Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 3 December 2021
Shincheonji: Chairman Lee not guilty of COVID offenses, Appeal Court said
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
Iranian Supreme Court's ruling on Christians gives hope for religious freedom
(Christian Today)
The principle of legality in the ICC’s Appeals Judgment on Abd-Al-Rahman’s jurisdictional challenge: A follow-up on merits and shortcomings
(Talita de Souza Dias, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
The immunity saga reaches Latin America. The Changri-la case
(Lucas Carlos Lima and Aziz Tuffi Saliba, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
2021 Fall Conference: 'I have called you by name: Human dignity in a secular world' (video playlist)
(YouTube Video, de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture)
Religious Freedom Index 2021: Panel discussion
(YouTube Video, Becket)
A step towards justice for the Yazidis: German court secures first ever conviction for the Daesh genocide
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
ISIL committed war crimes at Mosul prison, UN investigation finds
(Al Jazeera)
Bangladesh mayor arrested for refusing mural of PM’s father
(Al Jazeera)
Vatican takes in 12 migrants as pope denounces indifference
(Menelaos Hadjicostis and Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Scientists use stem cells to create models of pre-embryos
(Laura Ungar, Associated Press)
Brazil’s senate OKs evangelical Bolsonaro ally to top court
(Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press)
Hanukkah menorahs vandalized in at least 3 Ukrainian cities
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Canada: Schools need to step up to address Islamophobia
(Nada Aoudeh and Muna Saleh, The Conversation)
Another Jehovah's Witness benefits from Supreme Court ruling
(OVD.Info, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Russia acts against evangelical movement with international ties
(Novaya Gazeta, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Catholic bishops in El Salvador make safe drinking water a pastoral issue
(La Croix International)
Colombian bishops in Advent message call for good politics, selfless service
(La Croix International)
Nepal should play role in Rohingya refugee crisis solution – OpEd
(Pathik Hasan, Eurasia Review)
The religious problem with religious freedom: Why international theory needs political theology
(Eric Patterson, Religious Freedom Institute)
Forced conversion and marriages ‘on the rise’ in Pakistan, report finds
(Abigail Frymann Rouch, Church Times)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Australia: Expelling students from religious schools based on sexual orientation?
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Australia: Religious discrimination bill: Does the blessing of the law give us the right to discriminate?
(Dawn Lo, UNSW Sydney)
Kyrgyzstan: Jehovah’s Witnesses publications to be banned?
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Kyrgyzstan: Jehovah's Witness book ban in court, criminal case, secret police ban request
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Law and power: the long road to legal equality for gay men in South Africa
(Zackie Achmat, Ground Up)
New Alberta program will help women fight anti-Black, Islamophobic hate crimes in court
(CBC News)
Societies Act amendments bring procedural changes relating to law and religion landscape in Canada
(Canadian Centre for Christian Charities)
Candice Corby - 2021 Global Business & Interfaith Peace Award
(YouTube Video, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
King Husein - 2021 Global Business & Interfaith Peace gold medalist
(YouTube Video, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Weekly Highlight #184: COVID-19: Exploring faith dimensions: Governance, policies, and religious authority
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Iran: Supreme Court orders review of sentences handed to imprisoned Christians
(CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Iran: Over a dozen NGOs call for the release of Habib Asyoud (Al-Ahwaz)
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
The culture of encounter and the global agenda (on interfaith dialogue)
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Knox Thames on the state of global religious freedom
(The United States Institute of Peace)
Unrealized ideal: 40 years after a seminal declaration on religious freedom
(Knox Thames, The United States Institute of Peace)
Algeria’s top parties keep power in local elections
(Associated Press)
The anti-Covid restrictions on Hanukkah in Russia have been slightly relaxed
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian coronavirus-denying monk given prison sentence
(Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press)
Migrant crisis front and center in pope’s Greece-Cyprus trip
(Derek Gatopoulos and Theodora Tonas, Associated Press)
U.S. State Department publishes ‘Countries of Particular Concern,’ adding Russia, removing Nigeria, from list of most egregious religious freedom violators
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
10 Christians killed by militant herdsmen in overnight raid in Nigeria; over 100 homes burned
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Creating a culture of encounter (plus 10+ responses)
(Stan Chu Ilo, David Lantigua, Julie Hanlon Rubio, Paul Heck, Anna Floerke Scheid, Andria Wisler, Maria Power, Leo Lefebure, Erin Cline, Kristine Kalanges, Vincent Miller, Marcus Mescher, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Paraguay bishops push for indigenous land rights
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Hindu activists intensify attacks on Indian Christian prayer meets
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
India high court: Conversion to another religion no ground for inter-caste certificate
(The Indian News Express)
16 pastors falsely accused of disturbing peace after 40-strong Hindu mob storms church
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Yet another Catholic church destroyed by Myanmar junta
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Dutch far-left party says it wants to end ‘inherently racist’ Holocaust memorial event
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
New graphic novel tells the story of Malaysia’s lost Jewish community
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A religious minority faces a second genocide in Afghanistan. Jews must act now
(Justin Hefter, Forward Opinion)
Stolen gods: Nepal seeks to bring home lost treasures
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Nepal sentences pastor to two years for conversion
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Duterte critic takes helm of Philippine bishops' conference
(Joseph Peter Calleja, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Explainer: Who are Islamic State's affiliates in Congo and Uganda?
(Hereward Holland, Reuters)
17 national-religious rabbis call for protests against government
(The Times of Israel)
Holocaust survivors mark Hanukkah at Jerusalem Western Wall
(d, Associated Press)
Israel: Tensions mount in coalition over conversion legislation
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
New book: Mordecai Would Not Bow Down: Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Christian Supersessionism
(Timothy P. Jackson, Oxford University Press)
Feminists, Church clash in Bolivia
(La Croix International)
Christians fearful as Niger hit hard by jihadist insurgency
(La Croix International)
Saudi Religious moderation is as much PR as it as theology – analysis
(James M. Dorsey, Eurasia Review)
KAICIID trains ASEAN officials in interreligious dialogue
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
Turkey's only Christian magazine turns 10 years old
(Michael Ray Smith, Religion Unplugged)
Monday, 29 November 2021
Indian Residential Schools: What does it mean if the Pope apologizes in Canada?
(Christopher Hrynkow, The Conversation)
Podcast: Jordan Peterson and God
(Mark Bauerlein, First Things)
Russia: Freedom of religion or belief: Special Bimonthly FORB digest (16-30.11.2021)
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Russia hit by European court for discriminating Krishnas, Unification Church
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
The persecution of Christians, October 2021
(Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone Institute)
Articles of interest - 29 November 2021
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
WEA Secretary General expresses solidarity with Eastern Orthodox Church, laments reconversion of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
(The European Times)
Pakistan: MEPs visit in Islamabad: Interview of MEP Tomáš Zdechovsky
(Willy Fautré, The European Times)
Pope, diplomats point to migration as key theme of Greece-Cyprus trip
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Iraq: Court hearing resumes on marriage of 12-year-old girl
(Shawn Yuan, Al Jazeera)
Loss and trauma: Churches help Iraqi Christians displaced by Islamic State
(Dale Gavlak, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Taiwan: Elimination of violence against women and the Tai Ji Men case
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Learning to respect religious sites: A key lesson for Africa and beyond
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
Christians in Zamfara State threatened, told to close churches and stop worship
(International Christian Concern)
Christian and Muslim groups respond differently to U.S. removal of Nigeria as a U.S. Country of Particular Concern
(Anthony Akaeze , Baptist News Global)
Dozens of Christians slain as Nigeria moves off CPC list
(Morning Star News)
The US no longer considers Nigeria a ‘Country of Particular Concern’, but what has changed?
(Mervyn Thomas, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Secularists are cultural elites who despise faith - opinion
(Shmuley Boteach, Jerusalem Post)
Australia: Inquiry into religious discrimination bill should not consider other exemptions, chair says
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
Australia: Religion bill gives faithful a chance to defend themselves
(Jennifer Oriel, The Australian)
Indonesia pays compensation to sexually abused altar boys
(Katharina R. Lestari, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Is there hope for Taiwan–Tibet relations?
(East Asia Forum)
‘Hate won’: Indian Muslim comic says he’s ‘done’ after shows axed
(Bilal Kuchay, Al Jazeera)
Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge
(Sheikh Saaliq, Associated Press)
Now, no need to show religious papers in Kerala to register marriage
(Somak Adhikari, India Times)
India: Asaduddin Owaisi demands withdrawal of CAA, says law was enacted on basis of religion
(ABP News)
A rabbi reflects on the Law, the Pharisees and 'our friend' Francis
(Yehiel E. Poupko, National Catholic Reporter)
Israeli president celebrates Hanukkah at West Bank site
(Moshe Edri, Associated Press)
Religious Services Minister plans law to exempt rabbis from political comments restrictions
(Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post)
Saturday, 27 November 2021
Will Iraqi Kurdistan's youth turn to religious extremism next?
(Cathrin Schaer, Deutsche Welle)
Friday, 26 November 2021
Australian Bishops commend Religious Discrimination Bill
(Vatican News)
Mud mosque dating back to the Umayyad era discovered in Iraq
(Al Jazeera)
Religious freedom legislation? Yes, because Australians need freedom from the tyranny of equity
(Edie Wyatt, Spectator Australia)
Australian “conversion therapy” laws and religious freedom
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Indonesia kicks off drive to end violence against women
(Katharina R. Lestari, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Indonesian lawyers defend under fire Catholic priest
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
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