Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
The absolute exclusion of exemptions from the special protection of silence on Good Friday is incompatible with the fundamental rights
(Bundesverfassungsgericht)
Freedom in Cuba remains a dream - writes former World correspondent
(Maiusa Reyes, LapidoMedia: Centre for Religious Literacy in Journalism)
100 anti-Semitic incidents reported in US post-election, watchdog finds
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Betsy DeVos, Trump pick for education, pleases Orthodox, spooks church-state separationists
(Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
In Holland, a Jewish journalist belatedly honored for unmasking a ‘monster’
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Australian government: Jewish community members ‘discouraged from reporting’ child sex abuse
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Indonesians join thousands of soldiers, police at interfaith rallies
(ABC News)
Rivlin decries bill to muffle mosques, urges interfaith dialogue
(The Times of Israel)
Can medieval apocalypse commentaries help us feel better about the US election?
(Frances Courtney Kneupper, OUPblog Religion)
Over 600 rabbis, cantors sign pledge to hold Trump administration accountable for human rights
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
School apologises to Christian teaching assistant disciplined for expressing beliefs
(BBC News Cornwall)
Dutch lawmakers approve ban on Islamic full-face veils in public transport, schools, govt buildings
(Ali Wael, Mo4ch News)
Dutch parliament approves partial burqa ban in public places
(Harriet Agerholm, The Independent)
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Man in the Netherlands euthanised due to his alcohol addiction
(Tom Embury-Dennis, The Independent)
Syria denounces Qatar for saying it will continue to back rebels
(Reuters)
Global Business & Interfaith Peace Awards 2016
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Wanted: Leaders to turn interfaith conflict into trust
(David Bornstein, The New York Times)
Global project to know and help persecuted Christians launched from Rome
(Stand Together: A Shared Project for Christian Minorities)
How to build an economy that goes beyond religious differences?
((Fouad Makhzoumi), Stand Together: A Shared Project for Christian Minorities)
President Rivlin hosts interfaith meeting on Muezzin issue
(Ido ben Porat, Arutz Sheva)
Cross takes its place, temporarily, atop shrine at World Trade Center
(David W. Dunlap, The New York Times)
The New York Times gets the ground zero shrine story, but misses St. Nicholas Church
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Religious freedoms erosion 'endangers faith communities' help to common good'
(Belfast Telegraph)
Option open for Ashers Gay Cake case to be heard by UK Supreme Court, says Belfast judge
(Alan Erwin, Belfast Telegraph)
Recalibrating the culture war
(Darrell Bock, First Things)
Dutch parliament paves way for approval of partial Islamic veil ban
(The Guardian)
Burqa bans: After the Netherlands votes for partial prohibition, what is the situation in other European countries?
(Independent)
Enshrine new conscience clause for Christians in Bill of Rights, ministers urged
(John Bingham, The Telegraph)
Blood products and Jehovah’s Witnesses: NHS Trust v T
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Yemen’s Baha’is keep the faith amid conflict and crackdown
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
Signs of hope: Ancient relics found in Monastery destroyed by ISIS
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
The man who could have stopped the Islamic State
(Brian Fishman, Foreign Policy)
Religious freedom report highlights threat of ‘Islamic hyper-extremism’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Atheists force Connecticut teacher to remove Bible verse display
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Raqqa’s displaced flee to Iraqi border areas
(Kamal Sheikho trans. Sami-Joe Abboud, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Battle of the generations kicks off in Hamas
(Moath al-Amoudi trans. Pascale el-Khoury, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Kurdish soldiers bring own weapons to fight IS in Mosul
(Adam Lucente, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
An initiative to assist Iraqi refugee women
((Baroness Emma Nicholson), Stand Together: A Shared Project for Christian Minorities)
Iranian Kurds fighting IS in Iraq put Tehran on alert
(Ali Hashem, Al Monitor: Iran Pulse)
How Ankara plans to manage Kurds' religious affairs
(Pinar Tremblay, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
IS cells lurking in Iraq's Anbar continue to strike liberated areas
(Mustafa Saadoun trans. Beatrice Farhat, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Their town now liberated, Iraqi Christians talk of life under ISIS
(Kristen Chick, Christian Science Monitor)
Ransacked homes and little hope for returning Iraqi Christians
(Isabel Coles, Religion News Service)
Life 'an endless nightmare' for 500,000 Syrian children living under siege
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
India shrine: Women enter Mumbai's Haji Ali after ban ends
(BBC)
Indonesia’s only Christian governor questioned by police amid ‘blasphemy’ furore
(Imogen Faux, World Watch Monitor)
New center for immigrant children in Jerusalem
(Stand Together: A Shared Project for Christian Minorities)
Jewish community of Russia intercedes for Tatiana Navka
(Interfax-Religion)
Religious freedom in Vietnam still at risk despite new law
(Jardine Malado, Christian Times)
Ohio State attacker complained bitterly in Facebook post of treatment of Muslims ‘everywhere,’ reports say
(Katie Mettler, The Washington Post)
Muslim community fears backlash after Ohio State attack
(Esther Honig, NPR)
‘This is a sickness’: Officials investigating multiple letters calling for genocide of Muslims
(Kristine Guerra, The Washington Post)
Muslims respond to hate letters: "You're not going to scare us"
(Rolando Zenteno, CNN)
Muslim teen first to compete in hijab for Miss Minnesota
(BBC)
Haunted by holy ghosts: 'Devout Christian' cop is so 'blessed,' but questions remain
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Inazu installed as Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion
(Neil Schoenherr, Washington University in St. Louis)
Facebook runs up against German hate speech laws
(Mark Scott and Melissa Eddy, The New York Times)
Supreme Court rejects church's appeal over marijuana laws
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
‘We’ve never had anything like this’: Racist, threatening message left on door of black church
(Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post)
New Australian 'biodiversity' law 'a direct assault on Aboriginal laws, culture, religion
(Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Indy Bay)
Rabbis speak out against women's enlistment in IDF
(Mordechai Goldman, trans. Sandy Bloom, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
German domestic spy agency finds Islamist amongst its own
(Elizabeth Schumacher, Deutsche Welle)
Texas to implement rules requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains
(Alex Ura, Texas Tribune)
Final Texas rules on disposal of fetal remains are adopted
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Muslims sentenced to death for torture, murder of Christian couple over alleged Koran burning
(Morning Star News, Christianity Today)
Pakistan sentences 5 to death in killing of Christian couple over supposed Qur'an burning
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The abuse of Halacha: Keeping religious law under control
(Nathan Lopes Cardozo, The Algemeiner)
‘We have a culture war to win’: Why Starbucks cups always stir up controversy
(Maura Judkis, The Washington Post)
Castro's death: For a follow-up, Associated Press story misses big religious angles
(Jim Davis, GetReligion)
Why Jews in France might give right-wing populist Francois Fillon a chance
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Bosses told to ignore political correctness on religion and bring back Christmas
(Jon Rogers, Express)
After months of controversy, Texas will require aborted fetuses to be cremated or buried
(Samantha Schmidt, The Washington Post)
Religious liberty activists stand together — in prisons
(Terry Mattingly, Herald and News)
Sami rejects law against forced conversion of religion
(Iftikhar Alam, The Nation)
Putin imperils religious freedom: Column
(Clifford D. Mat and John Ruskay, USA Today)
Ireland gets ready for first papal visit since 1979
(Henry McDonald, The Guardian)
Hungarian Muslim group criticises town's 'xenophobic' decrees
(The Guardian)
Winter closes in on refugees fleeing Iraq's Mosul
(Reuters)
In fight for Mosul, an effort to bridge divide with Sunnis
(Hussein Malla, Hamza Hendawi, and Qassim Abdul-Zahra, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Two more Yazidi mass graves found near Mosul
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
In northern Iraq, Yazidis risk all to flee Islamic State
(John Davison, Reuters)
Mufti of Ukraine is afraid that the country will be turned in ISIS territory
(Interfax-Religion)
Failure to bring IS to justice shows UN genocide conventions ‘obsolete’
(Gabrielle Desarzens, World Watch Monitor)
Religious extremism is spreading to inland China: official
(Christian Shepherd, Michael Martina, and Nick Macfie, Reuters)
Talks to heal Catholic rift in China gain momentum under Francis
(Chris Buckley, The New York Times)
Hijab-wearing news anchor makes history in Canada
(Noor Wazwaz, NPR)
Thousands in Asia protest persecution of Myanmar's Rohingya
(Julhas Alam, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
South Dakota is getting its only full-time rabbi — and becoming the 50th state for Chabad
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)
Sioux anti-pipeline action sustained by Native American spirituality
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Updated: Standing Rock ministry stands resolutely with Sioux Nation’s cause
(Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service)
New Jersey town sued over mosque rejection faces tough case with Justice Dept.
(Dave Hutchinson, NJ Advance Media)
EU 12th High-Level Meeting of Religious Leaders
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
EVENT, 29 November 2017: Dialogue with churches, religious associations or communities and philosophical and non-confessional organisations
(European Commission)
Watch Live! EVENT, 29 November 2017 12:00 noon CET: High-Level Religious Leaders Meeting - press conference
(European Commission)
Pakistan province bans forced conversions of Christian girls to Islam
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Monday, 28 November 2016
'Religion and Law: Some Current Problems'
(The Rt Hon Lord Dyson, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
China takes a chain saw to a center of Tibetan Buddhism
(Edward Wong, The New York Times)
Rabbis question if spouses may live together if marriage contract burnt in fire
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
VIDEO: A Century of Genocides: Is Better Accommodation of Conscience an Answer? (Ján Figeľ and Cole Durham)
((YouTube Video), Emory Law School 100th Anniversary Keynote Presentation)
Religion can promote active citizenship among youths — religious leaders
(Rula Samain, The Jordan Times)
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