Law and Religion Headlines

Thursday, 9 June 2016

Will Egypt's Copts get to build more churches?
(Rania Rabeaa Elabd, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

Ireland abortion ban subjected woman to suffering and discrimination – UN experts
(UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)

Will Arab-American voters rally around Clinton?
(Barbara Slavin, Al-Monitor)

Pa. legislators who backed abuse bill feel heat from church
(Maria Panaritis, The Philadelphia Inquirer)

American ISIS fighter who ‘found it hard’ returns to face criminal charges
(Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post)

Judge issues final order upholding Alabama same-sex marriage
(Karen Brooks, Reuters)

National Cathedral to remove Confederate flag images
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Georgia Baptist official says religious freedom is not for Muslims
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)

Mennonite Church coming apart over sexuality issues
(Rich Preheim, Religion News Service)

Lawsuit filed over Tennessee 'religious freedom' law allowing counselors to refuse LGBT people
(David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement)

Kazakhstan: 31st criminal conviction since December 2014
(Forum 18 News Service)

Freedom of speech and religion enshrined in constitution
(The Economic Times)

Vanderbilt adds transgender surgeries to student insurance
(Adam Tamburin, The Tennessean)

Pan-Orthodox synod in doubt amid inter-church wrangling
(Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press, USA Today)

As Pan-Orthodox Council approaches, conflicts and uncertainty intensify
(Fr. Cyril Hovorum, The Catholic World Report)

Why even the Pan-Orthodox Council isn’t common ground for Orthodox churches
(Andrei Zolotov, Jr., Russia Beyond the Headlines)

Most Muslims say they fast during Ramadan
(Fatima Ghani, Pew Research Center Fact Tank (from July 2013))

Divided America: Evangelicals feel alienated, anxious
(Rachel Zoll, Associated Press, The Big Story)

Mirror-image news, again: Concerning those Ramadan prayers inside Hagia Sophia
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion (blog))

Turkey, Greece fight over “bigotry” of Hagia Sophia Ramadan prayers
(The Turkish Sun)

Russian Supreme Court bans Jehovah’s Witnesses branch
(Russian Legal Information Agency)

Russian Church questions pan-Orthodox status of slated Council
(Interfax-Religion)

Serbian Orthodox Church refuses to participate in Pan-Orthodox Council
(Interfax-Religion)

Constantinople Patriarchate threatens the unity of Orthodox world - historian
(Interfax-Religion)

Azerbaijani President Aliyev accuses Armenia of adding religious tint to Karabakh conflict
(Interfax-Religion)

Terrorists attack Kurdish neighborhood in Aleppo during morning Muslim prayer
(Interfax-Religion)

Case of Chapin and Charpentier v. France (no right to same-sex marriage)
(European Court of Human Rights)

Prayer breaks present difficult religious accommodation issue
(Steven T. Collis, The National Law Review)

Sex, religion lessons ‘not for activists, ideological interest groups’
(Natasha Bita, The Australian)

Montenegrin Jewish leaders participate in inter-faith forum in Kosovo
(World Jewish Congress)

BJC: Baptist editor is wrong to claim Muslims don’t deserve religious freedom
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))

Christian Index editor says he’s willing to meet CAIR-Georgia members
(Shelia Poole, Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Muslims have right to religious freedom in America too, Russell Moore says
(Michael Gryboski, Christian Post)

Adventists rethink how to defend religious freedom in South America
(Lucas Rocha, Adventist Review)

'Human rights, freedom of religion deteriorating in India'
(The Economic Times)

How to End the Massacre in the Med: Hundreds of thousands of refugees are at risk this summer, attempting a dangerous crossing from Libya to Italy. Here's how they can be saved.
(Matteo Garavoglia, Foreign Policy)

The experts demand deference: law societies & TWU
(Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities)

Who may die? California patients and doctors wrestle with assisted suicide
(Jennifer Medina, The New York Times)

Is it constitutional for a community pool to offer women-only swimming hours?
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)

Swimmin' Orthodox women: A complex synagogue-and-state gender wars story
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion)

Press release | Reserving marriage to a man and a woman is not discriminatory, says the European Court of Human Rights
(Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe (FAFCE))

European Court rules Bosnian Constitution discriminatory
(Rodolfo Toe, Balkan Insight)

Home Office urged to change asylum process for Christian converts
(Antony Bushfield, Premier)

Bangladesh says it now knows who's killing the bloggers
(Geeta Anand and Julfikar Ali Manik, The New York Times)

KSL-TV Elder Oaks meets with British Parliament to discuss religious freedom
(Sam Penrod, KSL)

A public funeral, international tribunal, and justice denied for Lebanon
(Nicholas Blanford, The Christian Science Monitor)

Wednesday, 8 June 2016

A radical theology that could make religious freedom a thing of the past
(David R. Brockman, Observer)

It is past the time for the American U.S military to open its doors to Sikhs
(Thomas E. Ricks, Foreign Policy)

Ethiopia's Christians mark Ramadan alongside Muslims
(Seleshi Tessema Mulata, AA (English))

Can we make ourselves more moral? Designer babies, hormone therapy, and the new eugenics of transhumanism
(Richard Weikart, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

Muhammad Ali, conscientious objection, and the Supreme Court’s struggle to understand “jihad” and “holy war”: The story of Cassius Clay v. United States
(Marty Lederman, SCOTUSblog)

Discrimination within the Church
(The Hindu)

Government is 'selling off Sundays' says angry London mission chief
(David Knowles, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)

French administration recognizes the Philanthropic General Interest character of EIFRF
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom)

Ill-treatment of a person refusing to perform military service and claiming the status of conscientious objector
(Press Release, European Court of Human Rights)

Turkey guilty of inhuman treatment of ‘Muslim objector’: Euro court
(Hürriyet Daily News)

European Court says Turkish objector not covered by European Convention on Human Rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Activists file suit challenging Tennessee counseling law
(Associated Press)

Suit challenges Tennessee law allowing counselors to refuse to counsel gays
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Court again denies minister right to file amended complaint in building code dispute
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Religious instruction in schools and “soliciting”
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Refugees seeking asylum on religious grounds quizzed on 'Bible trivia'
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)

Jewish, Christian community leaders join Muslims for Istanbul iftar dinner
(Daily Sabah)

School board heads to Court on transgender rights
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog)

Jewish woman loses job for observing Passover
(The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)

Federal court rules in favor of religious liberty in NC State case
(Bob Eschliman, Charisma News)

Freedom of speech and religion enshrined in constitution: Modi
(Deccan Herald)

Modi Is married to the mob: India’s prime minister cuts a dashing figure in America, but back home, his two years in power have led to a dangerous — and unnecessary — coarsening of Indian democracy.
(Chandrahas Choudhury, Foreign Policy)

If the refugee deal crumbles, there will be hell to pay
(James Traub, Foreign Policy)

Here's how radical groups like Islamic State use social media to attract recruits
(Sandy Schumann, The Conversation)

'I am America'
(Charles C. Haynes, Newseum Institute Religious Freedom Center: Inside the First Amendment)

Aktobe attack perpetrated by religious radicals who received instructions from abroad - Nazarbayev
(Interfax-Religion)

Religion in community national schools is a model to follow (Opinion)
(Kevin Williams, Irish Independent)

Libyan pays high price for her new-found Christian faith
(World Watch Monitor)

Nigeria: Pastor's wife killed after blasphemy accusation
(World Watch Monitor)

EEOC sues Greenville Ready Mix Concrete for religious discrimination
(Press Release, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)

EEOC sues over firing of Seventh-day Adventist
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Swedish Politicians: "Islam is definitely compatible with democracy!" Part II of a Series: The Islamization of Sweden
(Ingrid Carlqvist, Gatestone Institute)

Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta says publicly violating Ramadan fast is ‘assault on sanctity of Islam’
(Egyptian Streets)

EEOC sues hospital over firing of flu-shot objector
(Patrick Dorrian, BNA Daily Labor Report)

EEOC sues claiming inadequate accommodation of refusal to take flu shot
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

EEOC sues Baystate Medical Center for religious discrimination & retaliation
(Press Release, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)

Gay-rights activists sue Tennessee over law protecting religious counselors
(Bradford Richardson, The Washington Times)

How the reform movement harmed religious freedom and pluralism in Israel
(Yair Ettinger, Haaretz)

Pakistan Court permits Christians to divorce without adultery charges
(Lorraine Caballero, Christian Daily)

Supreme Court to be moved against restoration of Section 7 of Christian Divorce Act
(Christians in Pakistan)

Appeal planned in Pakistan court's expansion of grounds for Christian divorce
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

High Court: Only Rabbinate can certify kosher eateries
(Sue Surkes, Times of Israel)

Will Palestinian place where Jesus was baptized become World Heritage Site?
(Aziza Nofal, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)

Israel's High Court upholds Chief Rabbinate's monopoly on kosher certification
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

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