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International Headlines
EVENT, 15 December 2014: Muslim Minorities and Religious Freedom: A Public Dialogue(Professor Robert George, John Esposito, and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Today is International Human Rights Day (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
In honor of Human Rights Day (Mormon Newsroom)
Force alone will not suffice: Undermining ISIL with religious freedom (Thomas Farr, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
FIR against forced religious conversion in Agra (Deccan Chronicle)
Indian opposition politicians criticize conversion of Muslims (Sanjeev Miglani, Reuters)
ISIS' Dabiq and the Bible's Armageddon (Rabbi Allen S. Maller, Eurasia Review)
Guangzhou [China]: Area religious organizations must submit to financial audits [Simplified Chinese] (China Audit Net News)
China jails seven students of prominent Uighur scholar for separitism (The Bellingham Herald)
China jails 21 members of banned religious cult (Reuters)
Mongolia to receive its first deacon – from Mongolia (Troy Dredge, Catholic Online)
Syria jihad recruiters spotted in southern Kyrgyzstan (Interfax: Religion)
Pope Francis: ‘There was no clash between the factions … but a dialogue’ (Josephine MKenna,Religion News Service)
Kenya church leaders alarmed by al-Shabab’s persecution of Christians (Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
'Atheists, humanists, liberals' say they are targeted as minority by 'hate campaigns' (Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
The Christmas of Hindu radicals: We will reconvert 5,000 Christian and Muslim families (Santosh Digal, AsiaNews.it)
Aceh, the new jihad against tight jeans: "[T]hey are contrary to Islam" (Mathias Hariyadi,AsiaNews.it)
How the right to deny the existence of God is under threat globally (Adam Sherwin, The Independent)
Modi govt under attack over Muslim ‘conversion’ drama (Arab News)
Harvesting of executed prisoners' organs will cease by 2015 – Chinese government (Xavier Symons, BioEdge)
Thai parliament votes to ban the surrogacy trade (Xavier Symons, BioEdge)
AAR/SBL 2014 annual meeting wrap-up (Alyssa Bender, OUPblog Religion)
The continuing war against Islamic charities (Alex Delmar-Morgan and Peter Oborne, The Telegraph)
See www.religlaw.org for additional articles and an archive of past headlines.
Europe Headlines
EVENT, 18 December 2014: Conférence Laïcité et Liberté de Croyance : quel avenir pour la spécificité française ? (European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom (EIFRF))
Platform: ‘Conscience clause’ can help promote tolerance and respect (News Letter)
Williams: We need to bridge gap between rights and religious freedom (News Letter)
Seven things you should know about Britain's pro-life movement (Dina Rickman, The Independent)
Polish ban on kosher slaughter of animals is overturned (BBC News)
Polish court rules shechita ban is ‘against human rights’ (Orlando Radice, The Jewish Chronicle Online)
Turkish Alevis demand respect for European court ruling (World Bulletin)
Erdogan Islamizes education system to raise 'devout youth' (Kadri Gursel, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
NI abortion law: NIHRC to begin legal challenge (BBC)
Back-garden burials? (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Conflict in eastern Ukraine has dire impact on human rights (Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe)
Secularism damages religious life in Turkey, says top religious body official (Meltem Özgenç,Hürriyet Daily News)
French Jewish leaders rip theaters for scheduling Dieudonne show (JTA)
Abortion protests: Can't we all just agree harassment of women is wrong? (Luciana Berger, The Telegraph)
Listed Places of Worship Roof Repair Fund: some legal issues (David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Yes to ‘Ottoman,’ no to compulsory religion (Mustafa Akyol, Hürriyet Daily News)
Archbishop Justin Welby: ‘There is a possibility that we will not hold together’ (Trevor Grundy,Religion News Service)
New ECHR readings (24 October 2014) (Antoine Buyse, ECHR Blog)
‘Temporary Exclusion Orders’ and their implications for the United Kingdom’s international legal obligations, Part II (Guy Goodwin-Gill, EJIL:Talk!)
‘Temporary Exclusion Orders’ and their implications for the United Kingdom’s international legal obligations, Part I (Guy Goodwin-Gill, EJIL:Talk!)
Unborn babies are "organisms" says a British court: A girl suffering fetal alcohol syndrome is refused compensation to help with her care (Philippa Taylor, MercatorNet)
The Naked Rambler in the European Court (Marko Milanovic, EJIL:Talk!)
Case Law, Strasbourg: Gough v United Kingdom, No violation of the Article 10 rights of the Naked Rambler (Hugh Tomlinson QC, Inforrm's Blog)
The dangerous implications of the “Naked Rambler” case: On FEMEN activists and throwing paint on Atatürk statues (Stijn Smet, Strasbourg Observers)
See www.strasbourgconsortium.org for additional articles and an archive of past headlines.
United States Headlines
Remembering Prisoners of Conscience on Human Rights Day (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
'Merry Christmas' returns: How conservatives are winning the Christmas war (Husna Huq, The Christian Science Monitor)
How American Jews made Hanukkah the holiday of religious freedom (Noam Zion, JNS.org)
Al Smith: Elegy for a hero of religious freedom (Garrett Eps, The Atlantic)
The light of the sun in a dark basement: Congressman Frank Wolf (Jamie Dean, World Magazine)
Court decisions, accommodations dominate 2014 religious liberty news (Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Catholic profs told to report opposition to 'gay marriage' as harassment (Kevin J. Jones, Catholic News Agency)
Marquette U grad student: She's being targeted because she ended class discussion on gay marriage (Colleen Flahetry, Inside Higher Ed.)
Michael Lindsay on covenant and conflict at Gordon College (Timothy C. Morgan, Gordon College)
2nd Circuit dismisses Alien Tort suit charging Catholic Orders with human trafficking (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Security stepped up after Jewish center stabbing (Karen Matthews and Ula Ilnytzky, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Kentucky: No tax breaks for Noah's Ark project (Dylan Lovan, Associated Press)
Israel indicts American over plot to bomb Muslims (Peter Enav, Religion News Service)
Religion can help restore civility to politics, former Senators say (Dale Singer, St. Louis Public Radio)
Senator files bills on guns, same-sex marriage refusal (WLTX)
Religious leaders must speak up on CIA report (Mark Silk, RNS Blog: Spiritual Politics)
CAIR-Philadelphia files civil rights lawsuit over mosque refusal (CAIR-Philadelphia)
Suburban Muslim group sues township over religious discrimination (Jenny DeHuff, Philadelphia Daily News)
Religious signs placed on courthouse lawn, county has them removed (Jimmy Settle, The Leaf-Chronicle)
Wilderness and redemption in Cheryl Strayed’s Wild (Belden C. Lane, OUPblog Religion)
See www.iclrs.org for additional articles and an archive of past headlines.
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