religious discrimination
In Israel, a Conservative rabbi’s arrest reopens religious freedom debate
By Yonat Shimron — September 19, 2018
HAIFA, Israel (RNS) — Rabbi Dov Hayun's recent arrest is giving Israelis reason to atone for their country’s stranglehold on Jewish religious expression.
‘I feel trapped’: Violence fuels fear among Myanmar Muslims
By Foster Klug — February 12, 2018
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Rohingya in Yangon describe a sense of rising persecution and hatred, of vanishing freedoms and opportunities, of Buddhist neighbors and friends suddenly more willing to publicly express sympathies with the military's destruction of Rohingya villages in Rakhine.
Lawsuit: New Jersey town illegally targeted Orthodox Jews
By Yonat Shimron — October 24, 2017
MAHWAH, N.J. (AP) —The state contends Mahwah township violated New Jersey's Green Acres Act by banning out-of-state residents from its parks after residents complained about their use by Orthodox Jewish families from New York.
DNC platform: Plenty for religious progressives to love
By Kimberly Winston — July 25, 2016
(RNS) Democrats are calling it the most progressive platform in party history.
Religious sect and townspeople square off over discrimination
By USA Today Network — January 21, 2016
The government charges that a polygamous sect controls housing and police services in two western towns and discriminates against non-believers.
Top US Catholic bishop denounces anti-Islam backlash to shootings
By David Gibson — December 14, 2015
(RNS) Archbishop Joseph Kurtz also laments the Planned Parenthood attack and violence "in the name of God," and calls for stricter gun control.
Indiana House passes controversial ‘religious freedom’ bill
By Reuters — March 24, 2015
(Reuters) Opponents called it a "religious discrimination bill" which would allow private businesses, individuals and organizations to discriminate against gays and others on religious grounds.
ANALYSIS: Did Obama finally thread the needle on gay rights and religious freedom?
By David Gibson — July 21, 2014
(RNS) The result was a split-the-baby solution that largely pleased Obama’s gay rights supporters while mollifying some religious critics and leaving enough ambiguity to blunt the opposition of more hard-line foes.
New ‘Openly Secular’ group seeks to combat anti-atheist discrimination
By Kimberly Winston — May 2, 2014
(RNS) A new coalition is gathering stories of discrimination from nonbelievers in an attempt to make that kind of bias unacceptable.
New Jersey lawsuit seeks to ban Pledge of Allegiance
By Kimberly Winston — April 21, 2014
(RNS) The suit against the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in New Jersey schools continues a new legal strategy.
British government to investigate discrimination against Jews
By Trevor Grundy — July 19, 2013
(RNS) Jacob Slinger, a 19-year-old who lives in Greater Manchester, won an appeal against the Department of Works and Pensions after he’d been denied a jobseeker’s allowance of 56.80 pounds ($86.67) a week because he refused to work on Saturdays.
Muslim woman files suit against Disney over headscarf dispute
By David Finnigan — August 14, 2012
LOS ANGELES (RNS) The ACLU is suing The Walt Disney Co. on behalf of a Muslim woman who claims the company discriminated against her by not allowing her to wear a headscarf while working in a Disney restaurant in Anaheim. By David Finnigan.
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