Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v. the United Kingdom
(Neil Addison, Religion Law Blog)
Why euthanasia slippery slopes can’t be prevented
(Margaret Somerville, MercatorNet)
Confused logic approves NYPD surveillance of Muslims
(Rozina Ali, Aljazeera America)
Ukraine situation risks turning into tragedy
(Daniella Peled, Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
Inside the Cloister
(Casey N. Cep, The New Yorker)
Mauritania: Nouakchott Qu'ran protest turns deadly
(Bakari Gueye, Magharebia)
Orthodox seminary in Turkey awaiting reopening
(Ayse Wieting, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Survey: Most religious people don't hate gays
(Anna Pulley, SF Weekly)
Indonesian clerics issue fatwa to protect wildlife
(Agence France-Presse, The Guardian)
Baptist, Methodist pastors in Miss. oppose discrimination based on religious freedom
(Bob Allen, ABP News)
Gay activists sign joint statement with Planned Parenthood backing Obamacare contraception mandate
(Kirsten Andersen, LifeSiteNews)
The 160-year Christian history behind what's happening in Ukraine
(Philip Jenkins, Christianity Today)
Members of Jewish sect Lev Tahor detained in Trinidad as Ontario court delays child welfare hearing
(Allison Jones, The Canadian Press, National Post)
Ukraine Jewish leaders criticize Putin in open letter
(JTA)
Atheist-turned-believer Sara Miles’ radical Ash Wednesday practice
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Blog: On Faith & Culture)
Pope hits out at criticism of Church over sexual abuse
(BBC News)
Missionary says North Korea interrogated him daily
(Rod McGuirk, Associated Press, Yahoo! News)
WCC congratulates new leadership of the South African churches
(World Council of Churches)
Turkey: Malatya murder suspects to be set free
(Open Doors)
Kuala Lumpur: Court adjourns trial on the disputed use of the word Allah
(AsiaNews.it, AsiaNews.it)
Kerry and Lavrov hold crucial talks over Ukraine in Paris
(EuroNews via World Affairs)
Ukraine's Chief Rabbi refutes Putin's anti-Semitic charges
(Alexander J. Motyl, World Affairs)
Sketch: Step by step, David Cameron's exhausting plan for Ukraine
(Tom Rowley, The Telegraph)
Israel and the rest of the world
(Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute)
Cert. petition seeks SCOTUS review of latest Mt.Soledad Cross decision ahead of 9th Circuit
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Shaun Casey talks about leading the State Department’s Faith-Based Office
(Mara Willard, Religion & Politics)
Affidavit does not establish applicability of ministerial exception doctrine
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Analysis: Evacuation dilemma in the Central African Republic
(IRIN, IRIN)
Chaldean Patriarch calls for a stop to the exodus to preserve the origin and history of Iraq's Christians
(Joseph Mahmoud, AsiaNews.it)
India, dates set for general elections. 814 million voters estimated
(AsiaNews.it)
Pakistani Christians fast and pray for peace and persecuted minorities
(Jibran Khan, AsiaNews.it)
Samir Khalil Samir: Hamas ban also good for Palestinians
(Samir Khalil Samir, AsiaNews.it)
Strasbourg on Mormons and their temples
(David Hart QC, UK Human Rights Blog)
For Christian leader, victims in Orissa and Gujarat should be treated the same way
(AsiaNews.it)
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Andhra Pradesh is India’s emerging hotbed of anti-Christian violence
(Robin G. Jordan, Anglicans Ablaze)
Court bans activities of Islamist Hamas in Egypt
(Yasmine Saleh, Reuters)
Exiled Uighur leader urges calm after China attack
(Ben Blanchard, Reuters)
French far right: No funds for religious groups
(Elaine Ganley, Associated Press, The Big Story)
Head of Ukraine Catholic Church calls on people to be prepared to die for country
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post World)
In Jerusalem, Jews, Muslims clash over mosque loudspeakers
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
Kentucky AG won't defend anti-gay marriage bill, but governor will (+video)
(Elizabeth Barber, The Christian Science Monitor)
Nigerian army losing grip on northeast as Islamists rampage
(Joe Brock, Reuters, Daily Maverick)
U.S. evangelicals on the defense over Uganda’s new Anti-Homosexuality Act
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Ukraine and the 'Little Cold War'
(George Friedman, Stratfor)
LDS temple in Preston not a “place of public religious worship”
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
With Venezuela in a tailspin growing number of Jews opting for Plan B
(Uriel Heilman, The Global Jewish News Source)
Patriarch: 'Church will do everything to make Georgia EU member'
(N/A, Civil.ge)
Church calls for an international investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
Analysis: 3 reasons religious freedom laws are nothing like Jim Crow
(Napp Napworth, The Christian Post Politics)
German homeschoolers, Romeike family, will not be deported, DHS says
(Napp Napworth, The Christian Post Politics)
Makaburi blames state
(The Star)
His Majesty the King, Commander of the Faithful, responds favorably to Côte d'Ivoire's request on training of Ivorian Imams and preachers in Morocco
(Kingdom of Morocco Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation)
Death toll rises in Nigeria car bombings
(Deutsche Welle)
An equal share of wealth equals lasting peace in CAR
(Matthew Newsome, Inter Press Service)
'Fake Frum' con man scams more than dozen Orthodox Jews
(Frimet Goldberger, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Boko Haram strikes again, with over 30 dead in latest attack, officials say (+video)
(Haruna Umar, The Christian Science Monitor)
One dead in Quran vandalism protest in Mauritania
(Press TV)
State of Michigan's first witness in gay marriage ban trail barred from testifying
(Jake Neher, WEMU)
Republicans from the West give support for gay marriage
(Erik Eckholm, The New York Times)
Ex-magistrate censured in Messiah name change case
(Travis Loller, ABC News)
Russia: Still no mosque for Sochi, Protestants struggle to keep church
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)
Apple joins Hobby Lobby, values corporate causes before profits
(Compiled by Eric Schulzke, Deseret News National Edition)
Children’s euthanasia bill signed by Belgium king
(RT)
Monday, 3 March 2014
At weekly exorcisms, Egypt’s Muslims and Christians unite against the demons
(Aryn Baker, Time)
Baby to undergo blood transfusions despite objection of Jehovah's Witnesses parents
(Agencies, Telegraph)
India’s Muslims wary of rising political star
(Gardiner Harris, International New York Times)
Loyal to Ukraine, Muslim Tatars lie low as Russia seizes Crimea
(Alissa de Carbonnel, Reuters)
Supreme Court rejects asylum bid for German home-schooling family
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post)
Train station rampage further strains ethnic relations in China
(Andrew Jacobs, International New York Times)
Ukraine's Orange Blues: Will Putin's invasion backfire?
(Alexander J. Motyl, World Affairs)
Ukrainian Church calls on Moscow Patriarchate to help peace
(Nina Achmatova, AsiaNews.it)
Russia, Ukraine and the church: A Lenten plea for peace
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
No change to religious instruction policies
(Rebecca Quilliam, The New Zealand Herald)
Ukraine: The haze of propaganda
(Timothy Snyder, The New York Review of Books Blog)
Case weighing religious freedom against rights of others is headed to Supreme Court
(Robert Barnes, Washington Post)
Oregon's same-sex marriage battle divides people of faith
(Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times)
Road to Damascus wasn't enough: Apostle Paul questions nearly get Christian deported
(Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, Christianity Today)
Disaffected Muslim parents urged faith 'takeover' of Birmingham schools, leaked documents show
(The Huffington Post)
Rouhani: Beliefs stop Iran from pursuing nukes
(Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press via Yahoo! News)
Rise in bigotry fuels massacre inside Myanmar
(Jane Perlez, The New York Times)
Rise of religious classes in public schools questioned
(Amy McNeilage, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Deadly attacks tied to Islamist militants shake Nigeria
(Adam Nossiter, The New York Times)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews stage mass protest against Israeli draft law
(Crispian Balmer, Reuters)
Boris Johnson says radicalisation should be treated as child abuse
(The Guardian)
The airport chaplain, now offering earthly aid
(Mike Tierney, The New York Times)
North Korea frees Australian missionary
(Dana Ford and Tim Schwarz, CNN)
Court grants five cases (UPDATED)
(Lyle Denniston, Scotusblog)
Judicial pragmatism and judicial restraint as dispositions toward constitutional adjudication rather than constitutional theories
(Kevin Walsh, Mirror of Justice)
On the pain of discrimination and the role of law and government (Part Two)
(Greg Sisk, Mirror of Justice)
The greatest movies have always been religious. Can we make more?
(Liel Leibovitz, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
Tajikstan: State control of Islam increasing
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Home of Catholic family torched in Bangladesh
(Sumon Corraya, AsiaNews.it)
American Atheists lawsuit against 'World Trade Center Cross' goes before appeals court
(Michael Gryboski, Christian Post)
Supreme Court declines to review asylum case of German homeschoolers
(Nap Nazworth, Christian Post)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against military service, see it as "an attack on Torah"
(AsiaNews.it, AsiaNews.it)
Supreme Court will hear Muslim prisoner’s religious challenge to prison no-beards policy
(Eugene Volokh, Volokh Conspiracy)
King Abdullah: Unity key to Muslim success
(Arab News)
“Islamic extremists” put a price on your head? That means you can’t give a speech in this American government building
(Eugene Volokh, Volokh Conspiracy)
U.S. Jewish-Muslim delegation presses Denmark on ritual slaughter ban
(JTA)
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