Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
North Korean Christians pray for 'free' Christians to 'realize God is all you need'
(Angela Lu, World News Service, Religion Today)
New Jersey school district will allow religious holiday songs
(Katherine Burgess, Religion News Service)
A Reform leader at a Chabad conference
(Ben Sales, JTA Telegraph)
Why study an ancient religion?
(Benjamin Barer, Huff Post Religion)
Uzbekistan: Prisoner of conscience exposed to TB
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Argument recap: A tense hour at the Court (Bond v. U.S.)
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
Vatican issues global questionnaire on modern families
(AFP, Google News)
Rabbi from Dagestan conducts prayer at congress of Hasidic Jews in New York
(Interfax)
Radical Islamic organization's recruiter detained in Moscow region
(Interfax)
Belgian government to push ahead with plan to euthanise children
(Talpa brusseliensis christiana)
Owen Cole obituary (religious studies teacher and author who was an expert on Sikhism)
(Eleanor Nesbitt, The Guardian)
Judges can sidestep religion, but they can't avoid morality
(Andrew Brown, The Guardian)
Veils in court: proposed consultation on judicial guidance
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Veils in court: judges to be given guidance, says lord chief justice
(Owen Bowcott, The Guardian)
Faisalabad: Muslims and Christians together to exonerate a woman accused of blasphemy
(Shafique Khokhar, AsiaNews.it)
Thousands of Filipino migrants treated "like animals" by Saudi authorities
(AsiaNews.it)
Sectarian fighting resumes in north Yemen
(Ahram Online)
Tunisia crisis deepens after failure to pick new PM
(Ahram Online)
Egypt's youth group stages clown protest outside judicial body
(Ahram Online)
Monday, 4 November 2013
A plea for Catholic schools to ignore new guidelines
(Richard Pérez-Peña, The New York Times Education)
Australia's Hillsong Church has astonishingly powerful global influence
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Catholic women resistant to call for new theology
(Megan Fincher Colleen Dunne, National Catholic Reporter)
China replaces top general in Xinjiang after Beijing attack
(Joanahtan Kaiman, The Guardian)
Commissioner Reding’s new power grab
(European Dignity Watch)
Committee sends conversion reform bill to the Knesset
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Jewish Press)
Critics call new Russian counterterror law a return to 'collective justice'
(Tom Balmforth, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
EBay apologizes over sale of Holocaust items
(RIA Novosti)
Global shipping giant UPS to pay $70,000 to settle EEOC religious discrimination lawsuit
(Press Release, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
Hawaii gay marriage hearing stretches into 4th day
(Oskar Garcia, Associated Press, Deseret News)
Iran: Christians whipped: judgment accomplished for Eucharistic wine drinkers
(Agenzia Fides)
Let us not pray: Why the Supreme Court shouldn’t let town boards start meetings with prayer
(Alan Brownstein and Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, Slate)
Pakistan: An entire Ahmadi family was targeted in sectarian killings
(Asian Human Rights Commission)
Parents sue NJ over ban on gay conversion therapy
(David Porter, Associated Press, CTPost)
Right to Life of Michigan files federal lawsuit against 'Obamacare' over abortion, contraceptives
(John Agar, MLive)
Strange friendly fire
(Timothy George, First Things: On the Square)
What is the religion of the Japanese?
(Hiragana Times)
What the luminous mind of the Buddha shows us
(Michael McGhee, The Guardian: How to believe)
Women cardinals rumor shot down by Vatican
(Huff Post Religion)
'Respect other religions to build healthy society'
(The Times of India)
EVENT, 5 November 2013: The Evangelical Black Atlantic: Wheatley and Marrant
(Michael Warner, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Tribe, religion instrument of peace not war - Abubakar
(Hassan Ibrahim, Nigerian Tribune)
The Buddha, science, and religion
(Mack Paul, Huff Post Religion)
Moore: Promote Gospel, freedom at same time
(Tom Strode, Baptist Press)
Religions and nation building
(Enizahura Abdul Aziz, The Star (Malaysia))
Workplace religious rights set forth in ADF legal analysis
(Gregory Tomlin, Baptist Press)
Religious freedom essential for world security: Tony Blair
(Deborah Gyapong, The B.C. Catholic)
The reality of ENDA
(Ryan T. Anderson, The Foundry (blog))
Does religion stand a chance against ENDA?
(Carly Hill, Liberty Alliance)
Religious leaders support gay marriage in Illinois
(Tristate Homepage)
“Will Israel exist in another 90 years?”
(Uri Avnery, Eurasia Review)
Catholic bishops oppose discrimination in letter opposing anti-discrimination bill
(Michael J. O'Loughlin, RNS Blog: Faith Fix)
Government Losses, HRA Repeal & Secular Courts – The Human Rights Roundup
(Daniel Isenberg, UK Human Rights Blog)
Family Law ~ a torrent of recent cases
(ObiterJ)
Generation atheist! Millennials to religion — get out of politics
(Vern L. Bengston, Salon)
Fire in the pews: Pentecostal-Catholic competition reviving religion in Latin America
(David Briggs, The ARDA)
British Minister: Ban Muslim face veils in courts
(Elad Benari, Arutz Sheva 7)
Pope Francis: Is the people's pontiff a revolutionary? (+video)
(Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor)
Bayit Yehudi: We must vet all legislation on religious matters
(David Lev, Arutz Sheva 7)
Freedom From Religion Foundation sues Pismo Beach (California) City Council for its sectarian invocation prayers
(Hemant Mehta, Patheos Blog: The Friendly Atheist)
Texas A&M University to offer new course combining neuroscience with religion
(Hemant Mehta, Patheos Blog: The Friendly Atheist)
Exemption from religion classes is a right
(Veronica, Canadian Atheist)
The Book of Mormon made me think about my religion
(Anne, Anne About Town)
Christians, Muslims and prayer: Does worship divide or unite?
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Muhammad Morsi on trial: From president to prisoner
(M.R., The Economist [Pomegranate: The Middle East])
Security in Xinjiang: Tightening the screws
(J.M., The Economist [Analects: China])
India throws rings of protection around divisive candidate Modi
(Sanjeev Miglani, Reuters)
Britain to become first non-Muslim country to launch sharia bond
(Harry Wilson, The Telegraph)
Bishop fears sharia bonds pave way for more Islamic law
(Edward Malnick and John Bingham, The Telegraph)
David Barton for U.S. Senate?
(Mark Silk, RNS Blog: Spiritual Politics)
Bolz-Weber’s liberal, foulmouthed articulation of Christianity speaks to fed-up believers
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post – Style)
NYC: Top 2 candidates vow to make City Hall more faith-friendly
(Jvier C. Hernández, International New York Times)
In Brief: Supreme Court revisits legislative prayer in Town of Greece v. Galloway
(Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project)
Central African Republic: Religious tinderbox
(BBC News Africa)
Polish synagogue defiled by swastikas
(JTA)
The Rebbe’s army musters
(Ben Harris, JTA Telegraph)
German think tank protesting Oxford speaker on anti-Semitism
(JTA)
Holocaust restitution body slams Poland for ‘unfulfilled commitments’
(JTA)
Fuming Arab MKs storm out of debate on Temple Mount
(Ilan Ben Zion, The Times of Israel)
Hagel: Israel’s pressure pushed Iran to negotiations
(Lazar Berman, The Times of Israel)
In battle for the skies, Turkey beats Israel 112:0
(Raphael Ahren, The Times of Israel)
To shape young Palestinians, Hamas creates its own textbooks
(Fares Akram and Jodi Rudoren, International New York Times)
Kazakhstan: "He was told not to sell religious literature"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Jonathan Haidt: Why good people are divided by politics (and religion)
(Dylan Pahman, Acton Institute Power Blog)
Chief Rabbinate: Coordinating religion and state
(Arutz Sheva 7)
Jews, Catholics, and the problem of assimilation
(Russell Shaw, Aleteia)
Terrorism escalates in Libya as election approaches
(Fathia al-Majbri, Magharebia)
Freedom of Religion and Belief in Turkey, 2013
(Jeroen Temperman, Özgür H. Çınar, Rossella Bottoni, Mine Yıldırım, Hasan Sayim Vural, Pasquale Annicchino, Francesco Rizzi, Zachary Calo on Marc O. DeGirolami, Religion & Human Rights, Volume 8)
Since corporations are people, can they be religious?
(Kevin Matthews, Care2)
Morning Roundup 11/4/13: British religious illiteracy; appreciating diversity; persecuted church
(Ed Stetzer, Christianity Today)
Religious leaders come together for interfaith seminar
(Christopher Merchant, The Daily News Journal)
Assembly elects new WCC presidents
(World Council of Churches)
The Library of Essays on Law and Religion
(Silvio Ferrari and Rinaldo Cristofori, Ashgate)
Letter against surveillance of Muslims
(Baptist Briefs, The Baptist Standard)
ENDA: Is a weak LGBT non-discrimination bill even worth passing?
(Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)
Hundreds gather at peaceful Women of the Wall service marking 25th anniversary
(JTA)
On my libertarian Catholicity – OpEd
(Robert Higgs, Eurasia Review)
Whither Obamacare’s contraception mandate now?
(David Carton, The American Spectator)
Speedfaithing * Pew-Warmers * Angry Bible Birds: Monday’s Religion News Roundup
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
New law to let parents adopt children from a different religion
(Edna Adato, Israel Hayom)
Congregation celebrates assembly - without religion
(Mary Wisniewski, Reuters UK)
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