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Wednesday, 18 September 2013

First Armenian Orthodox cathedral consecrated in Moscow
(Nina Achmatova, AsiaNews.it)

Cardinal Dolan: Obamacare regulation continues to attack religious liberty
(Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online: The Corner)

Mother wins right to name her son Messiah
(UPI.com)

Os Guinness: Liberals and conservatives are getting religious freedom wrong
(Interview by Judd Birdsall, Christianity Today)

Court defends right to hand out Bibles at gay pride festival; 'victory' for religious liberty
(Tyler O'Neil, The Christian Post)

With eyes on neighbors, Azerbaijan and Israel intensify ties
(Cnann Liphshiz, JTA)

Two injured from rocks thrown by Arab worshippers on Temple Mount
(News Brief, JTA)

Report: Belgian government website compares Israel to Nazi Germany
(News Brief, JTA)

Danish coalition partner adopts anti-circumcision motion
(JTA, The Jerusalem Post)

How Egypt's Coptic Christians can keep the Arab Spring fresh
(Editorial, The Christian Science Monitor)

ERLC president Russ Moore inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
(Baptist Press Staff, Florida Baptist Witness)

Veils and ignorance: defendant not allowed to wear niqaab when giving evidence
(Alasdair Henderson, UK Human Rights Blog)

Red Mass speaker Robert P. George announced
(Today's Catholic News)

Muslim publics share concerns about extremist groups
(Pew Research Global Attitudes Project)

Uzbekistan: Church piano, pulpit, carpet, refrigerator seized
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

Ruling: Provide birth control despite religious objections
(Dan Horn, Cincinnati.com)

‘One Nation Under God’ aims to create common ground, promote religious freedom
(Cecily Markland, East Valley Tribune)

European bishops warned of growing restrictions on religion
(Catholic News Agency)

PQ minister’s advice for religious minorities: Accept Quebec values
(The Globe and Mail)

Noted scholar Martha Nussbaum speaks on religious intolerance
(Hanna Lustig, The Daily Beacon)

Don’t subject non-religious hospital patients to Catholic principles
(Danielle Shay, Forcechange.com)

Saudi minister slams religious police over lingerie shop threats
(Courtney Trenwith, Arabian Business)

Indonesia affirms freedom of religion
(Yenny Herawati, Khabar Southeast Asia)

As denominations decline, numbers of unpaid ministers rise
(G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Religion News Service)

Media review: Al-Jazeera America lives up to its unbiased promise
(Rem Rieder, Religion News Service)

Buddhist community ponders apparent link between their faith and Navy Yard shooter
(Michelle Boorstein and Elizabeth Tenety, The Washington Post)

Religious freedom agency loses attempt to dismiss former employee's discrimination suit
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Tajik Islamists nominate rights campaigner for president
(Interfax)

Yemeni man sentenced to hand and foot amputation for armed robbery
(Amnesty International)

Gender-specific abortion: law and ethics
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

British college "unbans" burqa
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)

Religion at work: Who's listening?
(Joyce S. Dubensky, Huff Post Religion)

Politics and religion: Quebec's secular attire debate opens a Canadian can of worms

Nigerian army claims raid kills 150 Islamists
(AFP, Dhaka Tribune)

VIDEO: Talks of Human Rights Court reforms
(BBC News, Huffpost Video)

Religious pluralism, global peace, and higher education
(Joseph L. Subbiondo)

VIDEO: Focus on impact of religion during international film festival in Italy
(Rome Reports)

PQ opens door to ‘improving’ religion plan in charter of values
(Maclean's)

Religious communities in Kosovo meet
(World Bulletin)

Today’s letters: ‘Government offices no place for religious statements’
(Paul Russell, National Post)

Solving the problem of child marriage
(Moshin Habib, Gatestone Institute)

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, endorses diplomacy over militarism
(Jason Rezaian, The Washington Post)

Sunnis say sect targeted in southern Iraqi city of Basra, with 17 killed in 2 weeks
(Associated Press, Worldwide Religious News)

‘Halal hotels’ lure Turks, not Arabs
(Zehra Aydoğan, Hürriyet Daily News)

Contentious Turkish mosque project stirs sectarian Sunni-Alevi unrest
(Jonathon Burch, Reuters)

Rabbis push Congress on immigration reform
(Katherine Burgess, Religion News Service)

ISR’s Gordon Melton is honored by Methodist historians
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)

Religion no excuse for violence against women
(Shafin Fattah, Dhaka Tribune)

Marrying religion and state
(Yair Sheleg, The New York Jewish Week)

Kyrgyzstan: EU should press leader to free activist, says HRW
(Eurasia Review)

Zanzibar acid attack tied to growing religious tensions
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)

Legal limbo: German lawyers seek clarity on headscarves in court
(Joachim Wagner, Speigel Online International)

Turkmenistan: "If you adopt their faith I'll tear off your head"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

African countries pledge to tackle terrorism
(Hayam El Hadi, Magharebia)

Humanizing enemies: Iran's post-religious intellectual discourse
(Jahandad Memarian, Huff Post World)

Tunisia Muslims reject terrorism
(Monia Ghanmi, Magharebia)

London soccer club’s fans use banned term ‘Yid’ at match
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Muslims sue Illinois city over mosque permit
(Jewish Press)

Egyptian army saves Christians from Muslim terrorists
(Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, Jewish Press)

British PM: Holocaust teaches not to ignore Syria crimes
(Jewish Press)

UN Syria commission member Del Ponte agrees that half of Syria's opposition fighters are radical Islamists
(Interfax)

Leaders from all of Nepal's faith communities come out against child marriages
(Kalpit Parajuli, AsiaNews.it)

Morocco arrests website editor for airing Al-Qaeda video
(Ahram Online)

Case filed to dissolve Islamic Scholars’ Council in Bahrain
(Habib Toumi, Gulf News)

Montgomery County pays $1.25 million to settle with church
(Ryan Marshall, Gazette.net)

Court upholds zoning conditions imposed on residential synagogue
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Religion helps guide students of CSUF
(Andres Martinez, Daily Titan)

Ireland’s debate on education shows little appreciation of experience in other countries
(Denis Tuohy, Irish Times)

Should U.S. intervene in Syria? Debate simmers among Michigan religious leaders
(Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press)

Hindus term Quebec restriction on religious symbols as cynical
(Albany Tribune)

The UNRWA Dilemma
(Timon Dias, Gatestone Institute)

When will religious organisations realise their full potentials as investors?
(Katinka C van Craenburgh, The Guardian)

Australia: Religious boy fights court for right to die
(Rachel Olding, The Sydney Morning Herald)

Remarriage rates plunge as divorced Americans have doubts
(Sharon Jayson, Religion News Service)

Sorry Miley Cyrus, no twerking in Malaysia
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)

The Niqaab issue is too important to be left to liberal instinct
(Adam Wagner, UK Human Rights Blog)

In Islamist bastions of Egypt, the army treads carefully, and Christians do, too
(David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times)

Video: Thousands protest religious-symbols ban, Montreal, Canada
(Belfast Telegraph)

Lawsuit: Des Plaines zoning denial violates Muslim group's religious freedom
(Manya Brachear Pashman, Chicago Tribune)

Law & Religion in 100,000 page-views
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Diesel’s ‘topless burka-clad model,’ and Islam’s influence on Western fashion – OpEd
(Angel Millar, Eurasia Review)

Monday, 16 September 2013

'It is our right to use the willow cane': Inside the Twelve Tribes Christian fundamentalist sect at centre of childcare controversy
(Jamie Merrill, The Independent)

A rival to Miss World will crown a pious Muslim woman
(Richard S. Ehrlich, Religion News Service)

Al Qaeda leader al-Zawahri urges restraint in first ‘guidelines for jihad’
(Myra MacDonald, Reuters)

Al-Qaeda’s continued core strategy and disquieting leader-led trajectory – analysis
(Bruce Hoffman and Fernando Reinares, Elcano Royal Institute via Eurasia Review)

Brazilian believers of hidden religion step out of shadows
(Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, GPB News)

Egyptian army breaks Islamist grip on Delga
(World Watch Monitor)

Georgian church leader: ‘Often majority is more oppressed than minority’
(Civil Georgia)

NSS concerned over judge’s ruling that woman need only remove niqab to give evidence
(National Secular Society)

Quebec Muslim woman alleges taunts, told to 'change her religion'
(UPI.com)

Syria’s Christians: A population at risk
(Martin Marty, Religion News Service)

Veils in Court, Grayling and the Left & Legal Aid Anxieties – The Human Rights Roundup
(Sarina Kidd, UK Human Rights Blog)

Russia: Supreme Court rules in Jehovah's Witnesses' favor
(Portal-credo.ru, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))

Michigan lawmakers could vote on faith-based adoption agencies this week
(David Eggert, Associated Press, Battle Creek Enquirer)

‘Burkini’ Compromise? * Pope Hearts Atheists * Dozen Muslim March: Religious Freedom Recap: Sept. 9 – Sept. 16
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)

Korea's religious diversity on display
(Sung So-Young, HanCinema)

TSA says passengers may carry Sukkot items through security checkpoints
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Twitter and tragedy: A revamped American religious experience
(Timothy K. Snyder, Religion News Service)

Tibetan monks and endangered cats
(K.M., The Economist)

Malaysians enjoy freedom of religion, belief
(The Borneo Post)

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