Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 21 November 2013
States that allow same-sex marriage also provide protections for religious groups and clergy who oppose it
(David Masci, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)
Israeli couples say 'I don't' to Orthodox Jewish weddings
(Reuters, Voice of America)
Nepal Maoist head Prachanda calls for election halt
(BBC News Asia)
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
'Christmas-friendly' companies make 'naughty or nice' list as AFA battles 'War on Christmas'
(Huff Post Religion)
Behind scenes, Catholic bishops seek an exit strategy for Obamacare mandate
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
British Medical Association opposes Scottish assisted suicide bill
(Christian Concern)
JFK after 50 years
(George Weigel, First Things: On the Square)
The bourgeois are at the gates
(Dale M. Coulter, First Things: First Thoughts)
Video: Jasvir Singh from United Sikhs International
(French Discrimination and Religious Symbols, European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom)
Church of England approves female bishops plan
(Sam Jones, The Guardian)
Nepal: Now the social revolution can begin
(Eric Randolph, Foreign Policy)
Muslim Women more likely to suffer Islamophobic attacks than men - study
(Haroon Siddique, The Guardian)
Expectations are high for summit between Pope Francis and Vladimir Putin
(Eric J. Lyman, Religion News Service)
Witness: Iran, where your shoes can get you deported
(Human Rights Watch)
New Google ad highlights complicated India-Pakistan relationship
(Neha Sahgal, Pew Research Center: Fact-tank)
Gettysburg and the new "proposition" of American politics
(Matthew S. Holland, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
Gettysburg and a nation “under God”
(Ed Whelan, National Review Online: Bench Memos)
Obama criticized as anti-religious for reading first Gettysburg Address version
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Secularism seeks to balance everyone’s religious freedoms fairly. Why would anyone oppose that?
(Stephen Evans, National Secular Society)
The new feminist revolution in religion
(Gina Messina-Dysert, Feminism and Religion)
Reform’s Rick Jacobs hails new openness in Israel to religious pluralism
(Uriel Heilman, JTA Telegraph)
Will people stop being religious?
(Khaya Mpembe, The Times of Swaziland)
Analysis: How Bangladesh aid restrictions impact Rohingyas
(IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis)
Hizbullah’s actions threaten Lebanon’s stability
(Nohad Topalian, Al-Shorfa via Eurasia Review)
US may have let 'dozens" of terrorists into the country as refugees
(James Gordon Meek, Cindy Galli, and Brian Ross, ABC News)
SCOTUS: Petitions to watch | Conference of November 26
(Mary Pat Dwyer, SCOTUSblog)
A Muslim-Jewish call to Council of Europe: Rescind your resolution advocating the banning of circumcision. Support religious freedom for all Europeans!
(Petition by Samia hSamiahathroubi - Paris, France, Change.org)
Egypt remains confused by White House policy
(Adel El-Adawy, The Hill Congress Blog)
Tacky Funfairs: Are Christmas markets losing tradition?
(David Crossland, Spiegel Online International)
Podcast on Town of Greece
(Marc DeGirolami, Mirror of Justice)
Attention U.S. bishops: Abortion is nothing like gay marriage
(Timothy Villreal, Washington Post (On Faith))
[Russia] Nationwide attack on religious opposition perceived
(Kseniia Sergazina, Russia Religion News)
Pa. United Methodist minister who performed gay wedding suspended
(Associated Press, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Church of England paves the way for women bishops
(Trevor Grundy, Religion News Service)
Britain's Court of Appeal: Christian radio ad barred by ban on political advertising
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Tri-County Lexus to pay $50,000 to settle EEOC religious discrimination suit
(US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
Religious freedom is a sacred right
(Randy Forbes and Steve Scalise, Charisma News)
Illinois governor signs same-sex marriage into law
(Sophia Tareen, Associated Press)
Greece: Taxpayer-funded mosque planned in Athens
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Ancient city discovered beneath Biblical-era ruins in Israel
(Tia Ghose, Fox News)
General Synod – Media lessons still to be learned?
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Ghana: Parliament commends Catholic Church
(Ghana Web)
Up to 90% of Italian gynecologists refuse to abort babies as abortion rate continues to drop
(Hilary White, LifeSiteNews)
Religion in Sweden
(Phil Whittall, The Simple Pastor)
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, 150 years later
(Stephen Prothero, Religion & Politics)
Gettysburg Address laced with religious language and meaning
(Matthew Brown, Deseret News International Edition)
Civil religion at Gettysburg
(Benjamin J. Dueholm, The Christian Century)
The Gettysburg Address and how history came to know (and argue over) its immortal words
(Allen G. Breed, Associated Press, Deseret News)
UK Minister of Faith calls for religious tolerance
(Sam Abrams, The Hoya, Georgetown University)
Abu-Bekir Shabanovich: Religious literacy is important for modern society
(Belarusian Telegraph Agency)
KAICIID: Religion should be part of solution to conflicts
(Rafiq A. Tschannen, The Muslim Times)
South Sudanese bishops praise national progress, urge reform
(Catholic News Agency)
Egypt: Are there really three million atheists?
(BBC News)
The two Jacks: Contrasting takes on C.S. Lewis and JFK’s public and private faiths
(Justin Taylor and Joe Rigney, Religion News Service)
Screwtape and the cure of souls: Grace among the ruins
(Eric Metaxas, BreakPoint)
Survey: Dutch favor Arab recognition of Israel as Jewish state
(JTA)
Deeply unpopular at home, French president embraced on Israel trip
(Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA)
On Israeli religious reforms, Naftali Bennett still figuring out road map
(Uriel Heilman, JTA)
Chaplains to Air Force Academy: Obey the law concerning oaths
(Human Events)
Church members stage peaceful protest after decades of waiting for government to return church land
(China Aid Association, China Aid News)
Three-Self sanctioned church pastor and 20 believers detained in Henan
(China Aid Association, China Aid News)
Anti-Christian revolution sweeps through Europe - Russian MP
(Interfax)
Europe’s first state-run Jewish divinity program opens in Germany
(JTA)
Jews challenge worship rules at holiest of Jerusalem sites
(Neri Zilber, Religion News Service)
French priest 'kidnapped' by Nigeria’s Boko Haram in Cameroon
(World Watch Monitor)
Survey: Same-sex couples create own rules in wedding planning
(Katherine Burgess, Religion News Service)
Letter from Tangier
(Reva Bhalla, Stratfor)
Religion doesn’t belong in the classroom
(Rob Breakenridge, Calgary Herald)
Al-Qaeda power struggle enters new phase – Analysis
(Rajeh Saeed, Al-Shorfa (Arabic) via Eurasia Review)
Yemen: Review Saudi Woman’s refugee claim
(Human Rights Watch)
Guestview: NYC circumcision rite consent rule tests limits of religious freedom
(Eliyahu Federman, Reuters FaithWorld)
Vatican removes 'La Repubblica' interview from its website
(Catholic News Agency)
Worldwide Hindus concerned at Diwali labeled as ‘blasphemy’ in Cook Islands
(Eurasia Review)
New on Big Questions Online: Atheism, Press Freedom, Gratitude
(Ansley Roan, Big Questions Online)
Burma’s promise: President Thein Sein’s 11 commitments to Obama
(Daniel P. Sullivan, Foreign Policy in Focus)
Nepal goes to the polls
(Deepak Adhikari, Foreign Policy in Focus)
Kosovo Islamic Community opposes joining fighting in Syria
(SETimes, The Journal of Turkish Weekly)
Spectre of 9/11 haunts the freedoms in U.S.
(Mehmet Yegin, The Journal of Turkish Weekly)
Public figures call for creation of church commission to investigate Grozovsky case
(Interfax)
Catholic Diocese of Gallup becomes ninth to file for bankruptcy protection
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Federal judge OKs settlement over halal meals in Michigan prisons
(Jacob Gershman, The Wall Street Journal - Law Blog)
Siavosh Derakhti, a young Muslim, defends Jews and others targeted by hate crimes
(Gary G. Yerkey, The Christian Science Monitor)
What makes music sacred?
(Laura Davis, OUPblog)
Religious discrimination: City of Portland subjected employee to hostile work environment
(Brad Schmidt, Oregon Live)
Science teacher cannot display religious material in classroom
(Kathleen Maloney, Court News Ohio)
Ohio Supreme Court upholds firing of Freshwater in religious-symbols case
(Darrel Rowland, The Columbus Dispatch)
The New Evangelization: Responsibilities and Challenges for the American Continent
(Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., First Things: On the Square)
Our Alypian Moment? (pornography in the mainstream culture)
(Carl R. Trueman, First Things: First Thoughts)
Moscow perplexed with U.S. demands for review of IOC opinion on Russian gay propaganda law
(Interfax)
Challenging supremacist ideology in Islam
(Tahmina Kazi, Public Spirit)
Muslim civil society in Britain: embattled or thriving?
(Public Spirit)
Hollande in Israel vows to fight anti-Semitism
(News Wires, France 24 International News)
The Christian Intellectual
(R.R. Reno, First Things: On the Square)
Anti-military, anti-Brotherhood protesters enter Tahrir for 1st time since Morsi's ouster
(Ahram Online)
Tajik mullah detained for killing young man "possessed by a Jinn"
(Interfax)
Muslim migrants coming to Russia often support extremist unities - CIS Anti-Terrorism Center
(Interfax)
Unknown individuals try to burn down two Orthodox churches in Tatarstan
(Interfax)
Eastern Patriarchs to meet Pope to discuss the future of Christians in the Middle East
(AsiaNews.it)
Metropolitan Hilarion offers baptizing "surrogate" babies when they reach the age of consciousness
(Interfax)
As China relents on one-child policy, Third Plenum's contradictions show
(Wang Zhicheng, Asianews.it)
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