Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Strike keeps Passover supplies from reaching organizers of holiday meal in Kathmandu, Nepal
(Associated Press via The Prince George Citizen)
Kenya: Christian and Muslim clerics say terror has nothing to do with religion
(Patrick Beja, Standard Digital News)
Jesuit school in Syracuse to appoint laywoman as president, a first
(Renee K. Gadoua, Religion News Service)
'China's Schindler' Ho Fengshan commemorated in San Francisco
(Han Shasha (Xinhua), People Daily (English))
China angered as detained Uighur academic wins rights prize
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Sui-Lee Wee; Editing by Ron Popeski, Reuters)
Hobby Lobby’s Green family meets with Pope Francis
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Justices demur from religious groups' challenge to ACA
(Marcia Coyle, National Law Journal)
Report from Court on Loyola hearing – March 24, 2014
(Barry Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities)
Loyola High School, et al. v. Attorney General of Quebec
(Webcast of the Hearing, Supreme Court of Canada)
Freedom of Conscience & Religion: Loyola High School v Québec (AG)
(Matthew Ponsford, University of Ottawa - Pro Bono Students Canada, Canada Civil Liberties Association)
Trinity Western U’s law school future debated (April 11 meeting)
(The Vancouver Sun)
US Conference of Catholic Bishops to hold mass on US-Mexico Border to pray for immigration reform
(Jessica Martinez, Christian Post)
In Hobby Lobby contraceptive case, arguing about kosher butchers
(Ron Kampeas, JTA)
Monastery in Israel vandalized with anti-American epithets
(JTA)
Jewish groups decry National Front election successes in France
(JTA)
Aid groups see dire crisis for Rohingya in Myanmar
(Associated Press via NPR)
N.Y. Hasidic village agrees to stop gender segregation in public park
(JTA)
Myanmar's 1st census in decades bars name Rohingya
(Aye Aye Win, Associated Press)
Kyrgyzstan: Criminal convictions overturned, but will alternative to military service be for all?
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Heidegger’s notebooks renew focus on anti-Semitism
(Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times)
Larger churches find success starting smaller campuses
(Yvette C. Hammett, Tampa Bay Tribune)
‘You can’t wear that here’: Andrew Hambler and Ian Leigh on religious dress
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
‘You can’t wear that here' [LINK REPAIRED]
(Andrew Hambler and Ian Leigh, OUPblog / Oxford Journal of Law and Religion)
EVENT, 1 April 2014: Separation of Church and State. Lessons from transformations of Church and State relations in Central and Eastern Europe between 1990 and 2014
(Professor Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
Saudi Arabia: New terrorism regulations assault rights
(Human Rights Watch)
Monday, 31 March 2014
Patriarch Kirill criticizes opportunity to choose from 50 gender options in social networks
(Interfax-Religion)
Watch: The police are tracking you, so what happens if you track them?
(Serene Fang, Al Jazeera America)
Mufti of Crimea urges Tatars not to abandon the peninsula
(Interfax-Religion)
Kiev-loyal Orthodox church doubtful of its future in Crimea
(Gabriela Baczynska and Allesandra Prentice, Reuters)
Judge won't block rules on abortion drug in Arizona
(John Schwartz, The New York Times)
Judge to hold trial on Alabama abortion law
(Phillip Rawls, Associated Press, Deseret News)
Park in Hasidic enclave Kiryas Joel will not segregate based on sex
(NYCLU)
Former U.S. hostages angry about new Iran U.N. envoy appointee
(Louis Chabonneau, Reuters)
If a company can be African American, can’t it be religious?
(Matt Bowman, MercatorNet)
Experts on Ukraine still getting it wrong
(Alexander J. Motyl - Urkaine's Orange Blues, World Affairs Journal)
11 ancient burial boxes recovered in Israel
(Jon Gerberg, Associated Press, MSN News)
Hatred festers as Muslims and Christians suffer in Central African Republic
(Lara Marlowe, The Irish Times)
Tunisia takes on militants, pushes back against Shariah law
(Sarah Lynch, USA Today, The Washington Post)
New Poll: Gays more popular than Evangelical Christians
(Jason St. Amand, The Edge)
Morocco counterradicalization strategy bears fruits - OpEd
(Said Temsamani, Eurasia Review)
Cardinal Gracias calls on Indians to fast and pray before the election to save democracy
(Card. Oswald Gracias, AsiaNews.it)
Living in Color: Holi Festival of Colors in Spanish Fork draws thousands
(Deseret News)
'What future for the Church in China?' (Chinese now edition available)
(AsiaNews.it)
Turkish PM claims landslide election win
(Umut Uras, Al Jazeera)
More clergy call for gay bishops to come out in the Church of England
(Trevor Grundy, Religion News Service)
Despite new law, Ugandan cleric ministers to gays
(Rodney Muhumuza, ABC News)
Far-right Jobbik party baits Jews in Hungarian election campaign
(Reuters)
Kiev-loyal Orthodox church doubtful of its future in Russian-annexed Crimea
(Reuters)
Tennessee atheists win right to distribute literature after schools give Bibles to students
(David Ferguson, Raw Story)
The last Jews of Calcutta
(Rahul Tandon, BBC News)
Jihad by social media
(Sam Jones, Financial Times)
Religion and spirituality have distinct but complementary influences on health
(News Medical)
McDonald lecture draws renowned theologians
(CSLR Lectures, Center for the Study of Law and Religion - Emory)
April Fool’s isn’t a religious holiday, but there are some religious roots
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, Religion News Service)
The Christian penumbra
(Ross Douthat, The New York Times Op Ed)
Thousands attend Paris aliyah fair amid spate of anti-Semitic incidents
(JTA)
Britain’s Tate Gallery to return Nazi-looted painting
(JTA)
Jewish woman, partner among first same-sex marriages in Britain
(JTA)
"Religious freedom is good for business" discussed at high level events worldwide
(Brian J. Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Holocaust survivors in Canada target of scam
(JTA)
Newark Archdiocese fails to pay state taxes in for-profit headstone, mausoleum business
(Mark Mueller, New Jersey Star-Ledger)
Appeals court assigns 3 judges to hear Utah same-sex marriage case
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News)
Japan: Airports eager to cater to Muslims’ needs
(Tomohiro Osaki, The Japan Times)
Tibetan Communist who urged reconciliation with Dalai Lama dies
(Benjamin Kang Lim and David Stanway, Reuters)
Iranian chief rabbi dies
(Sam Sokol, The Jerusalem Post)
France in new tack to fight roots of terrorism
(Jamey Keaten and Elaine Ganley, Associated Press, The Big Story)
Pope Francis expresses concern to Pres. Obama as U.S. hits 6-year high in religious restrictions
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Why Africa's turning anti-gay
(Jay Michaelson, The Daily Beast)
Gestational parents, non-genetic mothers, siblings with different mothers: family law in a quandary
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)
Supreme Court declines to hear new contraception cases
(Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)
Why evil committed in the name of God is worse
(Dennis Prager, Jewish Journal)
Europe, faith and liberty: How Europe defines religious freedom
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Anti-Semitic slur by a Westchester fire chief stirs controversy
(Joseph Berger, The New York Times)
Promoting “religious freedom” does more harm than good
(Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, The Conversation)
A company aims to put good karma and energy close at hand
(Mark Oppenheimer, N.Y. Times)
When ‘Egyptian’ just meant Egyptian: ‘Jews of Egypt,’ about the end of a more tolerant era
(Miriam Bale, The New York Times)
Does God have a prayer in Hollywood?
(Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog)
How evangelicals won a culture war and lost a generation
(Rachel Held Evans, CNN)
Here comes everybody: Catholic diversity
(Robert P. George, First Things)
Washington's politics of reality distortion: What Mark Leibovich's this town tells us about our political class
(Forfare Davis, First Things)
Religion and law round up – 30th March
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Rabbi: Danish zoo killings show shechitah ban isn’t about animal welfare
(JTA)
More Mormon women choosing missions over college
(The Houston Chronicle)
Vatican bank fraud foiled after suspects stopped with €1.2bn of forged bonds
(John Hooper, The Guardian)
Vatican hustle: Con men no longer welcome in the Holy See
(Tom Kington, The Daily Beast)
Vatican bank's ousted president comes out swinging
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press via NPR)
US mediators try to rescue Mideast peace talks
(Associated Press via The Washington Post)
‘Most glorious sisterhood’ of Mormons gathers in historic meeting
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood: Keeping a low profile
(Ibrahim Gharayaba, The Majalla)
Egypt: Resurgence of the security state
(Ann M. Lesch, Foreign Policy Research Institute)
Erdogan wins election: hunt for "traitors" is on
(AsiaNews.it)
Sunday, 30 March 2014
Amnesty International: 1,500 Nigerians killed in Boko Haram violence in 2014
(Heather Murdock, Voice of America)
Caterers who refuse to work on same-sex weddings face prosecution
(Alice Philipson, The Telegraph)
Is belief a Jewish notion?
(Gary Gutting, The New York Times Op Ed)
Prayer in the secular republic
(John E. McIntyre, The Baltimore Sun)
Report from the John C. Danforth Center's Beyond the Culture Wars Conference
(Cara L. Burnidge, Religion in American History)
U.S. Catholics view Pope Francis as a change for the better
(Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project)
Sri Lanka: Indian abstention at UNHRC: National interest or complicity issue?
(Professor Ramu Manivannan, South Asia Analysis Group)
Algeria: Bureaucratic ploys used to stifle associations, warns HRW
(N/A, Eurasia Review)
Myanmar begins census amid tensions
(Al Jazeera)
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