Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
The main reason for declining church attendance: Children's sports?
(Melissa Steffan, Christianity Today)
Report: State legislation restricting use of foreign or religious law
(The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life)
Filipino Catholic groups band together to back poll candidates who oppose contraceptives law
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Church of England rejects blessings for same-sex couples
(Sam Jones, The Guardian)
Sharansky proposes egalitarian section at Kotel
(Sam Sokil, Jeremy Sharon, Daniel K. Eisenbud, The Jerusalem Post)
Special Report - Buddhist monks incite Muslim killings in Myanmar
(Jason Szep, Reuters UK)
Egypt's Morsi orders shake-up of Justice & Equality Council
(Ahram Online)
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Obamacare mandates put freedom and women's health at risk
(Paul E. Rondeau, The Washington Times)
Articles by Mary Ann Glendon
(First Things)
US bishop urges Senate to increase controls on gun ownership
(Independent Catholic News)
More Rohingya refugees arrive in Indonesia
(United Press International)
As if God did not exist
(Alexander Görlach, The European)
Kenya: Pentacostal priest reject state plan to vet religious groups
(Jesse Mwangi, The Star)
Tunisia: 'Topless Jihad' sparks rights debate
(Yasmin Najjar, Magharedbia)
Ron Paul launches homeschool curriculum to teach Biblical principles to K-12 students
(Melissa Barnhart, The Christian Post)
NY gambling nun admits taking $128K from churches
(Associated Press, Fox News)
First Muslim woman to enter Australian Parliament
(World News Australia)
Pope names head of Franciscans to Vatican office overseeing religious
(Carol Glatz, The Catholic Register)
Religious minorities band together for tolerance
(Sandra Siagian and Rebecca Lake, Jakarta Globe)
The dark side of “revolution” – The Arab Spring and state fragmentation
(Sabahat Khan, Senior Analyst, INEGMA (Institute for Near East & Gulf Military Analysis))
Pope considering Secretariat of State overhaul
(Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency)
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Preventive Services
(Little Sisters of the Poor)
How religion could lower health costs in America
(Frank Newport, Gallup Business Journal)
Egypt's Christian pope blasts Islamist president
(AP News, Bloomberg Businessweek)
Christian Religion in Egypt
(Ginger Yapp, Demand Media, Opposing Views)
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina rejects blasphemy law
(Anbarasan Ethirajan, BBC News Asia)
Elliott on Religion in Northern Ireland
(Yosefa A. Heber, Center for Law and Religion Forum)
Tebbe (ed.), “Religion and Equality Law”
(Yosefa A. Heber, Center for Law and Religion Forum)
Employment, religion or belief, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Daily Mail
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
You are not a religion
(Mark Movsesian, First Things)
Abdullah and Abbas playing the Jerusalem Card
(Mudar Zahran, Gatestone Institute)
Poland to run out of kosher meat in a month
(JTA)
Risk of religious conflict possible as a result of the Arab Spring in Syria, says Maronite patriarch
(Fady Noun, Aleteia)
What an insult to Christians! After crucifixes are allowed at work, human rights quango tells firms: Give vegans and pagans special treatment too
(Jason Groves, The Daily Mail)
Veil row reignites in France after 15-year-old girl expelled from school for wearing a headband and long skirt which were considered 'too religious'
(Nabila Ramdani, The Daily Mail)
India: Civic body, cops to join hands to determine legal religious structures in Nagpur
(Proshun Chakraborty, The Times of India)
Religious tensions escalate in Egypt amid violence
(David Greene and Leila Fadel, NPR)
Religion has nothing to fear from the 'nones'
(Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, Huffington Post)
HHS mandate still threatens religious freedom
(Matthew Hartvigsen, Deseret News)
Study: Motivating civic engagement: In-group versus out-group service orientations among Mexican Americans in religious and nonreligious organizations
(Elaine Howard Ecklund et al., Sociology of Religion)
Welcome to the USA: Do religious groups play unique role?
(David Ruth-Rice, Futurity)
Funeral attacked at Egypt's biggest church as religious violence kills six Copts
(Melissa Steffan, Christianity Today)
Muslim persecution of Christians escalating in Pakistan
(Mohshin Habib, Gatestone Institute)
From Khusūs to the cathedral: New attacks on Copts
(Jayson Casper, Arab West Report)
Libya: Religious Affairs Committee angered by website article, demands apology
(Nihal Zaroug, Libya Herald)
Evangelicals push reform in immigration law
(Jeremy Roebuck, The Houston Chronicle)
Libya: Volunteers crisscross borders as Islamist extremism goes global
(Geoffrey York, The Globe and Mail)
Attack on Christians in Egypt comes after a pledge
(David D. Kirkpatrick and Kareem Fahim, The New York Times)
Buddhist monks provoke Muslim killings in Myanmar
(Muhammad Iqbal, Business Recorder)
Christian-Muslim clashes in Egypt kill 5 people
(Agence Tunis Afrique Presse)
Liberia: Theocratic state is dangerous – OpEd
(Rev. Dr. Slocum, The New Dawn)
Uganda: Govt persecuting us, Muslims – OpEd
(Steven Candia, The New Vision)
Tanzanian Muslim clerics call for end to interfaith conflict
(Sabahi)
Egypt: Protesters cut off road following cathedral clashes
(Aswat Masriya)
Monday, 8 April 2013
Still hoping for change on religious freedom
(Mary Ann Glendon, The Washington Post – On Faith)
EVENT April 12, 2013: Human Dignity in World Affairs: Celebrating Pacem in Terris and its Legacy
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Holocaust Remembrance Day begins in Israel
(Aron Heller, Huffington Post)
Holocaust Remembrance Day
(Katharina von Kellenbach, OUP Blog)
EVENT April 19, 2013: The Jesuits, Globalization, and Dialogue
(José Casanova, Francis Clooney, Barbara Ganson, John O'Malley, Antoni Ucerler, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Azeri Muslims protest theologian's arrest
(Idrak Abbasov, Institute for War & Peace Reporting)
Roundup of recent employment discrimination cases
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Leading Egyptian political figures condemn attacks on St. Mark's Cathedral
(The Christian Post)
Sri Lanka: Attacks on Muslims, a new ball-game
(Dr Kumar David, South Asia Analysis Group)
Bangladesh protesters demand blasphemy law
(Al Jazeera)
Bangladesh PM rules out blasphemy law
(Al Jazeera)
Anti-Muslim campaign causes fears of a new wave of ethnic violence in war-torn Sri Lanka
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Canada asks how middle-class boys became jihadists
(Felix Corley, Al Arabiya)
Kazakh Embassy hosts round table on role of Congress of World and Traditional Religions
(ANI News)
Indonesian minorities protest growing religious intolerance
(Straits Times)
Religion, politics should not collide
(Dismas Nkunda, The Observer (Uganda))
Muslim Council of Britain vows action to stop children being groomed for sex
(BBC News)
Irish FM says EU membership not a question of religion
(Turkish Press)
My view: Christians are harassed more than any other religion in the world
(Kirsten Powers, USA Today, Deseret News)
NC councilman who penned religious resolution says it was misinterpreted
(Matthew Tessnear, Gaston Gazette)
Issues facing new pontiff: III – Sexual abuse, bishops’ resignation and transparency
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Judge: Atheist group takes separation of church and state too far on ‘Ground Zero Cross’
(Charles C. Haynes, The Washington Post)
Whither America's religious right?
(Katherine Stewart, The Guardian)
Christian origins of essential American doctrines
(Kelly O'Connell, Canada Free Press)
Religious Liberty, Conscience, and the Affordable Care Act
(Holly Fernandez Lynch, Ethical Perspectives (via SSRN))
Gay marriage: And now on to polygamy
(M.S., The Economist)
Vive la différence: Britain, France and secularism
(The Economist [Erasumus: Religion and public policy])
Just one more religion? Venerating the Kims
(The Economist [Erasumus: Religion and public policy])
The French and the hijab: The never-ending story
(The German Marshall Fund, GMF Blog)
Religion in the workplace
(The Voice of Russia)
Two women beheaded in Papua New Guinea over witchcraft claims
(Charlie Cooper, The Independent)
Indonesian minorities protest growing religious intolerance
(Bangkok Post)
Police rescue religious sect members
(Ghana Web)
Egyptian Copts and Muslims clash again, in central Cairo
(Press TV)
Jerusalem approves, then revokes, grant to combat secularization of Orthodox girls
(Revital Hovel, Haaretz)
Pakistan officials bar candidates using rarely used religious rule
(Jason Burke, The Guardian)
N.C. resolution on state religion was aimed against ACLU legal attack
(Dave Bohon, The New American)
Monday’s religion news roundup: Holocaust remembrance * Rick Warren’s son * Juche
(Daniel Burke, Religion News Service)
Hot off the press: how the ECtHR is indeed going to watch the EU
(David Hart QC, UK Human Rights Blog)
Religion and Law round up – 7th April
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Kyrgyzstan: Eight raids, two official warnings in three months
(Felix Corley, Forum 18)
Laos: Pastors released after arrest for 'spreading Christian religion'
(Christian Today)
What Islam says on marrying from another religion
(New Vision)
With Pope Francis, it's prime time for Jesuits
(Rachel Zoll, ABC News)
Death toll in Egypt's Muslim-Christian clashes at Cairo cathedral rises to 2
(Associated Press, Fox News)
Anti-Semitic attacks surged in 2012, report claims
(Ariel David, Huffington Post)
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