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Friday, 26 April 2013

Azerbaijani official participated in Kyiv interfaith forum
(Armenia.Az)

Finding a 'third way' on the role of religion in public life
(Oleksandr Feldman, Huffington Post)

Trinity Church split on how to manage $2 billion legacy of a queen
(Sharon Otterman, The New York Times)

ObamaCare unconstitutional on several levels, Liberty Counsel argues
(Liberty Counsel, Canada Free Press)

North Korea, Eritrea, China named as violators of freedom of religion in European Parliament
(Interview with Willy Fauté, Tunne Kelam, Laszlo Surjan, NTD Television)

Religious debates in Colonial America
(Andrew Lisa, Opposing Views)

Indonesia: Government collaborates with non-tolerant groups in closing down three Ahmadi mosques in Cianjur
(Asian Human Rights Commission)

Russia launches 'unprecedented' crackdown, rights group warns
(Ian Johnston and Alastair Jamieson, ABC News)

Catholic midwives win right to object over abortion planning in Scotland
(Severin Carrell, The Guardian)

Succession to the Crown Bill passed
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Syria: Kidnapped bishops spur call for religious freedom promotion
(CNA Daily News, Catholic.org)

Egypt's Pope says Islamist rulers neglect Copts
(Al-Arabiya)

Syria's uneasy Christians feel both sides closing in
(Ian Black, The Guardian)

Conseil de l’Europe : Défendre la liberté de conscience face à l’intolérance et à la violence
(Grégor Puppinck, Talpa brusseliensis christiana)

Humanists file suit against public school that held Christian assemblies
(Mel Fabrikant, The Paramus Post)

China: EU commitments demand tough response
(Human Rights Watch, Thomson Reuters Foundation)

Historic victory in court for Women of the Wall
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)

WA Senate bill would allow discrimination against gays
(Seattle Post Intelligencer)

US religious freedom commission urges administration to promote religious freedom in Syria
(Catholic Culture)

Kazakhstan: Religious free speech "doesn't exist"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18)

Mormon church pleased with Boy Scouts proposal
(Brady McCombs, ABC News)

Four arrested after live baby sacrificed in bonfire during Chilean sect’s end-of-world ritual
(National Post)

Denounce the ECHR to deport Abu Qatada… You cannot be serious! – Richard A. Edwards
(1 Crown Office Row, UK Human Rights Blog)

Thursday, 25 April 2013

Religious Liberty: Maternity home in thick of HHS mandate fight
(Jennifer Brinker, St. Louis Review)

Boy Scouts proposal displeases religious leaders on both sides
(Adelle M. Banks, The Washington Post)

Justices hear arguments on retaliation in discrimination case
(Amanda Becker, Thomson Reuters News and Insight)

Briefs in University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar
(SCOTUS Blog)

Concerns about religious extremism in Boston bombings suspects' homelands
(The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Pew Research Center)

Yanukovych: Religion helps unite people
(Interfax - Ukraine)

Special Report: Assisted suicide
(CBC News Manitoba)

Physician-assisted suicide: the case for legalization
(Arthur Schafer, CBC News Manitoba)

Assisted suicide would jeopardize people with disabilities
(Ruth Enns, CBC News Manitoba)

Winnipeg's Susan Griffiths dies by assisted suicide in Zurich
(CBC News Manitoba)

The Abortion Act 1967 and the right of conscientious objection
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Syria campaigns to persuade U.S. to change sides
(International Herald Tribbune)

D.C. houses of worship compete for preservation funds
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Rhode Island on verge of becoming 10th state to legalize same-sex marriage
(The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life)

Court rules ‘illegal’ Montreal Hasidic synagogue can stay despite campaign to shut it down
(Graeme Hamilton, National Post)

ANALYSIS: John Paul II, Oscar Romero and the politics of making saints
(David Gibson, The Washington Post)

Majority of white Evangelicals back way for unauthorized immigrants to stay in U.S.
(Pew Research Center)

Turkey's Muslim Armenians come out of hiding
(Global Post)

Treat Kashmir as a political, not a religious dispute: Choudhry
(News Track India)

Call it what it is: Islamic terrorism
(Christine Williams, Gatestone Institute)

Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Terror plot: Toronto Muslim leader tipped off RCMP: CBC
(CBC News)

Yale Divinity School to host discussion on future of Christianity in America
(Ed Stannard, Middletown Press)

Family-owned lumber business wins injunction against HHS mandate
(Kirsten Anderson, Lifesite News)

Ontario court orders woman to remove face-covering veil to testify
(Calgary Herald)

Lessons from bruising passage of Kentucky religious-freedom bill
(Joan Frawley Desmond, National Catholic Register)

Westminster teen's video on religious freedom wins national award
(The Baltimore Sun)

Mixed reactions to senate gun vote
(Pew Research Center)

Clashes suggest Sunni anger boiling over in Iraq
(Adam Schreck, Associated Press, ABC News)

The Muslim Brotherhood wants Spain back. Can the Christians have Egypt in exchange?
(Tim Stanley, The Telegraph)

Statement by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on the decision of the Swiss Government to apply quantitative restrictions to the free movement of EU citizens in Switzerland
(European Union)

The religious right wasn't created to battle abortion
(Sally Steenland, Huff Post Religion)

Homosexuality: What you must know
(Paul Bupe, The Times of Zambia via All Africa)

Homosexuality: What you must know (II)
(Paul Bupe, The Times of Zambia)

Indonesia: Students expelled for ‘tainting religion’ with Maroon 5 dance
(Jessica Chasmar, The Washington Times)

The appeal of Islamic radicalism
(Ken Ballen, CNN Opinion)

I'm Muslim, and I hate terrorism
(Dean Obeidallah, CNN Opinion)

Judge: Dairy farmer's religious beliefs not relevant
(Tim Damos, Baraboo News Republic)

Britain's House of Commons debates place of Sharia Law in England
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Myanmar forces accused of 'ethnic cleansing' as EU ends sanctions
(Emily Alpert, Los Angeles Times)

6th Circuit hears oral arguments in homeschooling asylum case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Amid much tumult, France approves ‘marriage for all’
(Scott Sayare, The International Herald Tribune)

Dossiers législatifs - Projet de loi ouvrant le mariage aux couples de personnes de même sexe (JUSC1236338L)
(Legifrance)

French lawmakers approve same-sex marriage bill
(Laura Smith-Spark, CNN)

European Court's Grand Chamber urged to protect UK Christians from 'policing of thought'
(Press Release; Contact Andrea Minichiello Williams, Christian Legal Centre)

Abu Qatada ‘to stay here for good’ after court refuses new hearing
(Anil Dawar, Express)

Boston and the future of Islam in America
(Reihan Salam, Reuters)

How Toronto's Muslim community uncovered the would-be train bombers
(Olga Khazan, The Atlantic)

GOP wants more sit-downs with Jews
(Ron Kampeas, JTA)

Human embryos & beginning of life back at European Court
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Controlling political and religious advertising on radio and television
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Strasbourg ties itself in knots over advertising ban
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)

Religion too often convenient justification for terrorism’s inhumane politics of death
(Benny Susetyo, Jakarta Globe)

Where is Islam a common religion?
(Jason Cristiano Ramon, Opposing Views)

Muslims in North Caucasus concerned about ‘extremism'
(Dan Mercia, CNN Belief Blog)

Can a religious believer be a serious journalist? Richard Dawkins and the unbearable smugness of tweeting
(Scott Stephens, Religion and Ethics)

Religion and politics strange bedfellows
(Abubakar Bheel, The Nation (Pakistan))

Surrey Vaisakhi parade: Sikh youths participate with pride
(HindustanTimes)

Tax objector's religious freedom challenges to indictment rejected
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Religious liberty defenders seek legislative fix for HHS mandate
(Tim Drake, The Cardinal Newman Society)

In Romania, Adventists launch ‘Freedom Caravan’ to defend religious liberty
(Adventist News Network)

Amid Christian persecution, Sudan government proclaims religious freedom
(Charisma News)

Beware of LGBT and freedom of religion movements, Muhyiddin tells Muslims
(Zurairi Ar, The Malaysian Insider)

Opinion: Civil marriage in Israel - the time has come
(Susie Gelman, Washington Jewish Week)

Queensland: Bike helmet laws will change to allow religious exemptions
(Marissa Calligeros, Brisbane Times (Audio))

A second child of doctor-shunning couple dies
(The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Human rights include religious freedom, commission says
(CNA Daily News, DFW Catholic.org)

On Muslim terrorists and collective responsibility
(Mark Silk, Religion News Service)

USCIRF issues report: Protecting and Promoting Religious Freedom in Syria
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

The benefits of church
(T. M. Luhrman, The New York Times)

Men and Women in Marriage, and the Church of Scotland
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

The EU bans the patenting of human embryos for commercial purposes
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)

Court grants preliminary injunction barring enforcement of contraceptive coverage mandate against small business
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

China issues report on human rights record of the United States
(ChinaDaily.com)

Overruling magistrate, court says clergy-penitent privilege applies to unordained minister
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Jihadist suspect cannot be extradited to United States because of his mental illness
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)

Sacred Groves
(Eliza F. Kent, OUP Blog)

US report criticizes countries for 'human rights violations' despite its own shaky record
(Press TV)

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