Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Boy Scouts lifts ban on gays, but atheists must join Unitarian Church
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Kong Hee revival draws 1,000 Pastors in southeast Asia amid persecution of believers
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
School official who attacked church for wishing Muslims 'Blessed Ramadan' apologizes but won't resign
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Facebook accused of restricting free speech after 'removing atheist pages'
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
L.A.county ruling a 'victory for the book burners'?
(Caitlin Burke, CBN News)
Christians and Muslims - how to bridge the gap
(CBN News)
World's largest Tibetan Buddhist institute ordered demolished by Chinese government
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
The Economist explains: Why Orthodox patriarchs are meeting after centuries
(The Economist)
Austrian ‘March for Jesus’ gathered thousands
(Evangelical Focus)
4th Circuit revives some claims in challenge to school district's graduation practices
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Fourth Circuit vacates South Carolina court ruling on prayers at graduation ceremonies
(Press Release, American Humanist Association)
Rightwing 'lone wolves' kill more than Islamic terrorists acting alone, says report
(Sandra Laville, The Guardian)
Cross out cross on LA County seal: ACLU outrage over unconstitutional Christian focus
(Hillary Jackson, MyNewsLA.com)
Sen. Portman: ‘I don’t know’ that 2nd amendment, radical Islam ‘are really linked’
(Joe Setyon, CNSNews.com)
Kyrgyzstan: Islam and secularism clash again
(Mariya Zozulya, Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
What does 'radical Islam' mean?
(KUOW News and Information)
Obama's health advisors reject 'right of conscience' challenge to California's required abortion coverage
(David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times)
HHS rules that California did not violate Weldon Amendment
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Brexit: UKIP's 'unethical' anti-immigration poster
(Anealla Safdar, Al Jazeera)
Trump meets with Evangelical leaders in New York
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Trump campaign announces Evangelical executive advisory board
(Press Release, Donald J. Trump)
Thrilling Christian conservative audience, Trump vows to lift ban on politicking, appoint antiabortion judges
(Michelle Boorstein and Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)
Muslim tells Senate: No problem with 'radical Islam'
(Mariana Barillas, Washington Examiner)
Both sides find reasons to be pleased in Greenville school prayer ruling
(Tim Smith, Greenville Online)
Where are the Copts when you need one?
(George Mikhail, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Pope to visit Armenia after irking Turkey with ‘genocide’ label
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
Anti-Semitic assaults spike in US
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Azerbaijan: One more sentenced prisoner of conscience
(Forum 18 News Service)
American Medical Association approves resolution to ‘study’ assisted suicide
(Fr. Mark Hodges, LifeNews)
Al-Azhar: to leave Islam is ‘treason’
(World Watch Monitor)
British doctors overwhelmingly vote against dropping opposition to assisted suicide
(Dave Andrusko, LifeNews)
Progressive Jews convene in Latin America to debate democracy as a Jewish value
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Jewish man wearing kippah beaten in Berlin
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Indian state grants minority status to Jewish community
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Mend, don't end, a religious-freedom law
(Editorial, Los Angeles Times)
Kentucky clerk opposed to gay marriage says state law negates appeal
(Ben Klayman, Reuters)
Former US Army veteran threatened at gunpoint in Islamophobic attack
(Aaisha Dadi Patel, The Daily Vox)
Syria activists say airstrikes on IS-held Raqqa kill 18
(Philip Issa, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Lebanese army slowly crushing extremists near Syria border
(Bassem Mroue and Andrea Rosa, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
School board member, delegate sorry for Islam sign complaint
(Ron Todt, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
ADL: Anti-Semitic incidents at US colleges doubled in 2015
(The Times of Israel)
Second Ahmadi man killed in Pakistan with a month
(UCAN)
Boko Haram internally fractured over ISIS ties, U.S. general says
(Phil Stewart, Haaretz)
Scholar calls for more action to correct misconceptions about Islam in US
(Haneen Dajani, The National)
Human rights activist: ISIS created ‘parallel religion’ that is ‘no more Islamic than a pool with one lemon squeezed in it is lemonade’
(Melanie Hunter, CNSNews.com)
Scientologists detained in St. Petersburg remain under witness status, no charges pressed – source
(Interfax-Religion)
Law enforcement officials taking passport details of Church of Scientology members in Moscow
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Church registers 130 violations of Orthodox Christians' rights in Europe in 2015
(Interfax-Religion)
Texas city fights Freedom From Religion Foundation over 'God's country' signs
(Fox News)
Turkish students up in arms over Islamization of education
(Sukru Kucuksahin, Al Monitor)
Turkish-EU ties in throes of a slow death
(Semih Idiz, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Centuries-old Kufa mosque still holds religious, political significance
(Wassim Bassem, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Egypt condemns Orlando attack, yet continues crackdown on LGBT citizens
(Shahira Amin, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Why Syria's Kurds are cooperating with Russia
(Sardar Mlla Drwish, Al Monitor)
Muslim cleric stands up against extremism in Bosnia
(Deutsche Welle)
Mayor ordered to remove modesty signs from Israeli city
(i24 News)
California bill would ultimately erase religious schools
(Holly Scheer, The Federalist)
Russian security service conducts raids on Church of Scientology
(The Guardian)
Guyana Anglicans to allow women to be ordained as priests
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Doctor from Ahmadi minority shot dead in Pakistan
(Adil Jawad, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Israel eyes law to remove online content inciting terrorism
(Tova Cohen, Reuters)
Federal agency upholds California abortion coverage mandate
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
As the nation debates the place of Islam, the CIA’s Muslim officers fight terrorism
(Missy Ryan, The Washington Post)
A Muslim community in Virginia feels the heat of extremists’ sins
(Katie Shepherd, The New York Times)
After Orlando, reclaiming our common humanity
(Charles C. Haynes, Newseum Institute: Inside the First Amendment)
Victims of religious persecution in Vietnam
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Victims of Apostasy and Blasphemy
(Kamal Fahmi and Aaron Rhodes, Set My People Free / Forum for Religious Freedom - Europe)
Vietnam: UN experts urge Viet Nam to stop the persecution and torture of religious leaders and rights defenders
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
An Open Letter to Delegations to the United Nations regarding Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws
(Kamal Fahmi and Aaron Rhodes, Set My People Free / Forum for Religious Freedom - Europe)
World: Apostasy and blasphemy laws violate human rights and human nature
(Press Release, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Gorilla’s head leads to return of church relic
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
Bermuda: Civil unions the lone undeniable human right
(Opinion, The Royal Gazette)
Myanmar bans officials from saying 'Rohingya'
(Al Jazeera)
Turkish riot police break up LGBT rally in Istanbul
(Al Jazeera)
India’s Muslim women seek to ban ‘triple talaq’ divorce law
(Akhtar Ali, Religion News Service)
Swastikas in London stoke fears of rise in anti-Semitism
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Closure of Kenyan refugee camp worries religious leaders
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Evangelicals give Trump much-needed boost after Manhattan summit
(David Gibson and Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
FLDS leader Lyle Jeffs flees custody, federal warrant issued for his arrest
(Marcie Young Cancio, KUTV News)
Polygamous leader Lyle Jeffs flees home confinement
(Brady McCombs, Associated Press)
FLDS leader flees while on bond awaiting trial
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Attorney: Treat same-sex couples same as others for licenses
(Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press)
Judge refuses to block Mississippi anti-LGBT law
(Curtis Skinner, Reuters)
Court denies preliminary injunction against Mississippi's conscience protection for county clerks
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Big loss for victims’ lobby
(Bill Donohue, Catholic League for Civil and Political Rights)
N.Y. legislature fails to reach deal for Child Victims Act before legislative session ends
(Kenneth Lovett, New York Daily News)
Greek Orthodox Pentecost prayers anger Jewish radicals on Mt. Zion
(Eetta Prince-Gibson, Haaretz)
New York legislature punts on extending statute of limitations for child sex abuse claims
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New report on Islamophobia in the United States
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Confronting fear: Islamophobia and its impact in the U.S. 2013-2015
(Council on American-Islamic Relations)
Saudi Arabia: Only those performing Tawaf can pray in mataf area
(Arab News)
Chinese Christians detained over religious materials
(UCAN)
Catholic colleges: ‘Gender identity’ in Title IX threatens religious freedom
(Adam Cassandra, The Cardinal Newman Society)
Pope Francis: ‘Death penalty is unacceptable’
(Deborah Castellano Lubov, Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)
No nation can fulfil potential if religious freedom denied: US
(The Economic Times)
Why same-sex marriage will pave the way to polygamy
(Peter Sprigg, Religion News Service)
What is the proper role of faith in the election?
(Panelists, Patheos Topics: Public Square)
Muslim mob torches 80 Christian homes in Egypt as punishment for wanting to build church
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
NYC removes 'men,' 'women' bathroom signs to conform to transgender policy
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Pakistan: Five Christians acquitted of blasphemy charges, two jailed
(Florence Taylor, Christian Today)
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