Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 15 August 2013
6 April Youth Movement says Copts receiving 'threats' nationwide
(Al Ahram)
Is this the end of the Arab Spring?
(Room for Debate, The New York Times Opinion Pages)
Tunisians join fight against terrorism
(Jamel Arfaoui, Magharebia)
Nouakchott imam preaches against extremism
(Bakari Gueye, Magharebia)
LA producer of anti-Muslim film released from prison
(The Jewish Press)
Convicted Novosibirsk imams ready to go to Strasbourg court
(Interfax)
Pa. abortion pill mandate case to be appealed to US Supreme Court
(Alliance Defense Fund)
Fixing America’s failing families: An interview with T.D. Jake
(Jonathan Merritt, Religion News Service)
Judge considering whether NJ must allow same-sex marriage in wake of US high court ruling
(Associated Press, Washington Post)
The Orthodox Church’s role in Russia’s anti-gay laws
(Jamie Manson, National Catholic Reporter)
‘Bias’ against SSM?
(Katrina Trinko, National Review Online)
Most students applying for state voucher program attend private schools
(Associated Press, Journal-Sentinel)
'Inclusive Mosque Initiative' opens doors to women-led prayers and gay Muslims in Britain
(Yasmine Hafiz, Huffington Post)
Reformers want Congress to end ban on pulpit politicking
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Regulation of church, nonprofit political speech 'untenable,' report finds
(Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post Politics)
Congress should ignore report calling for legalization of pulpit politicking, says Americans United
(Americans United)
Religious defense OK’d in pot case
(Associated Press, The Maui News)
New Jersey Court to hear same-sex marriage case
(Kate Zernike, New York Times)
Missouri legislator files suit to be exempted from contraception mandate in state health plan
(Tim O'Neil, St. Louis Post Dispatch)
Sen. Marco Rubio: Prayer in Congress proves freedom of religion
(The Washington Post)
Lone Jewish voice favors public Christian prayer in key Supreme Court case
(Nathan Guttman, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Breakaway Va. Anglican congregation to appeal property case to Supreme Court
(Michael Grybosky, The Christian Post)
Split 3rd Circuit denies en banc rehearing in contraceptive coverage case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pakistan’s religious minority problem
(Robert P. George, Ahmadiyya Times)
Authorities ‘building fences’ between faiths, say religious leaders
(Boo Su-Lyn, The Malay Mail)
Freedom is rooted in truth and justice
(Most Rev Bernard Blasius Moras, The New Indian Express)
Recalling what freedom of religion meant to the Founders
(GOPUSA)
Hundreds die as Egyptian forces attack Islamist protesters
(David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times)
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Antwerp haredi schools forced to choose between censorship and subsidies
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood assaults 22 Christian churches
(AsiaNews.it)
Faith in God inspired Martin Luther King, Jr.
(John A. Murray, USA Today)
Hadassa Margolese, fighter for religious tolerance, quits Beit Shemesh
(Ben Sales, The Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Hindu guru arrested for Bodh Gaya attack
(AsiaNews.it)
Kuwait bans Sunni cleric’s show for hate speech
(The Jewish Press)
Milan’s Jews cut ties with Muslim group over Israel slurs
(The Jewish Press)
Moscow needs new mosques, not open-air prayer platforms – Alexeyeva
(Interfax)
Syrian splits Shiite clergy in Iraq, Iran
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Vatican says ‘no confirmation’ on death of Jesuit in Syria
(John L. Allen Jr., National Catholic Reporter)
"Proposition 8" case ends
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)
FFRF seeks probe of Tennessee magistrate who ordered boy’s name changed
(Freedom from Religion Foundation, Secular News Daily)
Lutherans elect Elizabeth Eaton first female presiding bishop of ELCA
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Nearly 300 killed as Egyptian forces storm camps
(David Kirkpatrick (Mayy El Sheikh contributed reporting from Cairo, and Alan Cowell from London), The New York Times)
Morsi supporters 'torch three churches' in Egypt
(AFP, Fox News)
Massacre of Islamists by Egyptian military likely strategic
(Haroon Moghul, Religion Dispatches)
Christians must oppose anti-Muslim discrimination
(Jonathan Merritt, Religion News Service)
Christians in Egypt frightened by changing society
(Associated Press, Coolidge Examiner)
Imposing Islamist 'project' betrays the spirit of religion
(Khaled Diab, The National)
Holland’s largest Hebrew bookstore closes as owners prepare to make aliya
(JTA, The Jerusalem Post)
Sri Lanka allows mosque expansion despite Buddhist objections
(Ranga Sirilal and Shihar Aneez, Reuters)
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)
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