Law and Religion Headlines
Saturday, 3 May 2014
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)
Prayer politics * Faith v. Fact * Tea Party Jesus : Friday’s Roundup
(Kevin Eckstrom, Religion News Service)
Xinjiang, Urumqi attack "work of religious extremists"
(AsiaNews.it)
Ecumenical conference held to strengthen unity among Bangladesh Christians
(Sumon Corraya, AsiaNews.it)
Hindu Shankara masters decry Narendra Modi: A sinner for the Gujarat massacres
(AsiaNews.it)
Ostracised, Christians in Orissa again see their homes destroyed and water wells poisoned
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Satanic temple unveils plan to bring sympathy for the devil to Oklahoma
(Massoud Hayoun, Aljazeera America)
The evolution of anti-trafficking campaigns in the church
(Jo Anne Lyon, On Faith)
Pakistan: Autopsy raises questions whether Christian’s death was suicide
(World Watch Monitor)
British Pakistani Christians protest blasphemy laws at Downing Street
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today World)
Catholic Church legal status in Angola tops meeting
(Agência Angola Press)
US should be increasingly worried about persecution in Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan and Syria, says religious freedom group
(Morgan Lee, Christian Post Reporter)
Suit challenging denial of IRS non-profit exemption dismissed on numerous grounds
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pennsylvania appellate court: property of breakaway congregation belongs to PCUSA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Report on human rights in Pakistan issued
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
“Big Mountain Jesus” on trial before 9th Circuit
(Emily Hardman, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
The Arab Spring was not supposed to be about religion
(Acton Institute, Aleteia)
Jehovah's Witness challenge to South Korea's military service
(Jason Strother, World Crunch)
Are Millennials calling for a truce on the culture wars?
(Brian Brown, Aleteia)
Vatican to debate teachings on divorce, birth control, gay unions
(Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times)
Ministry looking to allow Jewish prayer on Temple Mount
(Spencer Ho, The Times of Israel)
Netanyahu pushing Basic Law defining Israel as Jewish state
(Barak Ravid, Jonathan Lis, and Jack Khoury, Haaretz News)
How did the Irish Minister for Education anger teachers?
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Eleven Muslims killed in sectarian attacks in India's Assam
(Biswajyoti Das, Reuters)
Anger as French judge blocks lesbian couple's adoption
(BBC News Europe)
Focus on the Family's James Dobson will not yield to abortion pill mandate
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Janice Hahn walks out of event after James Dobson calls Obama the 'Abortion President'
(Shadee Ashtari, Huffington Post)
Sri Lanka: Cautious welcome for police unit for religious disputes
(ACNS Staff, Episcopal News Service)
Rick Jacobs threatens to pull URJ out of Presidents Conference after J Street fiasco
(Michael Kaplan, The Jewish Daily Forward)
J Street deserves a place at the table
(Mark Silk, Religion News Service)
Extremists crucify Syrians as method of execution
(Carrie Dedrick, Christian Headlines)
School districts alter Pledge of Allegiance
(Russ Jones, Christian Headlines)
The relentless assault of an increasingly pornographic culture
(Russell Shaw, The Catholic World Report)
Nirvanaless: Asian Buddhism’s growing fundamentalist streak
(Anuradha Sharma and Vishal Arora, Religion News Service)
Amid rising anti-Semitism in western Europe, Italian Jews are staging a surprising revival
(Michael Ledeen, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
Pope backs his Vatican economy czar
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Lack of health care deadly for Myanmar’s Rohingya
(The Associated Press, Mint Press News)
Women raise their voices on the walls of Afghanistan
(Pina Sadar, Mint Press News)
The head of the Jewish community of Ukraine speaks out against Putin
(David Mikics, Tablet)
Hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian school girls reportedly sold as brides to militants for $12, relatives say
(Terrence McCoy, The Washington Post)
Uzbekistan: Another 5 year prison term for sermons in mobile
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Cremation following miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death: the Mortonhall Report
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
France launches anti-jihadist plan
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Cash-strapped Catholic schools resurrect as charters
(Allie Bidwell, US News & World Report)
China destroys statues as 'anti-Christian' campaign widens
(Tom Phillips, Shanghai, The Telegraph)
Claremont cuts ties to controversial offspring
(General Board of Church & Society of The United Methodist Church)
Do other faiths have a problem with Britain being a 'Christian country'?
(Michael Trimmer, Christian Today World)
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