Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 17 October 2016
Submission to the UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights: The human rights implications of Brexit
(Human Rights Watch)
The question of religious freedom and the law in India
(Abhik Chimni, The Citizen)
Cardinal vows prayer, aid after disaster at Hindu procession
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
India: Muslim groups reject law panel move on uniform civil code
(The Hindu)
Ramayana museum row: Opposition slams BJP for linking religion with politics
(Daily News and Analysis)
A Hindu and a Muslim started living together. What happened next won’t surprise you.
(Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, The Wire)
Pakistan's new strategy: Exploit India's fault-lines on caste and religion, encourage Modi baiters
(Prabhash K Dutta, India Today)
Sunday, 16 October 2016
A week dominated by Brexit (and just how often will we read that?) - but there was a mixed bag of other news as well...
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Brexit Basics 10: update 15th October
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
UNESCO declares Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site – as Muslim
(William Watkinson, International Business Times)
Tensions Mount: A row at the UN bodes ill for the sharing of Jerusalem’s holiness
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Saturday, 15 October 2016
Mormon Leadership
(Martin E. Marty, The University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
LDS Church responds to leaked videos of briefings for Mormon apostles
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)
Counter-extremism: Conclusions and recommendations
(Parliament.uk)
Can groups be exempted from Human Rights? And when is a trial fair?
(Naomi Webber, Rights Info: Human Rights News, Views & Info)
UNESCO chair hopes for delayed vote on Jerusalem resolution, calls for more dialogue
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Foiled Islamist attack in Germany: A terrorist, three heroes and a bumbling judiciary
(Speigel Online International)
Friday, 14 October 2016
For Archbishop Chaput, 'Catholic Spring' group did untold damage
(Kevin J. Jones, Catholic News Service)
Tension rises on Temple Mount during Jewish holy days
(Ben Caspit trans. Sandy Bloom, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Massachusetts law could forbid churches to preach on transgenderism
(The Catholic World Report)
Tennessee school board to vote on religious liberty policies
(Melanie Balakit, The Tennessean)
Protecting religious freedom a 'provocative' challenge (Heiner Bielefeldt)
(Jason Swensen, Deseret News Faith)
Iraq’s Turkmens call for independent province
(Wassim Bassem trans. Sahar Ghoussoub, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
How Burkina Faso's different religions live in peace
(BBC)
Malaysia’s secular versus religious divide: Why mediation could hold the key
(Saleena Saleem, Asia & the Pacific Policy Society)
King of Bahrain donates land for new church
(Joseph Hartropp, Christian Today)
“Peace Bells for Aleppo” ring throughout Finland, spread worldwide
(World Council of Churches)
First Russian monastery to open in South America
(Interfax-Religion)
Uzbekistan to host meeting of OIC Council of Foreign Ministers on October 18-19
(Interfax-Religion)
Poroshenko asked to ban Eurovision opening at Kiev's St. Sophia cathedral
(Interfax-Religion)
Trump and Clinton aren’t the biggest threats to our republic. The electorate’s disproportionate rage is a much greater cause for concern
(David French, National Review)
Saudi funding of Wahhabi ideology must stop in order to fight it - al-Assad
(Interfax-Religion)
Europe’s no-go zones: Inside the lawless ghettos that breed and harbour terrorists
(Geoffrey Clarfield and Salim Mansur, National Post)
Big in Europe: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
(Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic)
Gauck: German president's faith 'irrelevant'
(Deutsche Welle)
The value of bridging the gap between faith-based charities and religious 'nones'
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News InDepth)
BJC: Oklahoma referendum threatens important religious safeguards
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Labour lawmaker says anti-Semitic attacks on her scare, sadden her family
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Foreign Policy's story on ISIS' brutality of women tantalizes but disappoints
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
English Consistory Courts deny requested headstone inscriptions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge bans widow from erecting gravestone saying her epitaph is "oversentimental"
(Nicola Harley, The Telegraph)
3rd Circuit gives Muslim inmate victory on retaliation and RFRA claims
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Muslim inmate who claims guard slapped 'I Love Bacon' sticker on him can keep pursuing federal lawsuit
(Matt Miller, Penn Live)
Jan Figel - EU Special Envoy for FORB outside the EU, about his mission
(30 June 2016 at the launch of the annual report on Freedom of Religion or Belief by the Intergroup in the European Parliament, Brussels, YouTube Video Presentation)
Testaments Old and New? Bob Dylan's story is baptized in all of that, chapter and verse
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Nigeria's Boko Haram frees 21 kidnapped Chibok girls after 2-1/2 years
(Alexis Akwagyiram and Felix Onuah, Reuters)
Chibok girls ‘not swapped’ but released after ‘careful negotiation’
(World Watch Monitor)
Chibok girls give much-needed boost to Buhari's leadership
(Thomas Mösch, Deutsche Welle)
Newsweek Pakistan -- The fight for equal rights: Can global religious freedom help support women's rights?
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Asia Bibi’s appeal delayed; 150 Islamic leaders call for her to hang, whatever the outcome
(Asif Aqeel, World Watch Monitor)
Why was Asia Bibi's death penalty appeal postponed, and what happens next?
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
The Guardian view on blasphemy in Pakistan: a dark moment for religious freedom
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Asia Bibi blasphemy appeal adjourned in Pakistan as judge pulls out
(Jon Boone, The Guardian)
Supreme Court adjourns hearing of Asia Bibi case
(Nasir Iqbal, Dawn.com)
Asia Bibi: Pakistan Supreme Court adjourns death row appeal
(BBC)
Pakistan steps up persecution with ban on 11 Christian TV stations
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)
What the appointment of Antonio Guterres as UN secretary-general means for the refugee crisis
(Geoff Gilbert, The Conversation)
Turkey to deport American Christian couple as ‘national security risk’
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
Can you seek to annul a marriage when one of the parties is dead?: Mikołajczyk v Czarnecka
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Anglican clergy defy British embassy to kick-start Egyptian tourism
(Jayson Casper, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Video showing police officers planting banned religious literature in a Jehovah's Witnesses place of worship
((link provided by Human RIghts Without Frontiers International), YouTube)
Go to jail for daring to evangelise: The growing threat to Christians in Nepal
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)
UNESCO backs motion nullifying Jewish ties to Temple Mount
(Barak Ravid and Jack Khoury, Haaretz)
Rabbi Lazar criticizes Russia for supporting UNESCO resolution on Jerusalem
(Interfax-Religion)
Iranian court set to hear appeal of Christian converts sentenced to 80 lashes each for drinking Communion wine
(Hazel Torres, Christian Today)
Israel freezes UNESCO ties for 'denying Jewish holy sites'
(BBC)
Israeli anger at UNESCO motion condemning 'aggressions' at holy site
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Cairo bishop urges Church to be ready for martyrdom
(Jayson Casper, World Watch Monitor)
Controversial anti-Islam politician to go on trial for allegedly inciting racial hatred
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)
Flannery O'Connor's genius and grace
(William Doino Jr., First Things)
The professor wore a hijab in solidarity--then lost her job
(Ruth Graham, The New York Times)
India Jains say 'many children have fasted'
(TS Sudhir, BBC)
Grassroots petition prompts Adventist Health to take stronger stance on assisted suicide
(Brad Dacus, Pacific Justice Institute)
Court forces Christian nursing homes to allow killing patients in assisted suicides
(Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews)
Poles protest ruling party chief's anti-abortion proposal
(Monika Scislowska, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Hillary Clinton wins projected Muslim vote by landslide in CAIR survey
(Kirkland An, Religion News Service)
NY Hebrew charter school network awarded $4.9M federal grant
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Maryland sheriff resigns over alleged racist, anti-Semitic remarks
(Michael E. Miller, The Washington Post)
Bombing suspect pleads not guilty in shootout with New Jersey officers
(Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times)
Catholic University graduate alleges school was ‘indifferent’ to rape report
(Nick Anderson, The Washington Post)
What's driving Palestinian attacks?
(Shlomi Eldar trans. Sandy Bloom, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
What’s behind Sadrists’ return to Iraq’s Shiite National Alliance?
(Adnan Abu Zeed trans. Sahar Ghoussoub, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Chechen mufti reproaches Turkey for granting shelter to Chechen terrorists
(Interfax-Religion)
Christian U.S. Air Force officer may face punishment for saying Jesus influences his decisions
(Andre Mitchell, Christian Today)
As Aleppo is destroyed, Syrian church leaders plead for peace on behalf of children
(Joseph Hartropp, Christian Today)
High court overturns lifetime bans for Trojan horse teachers
(Richard Adams, The Guardian)
They survived Islamist terrorists. Now, millions in Nigeria face a new threat: starvation.
(Kevin Sieff, The Washington Post)
Deadly attacks target defiant Shiite worshipers in Afghanistan amid security fears
(Pamela Constable, The Washington Post)
Iran breaks up Islamic State bombing plot targeting Ashoura
(Nasser Karimi, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Australia court says bishop to face charges he hid sex abuse
(Associated Press, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Let's be clear: It's rape, not a relationship, when a youth pastor impregnates a teen
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Satanic temple seeks to perform city council invocation
(Olivia Quintana, The Boston Globe)
This election might actually put Utah, solidly Republican for 48 years, in play
(Terry Gildea, NPR)
Religion and the American presidency: On both the left and right, religious rage in the presidential race is more political than spiritual
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Clinton campaign emails don’t just smear Catholics, but religions and women
(Helen Alvaré, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
EVENT, 14 October 2016: Webinar — Social media & scholars of religion
(Josha Stanton and Andre Henry, Religious Freedom Center, Newseum Institute)
Quote of the day: Liberty University students
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Transgender identities are not always permanent: A man who lived as a woman for years shares his traumatic experience
(Walt Heyer, MercatorNet: Conjugality)
Thursday, 13 October 2016
European Commission and IT Companies announce Code of Conduct on illegal online hate speech
(Press Release Database, European Commission)
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