Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 21 March 2014
Kenyan parliament passes polygamy law
(AFP, Al Jazeera)
Condolences on death of Patriarch Mor Ignatius Zakka Iwas
(World Council of Churches)
‘Special consideration’ for ‘non-Christian’ job applicants?
(Alissa Tabirian, The Foundry)
Sri Lanka: Freed Catholic activists “forbidden to speak to press or leave country"
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
Iranian-Americans celebrate the coming of spring with Festival of Fire ritual
(Omar Sacirbey, Religion News Service, Christian News Headlines)
Second complaint against French MP Rudy Salles at PACE
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom)
Appeals court upholds religious restrictions as to children in divorce case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court upholds conviction of pastor for conspiracy to commit child abuse
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court refuses to permit interlocutory appeal in case challenging compliance with church plan exemption to ERISA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
NGO sues Religious Services Ministry over ‘illegal’ marriage registration charges
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
English judge dismisses private fraud prosecution against Mormon Church
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy via The Washington Post)
Vicar or publican - which jobs make you happy?
(Mark Easton, BBC News Magazine)
Jury sides with family in polygamist sect lawsuit
(SF Gate)
Ousted Bountiful bishop reported on child brides to RCMP
(Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun)
Civil rights groups appeal ruling allowing NYPD to spy on Muslims
(Omar Sacirbey, Religion News Service)
Religious groups play key role in Obamacare insurance sign-up
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Nigeria: Jonathan meets Pope on Saturday
(Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, The Sun (Nigeria))
Muslim: Gym booted me over head covering
(Scott Sandlin, Albuquerque Journal)
Turkmenistan: One-year prison term for latest conscientious objector
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
The historical becomes personal: Simon Schama on the making of "The Story of the Jews"
(Elizabeth Jensen, The New York Times)
Living inside-out: How to be in but not of the World
(Wesley J. Smith, First Things)
The new Monasticism gets older: But will it grow up?
(Greg Peters, First Things)
Burmese journalist beseeches brethren: Stop with the Muslim hate speech
(Thin Lei Win, Reuters)
Cooke family seeking $4M in damages from polygamous towns
(Jim Dalrymple II, Salt Lake Tribune)
Belgium: “Obsession with headscarf works negatively on the integration of Muslim women”
(CEJI)
Hillary woos the Jews
(David Freedlander, Daily Beast)
Obama and the churches of Saudi Arabia
(Nina Shea, The Wall Street Journal)
Legal victory for conservative Christian prof at UNC
(Bob Kellogg, OneNewsNow)
Meeting between Pope Francis and President Obama has promise, carries risk, advisers say
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Gay student says Missouri Baptist school denied readmission
(Alan Scher Zagier, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Justices may decide if vendors can snub gay weddings
(Richard Wolf, USA Today)
Putin’s long game? Meet the Eurasian Union
(Leon Neyfakh, The Boston Globe)
Thursday, 20 March 2014
Arizona 'abortion pill' rule faces challenge
(Erica E. Phillips, The Wall Street Journal)
Can a source of conflict be turned into a unifier instead?
(Peter Weinberger, United States Institute of Peace - The Olive Branch)
Colorado Appeals Court wades into Colorado Springs church battle
(Steven K. Paulson, Associated Press, The Gazette)
Contraception v. religious freedom: Hobby Lobby heads to the Supreme Court
(Tracy Fessenden, Religion & Politics)
EU Office opened - Mormon Apostle honoured in Brussels
(LDS Newsroom United Kingdom)
Federal judge stays enforcement of Ky. gay marriage ruling pending appeal
(Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal)
Georgia lawmakers: guns remain banned in houses of worship unless church leaders allow them
(Aaron Gould, Atlantic Journal-Constitution)
Hundreds of Kurds in Syria flee after jihadist threat
(AFP, Yahoo! News)
Imprisoned Christian Asia Bibi waits for appeal on death penalty
(Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow)
Interreligious dialogue, a "risk worth taking"
(Daniele Mazza, AsiaNews.it)
Is 'Family Guy' anti-Semitic?
(Mark I. Pinsky, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate: Give up acting or we’ll deny your conversion
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
Marginalizing the abused: Six ways survivors are treated as insignificant
(Boz Tchividjian, RNS Blog: Rhymes with Religion)
Moscow Helsinki Group alerts PACE President about religious freedom issue
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom)
Palestinian youth riot at Temple Mount over Israeli lawmaker’s visit
(JTA)
Prisoners of conscience in Vietnam not allowed to go to Mass or even have a Bible
(NH, AsiaNews.it)
Spring break salvation: Christian Ministry travels to South Padre Island to help partiers find their way [VIDEO]
(Erin Brady, Chris James, Lauren Effron, ABC News)
Tatars: 'Our hearts ache for our brothers' in Crimea
(Paul Ciociou, Southeast European Times)
U.K.’s ritual slaughter debate reeks of prejudice
(Daniella Peled, Haaretz)
Uighur activist's detention rallies China's dissidents to his cause
(Massoud Hayoun, Aljazeera America)
Will PC culture trump biblical truth at Mennonite school?
(Charlile Butts, Jody Brown, OneNewsNow)
Yaalon calls Hagel, clarifies remarks seen as criticizing U.S.
(JTA)
Zhejiang churches face demolition of crosses topping church building
(China Aid News)
Freedom of religion in Egypt no better under military rule
(Mahmoud Salem, Al Monitor)
LDS President’s prosecution discontinued as abuse of process
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
British courts do not show enough respect to Christians, says one of the country's most senior judges
(Steve Doughty, Daily Mail)
Christian beliefs should be 'accommodated' under law – top judge
(John Bingham, The Telegraph)
CSLR publishes first issue of the Journal of Law and Religion
(Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Cambridge University Press)
IRS says two religious organizations do not qualify as non-profits
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Argentina marks 22nd anniversary of Israeli embassy bombing
(JTA, The Jerusalem Post)
Atheists in Afghanistan
(Kelly James Clark, Huff Post Religion)
When Pope Francis meets President Obama, expect collaboration over conflict
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Middle-East's sectarian balance shifts as Syrian uprising enters fourth year
(Jawad Anwar Quershi, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
Aum cultists inspire a new generation of admirers
(Tomohiro Osaki, The Japan Times)
The UFO sect campaigning against female genital mutilation
(Monica Mark, The Guardian)
British judge tosses fraud case against Mormon prophet
(The Salt Lake Tribune)
Media Advisory: Hobby Lobby Supreme Court arguments March 25th (time for oral arguments extended to 90 minutes)
(Press Release, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
Hobby Lobby Argument preview: Religion, rights, and the workplace
(Lyle Denniston, Scotusblog)
Religious Freedom Project receives million dollar Templeton Foundation Grant, enters into partnership with Baylor University
(Press Release, The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
British judge rejects case, calls it an 'attack' on LDS
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Health care law’s ‘contraception mandate’ reaches the Supreme Court
(Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project)
In U.S. contraception case, a question of corporate rights
(Laurence Hurley, Reuters)
Loyola of Chicago Student Senate passes divestment measure
(JTA)
Russian Jewish group worried over anti-Semitism in Ukraine
(JTA)
UC Santa Barbara professor steals young anti-abortion protester’s sign, apparently assaults protesters, says she ‘set a good example for her students’
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy via The Washington Post)
Contraception v. religious freedom: Hobby Lobby heads to the Supreme Court
(Tracy Fessenden, Religion and Politics)
Reported death of Caucasus jihad leader Doku Umarov unlikely to give Russia any respite
(Will England, The Washington Post)
Connecticut ponders doctor-aided suicide
(Joseph De Avila, The Wall Street Journal)
Supreme Court faces wave of free-speech cases from conservatives
(David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times)
The Bible verse that could land Scott Walker in a major battle with atheists
(Billy Hallowell, The Blaze)
Many seek Spanish citizenship offered to Sephardic Jews
(Rick Gladstone, New York Times)
Lev Tahor secret court transcripts made public
(Wendy Gillis, TheStar.com)
Kazakhstan: Religious freedom survey, March 2014
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Alban Institute, a resource for mainline institutions, to shutter
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
The Dutch far-right: A step too far?
(M.S., The Economist [Charlemagne: European politics])
Westboro church founder Fred Phelps dies
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Analysis: Fred Phelps’ hateful legacy may be the opposite of all he intended
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
Putin's project: What sort of Messianism?
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Freedom of religion or belief in Iran
(Dr Mark Barwick and HRWF Director Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers at the European Parliament)
WCC welcomes representatives of the World Jewish Congress
(World Council of Churches)
Islamist terror challenge continues in Britain
(Irfan Al-Alawi, Gatestone Institute)
Copts in a revolutionary age: Egypt’s last secularists?
(Jared Maslan, The Revealer)
The most influential reformer you've never heard of
(Karen Swallow Prior, her-menuetics / Christianity Today)
Are these photos of jihadists training – or a boy scout camp?
(France 24 International News)
Religious police found in nearly one-in-ten countries worldwide
(Angelina Theodorou, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)
Saudi anti-terror laws ‘model for the world’
(Yusuf Mohammad, Arab News)
How a missing plane eased religious tensions in Malaysia
(Eileen Ng, TwinCities.com)
Medals of honor go to 24 Army veterans who had been denied
(Jada F. Smith, New York Times)
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