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Wednesday, 2 April 2014

For some, a relic stings as a shrine to Nazism
(Dan Barry, The New York Times)

Protester gets 9 months for promoting hatred against Muslims
(Alyshah Hasham, Toronto Star)

Muslim groups are putting their faith in food banks to help tackle poverty
(Adam Forrest, The Guardian)

Vietnam, Con Dau Catholics suffer more land seizures and demolitions
(AsiaNews.it)

Official: Taliban killed abducted candidate
(Al Jazeera)

Tatars fear a future under Russia
(Taras Kuzio, Al Jazeera)

God and freedom: Rémi Brague in Rome
(George Weigel, First Things)

Mozilla, mo’ problems: Ritual sacrifice in Silicon Valley
(Anonymous, First Things)

The fight to reveal abuses by Catholic priests
(Clyde Haberman, The New York Times)

Leo Bretholz, 93, dies; escaped train to Auschwitz
(Paul Vitello, The New York Times)

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Abbas takes defiant step, and Mideast talks falter
(Jodi Rudoren, Michael R. Gordon, and Mark Landler, The New York Times)

ACLU defends student’s right to read Bible
(Bob Allen, ABP News)

ADL audit: Anti-Semitic incidents declined 19 percent across the United States in 2013
(Press Release, Anti-Defamataion League)

Afghan women see hope in the ballot box
(Rod Norland, The New York Times)

Apocalyptic prophecies drive both sides to Syrian battle for end of time
(Mariam Karouny, Reuters)

Beyond sectarianism: Geopolitics, fragmentation, and the Syrian civil war
(Benedetta Berti and Jonathan Paris, World Security Network)

Building the Bridge: Muslim community engagement in Bristol
(Aleksandra Lewicki, Therese O’Toole, Tariq Modood, Public Spirit)

Cameron: Britain to investigate Muslim Brotherhood operations
(N/A, Aljazeera America)

Chinese Atheists? What the Pew survey gets wrong
(Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books)

Crimean Tatars to restore the rights of ownership to mosques and Islamic schools
(ITAR-TASS News Agency)

Egypt Muslim Brotherhood chief calls Sisi a 'tyrant'
(Samia Nakhoul, Reuters)

Egypt's new president: Nasser or Sadat? - OpEd
(Neville Teller, Eurasia Review)

Flight from rage: Conflict in the Central African Republic
(Los Angeles Times)

For Indian Jesuit, US should not grant Narendra Modi diplomatic immunity
(AsiaNews.it)

Four churches in Vienna heavily vandalised
(Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)

HRWF on Ukraine
(Various articles, Human Rights Without Frontiers)

Nepal's religious minorities tell government to be "secular" and not just support Hindus
(Christopher Sharma, AsiaNews.it)

Religious exemptions are vital for religious liberty
(Robert P. George and Hamza Yusuf, The Wall Street Journal Opinion)

Sri Lanka "rejects" UN war crimes resolution
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)

Statement of Philaret, Patriarch of Ukraine, on Russian annexation of Crimea
(Institute for Religious Freedom (Ukraine))

The day religious liberty died
(Austin Ruse, The Catholic Thing)

The dilution of the family in human rights: Comments on Vallianatos and other ECHR cases on “family life”
(Grégor Puppinck, EJIL: Talk!)

Tibetans repressed in Nepal, rights group finds
(Edward Wong and Bhadra Sharma, The New York Times)

Ukraine - A true revolution?
(Frank Turner SJ, Europeinfos)

UN: The ECLJ denounced the practice of late-term abortions and infanticides and the restrictions to the right to conscientious objection.
(Press Release, European Centre for Law and Justice)

What are the global implications of the Ukraine Crisis?
(Eugene Rumer, Andrew S. Weiss, Ulrich Speck, Lina Khatib, George Perkovich, Douglas H. Paal, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

Yellow Star Houses Project challenges official Hungarian Holocaust commemorations
(Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA)

Blurred Vision * Myanmar’s Muslims * Saudi insanity: March’s Religious Freedom Recap
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)

Supreme Overload * Vatican Greens * RNS Retreat : Tuesday’s Roundup
(Laruen Markoe, Religion News Service)

WCC congratulates newly elected Syrian patriarch
(World Council of Churches)

New US-based Syriac Patriarch says he'll return to Syria
(Nuri Kino, World Watch Monitor)

British Prime Minister orders investigation of Muslim Brotherhood
(Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Elaine Ly, CNN)

Authors respond to recent discussions: Atheism, complexity, and thrift
(Ansley Roan, Big Questions Online)

The first harm is the biggest harm (identify of father and mother)
(Michael Cook, MercatorNet)

Can a television network be a church? The IRS says yes
(John Burnett, NPR)

Mississippi’s ‘religious freedom’ law is back from the dead
(Adam Serwer, MSNBC)

Strike keeps Passover supplies from reaching organizers of holiday meal in Kathmandu, Nepal
(Associated Press via The Prince George Citizen)

Kenya: Christian and Muslim clerics say terror has nothing to do with religion
(Patrick Beja, Standard Digital News)

Jesuit school in Syracuse to appoint laywoman as president, a first
(Renee K. Gadoua, Religion News Service)

'China's Schindler' Ho Fengshan commemorated in San Francisco
(Han Shasha (Xinhua), People Daily (English))

China angered as detained Uighur academic wins rights prize
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Sui-Lee Wee; Editing by Ron Popeski, Reuters)

Hobby Lobby’s Green family meets with Pope Francis
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)

Justices demur from religious groups' challenge to ACA
(Marcia Coyle, National Law Journal)

Report from Court on Loyola hearing – March 24, 2014
(Barry Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities)

Loyola High School, et al. v. Attorney General of Quebec
(Webcast of the Hearing, Supreme Court of Canada)

Freedom of Conscience & Religion: Loyola High School v Québec (AG)
(Matthew Ponsford, University of Ottawa - Pro Bono Students Canada, Canada Civil Liberties Association)

Trinity Western U’s law school future debated (April 11 meeting)
(The Vancouver Sun)

US Conference of Catholic Bishops to hold mass on US-Mexico Border to pray for immigration reform
(Jessica Martinez, Christian Post)

In Hobby Lobby contraceptive case, arguing about kosher butchers
(Ron Kampeas, JTA)

Monastery in Israel vandalized with anti-American epithets
(JTA)

Jewish groups decry National Front election successes in France
(JTA)

Aid groups see dire crisis for Rohingya in Myanmar
(Associated Press via NPR)

N.Y. Hasidic village agrees to stop gender segregation in public park
(JTA)

Myanmar's 1st census in decades bars name Rohingya
(Aye Aye Win, Associated Press)

Kyrgyzstan: Criminal convictions overturned, but will alternative to military service be for all?
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Heidegger’s notebooks renew focus on anti-Semitism
(Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times)

Larger churches find success starting smaller campuses
(Yvette C. Hammett, Tampa Bay Tribune)

‘You can’t wear that here’: Andrew Hambler and Ian Leigh on religious dress
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

‘You can’t wear that here' [LINK REPAIRED]
(Andrew Hambler and Ian Leigh, OUPblog / Oxford Journal of Law and Religion)

EVENT, 1 April 2014: Separation of Church and State. Lessons from transformations of Church and State relations in Central and Eastern Europe between 1990 and 2014
(Professor Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)

Saudi Arabia: New terrorism regulations assault rights
(Human Rights Watch)

Monday, 31 March 2014

Patriarch Kirill criticizes opportunity to choose from 50 gender options in social networks
(Interfax-Religion)

Watch: The police are tracking you, so what happens if you track them?
(Serene Fang, Al Jazeera America)

Mufti of Crimea urges Tatars not to abandon the peninsula
(Interfax-Religion)

Kiev-loyal Orthodox church doubtful of its future in Crimea
(Gabriela Baczynska and Allesandra Prentice, Reuters)

Judge won't block rules on abortion drug in Arizona
(John Schwartz, The New York Times)

Judge to hold trial on Alabama abortion law
(Phillip Rawls, Associated Press, Deseret News)

Park in Hasidic enclave Kiryas Joel will not segregate based on sex
(NYCLU)

Former U.S. hostages angry about new Iran U.N. envoy appointee
(Louis Chabonneau, Reuters)

If a company can be African American, can’t it be religious?
(Matt Bowman, MercatorNet)

Experts on Ukraine still getting it wrong
(Alexander J. Motyl - Urkaine's Orange Blues, World Affairs Journal)

11 ancient burial boxes recovered in Israel
(Jon Gerberg, Associated Press, MSN News)

Hatred festers as Muslims and Christians suffer in Central African Republic
(Lara Marlowe, The Irish Times)

Tunisia takes on militants, pushes back against Shariah law
(Sarah Lynch, USA Today, The Washington Post)

New Poll: Gays more popular than Evangelical Christians
(Jason St. Amand, The Edge)

Morocco counterradicalization strategy bears fruits - OpEd
(Said Temsamani, Eurasia Review)

Cardinal Gracias calls on Indians to fast and pray before the election to save democracy
(Card. Oswald Gracias, AsiaNews.it)

Living in Color: Holi Festival of Colors in Spanish Fork draws thousands
(Deseret News)

'What future for the Church in China?' (Chinese now edition available)
(AsiaNews.it)

Turkish PM claims landslide election win
(Umut Uras, Al Jazeera)

More clergy call for gay bishops to come out in the Church of England
(Trevor Grundy, Religion News Service)

Despite new law, Ugandan cleric ministers to gays
(Rodney Muhumuza, ABC News)

Far-right Jobbik party baits Jews in Hungarian election campaign
(Reuters)

Kiev-loyal Orthodox church doubtful of its future in Russian-annexed Crimea
(Reuters)

Tennessee atheists win right to distribute literature after schools give Bibles to students
(David Ferguson, Raw Story)

The last Jews of Calcutta
(Rahul Tandon, BBC News)

Jihad by social media
(Sam Jones, Financial Times)

Religion and spirituality have distinct but complementary influences on health
(News Medical)

McDonald lecture draws renowned theologians
(CSLR Lectures, Center for the Study of Law and Religion - Emory)

April Fool’s isn’t a religious holiday, but there are some religious roots
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, Religion News Service)

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