Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 30 July 2021
NSW Labor pushes for religious leaders to receive exemption from stay-at-home orders
(Dominica Funnell, Sky News)
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Taliban ‘has not changed,’ say women facing subjugation in areas of Afghanistan under its extremist rule
(Homa Hoodfar and Mona Tajali, The Conversation)
Canada’s Indian residential schools: apologies yes, burning churches no
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
Book award: The Post-Secular City: The New Secularization Debate - Précis of a Book
(Paolo Costa, European Society for Catholic Theology Presidium)
Ashgabat: Religious and political persecution continues apace
(Vladimir Rozanskij, Asia News)
Cuba: Protestant pastors released after two weeks in detention
(CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Religions for Peace and the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum hold symposium on youth engagement with religion
(EIN Presswire)
Is Islam a pluralistic, inclusive religion?
(EIN Presswire)
The road to the 2021 G20 Interfaith Forum for the health working group
(Chika Jones, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)
Prominent leaders discuss systemic racial challenges facing native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders
(G20 Interfaith Forum, EIN Presswire)
Clerics back Covid jabs as govt fights misinformation
(Gadiosa Lamtey, The Citizen)
Salt declared world heritage site
(Ammon News)
Lawmakers in Ghana seek to outlaw advocacy for gay rights
(Danielle Paquette, The Washington Post)
Actress' decision to quit stage draws fierce backlash from liberals
(Shahira Amin, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Militias call for revenge against Sunni town over suicide attacks in Baghdad
(Shelly Kittleson, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Israeli government advances ground-breaking reform for private kosher certification
(Danny Zaken, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Controversial cleric’s ‘modesty call’ to Turkish volleyball team bounces back at him
(Nazlan Ertan, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Christian group cautiously optimistic after Sudanese gov’t allows building of Orthodox Church
(Emily Wood, The Christian Post)
Saving church properties in Pakistan
(Kamran Chaudhry, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Pope must not allow himself to be propaganda tool for North Korea
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Take that, Benedict XVI: Pope Francis decides Latin Mass is too divisive to embrace
(Terry Mattingly, OnReligion)
It's not about Latin
(Robert Mickens, La Croix International)
Benedict XVI laments lack of faith within Church institutions in Germany
(Catholic News Agency)
India court upholds lower court order against IMA president for ‘using platform to propagate religion’
(The Indian Express)
Muslim peoples from Russia in Turkey becoming more active, attracting more attention – OpEd
(Paul Goble, Eurasia Review Opinion)
Mary, mother of Jesus, returns as an icon for pop stars and social justice warriors
(Whitney Bauck, Religion News Service)
Nigerian official: Religion and ethnicity not Nigeria’s problem, it’s the people
(Nigerian Eye)
Venezuelan president rejects Vatican letter calling for dialogue
(Walter Sanchez Silva, Catholic News Agency)
Vatican says 5th Catholic bishop consecrated under China agreement
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
Vatican Increasing ‘Liquid’ Assets As It Faces Financial Impact Of Pandemic
(Hannah Brockhaus, Eurasia Review)
Weekly Highlight #166: COVID-19: Exploring faith dimensions: COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Continue to Multiply
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Haiti’s evangelical leaders feel pressure after one of their own arrested in president’s killing
(Anthony Faiola and Widlore Merancourt, The Washington Post)
It is time for the EU to question the GSP+ status granted to Pakistan
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
USCIRF praises additional humanitarian assistance to Iraqis displaced by ISIS
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Tunisia opens corruption probes of leading Islamist party
(Associated Press)
Catholic hospital in India attacked by mob
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Fifth Chinese bishop ordained with both government, papal approval
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
How can China avoid demographic disaster? Return to religion
(Fuxian Yi and W. Bradford Wilcox, Deseret News)
Muslim countries can rely on Russia's support in tackling regional crises – Putin
(Interfax-Religion)
Donbas: Luhansk: More Christian texts "extremist", Catholic priests banned
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Churches and mosques in South Sudan boost women's participation
(Augustine Passilly, La Croix International)
Monday, 26 July 2021
Happy Eid al-Adha Mubarak
(Religions for Peace)
Photos of the Week: Eid al-Adha; Haitian president funeral
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Muslims mark Eid al-Adha holiday in pandemic’s shadow
(Mariam Fam, Religion News Service)
Indonesian Muslims mark grim Eid amid devastating virus wave
(Niniek Karmini, Religion News Service)
In Japan, Greek-influenced Olympics meet another kind of pagan heritage
(Heather Greene Share Tweet, Religion News Service)
Photos of the Week (July 2, 2021): Mass with puppets, temple rededication
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Living in exile: “I am not less than any other human. I just want to be heard and seen”
(FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Young Muslim women in Ghana feel stereotyped and judged: why it matters
(Barbara Crossouard, Christine Abu-Yeboah, Eric Ananga, Máiréad Dunne, and Vincent Adzahlie-Mensah, The Conversation)
Young people as partners for educational transformation
(Scherto Gill, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)
Religion, humanitarianism, and G20 policy initiatives: Promoting freedom of religion or belief (FoRB)
(JoAnne Wadsworth, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)
With more than a million children orphaned by COVID-19, faith-based groups look to mobilize support
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Episcopal News Service)
Potentialities and pitfalls of pluralism
(Institute for Global Engagement, Review of Faith & International Affairs)
Articles of interest - 26 July 2021
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
28 abducted Baptist school students freed in Nigeria
(Ibrahim Garba and Sam Olukoya, Associated Press)
Police: IS sympathizers behind attempt on ex-Maldives leader
(Mohamed Sharuhaan, Associated Press)
Responding to: Religion and the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia
(Tricia Redeker Hepner, Mohammed Girma, and Khataza H. Gondwe, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Water a potential new focus of US/Vatican partnerships, Biden official says
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
The world’s largest Muslim organization just honored Evangelicals
(Paul Marshall, Religion Unplugged)
Orthodox believers defy government to honor royal saints
(Credo.Press, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Russian foreign minister blames U.S.A. for Ukrainian church problems
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Slave labor shames India's claims of progressive development
(Saji Thomas, Union of Catholic Asian News)
For most of India’s Hindus, religious and national identities are closely linked
(Manolo Corichi and Jonathan Evans, Pew Research Center)
'Larger public interest': HC rejects plea to allow Parsi final rites of COVID-19 victims
(Akhil Oka, Republic World)
Pakistan’s pyrrhic victory in Afghanistan
(Husain Haqqani, Foreign Affairs)
Can Iran save Afghanistan's Shiites and help China, Russia prevent war next door?
(Tom O'Connor, Newsweek)
Afghanistan’s religious minorities after the US withdraws
(Abijah Crawford, Providence Mag)
‘When the blood starts’: Spike in Ahmadi persecution in Pakistan
(Al Jazeera)
'Non-Orthodox Jews are our brothers' - Matan Kahana
(Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post)
Israeli government wants more ultra-Orthodox men to work, but faces pushback
(Steven Scheer, Reuters)
India ready to engage with Blinken on human rights, officials say
(Sanjeev Miglani, Reuters)
Nuns vow to dismantle human trafficking networks
(La Croix International)
Christian efforts at unity in Lebanon fall apart after premier's exit
(La Croix International)
Caught in the crossfire: Myanmar’s Christian minorities under Tatmadaw rule
(International Christian Concern)
Caught in the crossfire: Myanmar's Christian minorities under Tatmadaw rule
(Facebook video, International Christian Concern)
The Government of Canada concludes national summit on antisemitism
(Government of Canada)
She said she married for love. Her parents called it coercion.
(Sameer Yasir, Emily Schmall and Iqbal Kirmani, The New York Times)
Libya: Church in Tripoli facing eviction if a court decides so
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Liberal MPs want ‘Folau’s law’ removed from Religious Discrimination Bill
(Michael Koziol, The Sydney Morning Herald)
IGE Global Horizons | July 2021
(Institute for Global Engagement)
Parliament Trustees Join the High-level Political Forum at the United Nations
(Parliament of the World's Religions)
Friday, 23 July 2021
Recent Articles of Interest - 19 July 2021
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
NEW BOOK: Current Issues in Law and Religion
(A. Keith Thompson, editor, Connorcourt Publishing)
NEW BOOK: Inclusion, Exclusion and Religious Freedom in Contemporary Australia
(Michael Quinlan and A. Keith Thompson, editors, Connorcourt Publishing)
NEW BOOK: The Inherence of Human Dignity - Volume 1: Foundations of Human Dignity
(Barry Bussey and Angus Menuge, eds., Anthem Press)
NEW BOOK: The Inherence of Human Dignity - Volume 2: Law and Religious Liberty
(Barry Bussey and Angus Menuge, eds., Anthem Press)
On the adulteration of Japan's oldest religion
(Michael Hoffman, The Japan Times)
Set up to fail: Pakistan’s Single National Curriculum will only make life harder for religious minority children
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
CEOs/Chairs of Intel, Tyson Foods, Span Construction, Medinol, etc are 2021 Global Business & Interfaith Peace Finalists
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation, EIN Presswire)
Weekly Highlight #165: Religious Gatherings; Vaccines; Faith After COVID-19
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Abuse in religious spaces still a problem in South Arica
(Nomvelo Masango, Sowetan Live)
Muslim Major hails change in South Africa military's religious dress policy as ‘Important victory’
(Riyaz Patel, The South African)
Saudi Arabian women stand guard in Islam’s holiest site
(Mohammed Benmansour, Business Day)
Honouring Nelson Mandela as a moral role model and not a moral elite
(Nico Koopman, The Daily Maverick: Opinionista)
Religious organization advocates for mercy on incarcerated former South African president Zuma
(Ferial Haffajee, The Daily Maverick)
Japan political party's 50 years of losing its religion
(Mizuho Aoki, The Japan Times)
US mistreatment towards Iran’s representatives to the UN: Is Iran initiating the third case against the US at the ICJ?
(Dr. Vahid Bazzar, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Uzbekistan: "The regime wants to shut people up"
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Belarus: "To put the church in its place"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
3,462 Christians murdered in Nigeria in 2021: It's the 'biggest killing ground of Christians' in the world
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
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