Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Francis and Benedict on gay priests
(Aaron Taylor, First Things)
Cullman County Prayer Caravan sponsor not afraid to take stand against atheists' demands
(Alex Murashko, The Christian Post)
U.S. senators urge release of Islamists in Egypt
(Aya Batrawy and Maggie Michael, Associated Press, CTV News)
Federal faith-based partnership reforms grind slowly ahead with new OMB memo
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Slow-walking the faith-based rules
(Mark Silk, Religion News Service)
Faith in values: religious liberty + marriage equality = harmony, not dissension
(Sally Steenland, Americanprogress.org)
Orthodox activists come to Navalny headquarters to protest his support of LGBT community
(Interfax)
Lavrov warns against threat of Islamic caliphate in Syria
(Interfax)
Presbyterians stir debate by rejecting popular new hymn
(Bob Smitana, The Washington Post)
Pope Francis is unsettling – and dividing – the Catholic right
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Saudi Arabia: Shoura eyes new system to regulate Zakat distribution
(Arab News)
Americans sharply divided about dramatically extending human lifespan, poll finds
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
28-day Ramadan? Saudi Supreme Court to meet over moon sightings to determine date of Eid 2013
(Yasmine Hafiz, Huffington Post Religion)
Analysis: Pope Francis, the improbable pop culture icon
(Jeffrey Weiss, The Washington Post)
Non-churchgoers more likely to smoke than churchgoers, says Gallup Poll
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Former school employee who suffered religious pressure can proceed on discrimination and retaliation claims
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Wire service exempt from state anti-discrimination ban in refusal to publish article on religious beliefs
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religious leaders urge gov't efforts for Kaesong park resumption
(Yonhap News Agency)
Ex-maternity hospital master: Catholic church should back off
(News Talk)
Bridging religious divide for Eid
(Anisha Anand, The Times of India)
Cleric advocates Christian-Muslim relations
(Ghana Web)
Geopolitics trump religion in Iran-Azerbaijan relations
(Caroline Farris, The Diplomat)
Tuesday, 6 August 2013
A French town bridges the gap between Muslims and non-Muslims
(Alissa J. Rubin, The New York Times)
Argentina's 'slum priests' focus on helping over converting
(Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times)
Islam's 'Night of Power' and the terror alert
(Hussain Rashid, CNN Belief Blog)
Nigeria attacks by Boko Haram could be crimes against humanity, says ICC Prosecutor
(United Nations News Centre)
Street prayer, Ramadan, and the burqa: Secularism à la Française
(Emma-Kate Symons, SSRC Forums)
12 private schools cleared for tax credit program
(WXPI.com (South Carolina))
85 members of Congress file brief in biggest religious liberty Supreme Court case in last half century
(Editors Blogs, Meridian Magazine)
George Will, unchurched, defends religion
(G. Tracy Mehan, III, The American Spectator)
Religion and the American Republic
(George F. Will, National Affairs)
Abortion is different in Europe because religion is different in Europe
(Amanda Marcotte, Slate)
Philippines: Will RH limit freedom of religion?
(Garrick Bercero, Filipino Freethinkers)
Hasan: ‘We are imperfect Muslims trying to establish the perfect religion’
(CBS Houston)
The new front in the struggle for religious liberty
(Joe Carter, Acton Institute Power Blog)
How many U.S. Sikhs?
(Pew Research Center)
Religious leaders’ views on radical life extension
(Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project)
Presbyterians stir debate by rejecting popular new hymn
(Bob Smietana, Religion News Service)
Nigeria and the girl child bride: Culture, constitution and religion
(Mary Ajoke Akangbe, Africa on the Blog)
Can Ireland make Catholicism cool?
(Paige Brettingen, The Atlantic)
Syria conflict destroys churches & mosques, desecrates icons (PHOTOS)
(Yasmine Hafiz, Huff Post Religion)
The new article of faith for Canadian law schools: Same-sex marriage
(Bradley Miller, Public Discourse)
Full transcript of Pope's in-flight press remarks released
(Catholic News Agency)
Boko Haram likely guilty of crimes against humanity, murdering Christians, ICC says
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post World)
Not an Arab Spring, nor an Islamic Winter
(Ramzy Baroud, Al Arabiya)
Air Force agrees that officers may take secular version of commissioning oath
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Tashkent, Christians and Muslims increasingly targeted by authorities
(AsiaNews.it)
God's bankers: Church of England wages war on loan sharks
(Hans Hoyng, Spiegel Online International)
French senator receiving death threats over anti-shechitah stance
(News Brief, JTA)
Police ask haredim, Women of the Wall to ‘avoid confrontation’ over Ramadan concerns
(News Brief, JTA)
Op-Ed in Vatican paper raps ‘unrestrained anti-Semitism’ at Belgian music fest
(News Brief, JTA)
Is an imam an employee? – Hasan v Redcoat Community Centre
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Over 50% support same-sex marriage in Taiwan: poll
(Focus Taiwan)
Religious objections to health law multiply
(Marcia Coyle, Daily Report)
Is yoga religious? Understanding the Encitas Public School Yoga Trial
(Candy Gunther Brown, OUPblog)
Madhya Pradesh, Hindu's holy book now mandatory in all schools
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
It’s rabbi vs. rabbi in competing campaigns to overturn Poland’s shechitah ban
(Cnann Liphshiz, JTA)
Algerians stage picnics in protest against ‘forced’ fasting
(World Watch Monitor)
Why millennials need the church
(Rachel Held Evans, CNN Belief Blog)
Faith-based dorms at public universities
(Joseph Knippenberg, First Things (First Thoughts blog))
Lawsuit challenges Illinois gay marriage ban
(Associated Press, San Fransisco Chronicle)
Governor calls Pskov priest's murder a challenge to society
(Interfax)
With injunction in place, commissioners go behind closed doors to pray
(Salisbury Post)
A short overview of the status quo of Christian minorities in Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Lebanon
(M.K. Tozman, World Watch Monitor)
Orthodox and progressive women unite to save Israel from fundamentalism
(Yasmine Hafiz, Huffington Post Religion)
No State patronage on basis of religion
(The New Indian Express)
Letter: High school is not the place for public prayer
(Concord Monitor)
Scouts should lift ban on non-religious boys
(Asbury Park Press)
Iranians under the Islamic regime: more or less religious?
(Ali Reza Eshraghi, Aljazeera)
20 companies with religious roots
(Sarah Petersen, Deseret News)
Don't denigrate minority faiths - Attafuah
(GNA, Ghana Web)
Monday, 5 August 2013
Forget secularism or communalism: Atheists to be in majority by 2041
(Daily Bhaskar)
Is secularism unprincipled?
(Ian Pollock, Rationally Speaking (blog))
LDS Church begins using new temple film
(Joseph Walker, Deseret News)
Former homosexuals demand recognition, equal rights at D.C. rally
(World News Service, Religion Today)
Egypt's Brotherhood rejects appeal to 'swallow reality'
(Yasmine Saleh and Angus MacSwan, Reuters)
Tunisia's Ennahda chief offers poll to end political crisis
(Tarek Amara & Erika Solomon, Reuters, Al Arabiya)
Sikhs, Mormons, Buddhists, others added to hate crime stats
(Frederic J. Frommer, Associated Press, Deseret News)
Blogger Geller testifying before Toronto police board over nixed shul talk
(News Brief, JTA)
Across forbidden border, doctors in Israel quietly tend to Syria’s wounded
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)
Judge: Cannabis minister's religion protected under RFRA
(Hawaii News Daily)
Two Arabs caught vandalizing tomb of the patriarchs
(The Jewish Press)
Virtues of the Prophet Mohammed, which Muslims must emulate
(Alhassan Abubakar Sadik, Ghana Web)
Police close Temple Mount Jews for entire week
(The Jewish Press)
Controversial sculptor Tsereteli to create Europe's highest statue of Jesus
(Mauro Pianta, Vatican Insider)
Sufi Imam murdered in Dagestan, the volatile republic of the Russian Caucasus
(AsiaNews.it)
As anti-Christian attacks continue, trial against Muslim Brotherhood leaders set for 25 August
(AsiaNews.it)
Revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia have not yet been lost
(Eurasia Review)
U.S. diplomatic posts in Israel reopen, 19 others in Mideast to remain closed
(JTA)
Chinese house church leader Samuel Lamb dies
(World Watch Monitor)
Irish gay group praises Pope Francis’s airborne comments
(Patsy McGarry, The Irish Times)
Jakarta: three injured in twin attack on Buddhist temple
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
‘Media attacks’ on religious condemned
(Patsy McGarry, The Irish Times)
Liberia: LP identifies with Muslims - executive official says party above religious divide
(J. Edwood N. Dennis, The Analyst via All Africa)
Pirate church: Russian piracy advocates form new religion, Kopimizma, to protest Russian anti-piracy laws
(Ryan W. Neal, International Business Times)
ERLC defends sectarian public prayers
(Bob Allen, ABP News)
Utah leaders try to protect prayers at government meetings
(Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Punks vs. Monks: Rockers aside, few willing to criticize Buddhist-led violence in Myanmar
(Robin McDowell, Associated Press, Star Tribune)
Religion and Ethics: the election of the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney
(Jill Emberson, 702 ABC Sydney)
Non-violent extremism: The case of Wirathu in Myanmar – Analysis
(Kumar Ramakrishna, Centre for Excellence for National Security, RSIS via Eurasia Review)
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