Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Women of the Wall to hold Selichot High Holy Days prayers at Kotel
(Huff Post Religion)
The quiet gay-rights revolution in America's churches
(Molly Ball, The Atlantic)
Does your religion define how you think about economics?
(Mary Clare Reim, The Foundry)
The coming clash of civilizations over gay rights
(John Lloyd, Reuters)
New Zealand: Muslim religion explained at exhibition
(Karina Abadia, Ahmadiyya Times)
Syrian rights group says rebels killed Italian Jesuit priest
(Reuters)
DOMA Attorney Roberta Kaplan on faith, sexuality and religion giving her 'one of the best moments of my life' (VIDEO)
(Huff Post Religion)
Man held after Buddhists use Malaysia Muslim prayer room
(AFP, inSing.com)
Religious freedom in search of its argument – abroad
(Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing)
Mobilization of Muslims for Jihad: Insights from the past and their relevance today – Analysis
(Muhammad Haniff Hassan, RSIS via Eurasia Review)
America and Islamist terror – OpEd
(Nasir Shansab, Eurasia Review)
Liberty Institute denounces revised San Antonio ordinance as an egregious First Amendment violation
(PR Newswire, The Sacramento Bee)
Nigerian vigilantes take on Islamic extremists
(Associated Press, KSL.com)
Abortion law in Ireland: the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
On really not getting it [on abortion regulations]
(George Weigel, First Things)
Report argues for lifting ban on politics from the pulpit
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Lessons on conscience protection from the UK
(Paul Diamond, Public Discourse)
Judaism admitted Muslim doctrinal notions such as divine unicity
(Haytham Mouzahem, World Security Network)
The holiness of names: Call me Ishmael
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
For My Faith: A difficult Ramadan at Qalandiya
(Tamar Fleishman, The Palestine Chronicle)
Senator presses forward to take tax exemption from Boy Scouts
(KION (CA))
Utah: State has ‘sovereign’ right to bar same-sex marriages
(Brooke Adams and Ray Parker, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Russia: "Religious feelings" not offended – or the calm before the storm?
(Forum 18 News Service)
Leader of Islamist group plotting terrorist attacks in Astana sentenced to 10 years in prison
(Interfax)
Russian anti-gay propaganda law will not affect law-abiding athletes
(Interfax)
Cameroon: gov't hunts illegal churches
(Brenda Y. Nchewnang-Ngassa, All Africa)
Buckingham Palace lists Catholics in line of succession
(Richard Palmer, Express)
Good News Clubs sues school district over discriminatory fees
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Fight for religious freedom: Your Say
(USA Today)
Belarusian opposition demands KGB, Prosecutor General's Office release Roman Catholic priest
(Interfax)
‘New shop hours infringe on workers’ religious rights’
(George Psyllides, Cyprus-Mail)
Religious freedom and business
(RGJ.com)
‘Celebrate Freedom Week’ raises cheers and eyebrows
(Brad Cooper, The Kansas City Star)
League City residents discuss prayer in council meetings
(Jennifer Bauer, Click2Houston)
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Questions follow acid attack on British women in Zanzibar
(Katrin Bennhold, The New York Times)
Mormons, anti-Mormons, and anti-anti-Mormons
(S. Brent Plate, Huff Post Religion)
Tunisian Islamists, secularists gird for rival shows of strength
(Tarek Amara, Reuters)
New book recounts church gardening as peacemaking ministry
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Curfew in Colombo as tensions rise after mosque attack
(AFP, Emirates 24/7)
Military chaplains weathering 'front wave' of culture shift
(Mike Ebert, Baptist Press)
Jean Bethke Elshtain, a political scientist unafraid to talk God, has died
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Jean Bethke Elshtain, scholar of religion and political philosophy, 1941-2013
(Susie Allen, UChicago News)
Police launch hate crimes probe of Toronto Arab leader
(The Jewish Press)
America's oldest synagogue and first congregation wrestle over sale of Torah finial bells
(Associated Press, Haaretz)
Why the Palestinian prisoner release mattered
(Karl Vick, Time World)
On the eve of talks, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators get ready for an unlikely deal
(Ilene Prusher, Time World)
Israel frees 26 Palestinian prisoners, but approves 952 new settlements
(AsiaNews.it)
‘Islamic militants’ gun down 56 in Nigerian mosque
(The Jewish Press)
Does belief in free will make us better people
(Jonathan Schooler, Big Questions Online)
'The glass ceiling is incredibly low for Muslim women'
(The Guardian)
Papua: soldier damage St Mary Magdalene Parish Church
(Mathias Haryadi, AsiaNews.it)
Offering Eid prayers: Not a given for everyone
(Danish Hussain, The Express Tribune)
In Rwanda, first lady opens Adventist Church’s International Women’s Congress
(Jean Pierre Bucyensenge, Adventist News Network)
Another contraceptive coverage mandate challenge; DOJ wants Gilardi to be test case in DC circuit
(Catholic News Live)
Xinjiang, Uyghurs sentenced to death for "terrorism"
(AsiaNews.it)
Marijuana legalization is freedom of religion cause
(Eliyahu Federman, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Students rate 'looking good' as more important than religion
(The Irish Examiner)
Why are almost all Wisconsin voucher schools religious?
(Jack Craver, The Capital Times)
The George Washington University Law School National Religious Freedom Moot Court Competition
White House responds to Romeike petition: Understands why parents value freedom to homeschool
(Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post)
Millennials will save marriage
(Chris Marlink, Marriage Generation)
Buddhism beyond the nation state
(Richard Payne, OUPblog)
Court permits 40 solar panels on “Arts and Crafts” church
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Britain denounces attack on mosque that killed 44 in northeast Nigeria
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Gays are not guaranteed the right to wed in church
(Anita Creamer, The Sacramento Bee)
Dissecting political correctness
(Stella Morabito, The Witherspoon Institute (Public Discourse Blog))
State Department finds religion, but whose?
(Melani Mcalister, Religion Dispatches)
Another contraceptive coverage mandate challenge; DOJ wants Gilardi to be test case in DC Circuit
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause blog)
Pastor Donnie McClurkin 'uninvited' from MLK Memorial Concert over 'ex-gay' testimony?
(Nicola Menzie, The Christian Post)
'Coercion test' could preserve religious freedom
(Robert Knight, Townhall.com)
French police arrest soldier for mosque attack plan
(The Jewish Press)
Israeli team fined for not playing Davis Cup match on Yom Kippur
(The Jewish Press)
Monday, 12 August 2013
Fresh Myanmar clashes signal growing Muslim desperation
(Andrew R.C. Marshall, Reuters)
Islamist Nour Party to help shape new Egyptian constitution
(Shaimaa Fayed, Reuters)
Invoking God in America
(Joseph Margulies, Los Angeles Times)
Note from across the pond: Church-state separation isn’t for everyone
(Linda Woodhead, Religion Dispatches)
French Muslims fear surge in attacks by far-right militants
(reporting by Chine Labbe; writing by Catherine Bremer; editing by Mark Heinrich, Reuters)
Monday’s Religion News Roundup: Baby Messiah * Islam Nation * Phone Heaven
(Religion News Service)
Identity, religion, migration: Three British Asians in conversation
(Web Desk, The International Herald Tribune)
US State Department Faith Chief is good fit – OpEd
(William Donohue, Eurasia Review)
Tajikistan Islamic Renaissance Party claims that govt scheming against it
(Interfax)
Nigeria: Jonathan is playing ethnic and religious politics – El-rufai
(Wale Odunsi, Daily Post)
Sports and civil religion (guest post by Robert Greene)
(Ben Alpers, U.S. Intellectual History Blog)
Ethiopia: Where’s the religious freedom movement headed? – OpEd
(Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, Eurasia Review)
Syria: Vows of ‘occupation until martyrdom’ – OpEd
(Franklin Lamb, Eurasia Review)
Sri Lanka: Government shuts mosque after Buddhist monk violence
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
Korea: Health of Christian missionary held in Pyongyang labour camp deteriorates
(AsiaNews.it)
Anti-Catholic Facebook pages worry Latino communities
(Catholic News Agency)
Embassies open, but Yemen stays on terror watch
(Eric Schmitt, The New York Times)
France arrests soldier over attack on mosque
(Xinhuanet)
5 facts about religion-related terror, as two U.S. outposts remain closed
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Parents sue Mass. school district for anti-Semitic bullying of son
(JTA)
Support grows for fired gay Catholic schoolteacher
(Lilly Fowler, Religion News Service)
How to push back against our culture’s anti-religious secularism
(Ashby D. Boyle II, JD PhD, Meridian Magazine)
Court ordered religion: Is it constitutional?
(Article 3)
India: Omar trying to divide people on religion: PDP
(The Hindustan Times)
Serbian religious experts advise continued diligence to avoid conflicts
(Ivana Jovanovic, Southeast European TImes)
Where the godless don't go
(Tiffany Gee Lewis, The Guardian (UK))
Physics prof a victim of ‘double standard’ in academia
(Bob Kellog, One News Now)
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