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Thursday, 18 August 2016

Women in Nicaragua fight for the right to get abortions that could save their lives
(Shuka Kalantari, PRI's The World)

Why do black activists care about Palestine?
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)

Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on 'sacred land'
(Timothy Large, Reuters)

Dwindling Amazon Jewish community keeps faith despite religious exodus
(Ryan Schuessler, The Guardian)

Nigeria, battling Boko Haram, detains some of its victims
(Dionne Searcey, The New York Times)

Pope outlines vision for promoting life, family issues
(Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Missouri Catholic bishops urge defeat of gun bill allowing concealed carry without training
(Jason Hancock, The Kansas City Star)

Wyoming's top court weighs judge's same-sex marriage case
(Ben Neary, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

US attorney’s office to investigate dispute over Islamic cemetery in Massachusetts
(John R. Ellement, The Boston Globe)

Nearly half of refugees entering the U.S. this year are Muslim
(Phillip Connor, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)

EVENT, 18-19 August 2016: Religious Liberty Conference ‘Varieties of Diversity'
(with Iain Benson delivering Annual Religious Liberty Lecture, The University of Notre Dame Australia’s School of Law, Sydney)

The rights of the unborn: a troubling decision from the [Irish] High Court?
(Human Rights in Ireland, Máiréad Enright, Law & Religion UK)

Yes, Muslim women face discrimination – but they’re pushing for change
(Khursheed Wadia, The Conversation)

Rio pays tribute to 11 Israeli victims of ’72 Munich Olympic massacre
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Wednesday, 17 August 2016

Religion is crucial for a moral, peaceful society, Elder Holland tells Education Week attendees
(Marianne Holman Prescott, Deseret News)

Elder Holland at BYU: Preserving religion’s place can bind society together
(News Release, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

Religious freedom crisis averted in California
(Darren Patrick Guerra and Andrew T. Walker, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

California SB1146: Dodging a bullet, and what we can learn
(Gerald McDermott, Patheos Blog: The Northampton Seminar)

Resistance isn’t futile: Christians claim temporary religious liberty win in Cal.
(John Stonestreet, CNSNews.com)

European Day of Jewish Culture to have record 35 countries participating
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Will Saudi women break chains of male guardianship?
(Ibrahim al-Hatlani trans. Pascale Menassa, Al Monitor: Gulf Pulse)

Munich bans backpacks from this year's Oktoberfest
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Indonesia cuts jailed Islamic cleric's sentence by 3 months
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Police probe anti-Muslim notes left at apartment complex
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)

UN experts: Extremists foiling governments with encryption
(Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Fighting for the ‘soul of France,’ more towns ban a bathing suit: The burkini
(Alissa J. Rubin, The New York Times)

French PM supports local bans on burkinis
(Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian)

Are France's burkini bans sexist, or liberating?
(Angela Charlton, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

France targets foreign funds for mosques to stop radicalism
(Jonah Hicap, Christian Today)

France holds security meeting to discuss protecting schools
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)

French president visits pope after Islamic attacks
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Crowd-sourcing Bibles: how publishers are helping churches, street pastors and the homeless
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)

Public schools in Alabama urged to resist demands to remove God from programmes
(Jonah Hicap, Christian Today)

Anjem Choudary was given platform 'by the media, not Muslims'
(Vikram Dodd, The Guardian)

United Methodist Women stands against North Carolina’s “HB2” law
(Religion News Service)

Egyptians may ease rules for creating churches in Islam-majority nation
(Allan Turner, Chron)

Stanford scholar reveals complex view of Islam in Iranian poetry
(Aditi Chatradhi, The Stanford Daily)

Religious liberty runs into hate and fear in Detroit suburb
(Michigan Radio)

What is Sharia law?
(Gul Tuysu, CNN)

Once a prop for anti-Semites, the Talmud makes a comeback in Russia
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Coup attempt could cost Turkey more than military might
(Cengiz Candar, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Why Hezbollah won't open all-out front against Israel
(Ben Caspit trans. Danny Wool, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Who's behind assassination attempt on former Egyptian mufti?
(Amr Mostafa trans. Mike Nahum, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

US: Georgetown University appoints first director for Hindu Life, Hindu priest
(DNA India)

Google and the U.S. Government are helping orthodox Jews get tech jobs
(Gwen Ackerman, Bloomberg)

Danish mosque continues to make history
(The Copenhagen Post)

Hijab-wearing Muslim women being passed over for jobs in last form of 'acceptable' discrimination – MPs
(John Bingham, The Telegraph)

Why the Founding Fathers wanted to keep ministers from public office
(John Fea, Religion News Service)

The moral tribalism of contemporary politics
(Michael Schulson, Religion & Politics)

Kosher soup kitchen opening was ‘imminent’ — So what happened?
(Liza Schoenfein, Forward)

Looming Texas execution illustrates urgency of forgiveness
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Florida court rejects challenge to school voucher program
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Italian Islamic leader wants legal recognition of polygamy
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

French president meets pope in wake of priest’s murder
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

California legislator drops effort to remove religious school exemptions from anti-discrimination laws
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Alberta judge upholds human rights prayer decision against private school
(The Canadian Press)

Canadian court finds Human Rights Act violation in school's denying prayer space to Muslim students
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Pregnant bride can't sue historic synagogue
(Adam Klasfeld, Courthouse News Service)

Reinstatement precludes pregnancy discrimination suit against synagogue
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Muslim boy claims school forced him to falsely confess to ISIS allegiance: suit
(Emily Saul, New York Post)

Muslim 12-year-old was forced by school to sign false ISIS confession, lawsuit claims
(Priscila Korb, Islip Patch)

Suit seeks $25M damages for Islamophobic bullying of special-needs 12-year-old
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Martin Luther King Jr.’s heirs end Nobel medal dispute
(David Beasley, Reuters)

Suit over MLK's Nobel Peace Prize medal settled
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Ten Commandments monument in Maryland county will stay
(Press Release, Alliance Defending Freedom)

Plaintiff dismisses suit against Maryland Ten Commandments monument
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Court rules in favor of Step Up scholarship program
(Thomas St. Myer, Pensacola News Journal)

Florida Appeals Court says challengers of tax credit scholarships lack standing
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Briefing on the Release of the 2015 Annual Report on International Freedom (IRF)
(United States Department of State)

State Department issues 2015 International Religious Freedom Report
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Why Christmas should matter to us whether we are ‘religious’ or not
(Christopher Deacy, OUPblog Religion)

A suicide party? Moral and religious questions? Associated Press draws a blank
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

The abortion rights movement is bolder than it’s been in years. That’s Cecile Richards’s plan.
(Caitlin Gibson, The Washington Post)

A look at religion in Indonesia 71 years since independence
(Natashya Gutierrez, Rappler)

Does religious liberty protect child neglect?
(Jacob Lupfer, Patheos Blog: Capitol & Cathedral - Faith in the 2016 Election)

Lidasan: Inter religious dialogue through academic partnership
(Mussolini Sinsuat Lidasan, Sun Star Davao)

100 students to receive training as interfaith dialogue practitioners
(Ashraf Padanna, Gulf Times)

Welcome to City Plaza, Athens: a new approach to housing refugees
(Vicki Squire, The Conversation)

Tasmania seeks to protect 'freedom of religion' ahead of gay marriage debate
(Richard Baines, ABC News)

Britain is unusually irreligious, and becoming more so. That calls for a national debate
(The Economist)

A little-known Pakistani tribe that loves wine and whiskey fears its Muslim neighbors
(Tim Craig, The Washington Post)

India court bans children from human pyramid festival
(BBC News)

Germany sees Turkey as platform for Islamist groups, leak shows
(Patrick Donahue, Bloomberg)

Who is an extremist? UK faces legal challenge over strategy to stop radicals
(Michael Holden, Reuters)

Yeshivas take lesson in secular studies
(Leslie Brody, The Wall Street Journal)

Oklahoma man jailed in killing accused of anti-Muslim rants
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Fifty Turkish professors suspected of links with Gulen ousted from Azerbaijani university
(Interfax-Religion)

The Conference of European Rabbis to discuss problems of terrorism and anti-Semitism in Moscow
(Interfax-Religion)

Turkey bankrolling Hamas, German officials say
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Poland proposes to jail users of term ‘Polish death camps’
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

U.N. chief warns of unprecedented 'catastrophe' in Syria's Aleppo
(Michelle Nichols, Reuters)

Religious accommodation struggles in the U.S. workplace
(Jonah Hicap, Christian Today)

Churches destroyed, Bibles burned: Nigerian church leader on Christians returning home after Boko Haram
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)

Jewish activists highlight growing movement in visit to disputed holy site
(Nick Schifrin, NPR)

Jewish community leader says removing 18C would send 'worst possible message'
(Gabrielle Chan, The Guardian)

Doctors at Catholic hospitals may be unable to refer women for services
(Kathryn Doyle, Reuters)

Pilgrims crowd church where Mother Teresa once prayed
(Valerie Plesch, Religion News Service)

Thousands of Bolivian Catholics break rocks to change fortunes
(Elly Park, Reuters)

Tuesday, 16 August 2016

What is extremist belief? An answer from medieval Islamic philosophy
(Anthony Booth, The Conversation)

What do American schools teach about Islam? PC or nothing
(Joy Pullman, The Federalist)

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