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Tuesday, 27 August 2013

City was premature in acting against church's feared homeless encampment
(Howard Friedman, Religion News Service)

Pastafarian student allowed to wear pasta strainer on head for driver’s license photo
(The Daily Caller)

Judge: SC Episcopal issues belong in state court
(Bruce Smith, The State)

N.Y. Freethought Trail traces nonbelievers who chartered a historic course
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)

Court says atheist was wrongly jailed over religious rehab
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)

White House spokesman jokes about Islamic attacks on Christian churches in Egypt
(Daily Caller)

Exhumation of correctly buried body
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Monday, 26 August 2013

Wife of pastor jailed in Iran slams Obama silence
(AFP, Vanguard (Nigeria))

Analysis: Gulf Islamists irked as monarchs back Egypt's generals
(Angus McDowall; additional reporting by Sylvia Westall in Baghdad, Ahmed Hagagy in Kuwait and Shahed Qamhiya in Dubai; editing by Will Waterman, Reuters)

Another federal leader cautions Quebec on secular charter
(Jennifer Ditchburn, Global Post)

Why not treat marriage like a test drive?
(Kellie Fiedorek, Townhall.com)

Spanish towns plan mock wedding at Sukkot Judaica festival
(News Brief, JTA)

WJC: Ukrainian priests must stop glorifying Nazis
(News Brief, JTA)

Germany to become first country in Europe to introduce indeterminate gender on birth certificates
(Christian Concern)

Latest measles outbreak tied to Texas megachurch
(Liz Sabo, Religion News Service)

Swiss polling firm wants to know if Jews have too much power
(News Brief, JTA)

Rural Andean churches plagued by sacred art theft
(Paola Flores and Frank Bajak, Associated Press, MyFoxPhoenix.com)

N.C. governor allows anti-Shariah bill to become law
(Omar Sacirbey, Religion News Service)

Prayer plaza in Jerusalem for both sexes ignites uproar
(Jodi Rudoren, The New York Times)

Egyptian government under pressure from Islamists, liberals
(Jeffery Fleishman, Los Angeles Times)

Buddhist relics bring attention to Rosemead temple
(Devin Kelly, Los Angeles Times)

Sri Lanka monks protest UN rights chief's visit
(The Sun Daily)

North Carolina Police threaten to arrest church charity for feeding the homeless
(RT)

Pope calls for anti-human trafficking meeting
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)

WCC invokes prayers for peace in Egypt
(World Council of Churches)

EP church promises to promote peace, unity in Ghana
(Samuel Agbewode, The Chronicle)

Rwanda: Can women be priests?
(Joseph Oindo, Sunday Times)

Tanzania: Unkown assailants throw petrol bombs at Dar es Salaam church
(Sabahi)

Copts reject Western statements
(Egypt State Information Service)

Anti-Semitic, racist incidents at Oberlin College were ‘joke,’ student told police
(News Brief, JTA)

Remembering the Holocaust: Bearing witness ever more
(The Economist)

Record numbers flocking to Budapest Jewish festival
(News Brief, JTA)

First baptism to take place on Akdamar for 100 years
(Hürriyet Daily News)

UK: Harlow mosque hit by arson attack
(Maev Kennedy, The Guardian)

Islam's ability to empower is a magnet to black British youths
(Abdul Haqq Baker, The Guardian)

Switzerland: Zurich launches 'sex drive-ins'
(Stephanie Ott, CNN)

Journal of Law and Religion moves from Hamline to Emory
(The National Jurist)

Tunisian Islamists accept union plan to resolve crisis
(Tarek Amara and Tom Heneghan, Reuters)

Ukraine: Hasids say are ready to change traditional prayer site in Uman
(Interfax)

LGBT activists face conservative culture, religious discrimination
(Harriet Salem, Southeast European TImes)

Does religious freedom have a future in Pakistan?
(Knox Thames, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs)

Order restored after fresh Myanmar religious unrest
(reporting by Min Zayer Oo in Yangon and Soe Zeya Tun, writing by Jared Ferrie, editing by Jason Szep and Robert Birsel, Reuters)

A day of national mourning for Tripoli mosque attacks
(Paul Dakiki, AsiaNews.it)

Leaked videos show Egypt's army enlisting religion to aid crackdown
(David Kirkpatrick, The Age)

Muslim missionaries make Kyrgyz inroads through Bangladeshi Madrasah
(Ron Synovitz, Venera Djumataeva and Gulaiym Ashakeeva, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)

The last days of Tolstoy's people
(Sonia Smith, Slate)

Hindus ask Czech Republic for Roma protection
(Eurasia Review)

The March: Fifty years later, stands as an unprecedented display of ecumenical cooperation
(Religion News Service)

Ahead of High Holidays, Bennett unveils new platform for egalitarian prayer
(Ben Sales, JTA)

Analysis: Celebrations of ‘I Have a Dream’ speech obscure its critique
(Yonat Shimron and Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

March on Washington showcased religious roots of Civil Rights movement
(Matthew Brown, Deseret News)

The black church's civil rights movement legacy is both a blessing and a curse, pastors say
(Danielle Cadet, Huff Post Black Voices)

Xinjiang, more violence: 15 Uyghurs killed by police for "terrorism"
(AsiaNews.it)

FFRF wins standing to sue IRS over Form 990
(Secular News Daily)

First-Person: New Jersey & the Imago Dei
(Andrew T. Walker, Baptist Press)

Russia Pastafarian rally of Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster attacked by police
(Huff Post Religion)

Tehran upholds 8-year jail term for US-Iranian pastor
(Ahram Online)

Destroying Islam's holiest shrine for Assad?
(Irfan Al-Alawi, Gatestone Institute)

Monday’s Religion News Roundup: King’s March * Night Thievery * Miley’s Moment
(Sariah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)

Is Boko Haram Islamic?
(Abdulrasheed Ibrahim, Nigerian Tribune)

Religion and war in Syria: A sonorous appeal
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

The ruler of Hindu hearts?
(Krishan Partap Singh, The New York Times)

Canada giving $1.2M for religious freedom in Nigeria, Central Asia
(Laura Payton, CBC News)

The 'almost unremarked' tragedy of Christians persecuted in the Middle East
(Edward Malnick, The Telegraph)

Hundreds of Hindu nationalists detained for defying ban on pilgrimage to holy site in India
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)

Court case hangs over Indonesian pastor
(World Watch Monitor, Christian Today World)

Coptic unity in D.C. area starts to gel since Morsi ouster
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)

Jesus statue in Montana target of Freedom From Religion Foundation
(Larry Lee, WASU News)

Australia: Human Rights Watch opens Sydney office
(Eurasia Review)

Finding God behind bars: A look at religion in American prisons
(Joshua DuBois, The Daily Beast)

China banks on Buddhism
(Ilaria Maria Sala, The Wall Street Journal)

American Muslim cleric in Florida headed to federal prison for aiding Taliban‏
(Jim Khouri, Eurasia Review)

Ancient African religion finds roots in America
(Christopher Johnson, NPR)

Nigeria to include religion, ethnicity in 2016 census
(World Bulletin)

Arizona photographers: A unanimous decision for equality
(Louise Melling, American Civil Liberties Union: Blog of Rights)

Britain: Muslim TV hate preachers "inciting murder"
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)

Egypt military enlists religion to quell ranks
(David D. Kirkpatrick and Mayy El Sheikh, The New York Times)

Islamist preacher, Salafist activist detained over December clashes
(Aswat Masriya)

Pope urges world to help find solution to war in Syria
(Agence France-Press, Hürriyet Daily News)

Religious exemptions on gay marriage divides church advocacy groups
(Rachel Zoll, Associated Press, Huff Post Religion)

'Jerusalem' baby name rejected by city hall in Brussels
(Huff Post Religion)

RLUIPA – Indecipherable by "normal people"?
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Datsyuk on Russia's anti-gay laws: My religion says it all
(QMI Agency, Toronto Sun)

Russia defends anti-gay law in letter to IOC
(Associated Press, Times Daily)

What is Judaism, the Jewish religion?
(Haaretz)

Bangladesh: Minority repression has no ties to religion: Mozena
(BD News)

On a scale of 1 to horror: Ranking atrocities in the Middle East
(Amira Hass, Haaretz)

Spiritualism, slavery, and whiteness in the 1850s
(Carol Faulkner, Religion in American History (Blog))

Quebec, religious symbols and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Canada: Ban on religious symbols a step closer in Quebec
(Brian Daly, CNews)

Charter of Quebec Values — with controversial ban on religious garb — will unite province, Pauline Marois says
(Canadian Press)

Quebec: Freedom of religion reigns supreme
(The Spec)

Secularism charter slammed by Quebec politicians
(CBC News)

Quebec’s Charter plan is not about symbols – it threatens religion itself
(Robert Joustra, The Globe and Mail)

Banning religious headwear is a bad idea: Trudeau
(Sounak Mukhopadhyay, The Financial Times)

Letter: Banning the wearing of religious apparel violates human rights
(The Montreal Gazette)

Change in baptismal rite emphasizes church's identity
(Catholic News Agency)

The number one reason for the decline in church attendance and five ways to address it
(Thom S. Rainer, The Christian Post)

The holy war over Obamacare
(Kyle Cheney, Politico)

USCCB committee urges Kerry to support religious freedom in Egypt
(Catholic Culture)

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