Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 11 March 2016
Christians flock to groups that help members pay medical bills
(Abby Goodnough, The New York Times)
California to permit medically assisted suicide as of June 9
(Lisa Aliferis, NPR)
Missouri religious objections measure passes Senate
(Summer Ballentine, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Galileo’s legacy: Catholicism, Copernicanism, and conflict resolution
(Thomas Dixon, OUPblog Religion)
Coptic bishop seeks support from evangelicals
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Top Anglican archbishop: Fear of refugees ‘entirely reasonable’
(Trevor Grundy, Religion News Service)
Knights of Columbus report: ISIS committing Christian ‘genocide’
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
At synagogue, O’Malley urges faiths to ‘build a civilization of love’
(Travis Anderson, The Boston Globe)
How can we understand the origins of Islamic State?
(Reema Rattan, The Conversation)
Attention journalists: A Muslim landmark that belongs on your desk
(Richard Ostling, Get Religion (blog))
Muslims vote for a Jew! Some journalists make strawman of Sanders' win in Dearborn
(Jim Davis, Get Religion (blog))
Religious New Zealanders most tolerant of Muslims
(Victoria University of Wellington)
NSW Premier's Harmony Dinner: Jewish leader Jeremy Jones honoured for interfaith work
(Danuta Kozaki, ABC)
Local rabbis share stage with Cardinal Turkson
(Arlene Edmonds, Montgomery Media)
Religious tolerance encouraged at CSU
(Alva James-Johnson, Ledger-Enquirer)
Standing with Muslims, faith groups buy banners
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Clerics, priests to address climate change
(The Express Tribune)
Dignity v. freedom
(Peter J. Leithart, First Things)
The Little Sisters of the Poor should win their court case
(Archbishop William E. Lori, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
States debate new religious liberty protections
(Bonnie Pritchett, World Magazine)
The freedom to dissent
(Andrew T. Walker, National Review)
Silence of “religious liberty” activists on Muslims’ cases not what you think
(Elizabeth Reiner Platt, Religion Dispatches)
The ACLU’s hypocrisy on religious liberty
(Tory McClintock and Melody Wood, The Daily Signal)
What AI can tell us about the U.S. Supreme Court
(Mohammad Raihanul Islam, KSM Tozammel Hossain, Siddharth Krishnan, The Conversation)
Supreme Court losing luster in public’s eyes
(Charles Gardner Geyh, The Conversation)
How Commonwealth countries have forged a new way to appoint judges
(Hugh Corder, The Conversation)
New Catholic report tells of murder, kidnapping and torture in West Papua
(Mark Bowling, The Catholic Leader)
Sunday trading and the limits of EVEL
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Belgium court acquits scientology of organized crime charges
(Reporting by Robert-Jan Bartunek; Writing by Philip Blenkinsop; Editing by Dominic Evans, Reuters)
No same-sex marriages in Puerto Rico — yet
(Lyle Denniston, SCOTUS Blog)
Federal district judge says Obergefell does not bind Puerto Rico
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Next SCOTUS nominee might be a Hindu
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New federal inter-agency initiative on religious discrimination launched
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Cuyahoga County settles with Muslim jail inmates who say they were forced to participate in Christian prayer services
(Eric Heisig, cleveland.com)
Jail settles suits alleging Muslim women were forced to attend Christian services
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Corpus Christi mayor: Cross at center of lawsuit is personal
(Krista M. Torralva, Corpus Christi Caller-Times)
Suit challenges pastor's invitation to Texas mayor to speak at groundbreaking for cross
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Divorce decree restrictions violate mother's Free Exercise rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Star Wars church opens in Spokane, Washington
(Evan Seeman, Karla Chaffee and Dwight Merriam, RLUIPA Defense)
What counts as a "church"?
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
EVENT, 9-11 March 2016: Law & Religion Moot Court Competition, 2016 Case
(Program of the Competition, Fondazione Marcianum, Venice, Italy)
Thursday, 10 March 2016
Egypt President condoning Christian persecution in Egypt, claims new report
(Lorraine Caballero, Assyrian International News Agency)
Free speech, sex tapes, and digital issues
(Gene Policinski, Newseum Institute: Inside the First Amendment)
Repurposing Europe for a renewal of the national project
(Pierre Manent, First Things)
Resisting the demagogue
(George Weigel, First Things)
The age of outrage
(Matthew Block, First Things)
Canada declares war on Christian doctors and nurses
(Wesley J. Smith, First Things)
EU/Turkey: Mass, fast-track returns threaten rights
(Human Rights Watch)
The church ghat Stalin couldn’t kill: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church thrives seventy years after forced reunification
(Nadia M. Diuk, Atlantic Council)
Turnbull Islamic council visit marks shift for Muslims under pressure
(Miki Perkins, The Age, Victoria)
Prayer dispure between Somalis and plant reshapes a Colorado town, again
(Julie Tukewitz, The New York Times)
Illinois church faces lawsuit from ex-choir director fired after he married a man
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Catholic charity group cancels gay singer’s performance
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)
Imam arrested in Italy, suspected of planning Rome terror attack
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)
Prayer dispute between Somalis and plant reshapes a Colorado town, again
(Julie Turkewitz, The New York Times)
This is our Islam: To be young, devout and Muslim in America today
(Tom Gjelton, NPR)
Magistrate sacked over religious opposition to same-sex couples adopting
(Owen Bowcott, The Guardian)
Report insists ISIS is guilty of ‘genocide’ against Christians
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
ISIS detainee's information led to 2 U.S. airstrikes, officials say
(Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times)
Pakistan’s prime minister is defying the clerics — very carefully
(Tim Craig, The Washington Post)
Threats as Bangladesh mulls scrapping Islam as state religion
(Agence France-Presse)
UN expert concerned over freedom of expression in Tajikistan
(Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty)
What would a Hindu justice mean for the Supreme Court?
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)
Tairod Pugh, ex-U.S. serviceman is found guilty of trying to aid ISIS
(Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times)
India festival at Yamuna to go ahead amid green concerns
(BBC News)
Pakistani police release Muslim man who killed 17-Y-O Christian boy, is threatening to rape young girls
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Jurors begin deliberating in trial of U.S. veteran accused of supporting Islamic State
(Nicole Hong, The Wall Street Journal)
Catholic Church in Michigan may expand health care to gay couples
(Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press)
D.C. Republicans extend primary hours so Sabbath-observant Jews can vote
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)
Trump and Muslims: Politico in-depth piece misses key questions about Muslim-led city
(Jim Davis, Get Religion (blog))
Missouri religious exemption measure advances
(David A. Lieb and Summer Ballentine, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Europe’s migrant crisis: A messy but necessary deal
(The Economist)
Proof that it's hard to cover an equal access story without mentioning Equal Access laws
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion (blog))
Ministers scrap law banning non-religious events on Sunday morning
(Dutch News)
The limits of secularization
(Jonathan Sacks, MercatorNet)
Threats as Bangladesh mulls scrapping Islam as state religion
(The Daily Mail)
Chinese government accused of burning crosses in Christian crackdown
(CBS News)
Greater number of Singaporeans not identifying with any religion
(Siau Ming En, Channel NewsAsia)
Nyepi observed in tolerance
(Ni Komang Erviani and Syamsul Huda M. Suhari, The Jakarta Post)
Chinese Christians persecuted by Communist regime forced to destroy church crosses or face punishment
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Nuns, Muslim women join to promote peace in Indonesia
(Katharina R. Lestari, UCA News)
Interfaith interface: Jewish-Catholic relations front and center when Cardinal O’Malley speaks at Temple Emanuel
(Margaret Carroll-Bergman, The Jewish Advocate)
Vatican calls for religious freedom at UN Human Rights Council
(Vatican Radio)
Death books
(Martin E. Marty, The University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Outsourcing a humanitarian crisis to Turkey – is that the European thing to do?
(Marianna Fotaki, The Conversation)
Bernie Sanders wins big with Michigan Muslims — and political pundits can't quite believe it
(Ismat Sarah Mangla, International Business Times)
Young Arab-American Muslim voters helped fuel Sanders' win
(Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press)
EU nations close borders as tens of thousands of refugees set up makeshift camps
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Judge rejects Ft. Dix terror plotter's religious bias claim
(Tim Darragh, NJ.com)
Egypt pens legislation to ban niqab in public places
(Mary Chastain, Breitbart)
On assisted dying, government should respect the beliefs of religious hospitals
(Barry W. Bussey, National Post)
Russians consider meeting between pope, patriarch useful, support their further contacts - poll
(Interfax Religion)
Patriarch Kirill praises Serbian President Nikolic's role in preserving relations between two Orthodox Christian nations
(Interfax-Religion)
LGBT groups seek NCAA sanctions for schools that discriminate
(Bob Allen, Baptist News Global)
’Weedman’ says closing pot temple violates religious freedom
(USA Today)
The government is secretly huddling with companies to fight extremism online
(Kaveh Waddell, The Atlantic)
Calais bulldozers endanger effective refugee infrastructure
(Mark Doidge and Reima Ana Maglajlic, The Conversation)
Slovenia, Croatia ban transit for most refugees as crisis escalates
(Al Bawaba)
Refugee crisis: Hungary sends more troops to border
(Patrick Strickland, Al Jazeera)
Missoula Independent takes sides on Muslim refugee debate
(Julia Duin, Get Religion (blog))
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