Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 25 April 2016
Schools of millenarianism: How end-of-days beliefs clash with one another, and with art
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Christian band fights to recover $53K raised for orphans taken by Oklahoma police
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
ISIS cyber caliphate hacks Michigan church
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
How one Israeli Arab woman seeks to wipe out hatred
(Mazal Mualem, trans. Ruti Sinai, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Devotees at Thai temple give alms to tens of thousands of Buddhist monks
(Reporting by Patpicha Tanakasempipat; Additional reporting by Juarawee Kittisilpa and Panarat Thepgumpanat; Editing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Clarence Fernandez, Reuters)
Scotland Yard warns Muslims against sectarian feuds after Glasgow murder
(Mark Townsend, The Guardian)
Nepal marks quake anniversary with prayers and tears
(Paavan Mathema, Agence France-Presse)
China seeks to tighten grip on religion
(Nathan Vanderklippe, The Globe and Mail)
China’s Xi warns of foreign infiltration through religion
(Matthew Miller, Reuters)
China calls for religion to be ‘localized’ to reduce foreign ‘infiltration,’ says party ‘severely damaged’ by members’ religious beliefs
(Duncan Hewitt, International Business Times)
Desmond Tutu urges South Africans not to fear speaking out against injustice
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Is Islamophobia on the rise in Turkey?
(Mahmut Bozarslan, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Women's blessing at Jerusalem's Western Wall curtailed
(Mike Smith, Agence France-Presse)
Turkey's seizure of churches and land alarms Armenians
(Ceylan Yeginsu, The New York Times)
Russian authorities move toward unprecedented shutdown of Witnesses' national headquarters
(JW.org, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Poroshenko calls for one united local Orthodox Church in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)
Russia: Conscientious objectors denied alternative service
(Russia Religion News, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Backlash greets plans for Muslim cemeteries across US
(Denise Lavoie, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Law and religion round-up – 24th April
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Signatures for banning abortions to be collected in Russian churches
(Interfax-Religion)
Russia: In 2015, 89 known individuals and communities prosecuted for religious literature
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)
Missouri's proposed religious freedom amendment sets old allies at odds
(Frank Morris, NPR)
Bathrooms and discrimination
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Transgender battles not about bathrooms, they’re about democracy
(Thomas D. Williams, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
How bathrooms and transgender rights have become a flash point in the GOP race
(Katie Zezima, The Washington Post)
Is Buddhism paradoxical?
(Mark Siderits, OUPblog Religion)
In Zambia, cathedral indaba eases political tensions
(Gavin Drake, Episcopal News Service)
Separating fact from fiction about euthanasia in Belgium
(Kenneth Chambaere, The Conversation)
Dr Farooq warns against religion-centric politics in India
(Jammu, Greater Kashmir)
#BoycottTarget campaign reaches 500,000 signers
(Timothy C. Morgan, Religion News Service)
Misleading the flock in the name of religion
(Alexander Nyarko Yeboah, Ghana News Agency)
The academic assault on Hinduism (Commentary)
(Aseem Shukla, Religion News Service)
Bangladeshi university professor hacked to death in Rajshahi
(BBC News)
Murdered Bangladeshi professor 'not an atheist', daughter says
(BBC News)
Two gay-rights activists hacked to death in Bangladesh
(Al Jazeera)
Rupa Mooker: Work and religion – never the twain shall meet?
(Rupa Mooker, The Scotsman)
Britain grapples with enduring questions of religion and race
(Steven Erlanger and Stephen Castle, The New York Times)
Oman’s interfaith diplomacy: How the world’s only major Ibadi community embraces the tenants of coexistence and religious plurality
(Benjamin Lutz, USME Youth Network)
We’ll encourage inter-faith marriages: Siddaramaiah
(Shankar Bennur, The Hindu)
Ayatollah Arafi: Arrogant powers in pursuit of turning interfaith dialogue to a clash
(AhlulBayt News Agency)
Archbishop to lead interfaith prayer service year after Baltimore unrest
(Anne Kramer, WBAL)
Atheist pastor sparks debate by 'irritating the church into the 21st century'
(Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian)
Church and state collide in Puerto Rico
(Primera Hora Newspaper)
Puerto Rico tax authorities will begin to audit churches
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religion coverage
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Oklahoma voters to decide on religious monuments on public land
(Graham Lee Brewer, News OK)
Dissenting U.S. civil rights commissioners to colleagues: 'Take a deep breath'
(Gregory Tomlin, Christian Examiner)
Oklahomans will vote on repeal of Blaine Amendment
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Student sues after suspension from M.S. program over refusal to counsel gay couples
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Lawsuit: Former student ousted over gay couple counseling
(Associated Press)
Missouri State University sued for denying student degree on religious grounds
(Press Release, Thomas More Society)
Woodbury-Kiryas Joel, zoning upheld
(Lost Messiah)
Hasidic challengers to zoning law suffer a defeat on appeal
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New York court refuses to dismiss suit to declare Muslim marriage valid
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Why Christian ministers should stop taking weddings
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)
France’s incomplete citizens and why some put Islam first
(Myriam Renaud, The University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
European Convention on Human Rights snub 'would tear up Good Friday Agreement'
(Belfast Telegraph)
Was Shakespeare a secret Catholic?
(Ann Schneible, Catholic News Agency)
New State Department actions don't go far enough, religious freedom leader says
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
EVENT, 25 April 2016: The rise of polygamy in Kyrgyzstan: A consequence of the country's post-Soviet Islamic revival?
(Michele Commercio, Central Asia Program, George Washington University)
Sunday, 24 April 2016
Women of the Wall back down after ban on passover priestly blessing rite
(JTA, Forward)
Saturday, 23 April 2016
Critic of LGBT causes admits past sexual relationships with men
(Michael O'Loughlin, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Jerusalem at the center of Palestine-Israel naming dispute
(Daoud Kuttab, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
New Jersey school board member quits over anti-Muslim comments
(Reporting by Ian Simpson and Barbara Goldberg; editing by Berard Orr and Richard Chang, Reuters)
Treating ISIS as cancer
(Bennett Ramberg, Yale Global Online)
Young members increasingly critical of Hamas
(Asmaa al-Ghoul, trans. Mohammad Khalil, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Friday, 22 April 2016
Religious objections to online filing – again: Harvey v Revenue & Customs
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Passover in Glasgow: gefilte fish, rising fear and fewer Jews
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Passover, most beloved Jewish holiday, explained
(Laruen Markoe, Religion News Service)
Jews to begin Passover, celebration of freedom
(María Cortés González, El Paso Times)
Why is this Passover different from all other Passovers?
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Passover’s message of religious freedom (Commentary)
(Lawrence Grossman, Religion News Service)
How Israelis keep Passover traditions alive
(Yuval Avivi, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
The real four questions for Israel this Passover
(David Rosenberg, Haaretz)
Statement by the President on Passover
(Office of the Press Secretary, The White House)
White House Passover Seder will be late
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
3 quirky ways Passover will be celebrated this year
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News National Edition: Faith)
Robot monk blends science and Buddhism at Chinese temple
(Joseph Campbell, Reuters)
When reporting on the Islamic State, try reporting on more than its ties to Islam
(Ira Rifkin, Get Religion (blog))
Copt teenager kidnapped for ransom in Upper Egypt
(World Watch Monitor)
Burundi’s Catholic Church rejects government’s ‘terrorist’ label
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Austrian bishop refuses to allow construction of refugee fence on church land
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)
Kazakhstan: Now 30 Sunni Muslims convicted since December 2014, KNB secret police spy
(Forum 18 News Service)
Rabbi sues N.J. kosher giant Manischewitz for bending kosher rules, report says
(Jeff Goldman, NJ Advance Media)
Rabbi sues Manischewitz, saying it let kosher standards slip
(Associated Press)
Former kosher supervisor at Manischewitz sues over pressure to compromise standards
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Indian pastor and pregnant wife attacked by militant Hindus
(Anto Akkara, World Watch Monitor)
Kim Davis' lawsuit against Ky dismissed
(Andrew Wolfson, Courier Journal)
6th Circuit dismisses county clerk's suit as moot
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Louisiana governor rescinds earlier executive order protecting discrimination against gay couple
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
FFRF sues over cross in California public park
(Press Release, Freedom from Religion Foundation)
Suit challenges cross at site of historic Spanish mission
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Martyr killed by bulldozer becomes symbol of growing persecution of Christians in China
(Perry Chiaramonte, Fox News World)
Pastor's wife killed during demolition of church in China
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
ISIS executes 250 girls for refusing to join 'sexual jihad'
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Iowans urge respect for religious beliefs
(William Petroski, The Des Moines Register)
Why Tennessee won't make the Bible its state book
(Erik Schelzig, The Christian Science Monitor)
Vote on Missouri ‘religious freedom’ amendment is delayed
(Jason Hancock, Kansas City Star)
NC Gov. Pat McCrory says it’s unfair to compare HB2, religious freedom bills. Critics disagree.
(Steve Harrison, The Charlotte Observer)
US commission weighs in on religious liberty vs. human rights
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
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