Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 6 February 2017
France: Le Pen launches presidential campaign
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
Poignant think piece: Demographics are destiny in many dying Jewish communities
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Basketball inches closer to ending ban on religious headgear
(Brian Mahoney and Doug Feinberg, NBA.com)
Morocco's high religious committee says apostates should not be killed
(Ezzoubeir Jabrane, Morocco World News)
Myanmar's Suu Kyi vows to investigate crimes against Rohingya - U.N.'s Zeid tells Reuters
(Reuters)
Meet one of America's largest religious groups — by the way, they don't believe in God
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Jamia Millia Islamia gears up to promote ‘cultural pluralism’
(Areeba Falak, Sunday Guardian Live)
The Polish republic of untruth
(Konstanty Gebert, Moment)
Anti-Semitism, an unlikely aid to Jewish survival? Plus tales of tribalism in France, Poland
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Surprise! New York Times frames Johnson Amendment 'explainer' in pure Kellerism
(Mark Kellner, GetReligion)
Concerning the New York Times: 'Fake' news? No. 'Flawed' or 'flavored' news? From time to time ...
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
These are America's most endangered Jewish communities
(Sue Eisenfeld, Forward)
Devastated northern Iraq needs ‘new Marshall Plan’ for reconstruction
(World Watch Monitor)
What is the joint committee on human rights and what does it do?
(Natasha Holcroft-Emmess and Sam Grant, Rights Info: Human Rights News, Views & Info)
Searches carried out at Church of Scientology offices in Russia
(Interfax Religion)
Anglican, Lutheran and Buddhist dialogue and collaboration to continue
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Israel will vote on contentious Palestinian land-grab bill tonight
(Barak Ravid, Haaretz)
Data shows scope of sexual abuse in Australian Church
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Australian bishops apologize for Church's failure in sex abuse crisis
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Philippine debate to restore death penalty hots up
(UCAN India)
Philippine bishops rally Catholics against drug war
(UCAN India)
Chinese student converts lose their new religion
(UCAN India)
Why some Texas legislators want to limit the death penalty
(Catholic News Agency)
Harry Connick Jr hosting a TV show on faith, family
(Carl Kozlowski, Catholic News Agency)
A new U.S. approach to Pakistan: enforcing aid conditions without cutting ties
(Husain Haqqani & Lisa Curtis, Hudson)
French Christians urged to ‘face up to political and religious crisis’
(Tim Wyatt, Church Times)
John Smyth – Statement by Bishop of Guildford
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Archbishop apologises as new abuse allegations come to light
(Madeleine Davies, Church Times)
No change on marriage after the Shared Conversations
(Hattie Williams, Church Times)
Centre condemns use of religion to divide Nigeria
(Collins Nnabuiffe, Nigerian Tribune)
Has Iran reinstated executions by stoning?
(Radio Zamaneh, Eurasia Review)
Enormous evangelistic endeavor kicks off in Eastern Europe
(Andrew McChesney, Adventist News Network)
In Niger, Christian and Muslim leaders push harder to counter creeping radicalism
(Kira Zalan, The Christian Science Monitor)
California inmates may have another route to relief for Free Exercise infringements
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Senate considers bill restricting underage girls from getting abortions without parental consent
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
National Secular Society report on freedom of and from religion
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Rethinking religion and belief in public life: a manifesto for change
(Terry Sanderson, President, The National Secular Society)
Secular schools ‘more appropriate than faith schools’ in diverse Britain
(National Secular Society)
Muslims outnumber Christians at over 30 church schools in England
(Joseph Hartropp, Christian Today)
Muslim pupils fill the pews at Anglican schools
(Sian Griffiths, The Times)
How Khasi Christians in India are making the Church their own
(Paramita Ghosh, Hindustan Times)
Will Mosul see peace post-Islamic State?
(Fazel Hawramy, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Christians should have right to paid vacation to visit Jerusalem: court
(Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt Independent)
Australian inter-State vilification orders overturned
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Lebanon pushes for refugee ‘safe zones’ in Syria
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)
Interfaith groups to form 'rings of peace' around mosques in Canada
(Michelle McQuigge, 680 News)
Israeli leader presses UK to impose new sanctions on Iran
(Jill Lawless, Associated Press- The Big Story)
Sexual harassment common even for Iraqi women professionals
(Adnan Abu Zeed, translated by Mohammad Khalil, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Sundance Film Festival shines light on Aleppo
(Tamer Osman, translated by Pascale Menassa, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Radical sheikh still wields influence from Lebanese prison
(Mona Alami, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
'War of the shrines' stirs tension between Palestinians, Israelis
(Aziza Nofal, translated by Paul Raymond, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
UN: More than 900 children killed in Afghanistan in 2016
(Associated Press- The Big Story)
Is a bromance brewing between Sudan, the Saudis?
(Fahd al-Otaibi, translated by Sami-Joe Abboud, Al Monitor: Gulf Pulse)
Is Erdogan’s Syria policy slipping through his fingers?
(Week in Review, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
British firms suffer Brexit impact as German factory orders soar
(Graeme Wearden, Nick Fletcher, The Guardian)
The truth behind oil theft in Iraq's Basra
(Salam Zidane, translated by Mohammad Khalil, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
May to meet Netanyahu ahead of Brexit debate in Commons
(Andrew Sparrow, Peter Walker, The Guardian)
EU founders speak of possible "multispeed" future after Brexit
(Valletta, Malta, Majalla)
Sunday, 5 February 2017
Lawsuit: NYPD officers targeted fellow officer because she wore a hijab
(David Colon, The Gothamist)
Former NYPD officer sues over anti-Muslim discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Law and religion round-up – 5th February
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Washington federal district court issues TRO against travel ban; appeal filed -- here are links to primary sources
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
State of Washington & State of Minnesota v. Trump
(Dedicated Web Page, United States Courts for the Ninth Circuit)
Julian and Sandy go to Cambridge
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Church 'regret' as trainees hold service in gay slang
(BBC News)
Former B.C. couple guilty of taking girl, 13, to U.S. to marry polygamist Warren Jeffs
(Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press)
Canadian court convicts 2 FLDS members for bringing daughter to US to marry church leader
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Saturday, 4 February 2017
Hawaii sues Trump over travel ban
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Hawaii v. Trump
(Cameron Miculka, West Hawaii Today)
Founder of clergy abuse group quits in second major loss following lawsuit
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Second major leader of SNAP resigns
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Both the right and the left get the Muslim ban wrong
(Cathy Young, The Forward)
Trump effect: unintended effects of regulating religion
(Brian J. Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
The things Trump said about God and money that you probably haven't heard
(Herb Scribner, The Deseret News Faith)
Friday, 3 February 2017
Ukraine v. Russia: Before the International Court of Justice
(Beth Van Schaack, Just Security)
The need to secure position of minorities, common space
(K. Shanmugam, Singapore: The Straits Times)
Nashville Islamic Center’s religious discrimination claims dismissed
(Diana Neeves, RLUIPA Defense)
In Uzbekistan’s jails, torture is an everyday occurrence
(Open Democracy)
Crimean Tatars find new home in Lviv Oblast
(Anastasia Vlasova, Kyiv Post)
2016: Religion between politics and geopolitics
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
“They will never be freed.” New information about the imprisoned Muslims from Turkmenabat
(Alternative News of Turkmenistan)
“The problem of UOC is a large-scale Orthodox problem,” Constantin Vetochnikov
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
American missionary fights to pray, read Bible in Putin's Russia
(George Thomas, Christian Broadcasting Network)
Over 15,000 sign online petition: Russian Hindus unite to fight against religious persecution
(Digital Journal)
Dvorkin sued for libel by Hindus
(Human Rights Without Frontiers)
The Buddhists vs. the billionaire
(Amos Chapple, RFE/RL)
Jews of Southern Russia treat youth outflow as main threat for communities
(Caucasian Knot)
Details of roundup of suspected Chechen extremists unclear, contradictory
(Liz Fuller, RFE/RL)
Justice Initiative sends 42 confirmations of women's circumcision to Dagestani GPO
(Caucasian Knot)
Russia tries to remember the Holocaust: The government supports Holocaust commemoration, but Soviet war narratives die hard
(Eva Hartog and Matthew Kupfer, The Moscow Times)
Russian student turned IS fighter found dead in prison
(The Moscow Times)
Russian efforts to force Muslim minorities to assimilate leading many to become Islamist radicals, Iskhakov warns
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
Russia’s decade-long attack on religious freedom intensifies
(Human Rights Without Frontiers)
Duma deputy speaker Tolstoy explains himself to FJCR
(Interfax-Religion)
Dispute over St. Petersburg Cathedral takes anti-Semitic turn
(Tom Balmforth, RFE/RL)
Russian Education Minister defends Muslim headscarf ban
(The Moscow Times)
Kremlin sidesteps headscarf ban controversy
(Anadolu Agency)
Russian Constitutional Court hears Dadin's challenge to protest law
(RFE/RL)
Russian prisoner Dadin contacts relatives after monthlong absence
(RFE/RL)
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