Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Ground-breaking Good Friday mass signals thaw in Cyprus
(Michele Kambas, Reuters)
USCIRF commissioners reappointed
(Press Release, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Judge OKs East Ramapo settlement with yeshivas
(Mareesa Nicosia, Lower Hudson Journal News)
British trial court rejects claim that wealthy family's property was held under Hindu/ Sikh Law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
At UVU, Elder Oaks sees hope despite 'alarming' religious liberty trends
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Yale's agony over social justice: The unsettling pro-life witness
(Matthew Gerken, First Things)
In-churching Russia: Journeying through the efforts of orthodoxy to return Russia to faith
(John P. Burgess, First Things)
Legislative bullying
(Katherine Kersten, First Things)
Israeli families gather for ritual Passover meal
(Ian Deitch, Associated Press)
Elder Oaks speaks at UVU, gives message of hope
(Genelle Pugmire, Daily Herald)
Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Africans among the most morally opposed to contraception
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)
Calif. city settles prayer suit with FFRF
(News Release, Freedom From Religion Foundaion)
Coming this fall in the Senate races: Big fights over Personhood
(Greg Sargent, The Washington Post)
Dispatches: Can OSCE defuse Ukraine crisis?
(Hugh Williamson, Human Rights Watch)
Europeans hold more liberal views on moral issues
(Richard Wike, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)
How the President got to ‘I do’ on same-sex marriage
(Jo Becker, New York Times)
Indian court recognizes gender self-identification
(Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN)
Neither Capitalism nor Communism: Distributism
(Joseph Adams, On Religion)
New approval, but also law suit, are latest steps in creating new Canadian Christian law school
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pagan Easter? * Christian Britain * Surviving Scandal * Thursday’s Roundup
(Religion News Service)
Some Cleveland Hopkins cab drivers refuse to drive with Gay Games signage
(Alison Grant, Cleveland.com)
The Civil Religion of Machiavelli
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Mirror of Justice)
The spirited debate about the role of government and religious liberty will continue well into the future
(Greg Sisk, Mirror of Justice)
Vietnam frees Nguyen Tien Trung and Vi Duc Hoi
(BBC News Asia)
Who believes in religious liberty now?
(John Pierce, Baptists Today)
Keeping the church weird
(Carol Howard Merritt, The Christian Century)
Muslims welcome shuttering of NYPD spying unit
(Omar Sacirbey, Religion News Service)
Holy Week music sets a high bar, but one church rises to the challenge
(Mary Beth McCauley, Religion News Service)
Can you question the Resurrection and still be a Christian?
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Group wants all religion removed from Clemson football
(Carla Field, WYFF4.com News)
Dr M: Muslims must portray Islam as simple religion
(Sylvia Looi, New Straits Times)
Photo Slideshow: Sikhs from four continents flock to Pakistan for Vaisakhi festival
(Naveed Ahmad, Religion News Service)
Religious freedom group protests crosses displayed by Ohio village for Easter
(Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press, Star Tribune)
Activists call on British government to deport African exorcist
(Trevor Grundy, Religion News Service)
Religion as a human rights liability
(Terrorism Watch)
A nation that is 'Boston strong'
(Amy Payne, The Foundry (blog))
Egypt court jails 120 Morsi supporters for three years
(Ahram Online)
UN calls for immediate release of abducted school girls in north-eastern Nigeria
(UN News Centre)
Sonia Gandhi: Nation is being divided on basis of religion
(Business Standard)
Religion only works when it appeals to the senses
(Jenna Weissman Joselit, New Republic)
How can secular and religious individuals share the same public space? Humility, humility and humility
(David Briggs, The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA))
The pope as a turnaround CEO: The Francis effect
(The Economist)
EVENT, 16 April 2014: Constitutional Symposium on Religious Freedom
(Keynote Address by Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Utah Valley University)
Zeroing in on religious hubs, atheists to gather in Salt Lake City for Easter
(Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition)
EVENT, 16 April 2014: Consolidating democratic gains or cementing sectarian divides? Prospects for Iraq’s April 30 elections
(United States Institute of Peace)
Egypt clamps hold over mosques to control message
(Maggie Michael, Associated Press, The Big Story)
When Pope Francis washes women’s feet, arguments follow. Who’s right?
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Property rights in England and Wales and the applicability of Hindu law
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
David Cameron says Christians should be 'more evangelical'
(Steven Swinford, The Telegraph)
Azerbaijan: Four days incommunicado at secret police – so far
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Palestinians, Israeli police clash at Jerusalem holy site
(Reuters)
Heathenism's battle with white supremacists
(Joshua Rood, CNN Belief Blog)
Ukraine and the Crisis of the West: The U.S. must defeat Putin’s revanchism
(Editorial, National Review Online)
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe writes against death penalty for Muslim Brotherhood members in Egypt
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom – Articles)
End of NYPD Muslim surveillance program applauded
(Jake Pearson and Tom Hays, The Big Story)
Goodbye, good luck to Ukraine?
(Frida Ghitis, CNN Opinion)
Obama attorneys: Cross atop California war veterans memorial is 'appropriate'
(Chelsea J. Carter, CNN)
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Malta legalizes same-sex unions and gay adoption; defies official Catholic state religion
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post World)
Saudi Arabia jails organiser of women’s protests for six years
(DPA, The Hindu)
The difference a day makes: How Saudi students in the U.S. dealt with April 15, 2013
(Tamara Zuniga-Brown, World Tribune)
US 'surprised' Israel did not support UN vote on Ukraine's territorial integrity
(The Jerusalem Post)
Ukraine, a developing story
(Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe)
Algeria’s potential ‘Arab Spring’:
(World Watch Monitor)
Iran considers ban on vasectomies in drive to boost birthrate
(Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian)
New York drops unit that spied on Muslims
(Matt Apuzzo and Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times)
Crosses spark a constitutional fight
(Jocob Gershman, The Wall Street Journal)
Capital murder among charges for suspect in Kansas shooting
(Steven Yacinno, The New York Times)
Womb service: Italy’s baby-making troubles
(Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Daily Beast)
Suspected Islamist rebels abduct over 100 Nigerian schoolgirls: teacher
(Lanre Ola, Reuters)
India's top court recognizes third gender category
(Nirmala George, The Big Story)
David Cameron urged to raise blasphemy law concerns with Pakistan
(Christian Today Society)
Nigeria: Christians and Muslims join hands in defiance of Boko Haram attacks
(Christianity Today World)
Ukrainian crisis: Fallout may affect India, region – Analysis
(Monish Gulati, Eurasia Review)
Why do racists and anti-Semites kill?
(Kathleen Blee, CNN Opinion)
U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists
(Peter Bergen and David Sterman, CNN Opinion)
LDS Church reaffirms stance on immigration
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Ecumenical consultation urges elimination of human trafficking
(World Council of Churches)
Easter 2014: Opportunity for Christian unity and common witness
(World Council of Churches)
India takes to the polls: An interview with Matthew Rudolph
(Georgetown Journal of International Affairs)
India election: ‘Idealistic banker’ represents anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party
(Global Post, Mint Press News)
Modi: Democrat or divider?
(John Lloyd, Reuters Opinion)
India’s Muslims worried about controversial Hindu leader as national elections begin
(Annie Gowen, The New York Times World)
Have we lost our ability to disagree?
(Sheila Liaugminas, MercatorNet)
A court in Paris has dismissed a case brought against American singer Bob Dylan on charges of inciting hatred following an interview in which he allegedly compared Croats with Nazis
(France 24 International News)
Why blasphemy laws are actually anti-Islamic
(Faisal Kutty, The Huffington Post Canada)
If a student says homosexuality is a sin in school, is it bullying?
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Hobby Lobby’s Steve Green launches a new project: a public school Bible curriculum
(David Van Biema, Religion News Service)
Russia: European Court request enough to protect Uzbek asylum seeker?
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
The failed pretext for war: Seymour Hersh, Eliot Higgins, MIT rocket scientists on Sarin gas attack
(Carmen Russell-Sluchansky, Mint Press News)
The Council of Europe on sects: update
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Central African Republic - Muslims and Christians in Bangui at peace amidst war
(Nyeko Caesar Poblicks, TransConflict)
Kachin, Burmese Army raids rebel stronghold: thousands of refugees and humanitarian crisis
(Francis Khoo Thwe, AsiaNews.it)
Saudi court shuts down liberal forum
(N/A, AsiaNews.it)
Women decry Lebanon's domestic violence law
(Tamara Qiblawi, Aljazeera America)
OSCE Annual Report 2013
(Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe)
EVENT, 15 April 2014. Yoruba Traditions and the Religious Meaning of Africa
(Tracey Hucks, Religious Freedom Project of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Monday, 14 April 2014
ACLU seeks to oppose Wyo. diocese in birth control suit
(Ben Neary, Associated Press, SF Gate)
Appeal granted in Lev Tahor case, children do not have to go to Quebec
(Tim Alamenciak, The Star (Canada))
Elections in India and Afghanistan: Perspective from Pakistan
(Salma Malik, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies)
FBI to investigate Kansas shooting as hate crime
(Al Jazeera America)
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