(Human Rights Watch)
By foot or budget airline, Muslims flock to Makkah
(Helen Rowe, Isabelle Toussaint, Agence France-Presse)
Christian Freedom International delivers urgent petitions to Capitol Hill
(Lisa Jones, Christian News Wire)
Christian youth camps - Victoria Supreme Court
(Neil Addison, Religion Law blog)
Crisis pregnancy centers: losing on Google, winning in court?
(Kate Tracy, Christianity Today)
Defamation claim between Hindu Temple members dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Dozens killed in Ukraine fighting and fire; OSCE monitors freed
(Miran Jelenek and Maria Tsvetkova, Reuters)
Egypt court sentences 102 Islamists to 10 years in jail
(Michael Georgy and Pravin Char, Reuters)
Embrace of atheism put an Indonesian in prison
(Joe Cochrane, The New York Times)
EU calls for independent probe of Odessa deaths
(Reporting by Adrian Croft; Editing by Robin Pomeroy, Reuters)
Gene Robinson, first openly gay Episcopal bishop, announces his divorce
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
India arrests 22 after attackers kill 29 Muslims
(Wasbir Hussain, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
India deploys army in Assam after 31 Muslims killed
(Biswajyoti Das, Reuters)
Judge: first amendment for Christians only
(J. J. Goldberg, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Kerry warns of genocide in South Sudan
(Anne Gearan, The Washington Post)
Lawmakers say they won't abandon death penalty
(Nomaan Merchant, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Legal groups offer free analysis in wake of Mozilla head's resignation
(Catholic News Agency)
Libyan commander survives assassination attempt in Benghazi: official
(Reuters)
Mortar fire kills at least 13 in government-held Syria
(Alexander Dziadosz, Reuters)
Nepal: Government dismisses reports of abuse of Tibetans
(Human Rights Watch)
Oklahoma megachurch pastor resigns after admitting infidelity
(Jessica Martinez, Christian Post)
On capital punishment, don’t start with the Old Testament
(Jonathan Merritt, Religion News Service)
Pope sex abuse panel highlights accountability
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Russia sympathisers vent anger at Ukraine Odessa deaths
(BBC News Europe)
Some Georgia church leaders opt out of broad new gun law
(David Beasley, Reuters)
Three people killed by blasts in Kenya's Mombasa
(James Macharia, Reuters)
Tomb of Palestinian national hero vandalized near Haifa
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
U.S. warns of plan to attack hotel in Lagos
(Reuters)
Vatican needs 'change of mentality', transparent finances: Pope
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
Winning back the Sinai
(Elizabeth Iskander Monier, The Majalla)
Yemeni colonel shot in Aden, bomb shakes Mukalla while army fights al Qaeda
(Mohammed Mukhashaf and Angus McDowell, Reuters)
Zimbabwe: Of religion, children's rights
(Tracy Mutowekuziva, The Herald)
The Nuclear Option - Seminar on religious freedom & business at Russia's Nuclear University
(Brian J. Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Winston, “The Rushdie Fatwa and After”
(Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
Versluis, “American Gurus”
(Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
ICC rejects MB call to probe Egypt military crimes
(PRESS TV)
Putin's not post-Communist, he's post-Fascist
(Jan Fleischhauer, Spiegel Online International)
Are atheists taking 1st Amendment suits too far?
(Gordon Haber, USC Annenberg: Religious Dispatches)
Los Angeles Deacon ordained in laundromat as part of street-based ministry
(Antonia Blumberg, The Huffington Post)
How the 'Jesus' wife' hoax fell apart
(Jerry Pattengale, The Wall Street Journal)
Who are Anabaptists?
(Ed Stetzer, Christianity Today: The Exchange)
Whither Protestantism?
(Matt Jenson, The Scriptorium Daily)
Scola and Allen, “Let’s Not Forget God”
(Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
Why Christians should support the death penalty
(R. Albert Mohler Jr., CNN: Religion Blogs)
Holocaust remembrance week: How armed Jews saved lives
(David Kopel, The Volokh Conspiracy)
John Paul II: who opposed his canonization, and why?
(Philippe Oswald, Aleteia)
Academic institute carries forward JPII's vision of marriage, family
(Kerri Lenartowick, Catholic News Agency)
Riyadh, university bans books linked to Muslim Brotherhood
(AsiaNews.it)
Our false compassion ignores the reality of sin - to the grave detriment of souls
(Stephen Herreid, Aleteia)
Catholic Charities aids victims of powerful Arkansas storm
(Kevin Jones, Catholic News Agency)
Death toll rises in India election violence
(Al Jazeera America)
More then 100 Muslim Brotherhood supporters sentenced in Egypt
(Al Jazeera America)
Christian and Muslim clerics pledge to tackle insecurity in N. Cameroon
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)
Kenya legalizes polygamy
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Cardinal Sean O’Malley on sexual abuse crisis: ‘There is so much denial’
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Brunei introduces Islamic sharia penalties, including death by stoning for adultery
(The Sydney Morning Herald)
Friday, 2 May 2014
American Jewry is doomed if it can't embrace J Street
(Yochai Benkler, New Republic)
Death stalks Muslims as Myanmar cuts of aid
(Jane Perlez, The New York Times)
Fact checking J Street and its critics
(Ami Eden, JTA Telegraph)
Headteachers' union raises serious concerns over 'Trojan Horse' schools
(Richard Adams, The Guardian)
Hollywood’s cheap Christianity: Noah, Ben-Hur and a persecution fixation
(Elizabeth Stoker, Salon)
Holy See warns against ideological agenda in UN torture hearing
(Catholic News Agency)
Nigeria: Bring back our girls!
(Adotei Akwei, Amnesty International: Human Rights Now Blog)
The Church and the U.N., again
(Austin Ruse, The Catholic Thing)
Vatican to UN: Don’t equate sexual abuse of minors with torture
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Barred in Canada: Christian lawyers are the new racists
(Lea Singh, MercatorNet)
New ‘Openly Secular’ group seeks to combat anti-atheist discrimination
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Chaplain's complaint over actions during government shutdown dismissed as moot
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
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