Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Bangladesh: Bloggers threatened and journalists endangered by Islamists and authorities
(Eurasia Review)
Egypt: Islamist preacher launches new party to run for parliament
(Aswat Masriya)
Egypt: Christians ask govnt. to reconsider election date
(CISA News Africa)
Cardinal Dolan will go to White House to discuss mutual concerns with Obama
(Catholic News Service)
Russia: "Extremism" trial of imams resumes
(Geraldine Fagan, Forum 18 News Service)
Bangladesh: Thousands of people rally against Islamic party and the political use of religion
(Sumon Francis Gomes, Asia News)
Punjab: Muslim attacks disabled Christian for money, police deny any investigation
(Shafique, Asia News)
Buddhist leader hosted international gathering
(John Mason, Hudson-Catskill Newspapers via Register-Star)
China should recognise Dalai Lama as religious leader
(Christian Today)
Kenya: Kikuyu TNA aspirant confronts pastor over debate
(Njenga Gichea, The Star via AllAfrica)
Canada: Anti-gay flyers violated hate law, Supreme Court rules
(CTV News Staff, CTV News)
Congressmen: Obama admin can't "pick and choose" who gets religious freedom
(Sarah Torre, The Heritage Network)
Tunisia: Islamist arrested for politician's murder
(The Guardian)
Islamist leader urges Russia to revise attitude to Central Asia, Caucasus Islamists
(Interfax-religion)
Marriage equality closer to law in Illinois
(Peter Montgomery, Religion Dispatches)
Not anti-religion but pro-justice: Bangladesh protesters
(Haroon Habib, The Hindu)
United Church says limits to freedom of religion are reasonable
(Canada Newswire)
Bahá'í student expelled from Iranian university 'on grounds of religion'
(Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian)
Indonesia's rising religious intolerance
(Benedict Rogers, New York Times)
Rick Warren: Religious freedom ensures other freedoms
(Andrew T. Walker and Sophie Giberga, The Foundry)
Cegavske introduces Religious Freedom Act; called discriminatory in other states
(Ed Vogel, Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Obama's DOJ targets religious freedom, again
(Bob Unruh, World Net Daily)
Alabama: Deciphering state’s proposed Religious Liberty Act of 2013
(Matt Greenemeier, The Crimson White)
Faith in values: Misusing religious freedom to cloak intolerance
(Sally Steenland, Center for American Progress)
Judaism’s enemy No. 1: Moral complacency among religious Zionists
(Rabbi Gideon D. Sylvester, Haaretz)
Strasbourg, eccentric religious views and parental access rights
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Bulgaria chooses new religious leader -- with complex past
(Public Radio International)
When can government force you to violate religious beliefs?
(James Joyner, Outside the Beltway)
2 women claim pregnancy discrimination by religious employers
(Associated Press, Lancaster Eagle Gazette)
Canada: Parent speaks up about religious accommodation
(Barbara Simpson, Sarnia Observer)
Grand Chamber find Austrian same sex adoption discrimination
(Martin Downs, UK Human Rights Blog)
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Attack on Indian revival meeting sends Christians underground
(World Watch Monitor)
New York City targets Orthodox Jews — again
(Eric Rassbach, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
Some companies to back gay marriage in coming Supreme Court cases
(Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)
No religious education reform in Gibraltar
(Kathryn Richardson, The Olive Press)
Tennessee considers bill to allow religious discrimination in college student groups
(Tyler Kingkade, The Huffington Post)
Texas bill seeks to protect religious groups
(Cody Permenter, The Texas Tribune)
Texas district considers its religious banners ban
(Associated Press, WFAA)
Religious leaders: Cut corporate tax loopholes to help all in the community
(Joe Kimball, Minn Post)
Moshe Feiglin: the religious Jew who might be a future Israeli prime minister
(Maya Shwayder, International Business Times)
Hungary's constitutional Court strikes down disputed church law, says selection process unfair
(Pablo Gorondi, Associated Press)
Benedict XVI's second act
(Howard Chua-Eoan, Time Magazine)
Beit Shemesh women sue over 'modesty' coercion
(Maayana Miskin, Arutz Sheva)
Tibetan monks self-immolate in anti-China protest
(Associated Press)
Syria civil war threatens to pull Lebanon into conflict, U.N. says
(Michelle Nichols and Cynthia Osterman, Reuters)
France says will not negotiate with Cameroon hostage-takers
(Reuters)
Quebec loses status as Canada's most secular province
(Ron Csillag, Religion News Service)
Pink anti-Semitism is no different from brown anti-Semitism
(Alan M. Dershowitz, Gatestone Institute of International Public Policy)
Online Discussion: The Internet, generosity and spiritual progress: Finding connections
(Ansley Roan (re Diane Winston & Sree Sreenivasan), Big Questions Online)
Hindus urge removal of “disrespectful” Lord Ganesha artwork from Massachusetts museum
(Eurasia Review)
Burned church is latest in string of Tanzanian attacks
(World Watch Monitor)
Is Buddhism a religion?
(Yeshaia Blakeney, Jewish Journal)
Defending freedom of conscience and religion abroad
(Katrina Lantos Swett, Boston Review)
Author of Azazel faces charges of insulting religion
(Edited translation from MENA, Egypt Independent)
Human Rights Council opens twenty-second session and starts high-level segment
(Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Opening Statement by Ms. Navi Pillay United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council
(Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Kyrgyzstan: Will international law protect Uzbek imam from extradition?
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Religious intolerance is growing in Indonesia
(Deutsche Welle)
Indonesia: U.N. experts criticize bill on organizations
(Global Legal Monitor, Law Library of Congress)
Freedom of religion at stake in Malaysia
(Wan Hilmi (loyarburok.com), The Malaysian Insider)
Founded in Christianity, can Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom be fair to all?
(Douglas Todd, The Vancouver Sun)
Comment: An Ambassador of Freedom FROM religion?
(Andre Carrel, The Rossland Telegraph)
Austria, same-sex adoption and respect for family life
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Czech Republic, Adventist Church to receive US$45 million in communism reparations
(Mark Kellner, Adventist News Network)
Died: C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General who taught Evangelicals to hate abortion
(Kate Shellnutt, Christianity Today)
8th-grader told to cover abstinence promoting t-shirt
(Religion Today)
German homeschool family gets day in U.S. court
(Whitney Williams, WORLD News Service)
Analysis: religion and public benefit (UK)
(Ian Griggs, Third Sector)
Russia: International law does not bind permission of homosexuality propaganda – Lavrov
(Interfax)
Ethics and religion talk on premarital sex
(Matt Vande Bunte, Michigan Live)
Give religious freedom ambassador Bennett a chance
(Michael den Tandt, The Vancouver Sun)
Call to help Tibetans puts pressure on Canada’s new religion envoy
(Campbell Clark, The Globe and Mail)
Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom should tread carefully in Tibet
(The Globe and Mail)
KY House committee approves state RFRA
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Freedom)
Tunisia: 4 suspects from radical group held in politician’s murder, killer still at large
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
ELCA bishop joins plea for U.S. budget that protects the vulnerable
(ELCA News)
Liberia: Bishop ties Liberia's 'Wahala' to 'crabs mentality politics'
(The Informer via All Africa)
With Chavez still sick, supporters turn to religion
(Agence France-Presse via Global Post)
Suits hit contraception rule's 'religious burden'
(Jennifer Haberkorn and Kathryn Smith, Politico)
Hungary annuls law to end funding for religion
(Israel National News)
Religious freedom should be protected for religious institutions
(Samantha Morley, The Scribe)
U.S. Catholics: Key data from Pew research
(Pew Research Center)
Catholic diocese expresses concerns over changes to city’s non-discrimination law
(Dustin Gardiner, Arizona Republic)
Legislation promotes use of religion to discriminate, says ACLU-TN
(ACLU)
Religious computer game brings wrath down on Pentagon
(Michael Peck, Forbes)
Ethics and religion talk: When it's OK for U.S. law and religious law to be the same (Ethics and Religion Talk, by Rabbi David Krishef)
(Matt Vande Bunte, Michigan Live)
Monday, 25 February 2013
For a church leader in Mali, relief and anxiety
(World Watch Monitor)
New Office of Religious Freedom opens Pandora’s Box
(Douglas Todd, The Vancouver Sun)
Sri Lanka: President stresses need to foster religious and ethnic harmony
(Chaminda Perera, Daily News)
Religious leaders urge Congress to end budget brinksmanship
(Dennis Sadowski, The Catholic Free Press)
Freedom of religion and belief in Pakistan
(Rehman Anwer, Daily Times)
Atheists face extensive discrimination, UN rights council told
(The Guardian)
India: People who destabilise country have no religion, says high court
(Mohan K. Korappath, HindustanTimes)
Religious sect of forced hermits banned for extremism in Tatarstan
(RAPSI)
U.S. Catholic Hispanic population less religious, shrinking
(Frank Newport, Gallup Politics)
Lebanon's Orthodox law: locals turn to Judaism for answers
(Albawaba)
Syria Catholic patriarch demands seat for sect
(The Daily Star)
Return of sectarian threats in Iraq raises alarm
(Adam Schreck and Quassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press)
Turkmenistan: Government changes Islamic leadership again
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
'Zero Dark Thirty,' through a theological lens
(Samuel G. Freedman, New York Times)
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