Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 14 April 2014
U.S. Sikhs say military's ban on long hair and beards keeps them out
(Lalita Clozel, Los Angeles Times)
Temple Mount closed after violence flares
(The Jewish Daily Forward)
Warsaw Jews donate Passover food to Ukrainian community
(JTA)
Commentary: What Gethsemane teaches us about suffering
(James Martin, Religion News Service)
Young Unification Church members prepare for arranged marriages
(ABC News Nightline, Yahoo! News)
Tony Blair’s advisers and their 'ties to extremist group’
(Robert Verkaik and Robert Mendick, The Telegraph)
Obama welcomes 150 Christian leaders for White House Easter Prayer Breakfast
(Leslie Larson, NY Daily News)
Chabad gears up for biggest ever Mexican-style Seder
(Tamara Zieve, The Jerusalem Post)
Barbara Brown Taylor tells Christians to embrace darkness
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Blog: On Faith & Culture)
Islamophobia and the left: A convenient adversary?
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
A year after Boston bombing, Muslim group seeks to curb extremist tendencies
(Tamara Audi, The Wall Street Journal)
Broader same-sex marriage ruling in Ohio
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
Judge to Ohio: Recognize out-of-state gay marriage
(Amanda Lee Myers, The Big Story)
Mayor allows religious services in public-school buildings
(Mara Gay, The Wall Street Journal)
UN to grill Vatican again on clergy sex abuse
(Associated Press, The Big Story)
Goa communists accuse Church, BJP, Congress of spreading hatred
(Indian Christian Activist Network)
Passover Seders move to nights that work for busy lives
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
No rest in the debate over Sabbath business hours in Jerusalem
(Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times)
Nigeria violence: More than 70 killed in Abuja bus blast
(BBC News)
From burger flipper to Bürgermeister? Immigrant could become next Berlin mayor
(Frank Hornig, Speigel Online International)
From demon weed to God’s plant
(Matt Mellema, Slate)
The Leyla Şahin v Turkey case before the European Court of Human Rights
(Resources page, Librables.com)
On back of international pressure, Hanoi releases two pro-democracy activists
(AsiaNews.it)
Easter in Yangon: Catholics "source of reconciliation, peace and prosperity for the country"
(Francis Khoo Thwe, AsiaNews.it)
Sri Lanka, Christian activists: With John XXIII, defending human rights
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
Lahore: Third postponement in Asia Bibi's appeal as Islamist threats against judges continue
(Jibran Khan, AsiaNews.it)
Talking to the Taliban after Karzai
(Michael Semple, Al Jazeera America)
Italian court recognizes a same-sex marriage performed in New York
(Ed Adamczyk, United Press International)
Maryland county commissioners agree to obey court order to halt prayers in Jesus' name
(Heather Clark, Christian News Network)
How Europe sacrificed the right to peaceful protest for good relations with China
(Jacob Mchangama and Aaron Rhodes, The World Post)
Asralindia: Association of Scholars of Religion and Law
(April Newsletter)
Battle over estate raises issues of religious marriage and interfaith relations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religion and law round up – 13th April
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Easter reception at Downing Street 2014. Transcript of the speech
(The Rt Hon David Cameron MP, Gov.UK)
Sunday, 13 April 2014
Crimea Catholics - "We are cut off"
(Aid to the Church in Need)
No, Israel isn't about to turn into a theocracy
(Yair Rosenberg, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
Religious hostilities weigh down the extremely poor in 5 countries
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Rudy Salles échoue dans sa tentative d’exportation d’une politique antireligieuse dans les 47 pays membres du Conseil de l’Europe
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom – Articles)
Video: Dr Aaron Rhodes and Professor Vincent Berger, side event on religious Freedom at Council of Europe
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom)
Saturday, 12 April 2014
7th Fundamental Rights Platform meeting – Conference Summary (10-11 April 2014)
(Report compiled by FRA and FRP Advisory Panel)
Abortion in cases of rape: New rifts in old debate
(David Crary, Associated Press, The Big Story)
Christian vigilantes trap 14,000 Muslims in C.Africa town
(Jean-Pierre Campagne, AFP, Yahoo! News)
Diversity and dishonesty
(Ross Douthat, The New York Times Opinion)
Employment law: Faith in the workplace
(The Economist)
Fresno County educators, Sikh leaders vow to work against bullying
(Ron Orozco, The Fresno Bee)
Global war on Christianity is violent and real
(John L. Allen Jr., The Boston Globe)
Hollywood tries to win Christians' faith
(Chris Lee, Los Angeles Times)
How to resolve conflict: A Bible lesson for foreign policy leaders
(Chris Seiple, On Faith)
India: Most converts to Islam are backward; they need quotas
(A Sirajudeen, The Times of India)
Micro-Christendoms: Building in the ruins
(Peter J. Leithart, First Things)
Myanmar newspapers in black to protest journalist arrest
(AsiaNews.it)
Rebels kill 14 in attempt to disrupt India election
(Al Jazeera America)
Soul seekers: How spiritual is secular America?
(Sara Israelsen-Hartley, Deseret News National Edition)
Why people exaggerate religion behavior
(Shankar Verdantam, NPR)
Pope Francis asks forgiveness for priests who sexually abused children
(Daniel Burke & Laura Smith-Spark, CNN)
‘Pay for it yourself’: Canadian Catholics fighting renewed push for single publicly funded school system
(Sarah Boesveld, National Post)
From house church to 1,000-seat solar-powered sanctuary
(Hamil R. Harris, The Washington Post)
Millennials 'talk to God,' but fewer rely on religion, survey finds
(Scott Neuman, National Public Radio)
Central African Republic clergy urge faster deployment of UN peacekeepers
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Church of England faces 'crisis’ as gay priest weds
(Edward Malnick, The Telegraph)
The Mexican-American War and the making of American identity
(John C. Pinheiro, OUPblog)
Louisiana moves to make the Bible its state book
(Frederick Reese, Mint Press News)
Caste discrimination: the Government’s progress
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Brandeis chooses not to tolerate intolerance
(Obaid H. Siddiqui, Patheos: altmuslim, Global Perspectives on Muslim life, politics & culture)
Friday, 11 April 2014
A 23-year-old gay-marriage opponent explains herself
(Connor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic)
Centuries of Judaica from life and rites in Muslim lands
(Eve M. Kahn, The New York Times)
Group of Jehovah's Witnesses followers detained in Uzbekistan
(Interfax-Religion)
Jesus more popular than Mao in China?
(Michael Trimmer, Christian Today World)
Jewish inmates say Florida prisons serve cold, gross food to discourage kosher requests
(Dara Kam, The Palm Beach Post)
Kosher for Gentiles
(Elizabeth Weiss, The New Yorker)
Observatory at Fundamental Rights Agency / Submits Report on Hate Crimes in Europe to OSCE
(Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe)
Online and unabashed: Orthodox rabbis and scholars take to the internet
(Shulem Deen, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
Saeed Abedini's wife: It's very hard but God is holding me up and him up too
(Christianity Today World)
Utah and same-sex marriage: Issues on appeal
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
The shame of Brandeis, and of a culture that has lost its way
(Charles C.W. Cooke, National Review Online)
Secular education on the decrease in national religious schools in Israel
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
Pope Francis' strongest statement yet on sex abuse
(CBC News)
Hungary breached freedom of religion
(Veronika Gulyas, Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Has capitalism failed? A multifaith response
(Multiple Authors, Patheos Public Square)
France's policy against "sects" disavowed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(HRWF and Marco Ventura, Human Rights Without Frontiers)
Rudy Salles fails to export anti-religious policies to the 47 Member States of the Council of Europe
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom – Articles)
Speech by Mr Morten Wold at PACE regarding Rudy Salles' report
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom – Articles)
BC Law Society approves TWU Law School graduates
(Barry Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities)
Europe, sects and freedom: One man's sect...
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
More than 10,000 signed a petition demanding Council of Europe to stop proposed anti-religious legislation
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom)
Protecting minors against the excesses of sects
(Link to voting result, Adopted text, Debate video, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe)
The protection of minors against excesses of sects
(Resolution 1992 (2014) Provisional version, The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe)
Dr Aaron Rhodes speech on religious freedom at Council of Europe side event
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom)
Turkey: Malatya murder trial postponed again
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
TSA travel information on Jewish Holiday of Passover
(Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security)
Judge grants request to force Indiana to recognize couple's same-sex marriage
(Jill Disis and Tim Evans, The Indianapolis Star)
Suu Kyi cautions Myanmar 'not yet a democracy'
(Arab News)
Health bosses in Denmark, Norway resist calls to ban circumcision
(JTA)
India: School is not a battleground for religion
(Babu Gogineni, World Religion News)
Oslo Accords pioneer Ron Pundak dies
(JTA)
Spanish village called ‘kill Jews’ mulling name change
(JTA)
Nobody expects the Rainbow Inquisition
(Eric Metaxas, BreakPoint - Christian Headlines)
WCC announces international consultation on Korean peninsula
(World Council of Churches)
Tennessee Baptist school fights Obamacare
(Bob Allen, ABP News)
The Indian election: Will 2014 be 'Modi's moment'?
(Gauri Khandekar, FRIDE - A European Think Tank for Global Action)
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