Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Freedom of religion as a human right: The Council of Europe’s upcoming (April 7) vote on establishing “sect observatories”
(Donald A. Westbrook, World Religion News)
Divestment resolution passes again at Loyola, falls at Michigan
(JTA)
Australian Jewish leaders decry proposed changes to hate laws
(JTA)
They call me Matajudios ("Kill Jesus")
(Diego Melamed, JTA Telegraph)
Urgent call to end violence against Bangladeshi minorities
(World Council of Churches)
Evaluating faith-based prisons: a new study
(Sasha Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy via The Washington Post)
Myanmar census could inflame ethnic tensions
(Aye Aye Win, Associated Press, The Big Story)
India: Islamic school shuts doors on all politicians till poll
(Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui, The Times of India)
British government bans burning of fetuses to heat hospitals
(Simon Caldwell, Catholic News Service)
No maternity rights for commissioning mother in surrogacy case
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)
Missouri executes killer of teenage girl
(Carey Gillam, Reuters)
APRODEV invites EU to adopt long-term strategy to reconnect Gaza to West Bank
(World Council of Churches)
Another guilty plea in violent extortion scheme forcing gets
(JTA)
Pope Francis removes Bishop Tebartz-van Elst
(from the Vatican website, Pray Tell)
In Lev Tahor case, an insular sect puts on a public face
(Erika Tucker, Global News)
China's deadly Lightning
(Ruth Moon, Christianity Today)
Jewish teacher attacked and marked with swastika in Paris
(The Huffington Post)
When SCOTUS rules, watch for unintended consequences
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
Hobby Lobby case: 9 justices to watch
(Josh Gerstein, Politico)
Justice Kennedy thinks Hobby Lobby ia an abortion case — That’s bad news for birth control
(Ian Millhiser, Think Progress)
What’s at stake in Hobby Lobby: Religious freedom in the dock
(John Stonestreet - BreakPoint, Christian Headlines)
From the Hobby Lobby oral argument: Should legislation passed by unanimous vote be invalidated or narrowly construed?
(Will Baude, The Volokh Conspiracy via The Washington Post)
Hobby Lobby vs Sandra Fluke’s birth control pill
(Michael Schaus, Townhall.com Finance)
“God does not regard the fetus as a soul”: Conservative evangelicals and abortion
(Jamelle Bouie, Slate)
Birth control, business, and religious beliefs: In Plain English
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)
After Hobby Lobby, a nonprofit legal challenge to the contraception requirement
(David Masci, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)
Liberals ignoring plight of Middle Eastern Christians, says liberal-organized panel
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Russia: St Petersburg church liquidated, Rostov and Chelyabinsk drug and alcohol rehabilitation targeted
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)
The right plan to save Jews?
(The Jewish Daily Forward)
Pakistan lawmaker battles to raise punishment for child marriage
(Eissa Saeed, Reuters)
‘Isle be back!’ Siberian mayor seeks return of ‘Holy island’ from USA
(RT)
Yakutsk mayor urges to return an island near Alaska to the Russian Church
(Interfax-Religion)
Church schism in Ukraine will come to naught, if deprived of political support, the Russian Church official believes
(Interfax-Religion)
98 churches, 1900 mosques destroyed in Syria – Syrian Ambassador
(Interfax-Religion)
A Haggadah for the Digital Age
(Jane L. Levere, The New York Times)
Court hears appeal by son of scholar on Dead Sea Scrolls
(John Leland, The New York Times)
365-year-old Hindu script Ramayana “reunited" and digitized by British Library and Mumbai Museum
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Abraham and Sodom: another take
(Sasha Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy via The Washington Post)
Austria: Muslims outnumber Catholics in Vienna schools
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
When a pope meets a U.S. president: 2014
(USCC Blog)
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
'Innocence of Muslims' actress demands Google be sanctioned
(Eriq Gardner, Hollywood Reporter)
Are corporations people?
(Deena Zuru, CNN)
As Jobbik popularity grows, Hungary’s governing party increases its nationalist rhetoric
(Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA)
Gets caught plagiarizing: FECRIS Member and Member of Russian Ministry of Justice Expert Council on Religious Studies
(Vladimir Morozov, Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Justices seem open to religious claims by companies
(Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
Op-Ed: The real threat to Ukraine’s Jewish community
(Mark B. Levin, JTA)
Religious leaders stand united for peace in Cyprus
(Meneske Tokyay, Southeast European Times)
Supreme Court appears split in contraception case, with Kennedy in middle
(Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor)
U.S. scrambles as prisoner release, Jewish state issue threaten to sink talks
(Ron Kampeas, JTA)
UN passes resolution calling Crimean referendum invalid
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Weekly report on human rights violation in Iran
(Majzooban Noor)
Witness: The price of mass surveillance
(Amy Braunschweiger, Human Rights Watch)
5 surprising moments between Popes and Presidents
(Wolf Blitzer and Sean Kennedy, CNN Opinion)
Qaeda militants seek Syria base, U.S. officials say
(Eric Schmit, The New York Times)
Lawyer says Scientologists took him for $200K
(Matt Reynolds, Courthouse News Service)
Christian student sues TNCC, asserting college violated his rights
(Peter Dujardin, Daily Press)
Tenn. student religious protection bill delivered to governor
(Sunnivie Brydum, Advocate.com)
The flawed moral vision of World Vision
(Al Mohler, Christian Headlines)
World Vision: Why we’re hiring gay Christians in same-sex marriages
(Celeste Gracey and Jeremy Weber, Christianity Today)
Iran resumes monetary aid to Hamas
(Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor)
Lent: The annual Catechumenate
(George Weigel, First Things)
Experts say U.S. could do more to help persecuted Christians
(Carrie Dedrick, Christian Headlines)
White House ‘disappointed’ by Saudi denial to Jerusalem Post scribe
(The Global Jewish News Source)
West Java, Islamists block construction of a Catholic church
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
Egypt adjourns second mass Brotherhood trial
(Al Jazeera)
Supreme Court evaluates Hobby Lobby suit
(Sarah Posner, Al Jazeera America)
Faith and theology help to heal communities facing HIV and AIDS
(World Council of Churches)
Austrian candidate under fire for comparing EU to Nazi Germany
(JTA)
State Dept.: Israel’s discrimination keeps it out of visa waiver deal
(JTA)
Tel Aviv allowing some stores to do business on Shabbat
(JTA)
Visiting Kiev’s wounded in Jerusalem
(Jeremy Borovitz, JTA Telegraph)
Seeking newcomers overseas, Winnipeg Jews don’t get what they expected
(Uriel Heilman, JTA)
Hungarian official gives assurances on circumcision, ritual slaughter
(JTA)
French Jewish group urging all-out effort to stop nationalist party
(JTA)
Spain: Jews and Muslims deserve apology and correction of historical wrongs – OpEd
(Faisl Kutty, Eurasia Review)
SCOTUS Twitterstorm * World Vision revision * Faith fun: Tuesday’s Roundup
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
The new tribalism and the decline of the nation-state
(Robert Reich, Eurasia Review)
Is promoting global religious freedom naive or necessary?
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Opinion: To which Charter do we owe our allegiance: Values or Rights?
(Zara Rubin, The Montreal Gazette)
Supreme Court hears landmark Hobby Lobby case
(Emily Hardman, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
Full Transcript of the oral arguments in Hobby Lobby / Conestoga Wood
(The Supreme Court of the United States)
Hobby Lobby argument recap: One hearing, two dramas
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
SCOTUSblog evening round-up – March 25, 2014
(Andrew Hamm, SCOTUSblog)
Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood: Post-argument reactions (VIDEO)
(Kali Borkoski, SCOTUSblog)
The end of anti-discrimination: The stakes in Tuesday's Hobby Lobby arguments couldn't be higher
(Jeffrey Rosen, New Republic)
Supreme Court signals support for corporate religious claims
(Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)
Supreme Court divided as it hears argument on contraceptive coverage
(Robert Barnes, The Washington Post)
Implied consent: A proposal on for-profit conscience
(Michael A. Helfand, First Things)
Ruling could have reach beyond issue of contraception
(Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
Health-law contraceptive case skews ideological lines on High Court
(Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal)
Does the Air Force ‘encourage atheism’ and ‘prosecute Christianity’?
(Chris Stedman, Religion News Service)
9/11 museum at New York City's World Trade Center to open May 21
(Associated Press via ABC 7)
New hope for Central African Republic?
(M. Zuhdi Jasser and Sam Gejdenson, World Affairs Journal)
UN rights chief blasts Israel over colony construction
(Reuters, Gulf News)
Mich. governor deflects same-sex marriage questions
(Paul Egan, USA Today)
Priests and same-sex marriage – further insights from Oxford
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Pope tells Sicilian Mafia: You will end up in hell
(Jim Kouri, Eurasia Review)
Syrian conflict takes center stage at Arab summit
(Ma'an News Agency)
700 Egypt Islamists in court after mass death sentences
(Ma'an News Agency)
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