Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 4 April 2014
EVENT, 4 April 2014: Interfaith Marriage in America: Transforming Religion and Families
(Eirka B. Seamon, Susan Katz Miller, The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Thursday, 3 April 2014
“We have to build bridges” says WCC general secretary during his visit to Finland
(World Council of Churches)
Assassination of cleric 'Makaburi' puts Kenya on edge
(The Christian Science Monitor)
How anti-Jewish jokes hurt the Palestinian cause
(Nuzha Nusseibeh, The Atlantic)
Lev Tahor children returned to their families after CBSA arrests: lawyer
(CTV News London)
Mission of the church analyzed at Finnish church consultation
(World Council of Churches)
Nepal will be ‘Hindu State’ if Modi takes power: VHP
(Indian Christian Activist Network)
Leicester Cathedral Reordering
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Court upholds New York City ban on church in schools
(Sophia Hollander, The Wall Street Journal)
Court: NYC can ban church service in public school
(Tom Hays, Huffington Post)
Parents sue state over private school scholarship program
(James Salzer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Federal Judge rules gays are protected by sex discrimination laws
(Daniel Reynolds, Advocate)
Opposition to the Council of Europe's upcoming vote to establish "sect observatories": and "sect awareness sessions" swells
(World Religion News)
Turkish government lifts Twitter ban
(Al Jazeera America)
'Who am I to judge': Will the Pope condemn homophobia in Uganda?
(Matt Ford, The Atlantic)
Muslim Brotherhood urges Britain not to yield to foreign 'pressure' over review
(Yara Bayoumy, Reuters)
Serial killer executed with Texas' new drug supply
(Michael Graczyk, AP)
Clergy take a moral stand in Central African Republic conflict
(Lara Marlowe, The Irish Times)
Pope, Queen enjoy casual tea during first meeting
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Jerusalem Patriarch condemns monastery vandalism
(Catholic News Agency)
Chaldean Patriarch on the uncertain future of eastern Christians, a bridge between the West and Islam
(Mar Louis Raphael I Sako, AsiaNews.it)
EVENT, 3-5 April 2014: Religious accommodation in the age of civil rights
(Harvard Law School)
Palestinian UN moves designed to avoid US retaliation
(Noah Browning, Reuters)
Muslim Brotherhood urges UK not to proceed with probe
(Al Arabiya News)
The world’s largest democracy is at polls: An insight into the Indian Parliamentary election 2014
(Dr. Ashok Sharma)
Al-Shabaab’s insurgency in Somalia: a data-based snapshot
(Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs)
Hungary: State versus ‘churches’ human rights row set for court judgement
(Human Rights Europe)
Islamic group gets OK to cut crosses off New York church
(Associated Press, ABC News)
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Burger with a side of Bible: Companies mixing religion with retail
(Clare O'Connor, Forbes)
Europe and religious exceptions: So near but yet so far
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and Public Policy])
Should the crosses be cut off a Syracuse church to create a mosque?
(Marnie Eisenstadt, Syracuse.com News)
Early warning: Hobby Lobby and the Supreme Court
(Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times Opinion)
Tackling manifestations of collective hatred
(UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Human rights in action: Petition and letter circulating to protect freedom of religion in Europe
(Margaret Rose Becker, World Religion News)
Tehran tower goes dark in honour of Muslim saint
(Radio Zamaneh)
Obama urged to create religious envoy after papal meeting
(Catholic News Agency)
Catholics and Muslims fasting and praying together for Asia Bibi and Sawan Masih
(Jibran Khan, AsiaNews.it)
April 3, AD 33: Why we believe we can know the exact date Jesus died
(Andreas J. Köstenberger and Justin Taylor, First Things)
Clergy housing under fire in austere age
(Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National)
Why you should watch Noah
(Father Robert Barron, Real Clear Religion)
Seven Lev Tahor members arrested for immigration issues
(The Canadian Press, CTV News)
Death toll increases as Fulani herdsmen murder Christians in Nigeria
(Russ Jones, Christian Headlines)
Religious freedom bill passed by Mississippi legislators
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Miss. lawmakers pass religious-practices bill
(Clay Chandler and Geoff Pender, USA Today via The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger)
Mississippi: Bill to shield religious practices passes
(Associated Press, The New York Times)
Mississippi governor to sign bill outlawing abortion after 20 weeks
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
UKIP reiterates current opposition to same-sex 'marriage'
(Christian Concern)
Street preacher awarded 13k for wrongful arrest
(Christian Concern)
Human right violations in Equatorial Guinea highlighted in a WCC event
(AllAfrica)
Secular Coalition flunks most members of Congress on church-state report card
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Atlanta archbishop's $2 million mansion gone with the wind?
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Ted Cruz: Religious liberties under attack
(Philip Elliott and Alan Suderman, Associated Press)
Archbishop apologizes for $2.2 million home
(Mark Davis, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Cardinal O’Malley: Immigrant outreach on Mexican border inspired by Pope Francis
(Melinda Henneberger, The Washington Post)
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)
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