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Saturday, 30 July 2016

Why state of emergency brings back bad memories in Turkey
(Mahmut Bozarslan trans. Timur Göksel, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Workplaces can discriminate based on sexual orientation, federal judges rule
(Madeline Buckley and Amy Bartner, Indy Star)

French right calls for detention without trial for potential terrorists
(Cécile Barbière, EurActiv France)

Dalits, Muslims and the holy cow — OpEd
(Aijaz Zaka Syed, Arab News)

Will Europe refuse to kneel like the heroic French priest?
(Giulio Meotti, Gatestone Institute)

Islamism is an attack on our civilisation – this must be recognised, not evaded
(Charles Moore, The Telegraph)

Friday, 29 July 2016

School board files petition for review on transgender bathrooms
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)

Explainer: What is a slavery and human trafficking statement?
(Anna Dannreuther, RightsInfo)

The major role faith and religion will play at the 2016 Olympic Games
(Billy Hallowell, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)

Why was Iran so quick to rally behind Erdogan?
(Saeid Jafari, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)

Afghan mullah arrested after 'marriage' to 6-year-old girl
(Abdul Qadir Ghafoori and Frud Bezhan, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

Bahrain's little known democratic move
(Khalifa Alfadhel, Real Clear Politics)

Creating Frankenstein: The impact of Saudi export of ultra-conservatism in South Asia – Analysis
(James M. Dorsey, Eurasia Review)

Google Maps reverts to Soviet-era place names in Crimea
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

What Vatican Holocaust secrets? – OpEd
(William Donohue, Eurasia Review)

Defending religious liberty
(Frank R. Wolf, The Washington Times)

The end of faith-based programs is nigh
(Bill Donohue, CNSNews.com)

Two conventions, two nominees, and a whole new culture war
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)

5 prayers to God that were just uttered during the Democratic National Convention
(Billy Hallowell, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)

Islamic State's child soldiers: First come the sweets, then the beheadings
(Katrin Kuntz, Spiegel Online International)

Will WHO declassify transgender identity as a mental illness?
(Lonnie Shekhtman, The Christian Science Monitor)

Hours after historic Auschwitz visit, pope says ‘the same thing is happening’ today in many places
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Court to decide: Can discriminatory law end education program?
(The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Meridian Magazine)

India re-imposes curfew in Kashmir city, but clashes persist
(Aijaz Hussain, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Meet some pro-life Democrats
(Aleteia)

Muslim blasts extremists at Friday prayer with Christians
(Alex Turnbull and ELaine Ganley, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

President Poroshenko held meeting with representative of Ecumenical Patriarchate
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

One more time: The death of Father Jacques Hamel is part of two crucial, larger stories
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

French teacher investigated for sharing anti-Semitism with students
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Sisi warns against dangers of using religion to ignite strife
(Waleed Abdul Rahman, Asharq Alawsat)

Federal agencies focusing on religious discrimination in the workplace
(Lauren Wojtowicz Cohen, The National Law Review)

Democrats and Republicans double-down on abortion, but where do Americans stand?
(Billy Hallowell, Deseret News)

Clerics stress for pluralistic Pakistan
(Daily Times)

Virginia governor blasts religious freedom
(Conor Beck, Weekly Standard)

Catholic senator earns victory in federal court against HHS mandate
(Jennifer Brinker, St. Louis Review)

WYD panel discusses worldwide state of religious freedom
(The Knights of Columbus, Catholic News Agency)

Divine Rights and Human Rights
(Mark Movsesian, Library of Law and Liberty)

Engineering an enhanced human? The more religious you are, the less likely you’ll want to.
(Mary Hui, The Washington Post)

U.S. public wary of biomedical technologies to ‘enhance’ human abilities
(Cary Funk, Brian Kennedy, and Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac, Pew Research Center Internet, Science & Tech)

The impact of Sudan’s identity war on freedom of religion or belief
(FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))

U.S. rebukes Israel over new settlement activity in East Jerusalem
(Diaa Hadid, The New York Times)

Most Turks believe a secretive Muslim sect was behind the failed coup
(The Economist)

Munich guard proud of 'good deed done in the name of all Afghans'
(Deutsche Welle)

Isis is escalating its violence against Iraqi civilians. Why doesn’t the world care?
(Haider Newmani, The Guardian)

Abortion banned by controversial Mexican state governor
(David Agren, The Guardian)

Italy expels 2 Moroccans for threatening Catholic churches
(Colleen Barry, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

France identifies 2nd man who attacked church and killed priest
(Benoit Morenne, The New York Times)

French PM considers ban on foreign-funded mosques
(Agence France-Presse)

Can Clinton-Kaine bring Catholic voters back to the Democrats?
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)

Azerbaijan: Imprisonments, trial and torture of Muslims
(Forum 18 News Service)

Thursday, 28 July 2016

"Je suis Jacques Hamel"
(Jean Dushesne, First Things)

Ban on women singing at South Africa Holocaust memorial ceremony dropped
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Catholicism and violence: Time for some new religious thinking about war and peace
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Cleric's Kosovo arrest puts Iran's Balkan activities under spotlight
(Frud Bezhan, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

FEP drafts law on church construction
(Amira El-Fekki, Daily News Egypt)

How controversy over a march to celebrate the conversion of Russia highlights divisions in Ukraine
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)

Indian Christian forced to 'reconvert' among Hindu extremists' crackdown
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)

Iraqi envoy quit over failure to prevent IS ‘tragedies’
(Julian Pecquet, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Is new strategy needed for fighting IS in Syria?
(Asaad Hanna trans. Kamal Fayad, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)

Islamist terrorism, European denial
(Yves Manou, Gatestone Institute)

More and more Muslims in Egypt, Saudi Arabia leaving their faith, turned off by its teachings of violence and hatred
(Hazel Torres, Christian Today)

Muslim doctor forced to flee Pakistan for saving Christian's life
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)

Iraqi civil society fights new freedom of expression bill
(Mustafa Naser trans. Sami--Joe Abboud, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Counterterrorism expert warns of radicalization in British prisons
(Trevor Grundy, Religion News Service)

Search engines' role in radicalisation must be challenged, finds study
(Patrick Wintour, The Guardian)

After Normandy, we must open the church doors wide
(Sally Smith, The Guardian)

In Israel, Jews are adopting Muslim mystical practices, such as the whirling dervish dance
(Sara Toth Stub, The Washington Post)

Egypt's scholars reject government-written sermons
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Danish nationalists seek 'close to zero' Muslim migrants
(Jan M. Olsen, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

German police raid mosque and apartments in crackdown on Salafists
(Reuters)

India cow vigilantes held for beating up Muslim women over beef
(BBC News)

Terrorist attack on French church ignites fears of religious culture wars
(James McAuley, The Washington Post)

Supreme Court strikes down Scottish ‘named persons’ provisions: Christian Institute v Lord Advocate
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Jehovah's Witnesses and Orthodox play cat-and-mouse games
(Russia Religion News)

Jehovah's Witnesses' literature seized at customs
(Russia Religion News)

Israeli professor who refuses wife a religious divorce arrested in Belgium
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

NJ township urges Justice Dept. to investigate haredi Orthodox ‘blockbusting’
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Court defers verdict on doctor sacked from Catholic clinic for remarrying
(Ben Knight, Deutsche Welle)

Syriac patriarch warns of despair among displaced Iraqi Catholics
(Doreen Abi Raad, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Pope Francis opens Poland trip with challenge on immigration
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

With Auschwitz visit, pope faces complex Polish-Jewish story
(Vanessa Gera, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Catholic Church in Poland: 'Powerful' and 'conservative,' except when it isn’t
(Jim Davis, Get Religion)

Thanks for the advice, but we won’t put security guards at our church doors
(Caroline Farrow, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Colorado cakeshop owner appeals case over same-sex wedding cake to U.S. Supreme Court
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Saudi Arabia: Release Raif Badawi
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Court won’t bounce judge over accusations he’s ‘biased, senile and Mormon’
(Ben Winslow, Fox 13 Salt Lake City)

Mormon judge's recusal not required in case involving Indian tribe
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Atheists sue Kansas City over $65,000 handout to Baptist convention
(Press Release, American Atheists)

Atheist group sues Kansas City, Mo., over Baptist convention
(Reuters/Justin Madden, Religion News Service)

Kansas City sued over tourism grant to Baptist convention
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Anti-abortion activist agrees to limit protest activity outside of charter school
(Joe Heim, The Washington Post)

Fire erupts at Tampa mosque for second time in 10 days
(Dan Sullivan, Tampa Bay Times)

What. It. All. Means. Symbolic details in a priest's death in parish named for St. Stephen
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Tatar-Polish-Jewish-Ukrainian youth learning about each other in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic monastery
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

These are the religious accommodations available at the Rio Olympics
(antonia Blumberg, Huffpost Religion)

The existential war between Islamic State and secular France
(Jocelyne Cesari, The Conversation)

Common sense prevails at the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal
(Barry W. Bussey: Intersection, Canadian Council of Christian Charities)

Creeds and cultures combine for Interfaith Dinner
(Danielle Buckley, Daily Telegraph)

G20 South Asian conference concludes
(Aswin J Kumarl, The Times of India)

Religious freedom hindered: Sikhs face problems while carrying kirpans in city
(Saba Rani, Express Tribune)

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