Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Quebec seeks ban on religious symbols in public work places
(Benjamin Shingler, Huff Post Religion)
Religious tension in Pakistan as Muslims dig up Hindu grave
(Reporting by Syed Raza Hassan; Editing by Maria Golovnina and Clarence Fernandez, Reuters)
Slight Decline in Islamophobia in America: CAIR Report
(Hina Tai, Illume)
Taliban renews threat against Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai as Nobel decision nears
(Tim Craig and Saleem Mehsud, The Washington Post)
Vandals damage graves in Jerusalem, in latest attack against Christians
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Shots fired at Yekaterinburg synagogue in Russia
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Dubai court clears woman of giving a man the finger
(Jewish Press News Briefs, Jewish Press)
Pushkov warns about danger of radical Islam in Crimea
(Interfax)
Vinh: amid threats and attacks, 50 thousand Catholics pray for release of the two parishioners
(J.B. An Dang, AsiaNews.it)
Attack on Jerusalem graves unnerves Christians
(Ahram Online)
Forty Tibetans arrested for protesting against China's red flag
(AsiaNews.it)
Women members of Saudi Shura Council challenge driving ban
(Ahram Online)
Gaza protesters demand death penalty as anti-NGOs meet
(Ahram Online)
Saudi warns against politics during upcoming hajj
(Ahram Online)
Conservatives say censorship has increased on Facebook, iTunes
(Katherine Burgess, Religion News Service)
Study to examine relationship between health and religion
(Katie Burke, The Michigan Daily)
Water initiatives get congregations to pledge to conserve
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Iowa business defends denial of same-sex wedding
(WCF Courier)
“No more shame”: a Mormon Apostle sheds light on mental illness, and his own struggles
(Jana Riess, Religion News Service)
Voices of Faith: What place does personal identity have in faith?
(Anchorage Daily News)
Religious groups feel the pinch of government shutdown
(Kevin Eckstrom, Cathy Lynn Grossman et al., Religion News Service)
Turkey lifts 90-year ban on Islamic veils in the workplace
(Euronews)
School cancels Halloween events over religion concerns
(Observer-Reporter)
Myanmar religious leaders urge harmony after anti-Muslim clashes
(Radio Free Asia)
British scouts can drop God in alternative 'atheist' promise
(Henry Austin, NBC News)
UK: Hampton student forced to get approval to wear religious headscarf
(Ahmadiyya Times)
'Soil immersion against religious beliefs'
(Ishita Mishra, Times of India)
French turban ban: Sikhs win 3rd case at UN
(Times of India)
New Public Spirit series on faith and social action
(Public Spirit)
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Big majority of Mormons (including women) oppose women in priesthood
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center: Factank)
Georgia PM meets Muslim community leaders
(Civil Georgia)
Is it time to end religious oaths in court proceedings?
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Kazakhstan: Pastor to be transferred from prison to house arrest
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Hobby Lobby, and Mormon singles: This Week In Religion
(Katie Zavadski, Bustle)
A Jewish cultural centre in London: Take Woody Allen, add a side of schmaltz, hold God
(G.D., The Economist [Prospero: Books, arts and culture])
In our opinion: Court should stand up for religion in public square
(Deseret News)
Faith-based education is a force for good
(Archbishop Richard Clarke, The Irish Times)
Gobble tov! American Jews ready for Thanksgivukkah
(Leanne Italie, My Fox NY)
Ex-Mormons aren’t ‘lazy or sinful,’ church leader Dieter Uchtdorf says
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, Religion News Service)
When Catholic schools fire gay teachers, laity push back
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Yale’s humanists lose bid for campus recognition
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Jewish feminists say they’d accept Western Wall prayer compromise
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
First Amendment does not protect diocese from discovery request
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ohio hospital can force Amish girl to resume chemotherapy, court rules
(CBS News)
Russian leader proposes inviting Indonesia to Geneva II conference
(Interfax)
In Belgrade Patriarch Kirill speaks of importance of Europe's Christian roots
(Interfax)
'Yid Army': Football teams' 'Jewish' identities questioned
(Hendrik Buchheister, Spiegel Online International)
Priest blames paganism for Povetkin's defeat
(Interfax)
Monday, 7 October 2013
As Saskatoon City Council considers prayer policy, should Regina follow suit?
(Vanessa Brown, The Leader-Post)
Azerbaijan's policy on religious is model for other countries: British MP
(Aynur Jafarova, Azer News)
City council in hot water for starting meetings with prayer
(Fox News)
Danish Jewry dwindling due in part to anti-Semitism, community leader says
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Give us this day, our daily Senate scolding
(Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times)
Hobby Lobby president says chain will carry Hanukkah items
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Is Buddhism a religion?
(Michael McGhee, The Guardian)
Judge admonished for publicly refusing to perform same-sex marriage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Kazan imam calls believers to boycott Elton John's concert
(Interfax)
Let religious freedom reign
(Patrick Dacey, Times Live)
Make your pick: Do Mainline Protestants need a new name?
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
Nebraska Supreme Court rules 16-year-old ‘not mature enough’ for abortion
(George Chidi, Raw Story)
No place for Jesus in RE, but there’s always Gandhi
(Cristina Odone, The Telegraph)
Pakistan: An Islamic country cannot protect its minors from sexual assault and the perpetrators enjoy impunity
(Asian Human Rights Commission)
Peres calls on Council of Europe to reconsider anti-circumcision resolution
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Religious freedom forum to offer advice to people of faith
(Baird Helegson, Star Tribune)
Religious institutions' pensions prove not guaranteed
(Associated Press, Daily Herald (New Jersey))
Religious leaders weigh in on government shutdown
(Herb Scribner, Deseret News)
Religious order urges action to stem chaos in Central African Republic
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service)
Russian military chaplains include two Muslims, one Buddhist
(Interfax)
Supreme Court won’t reconsider Montana decision to make Hutterites pay worker’s comp insurance
(The Washington Post)
Suspected recruiter of Hizb ut-Tahrir terror group arrested in Moscow
(Interfax)
The rabbi who brought religion into Israeli politics
(Noah Feldman, Bloomberg)
The religious alternative to Obamacare's individual mandate
(NPR)
Two Islamists convicted in Russia's Tatarstan
(Interfax)
Winners and losers in the Pew Research poll on American Jews
(Menachem Wecker, Religion News Service)
Women of the Wall agrees to pray in egalitarian space, with conditions
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
World religion classes in Columbia high schools broaden student horizons
(Jill Ornitz, KBIA)
Young Nepali Hindus becoming Catholic to stop discrimination
(Kalpit Parajuli, AsiaNews.it)
Sunday, 6 October 2013
A plea for civility at annual Red Mass in D.C.
(Tony Mauro, The Blog of Legal Times)
Global Islamic extremists wage war on Russian Federation – OpEd
(Brett Daniel Shehadey, Eurasia Review)
The promise and peril of Pope Francis
(Ross Douthat, The New York Times)
Saturday, 5 October 2013
The wave from Syria: Flow of refugees destabilizes Lebanon
(Samiha Shafy, Spiegel Online International)
Oregonians are spiritual, not necessarily religious
(The Daily Astorian)
Texas using non-teacher Creationists to review biology textbooks
(Michael Allen, Opposing Views)
For many U.S. Jews, religion not core of identity
(Rachel Zoll, Columbia Daily Tribune)
The religion of Australian politics
(Cardinal George Pell, The Daily Telegraph)
Spiritual but not religious? Path may still lead to Church
(John Longhurst, Winnipeg Free Press)
Stop writing epitaphs for the 'Religious Right'
(Abby Ohleheiser, The AltanticWire)
Friday, 4 October 2013
Bosnia holds first census since 1992-94 war, reviving ethnic and religious splits
(Daria Sito-Sucic)
An antidote to religious strife in Egypt: nationalism
(Monique El-Faizy, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 6-8 October 2013: Twentieth Annual International Law and Religion Symposium
(International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University)
The Tactical and Strategic Problems of Preemptive State Regulation of Religious Literature
(Chris Pieper, U Law Today)
Echmiadzin Journal: Armenian Church, survivor of the ages, faces modern hurdles
(David M. Herszenhorn, The New York Times)
A rabbi and a Palestinian farmer are neighbors, partners – and friends
(Margarida Santos Lopes, The Christian Science Monitor)
Xi Jinping hopes traditional faiths can fill moral void in China: sources
(Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard, Reuters)
Quebec’s coup d’etat against religious freedom
(Sean Murphy, Mercator Net)
Should schools teach about religions?
(Kevin Ryan, Mercator Net)
The meaning of martyrdom: Ways to bear witness
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Saudi cleric supports expansion of Grand Mosque
(Foreign staff, The Guardian)
How many people convert to Islam?
(J.D., The Economist explains)
More white evangelicals than American Jews say God gave Israel to the Jewish people
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center: Factank)
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