Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 18 April 2013
A redeeming reporter: John McCandlish Phillips dies at 85
(Emily Belz, World Magazine)
Kiobel v Shell: US Supreme Court on corporate accountability for foreign human rights abuses
(Wessen Jazrawi, UK Human Rights Blog)
Islam has image problems in France
(Cheradenine Zakalwe, Islam versus Europe)
How the past still haunts Germans and Poles
(Judy Dempsey, Strategic Europe)
Rights court urges Russia not to extradite Tajik
(Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty)
Syrian patriarch asks Vatican to increase peace efforts
(Estefania Aguirre, Catholic News Agency)
Spain: Protest launched over clerical sex abuse video game
(Catholic News Agency)
Opinion: We're to have freedom of religion, not from it
(Michael W. Reece, Greenville Online)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon: Governments have a duty to uphold the rights of LGBT people
(Towleroad)
EVENT 23 April 2013: Oxford Journal of Law and Religion Lecture Series, Trinity Term 2013 first lecture
(Cole Durham, 'Freedom of Religion or Belief – Emerging Tensions', Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture)
Cheers and Maori song as lawmakers make New Zealand 13th country to legalize gay marriage
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
The Muslims who saved Jews from the Holocaust
(Tom Bousfield and Catrin Nye, BBC News)
Archbishop of Canterbury conducts historic meeting with gay-rights activist
(SDLGC.com)
Brazilians’ ordeal in Senegal prison over, but legal challenges remain
(World Watch Monitor, Christian Today)
Nigeria, beset by violence from Islamic extremists, sets up committee on offering amnesty deal
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
A modest case for civil marriage equality
(Ben Greenberg, My Jewish Learning)
Judge OKs controversial $700,000 settlement in Muslims' lawsuit over McDonald's food
(Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press)
9th Circuit oral arguments available in challenge to California teen reparative therapy ban
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
U.S. court gives green light for Adventist’s workplace discrimination trial
(Ansel Oliver, Adventist News Network)
Utah college and Christian club settle lawsuit
(Brooke Adams, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Turkey's backward freedom agenda
(Tulin Dalgolu, Al-Monitor)
Kazakhstan: Imprisoned atheist mad, bad, or neither?
(Felix Corley, Forum 18)
Rising diversity in evangelicalism shifting immigration debate
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Former ‘Jesus freak’ traces the evolution of Christian rock
(Don Lattin, The Washington Post)
Pope Francis likely to cut staff bonus, citing hard times
(Reuters)
Catholic rebel group begins criticizing new pope
(Tom Heneghan, Yahoo! News)
President Obama's address at Boston Memorial Service (FULL TEXT)
(Huffington Post)
Boston Marathon’s holy ground and sacred bonds
(Daniel Burke, Religion News Service)
How hostile to religion must the state be?
(Robert P. George, Washington Times)
Pennsylvania: Washington County church property dispute lands in appeals court
(Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Humphrey School Dean Eric Schwartz to serve on religious freedom commission
(Joe Kimball, Minnesota Post)
Valve refunded BioShock Infinite gamer upset over religious scene
(Eddie Makuch, Gamespot)
Saudi religious police aren’t funny
(Terry Sanderson, National Secular Society)
Australia: Fraser warns MPs religious conflict is imminent
(John Masanauskas, The Herald Sun)
Parliament of the World’s Religions survives financial crunch
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Penalizing religious belief: No bed of roses
(Andrew T. Walker, The Foundry)
Tax or fee? Pastors push back against city’s ‘annual registration fee’
(Tim Townsend, Religion News Service)
Baptist pastor: Don’t teach religion in public schools!
(Phil Plait, Slate Magazine)
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Egyptian religious ministry bans interactions with Evangelical Church
(Myles Collier, The Christian Post)
Human rights court blocks extradition of UK-based terror suspect to US
(Owen Bowcott and Vikram Dodd, The Guardian)
New Zealand approves same-sex marriage
(Rachel Cooper, World Magazine)
Opinion: A time for modern Orthodox leaders to speak out
(Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, The New York Jewish Week)
Professors and religious leaders write to Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe re: French attitude against religious minorities at European level
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom)
Supreme Court blocks overseas human rights cases from U.S. courts
(David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times)
Monks gone bad
(Swe Win, International Herald Tribune Global Opinion)
Frum dress codes v. human rights?
(Jonathan Mark, The (New York) Jewish Week)
California law banning gay ‘conversion therapy’ gets day in court
(Erik Eckholm, The New York Times)
Three-year jail term for candidate if ethnicity, religion used to gain votes: ECP
(The Express Tribune (Pakistan))
At a checkpoint, watching for bombs, the talk turned to religion
(Robert Fisk, The Independent)
Gay marriage: church leaders at odds with opinion in the pews, study suggests
(John Bingham, The Telegraph)
US author corrects Shari`ah misconceptions
(OnIslam)
May Catholic supporters of marriage equality receive Communion?
(Charles J. Reid, Jr., Huffington Post)
Philippine prelate: don’t vote for candidates who support abortion, divorce
(Catholic World News)
Kansas: Religious freedom measure signed by governor
(The Legal Record)
Atheists find a Sunday-morning connection with other nonbelievers
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Westboro Baptist Church says they’ll picket Boston Marathon victims’ funerals
(RT)
Boston's largest mosque: 'We're Bostonians — we mourn with the city'
(Shahien Nasiripour, Huffington Post)
Believers from all walks of life ask the question: Why?
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA Today)
The struggle of religious minorities in Indonesia
(Karishma Vaswani, BBC News Asia)
Bangladesh simmers as Islamic conservatives and progressives clash
(Jason Burke, The Guardian)
Nigeria failing to tackle religious violence in its “Middle Belt” – U.S. agency
(Reuters)
Egyptians take religion out of view
(Al Jazeera)
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Martin Luther King's 'Letter From Birmingham Jail'
(Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King wrote this landmark missive, The Atlantic)
Today the world reads from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
(Lynne Varnet, The Seattle Times)
Letter from Birmingham Jail
(Legacy.com)
King’s indignant message in “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
(Jonathan Rieder, National Constitution Center, Yahoo! News)
Anniversary, significance of King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' observed on House floor
(Joseph D. Bryant, AL.com)
Letter from Birmingham Jail (full text)
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
EVENT April 29, 2013: Unprecedented Repression of Religious Minorities and NGOs in Russia
(Side Event, The United Nations Office at Geneva)
French cardinal warns gay marriage law risks violence
(Tom Heneghan, Reuters FaithWorld)
Rapporteur’s Digest on Freedom of Religion or Belief
(Excerpts of the Reports from 1986 to 2011 Arranged by Topic, UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief)
Achebe, religion, renaissance and Bangladesh
(Kajal Bandyopadhyay, Vanguard (Nigeria))
EVENT April 19, 2013: The Jesuits, Globalization, and Dialogue
(4:00 - 5:30 pm, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Religion and human rights: Buddhist hatred in Sri Lanka and Burma
(Jack Healy, Huff Post World)
Religion to take centrestage in battle for Shah Alam
(Debra Chong and Syed Jaymal Zahiid, The Malaysian Insider)
Dervishes end hunger strike after 90 days
(Radio Zameneh)
Second university sounds alarm over segregation at Muslim student events
(John Bingham, The Telegraph)
Religious Liberty — (House of Representatives - April 10, 2013)
(Congressional Record 113th Congress (2013-2014), The Library of Congress (Thomas))
Antisectarian campaign in Egypt urges citizens to remove religion from ID cards
(Robert Mackey, The New York Times)
In the name of religion
(Editorial, The Nation (Pakistan))
Baroness Thatcher, state funerals and ceremonial funerals
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
The religion card in elections
(Editorial, Pakistan Today)
Listening to all religious traditions
(Padre James Bhagwan, The Fiji Times Online)
Human Rights Court halts terror suspect’s U.S. extradition
(Ben Moshinsky, Bloomberg)
Haredi Orthodox Frenchman says he was barred from seeing son due to religion
(JTA)
Independence Day and the Zionist vision
(Isi Leibler, The Jerusalem Post)
VIDEO: See what Sharansky’s Western Wall compromise could look like
(Uri Fintzy, JTA)
Racial harassment claim by Jewish teacher over union’s Israel-Palestine policies fails – Robert Kellar
(1 Crown Office Row barristers' chambers, UK Human Rights Blog)
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor talks church, state law in South Carolina
(Bruce Smith, The Republic)
India: Administration to restrict Ram Navmi puja at Ayodhya site
(Arshad Afzal Khan, The Times of India)
Separation of legal and religious (same-sex marriage)
(Charlie Mitchell, Sun Herald)
Pope Francis tells Bostonians to “combat evil with good”
(Daniel Burke, Religion News Service)
Religious leaders ‘pray for Boston,’ contemplate evil in the world
(Elizabeth Tenety, The Washington Post)
Elmbrook graduation appeal still pending before Supreme Court
(Sarah Millard, Brookfield Patch)
Scots are losing their religion
(National Secular Society)
Wendell Berry's marriage reversal
(Christopher C. Roberts, First Things)
Commentary: Newspapers too often ignore religion beat
(Terry Mattingly, Herald Times Reporter)
Spain: Supreme Court overturns ban on full-face veils; AI concerns remain about restrictions on headscarves in schools
(Amnesty International)
‘Please don’t be a Muslim’: Boston marathon blasts draw condemnation and dread in Muslim world
(Max Fisher, The Washington Post)
Sri Lanka: Fears churches may be hit by legislation on cults
(Christian Today)
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