Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 18 July 2016
Difficult week for New York Orthodox rabbi as politics of U.S. and Israel cause him problems
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Nice attack brings a difficult question into sharp focus: why France?
(Philomena Murray, The Conversation)
Sunday, 17 July 2016
Nice terror attack prompts new right-wing calls for war against Islam
(Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post)
Law and religion round-up – 17th July
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
EVENT, 13-17 July 2016: Conference of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion, St. Patrick's Campus, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia
(Australian Catholic University)
'He's going straight to hell': Nice's Muslims disavow Mohamed Bouhlel after truck massacre
(Jack Moore, Newsweek)
Saturday, 16 July 2016
Genesis of the South Sudan conflict
(TRT World)
Friday, 15 July 2016
Teasing terrorists: Fighting Islamic State with laughter and a listening ear
(S.K., The Economist [Prospero: Books, arts and culture])
Christians disrupt satanic prayer during Pensacola meeting
(Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL,com)
A timeline of ISIS atrocities & our actions to defend Christians facing genocide
(American Center for Law and Justice)
Christianity's amazing survival: New book explores faith's growth amid persecution and other 'awe-inspiring paradoxes'
(Hazel Torres, Christian Today)
Baghdad bishop: Iraqi Christians feel nobody cares for them
(Lorraine Caballero, Christian Today)
Canberra Hindu Mardir Incorporated wants new spiritual and temple centre for ACT
(Clare Sibthorpe, The Canberra Times)
Churches attacked with petrol bombs in southern India
(UCAN)
Quebec increases funding for homeschooling
(Caroline Plante, Montreal Gazette)
Another case against Jehovah's Witnesses
(Russia Religion News)
Russian Muslims send condolences to families of Nice terrorist act victims
(Interfax-Religion)
French, UN leaders criticize Israel for barring Palestinian entry
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Group of parishioners of Russian cathedral in Nice killed in attack - Orthodox journalist
(Interfax-Religion)
How punitive, omniscient gods may have encouraged the expansion of human society
(Benjamin Purzycki, Real Clear Religion)
People vote in churches and synagogues, why not mosques?
(Terry Spencer, Associated Press)
California Lieutenant Governor seek fair portrayal of Hinduism in text books
(The Hindu)
Myanmar: Religion data release sparks fears
(Anadolu Agency)
Joint statement condemning Newt Gingrich’s proposal to deport American Muslims
(Press Release, Religious Freedom Center Newseum Institute)
Religious freedom in the military under increased assault, Advocates say
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
Brooklyn man hangs self — 26th New York Orthodox suicide in year
(Josh Nathan-Kazis, The Forward)
Bending religious colleges to secular rules
(Michael A. Helfand, The Wall Street Journal)
Bastille Day attack reignites terrorism and religion debate
(Rosie Scammell and Jerome Socolovsky, Religion News Service)
Police chaplain: Answering questions of mortality
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Police chaplains struggle amid summer of pain, fear
(Rhina Guidos, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Ex-president says Christianity, history save Ireland from xenophobia
(Fr. Michael J. Rogers S.J., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
The Catholic vote: Big changes in four years
(Paul Moses, Commonweal)
Financial implications of ‘Religious Freedom’ appeal unclear
(Ron Maxey, Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Appeals court: Florida must provide prisoners kosher food
(Curt Anderson, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
11th Circuit: RLUIPA requires Florida to provide inmates with kosher meals
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
11th Circuit: Florida prisons must offer kosher food
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
7th Circuit grants preliminary injunction to Wiccan inmate
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Bayit Yehudi accused of ‘capitulating’ to Shas over rabbinical court judges
(Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post)
Israel finally appoints rabbinical appellate judges
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Is the Islamic State planning a cyber-caliphate?
(Metin Gurcan trans. Timur Göksel, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
In battle for Aleppo, Syria may be at stake
(Tamar Osman trans. Mohammad Khalil, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Abuja violence: Christian elders call on Islamic leaders to abolish doctrine of hatred
(Lorraine Caballero, Christian Daily)
Use Pokémon Go game to spread the Gospel, Christian pastors urged
(Lorraine Caballero, Christian Today)
Will conflict continue as Iraq's Sunni areas are liberated from IS?
(Mustafa Saadoun trans. Sami-Joe Abboud, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Yarovaya Law: Russian Christians fear religious suppression similar to KGB crackdown
(Lorraine Caballero, Christian Daily)
Sinai tribal leader says military curfew harms residents, helps terrorists
(George Mikhail trans. Mike Nahum, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
One of the San Bernardino shooters studied at a women's Islamic school in Pakistan. Here's what it's like to attend one.
(Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times)
How a Danish town helped young Muslims turn away from ISIS
(Hanna Rosin, NPR)
After decades of mistrust, Pope pushes for breakthrough with China
(Lisa Jucca, Benjamin Kang Lim, and Greg Torode, Reuters)
France calls up reservist forces after deadly Nice rampage
(Colleen Barry and Lori Hinnant, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Prayer and pain: why gay conversion therapy is still legal despite dangers
(Tom Dart, The Guardian)
Republican platform calls for repeal of ban on political organizing by churches
(Elizabeth Dias, TIME)
Malta: Repealing blasphemy law a victory for freedom of speech, says Humanist Association
(Times of Malta)
There are more than 20 million Muslims in China. For some, piety is a dangerous political act.
(James Palmer, Vox)
European Identity Series
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Terror with Tunisian DNA: Wait, how does Brexit figure into this hellish equation?
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion)
Mosque and state: Cut 'n' paste approach mars stories on polling controversy
(Jim Davis, Get Religion)
Religion and the American West Coast: On America’s Pacific shore, many religious currents meet
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
KAICIID Board of Directors condemns violence, calls for continued dialogue in the wake of Nice attacks
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
Terror in France, again: Why Nice was an unsurprising location for a terrorist attack
(The Economist)
Nice’s defiant Jews to gather on Shabbat despite terrorist attack
(JTA)
Hollande: After deadly Nice attack, all of France living under the threat of Islamist terrorism
(JTA)
Burka ban for Muslims enforced in Switzerland with fines of as much as £8,000
(The Telegraph)
5 faith facts on Mike Pence: A ‘born-again, evangelical Catholic’
(Emily McFarlan Miller and Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
How technology disrupted the truth: Social media has swallowed the news.
(Katharine Vinar, The Guardian)
Nice attack: What we know about the Bastille Day killings
(BBC News)
Nice attack: truck driver named as France mourns 84 killed in Bastille Day atrocity – live
(Alan Yuhas (now), Matthew Weaver, Bonnie Malkin and Kevin Rawlinson (earlier), The Guardian)
10 children among dead in France truck attack; 202 people wounded
(Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post)
The Nice attack and the corrosive effects of anxiety
(Mark Beeson, The Conversation)
Nice on French counter-terrorism radars long before deadly attack
(Joseph Bamat, France 24 International News)
Nice: Pendulum of Jihad starts swinging
(Lyuba Lulko, Pravda.ru)
Annual reports on freedom of religion or belief
(Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Annual Report on the State of Freedom of Religion or Belief in the World 2015-2016
(The European Parliament Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Religious Tolerance)
Annual Reports of Human Rights WIthout Frontiers International
Kazakhstan: How many punished for exercising freedom?
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
2015 Report of The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe
A free society is a moral achievement – Rabbi Sacks receives The Bradley Prize (full text of the address)
(Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks, Website of Rabbi Sacks)
Eid becomes an occasion for interfaith exchanges
(Anup Ojha, The Kathmandu Post)
No religion teaches violence, killings, says Dalai Lama
(The Tribune India)
South Africa’s vote against internet freedom tarnishes its global image
(Penelope Andrews, The Conversation)
Rabbinical court sentences Israeli man to 5 years in jail for refusing wife a divorce
(JTA)
South Sudan is destroying its free press, one journalist at a time
(Opoka p'Arop Otto, The Guardian)
Russia and China challenge the Western hegemony in the interpretation of international law
(Lauri Mälksoo, EJIL: Talk!)
Where Teresa May's new cabinet stand on human rights
(Sian Lea, RightsInfo)
Department for Exiting the European Union
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Could Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland stop Westminster changing human rights laws?
(Naomi Webber, RightsInfo)
US rabbis outraged by Israeli rabbinical court’s treatment of convert
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
Europe’s free speech problem: a cautionary tale The unfolding of a totalitarian impulse
(Paul Coleman, MercatorNet)
Russia: Counterterror law tightened, basic freedoms threatened
(Ivan Nechepurenko, Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Russia: Church reacts as ‘anti-missionary bill’ becomes law
(World Watch Monitor)
Virginia school board asks Supreme Court to block order in transgender bathroom case
(Paper Chase, Jurist)
The single most important talk you need to hear about religious freedom (by Tim Wilson)
(Michael F. Bird, Patheos Blog: Euangelion)
Polish official criticized over Jewish massacre remarks
(Vanessa Gera, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Thursday, 14 July 2016
"Blasphemy Laws and Censorship by States and Non-State Actors"
(Testimony of USCIRF Chair Thomas J. Reese, S.J., Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission)
Nationalists attempt to interfere with All-Ukraine sacred procession
(Interfax-Religion)
Interfaith coalition urges Senate action on Supreme Court vacancy
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
School board asks Court to block transgender bathroom ruling
(Amy Howe, SCOTUS Blog)
Americans unveil their views on whether it's 'morally wrong to change the gender you were born with'
(Billy Hallowell and Megan McNulty, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)
Informers do Jehovah's Witnesses in
(Anton Chivchalov, Russia Religion News)
Moscow mosque imam charged with public justification of terrorism - Russian Investigative Committee
(Interfax-Religion)
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