Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Israel-Palestine not a religious conflict
(Daniel Alan Bey, Jakarta Globe)
It would make a mockery of justice but foreign judges could rule that Britain’s mass murderers have a human right to be set free
(Nick Hebert, Mail Online)
Merkel dabbles in risky business: religion
(Mary Beth Warner, Global Post)
New curriculum to focus on religion, civics and history
(Margareth S. Aritonang, The Jakarta Post)
Nigeria's future depends on how its religious groups see each other
(Charlotte Keenan, The Guardian)
No amendments to Morsi decree after meeting with top judges
(RT)
Obamacare: Supreme Court orders new look at university’s lawsuit
(Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor)
Oklahoma appeals court orders name change in transgender case
(Nolan Clay, NewsOK)
Opposition groups, parties demand Morsi's 'immediate' retreat on constitutional decree
(Ahram Online)
Ordinary Britons are comfortable with Christianity. Teachers and government aren't, though.
(Cristina Odone, The Telegraph)
Religion in America: Evangelicals surge as Catholics wane
(Science 2.0)
Remove politics from religion if not religion from politics
(Muhammad Akram, Daily Times (Pakistan))
Report: Discrimination in the EU in 2012
(Special Eurobarometer 393 / Wave EB77.4 – TNS Opinion & Social, European Commission)
The House of Lords “doing God” – or, at any rate, debating religion
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
U.N. chief says Mideast, African crises show need for interfaith amity
(Tom Heneghan, Reuters)
Uncertain future for Jews in French provinces
(Robert Zaretsky, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Vatican says it will promote religious liberty in Saudi-backed center
(Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service)
Monday, 26 November 2012
70% of French people favor establishment of Islamic parties: Poll
(Press TV)
A Leiter case for the superfluousness of religious liberty
(Ryan Anderson, Library of Law and Liberty)
Al-Sudais: Islam is a religion of dialogue
(Arab News)
Anti-Semites blamed for Rome soccer attack
(Harvey Morris, International Herald Tribune)
Bad judgment at Strasbourg?
(Michael Pinto-Duschinksy, The Jewish Chronicle)
Battle over preaching at Northland holiday lighting display heads back to federal court
(John Myers, Duluth News Tribune)
Britain's House of Lords debates role of religion In society
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Children among the dead after Taliban targets Shias in Pakistan
(Al Bawaba News)
China: Weibo and advancing freedom of religion or belief
(Magda Hornemann, Forum 18 News Service)
Christian college settles federal lawsuit over state's denial of grant money
(Jim Saunders, The Ledger)
Companies plan massive layoffs as Obamacare becomes reality
(Kerry Picket, The Washington Times)
Court: Too much religion in prosecution of priest
(Bob Collins, Minnesota Public Radio)
DC digs up lessons in history: The story of one of America's earliest Muslims unfolds
(Julienne Gage, Al Bawaba News)
Debating the Abu Qatada affair
(Gavin Phillipson, UK Human Rights Blog)
Decree by Egypt's Mursi raises rights concerns: U.N.
(Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Angus MacSwan, Reuters)
Detailed analysis of religious hate crime
(The Scottish Government)
Donald Wuerl on religious liberty
(Religious Freedoms, Modern Contexts)
Egyptian protests over Mohamed Morsi decree expected to draw thousands
(Abdel-Rahman Hussein, The Guardian)
Embattled W. Pa. Amish sect moving to upstate NY
(Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal)
Four Tibetans self-immolate
(Radio Free Asia)
From man who insulted Muhammad, no regret
(Serge F. Kovaleski & Brooks Barnes, The New York Times)
Honoring faith in the public square
(Wilfred McClay , Christianity Today)
How the victory in Gaza can bring civil rights to Palestinians in Lebanon – OpEd
(Franklin Lamb, Eurasia Review)
In world's most religious country, humanists rally for secular space
(Chris Stein, Christian Science Monitor)
India: Shocking case of miscarriage of justice – Analysis
(B. Raman, Eurasia Review)
Malians rally against religious extremism
(Associated Press)
Mursi ends Egypt spring
(Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid, Arab News)
New Vienna interfaith center opens with Saudi help
(Tom Heneghan, Reuters)
Shame on anyone who ever thought Mohammad Morsi was a moderate
(Eric Trager, The New Republic)
Stalking, Judicial Review threatened and Prisoner Voting (Again) – The Human Rights Roundup
(Daniel Isenberg, UK Human Rights Blog)
Suicide bombers attack Nigerian military church
(Heather Murdock, Voice of America)
The Brotherhood rallies to Morsi's side after mass opposition demonstrations
(Al Bawaba News)
Third attack in new Assyrian quarter in Aleppo, scores injured and killed
(Dan Wooding, ASSIST News Service)
Victory of Gaza, horrendous tsunami for Israel
(Iran Review)
Way cleared for health care challenge
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUS Blog)
Witchcraft and execution: the darker side of Gambia
(Colin Freeman, The Telegraph)
Women as bishops: should Parliament intervene?
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Sunday, 25 November 2012
European Court of Human Rights issues judgment in Z v. Poland
(Center for Reproductive Rights)
Religion and Law roundup: 25th November
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Saturday, 24 November 2012
Pakistan's Shia Muslims on alert after Taliban double bombing
(Jon Boone, The Guardian)
Canadian Islamic group charges Jewish school using racist textbook
(JTA, Haaretz)
Church fights property taxes for bookstore, cafe
(Seattle Post Intelligencer)
Church groups urge EU to help Greece in crisis
(Reuters)
Clashes break out after Morsi seizes new power in Egypt
(Kareem Fahim and David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times)
Egypt demonstrators clash with police at rally against Mursi
(Salma El Wardany, Tarek El-Tablawy, and Mariam Fam, San Francisco Chronicle)
Egypt opposition leader: No dialogue with Morsi until rescinds 'dictatorial' powers
(Reuters, Haaretz)
Egypt’s embattled Christians fear exclusion under new Islamist constitution
(Eurasia Review)
Egyptian judicial council condemns Morsi's edicts
(The Wall Street Journal)
Hobby Lobby and religious liberty Under ObamaCare
(Benjamin Domenech, Real Clear Politics)
Indian rationalist targets 'miracles'
(Henry McDonald, The Guardian)
Lebanon army seizes men suspected of bomb plot against Shi'ites
(Oliver Holmes and Andrew Roche, Reuters)
Luxemburg: CSV betreibt übelsten Verrat an den christlichen Wurzeln Luxemburgs und an ihrem eigenen christlichen Ursprung
(Talpa brusseliensis christiana)
Muslim nations tiptoe between commerce and religion
(Shamil Shams, DeutscheWelle)
Pope’s emissary in US: Dissident Catholic profs are ‘grave’ threat to religious liberty
(Patrick B. Craine, LifeSiteNews)
Taliban suicide blast in eastern Afghanistan kills 3 and wounds more than 90 people
(Associated Press)
The plight of Pakistan's Shiites
(Huma Yusuf, International Herald Tribune Global Opinion)
Uganda drops death penalty for homosexuals
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
UK: Churches will be exempt from having to perform gay marriages
(Rowena Mason, The Telegraph)
UK: Muslim radio station fined for saying gay people should be tortured
(The Telegraph)
Friday, 23 November 2012
European Court upholds the right to conscientious objection
(The Watchtower, Jehovah's Witnesses.org)
Muslim media told to be more professional
(Arab News)
Ajmal Kasab’s Execution: Why there is no reason to celebrate
(Swati Parashar, South Asia Analysis Group)
California terror suspects: 2 of 4 were new Islamic converts
(Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press)
Catholic organization sues Danish game maker
(Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press)
Constitution experts denounce Oklahoma judge’s sentencing of youth to church
(Erik Eckholm, The New York Times)
Court grants Rutherford institute request to stop Texas school from kicking student out
(The Rutherford institute)
Defining and divining religion
(Jogchum Vrielink, Strasbourg Observers)
Egypt: Morsi criticized as "new Pharaoh"
(Al Bawaba News)
Electronic tracking: new constraint for Saudi women
(AFP, France24)
Former Archbishop of Canterbury is homophobic, say King's students
(London Evening Standard)
Human rights: migrants' security in Libya, executions in Iran, violence in Burma
(European Parliament, European Parliament News)
Imams, Priests play soccer match in Bosnia
(Associated Press)
In recently released opinion, Court dismisses damage claim against proponents of Ground Zero Mosque
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge: Businesses must obey Obama mandates
(Sam Tolley, Personal Liberty Digest)
Laws penalizing blasphemy, apostasy and defamation of religion are widespread
(The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life)
Lord Sacks: religion can help sustain welfare state
(Jennifer Lipman, The Jewish Chronicle)
Malaysia: 'Pas' power politics a blow for unity, religion'
(Eliza Dzulkafli, New Straits Times)
Malaysia: Reporting religion faithfully
(Mustafa K. Anuar, The Malaysian Insider)
Military chaplains 'could be sacked for opposing gay marriage', says former minister
(John Bingham, The Telegraph)
Nigeria: Blair, others launch initiative to curb religious acrimony
(Tobi Soniyi, Paul Ohia , Paul Obi , Michael Olugbode , Ibrahim Shuaibu, All Africa)
Nigeria: Sect kill 18
(Haruna Umar and Salisu Rabiu, Associated Press)
Opinion: Treating Islam with special reverence is cultural suicide and just plain wrong
(James Delingpole, The Spectator)
Pakistan: Threat of Jihadi terror continues, even after Kasab's execution
(B Raman, The Economic Times (India))
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