Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Barred from traveling by their husbands, Iranian women suffer under unjust laws
(Leila Alikarami, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)
Reconciliation, healing, and peaceful coexistence in Iraq
(Religions for Peace)
Kurdish stamp commemorating pope's visit to Erbil fans Turkish conspiracy fears
(Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Pope speaks of interfaith tolerance from ancient city of Ur
(Al-Monitor)
Pope Francis’s visit to Iraq: Beyond the symbolism
(Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Aljazeera)
Pope’s Iraq visit 'an important step in promoting fraternity'
(Fr. Benedict Mayaki, SJ, Vatican News)
As pope ends trip, Iraq's prime minister calls for national dialogue
(Hassan Ali Ahmed, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Sacred people, sacred earth
(Green Faith, Religions for Peace)
Pope Francis: Meeting with Iraq’s top Shiite cleric offered ‘universal message’ of fraternity
(Catholic News Agency)
India begins promised detention, deportation plan of Rohingya refugees
(Zaffar Iqbal, Religion Unplugged)
India's SC notice to Centre on plea seeking uniform law for succession and inheritance
(Yahoo News India)
Court in India dismisses charge that Facebook post violated blasphemy law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Report: China’s treatment of Uyghurs meets definition of genocide
(Catholic News Agency)
Fire destroys historic church in Mexico
(Catholic News Agency)
Iraq pilgrims defy virus protocols as case numbers rise
(Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press)
Vatican COVID-19 commission: Church can help combat rising violence against women
(Catholic News Agency)
Gulf opens door to public Jewish life amid Israel ties
(Ilan Ben Zion, Associated Press)
Few women on party lists for upcoming elections in Israel
(Mazal Mualem, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Tel Aviv’s Jewish museum reopens after $100 million upgrade
(Ilan Ben Zion, Associated Press)
Congo bishops deplore human rights abuses in country
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Vancouver archbishop works with provincial officials to get churches open
(Agnieszka Ruck, Catholic News Service)
Russia's Roskomnadzor holds preventive talk with Paramount Comedy representatives over South Park episode
(Interfax-Religion)
Tajikistan: "I do not know what the Mandela Rules are"
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Hey journalists: Can you name three or more Ramadan news angles linked to COVID-19 vaccines?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Uzbekistan: Draft criminal code offers little meaningful reform
(Human Rights Watch)
With pointed urgency, faiths rise for climate justice
(Religion News Service)
Monday, 8 March 2021
President Bingham on International Women’s Day: Empower women through education
(Sydney Walker, Church News)
How an Indonesian woman is fighting child marriage (video)
(Ayu Purwaningsih, Deutsche Welle)
“Being different is considered a crime”: The story of a Muslim woman in Cuba
(FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Pakistani women protest 'patriarchy pandemic'
(Farah Bahgat, Deutsche Welle)
Jane Wise on International Women's Day
(Twitter, International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
March 8 is International Women's Day - Commentary on India, Niger, Iraq, North Korea
(Weekly Bulletin, United Sates Institute of Peace)
Is Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 shot morally compromised? It's complicated
(Bobby Ross Jr., Religion Unplugged)
When your church sees medicine as weak faith: Kenyan Christians wrestle with cancer and God
(Diana Mwango, Religion Unplugged)
Articles of interest - 8 March 2021
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Russia: Deteriorating religious freedom situation denounced at the OSCE
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
#ItsTheirLand: Unprecedented reaction makes voice of persecuted Bahá’ís in an Iranian village global
(Bahá’í World News Service)
UN expert warns counter-terror policies led to 'further stigmatisation' of Muslims
(Areeb Ullah, Middle East Eye)
Church confirms release of pastor threatened with execution in Nigeria
(Morning Star News)
21 women imprisoned from underground church in Eritrea raids freed
(Libby Giesbrecht, CHVN Radio)
Sri Lanka Catholics mark ‘Black Sunday’ for Easter victims
(Krishan Francis, Associated Press)
Pope says he’s not afraid of being called ‘heretic’ for outreach to Islam
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Where IS ruled, pope calls on Christians to forgive, rebuild
(Nicole Winfield and Samya Kullab, Associated Press)
After historic meeting with pope, Iraq’s top Shiite cleric says religious authorities have role in protecting Christians
(Associated Press)
Shiite powerhouse al-Sistani helped shape today’s Iraq
(Associated Press)
Religion and gender equality – A way forward
(Sofia Caseiro, G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)
Pope meets father of drowned child whose image captured imaginations
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
VCL & AN v UK - Prosecution of trafficking victims breaches Article 4 ECHR
(Colin Gregory, ECHR Blog)
Pope Francis denounces religious fanaticism in city reduced to rubble when ISIS persecuted Christians and other faiths
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Religion Watch, Volume 36 No. 4
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
Buddhism, ethnicity, and nationalism in the Myanmar coup
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Hope at the end of the tunnel: Myanmar’s civil disobedience movement and moving toward a more inclusive Myanmar (Responding to: Buddhism, ethnicity, and nationalism in the Myanmar coup)
(Khin Mai Aung, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
A Burmese tragedy of power (Responding to: Buddhism, ethnicity, and nationalism in the Myanmar coup)
(Michał Lubina, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Finding a Buddhist middle way in post-coup Myanmar: Ethnocentric nationalism or democratic reform? (Responding to: Buddhism, ethnicity, and nationalism in the Myanmar coup)
(Paul Fuller, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
India sets up holding center for Rohingya in Kashmir
(Associated Press)
Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021 passed in Assembly
(Times Now News)
Friday, 5 March 2021
APPG launches commentary on the current state of FORB
(All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief)
Only love, no jihad, say Kolkata’s interfaith couples
(Priyanka Dasgupta, Times of India)
Revisiting Jericho: The Biblical exegesis of violence in America and Israel
(Rachel Havrelock, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
IPDC: Three years of dialogue and cooperation in the Arab World
(The Interreligious Platform for Dialogue and Cooperation in the Arab World (IPDC), KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
Bangladesh: Two Protestant churches targeted, attacked and ransacked
(Sumon Corraya, Asia News)
Ahead of Pope visit, survivor recalls Iraq church massacre
(Samya Kullab, Associated Press)
Pope’s upcoming visit brings attention to the dwindling population of Christians in Iraq
(Ramazan Kılınç, The Conversation)
RFI joins discussion hosted by Al-Rafidain Center for Dialogue on the Papal visit to Iraq
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Photos of the week: Francis in Iraq, unrest in Myanmar
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Regional and world church bodies urge respect for will of Myanmar people
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Pope honors massacre victims at Baghdad church
(Associated Press)
Pope urges Iraq to embrace its Christians on historic visit
(Nicole Winfield and Samya Kullab, Associated Press)
A timeline of disaster and displacement for Iraqi Christians
(Associated Press)
In Iraq, Pope condemns ‘murder, exile, terrorism, and oppression’ in name of religion
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Pope’s planned visit to Iraq, amid pandemic, raises questions of timing
(Jason Horowitz, The New York Times)
Pope Francis in Iraq for 'difficult journey' to bolster Christians and peace
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Angolan bishops warn of deteriorating social situation
(Catholic News Service)
Draft laws on collaboration registered in the Parliament: religious organizations to be also penalized
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
Extremism case opened against 5 members of Jehovah's Witnesses in Syktyvkar
(Interfax-Religion)
Orthodox and secular Israelis are fighting over Jewish conversion. Why?
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Bishops voice concern over treatment of religion in Irish reopening plan
(Catholic News Agency)
When Covid constraints come to church
(Don Hutchinson, Convivium)
Canada: Sean Murphy’s initiative to amend the Criminal Code
(Peter Stockland, Convivium)
Religion, vaccines, medical ethics and just distribution – a Hindu perspective
(Brij Maharaj, Daily Maverick)
Anti-Muslim hatred has reached 'epidemic proportions' says UN rights expert, urging action by States
(UN News)
'Dragged in the street': Christian persecution in Tunisia still rampant decade after revolution
(Emily Wood, The Christian Post)
What’s happening in Donbas? Analysis and forecast
(Sergei Garmash, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Burned out with nowhere to go: Already combatting COVID, fires are displacing refugees across the globe
(Christina Tobias-Nahi, G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)
IGE cosponsors virtual event: Shahbaz Bhatti 10th Anniversary Commemoration
(Institute for Global Engagement)
Tajikistan: Independent imam jailed again
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Attacks on minority women in Pakistan spark calls to reopen Canada's Office of Religious Freedoms closed by Liberals
(Zeenya Shah, National Post)
Indonesia says schools can’t make girls wear head scarves
(Richard C. Paddock and Muktita Suhartono, The New York Times)
Iranian Jewish leader tells US rabbi community freely observes its religion
(Gary Rosenblatt, The Times of Israel)
Keeping the Uyghur culture alive in exile
(Ruth Ingram, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
China counters Uighur criticism with attacks on women
(Cate Cadell, Daily Maverick)
New report highlights severe lack of religious freedom in China
(International Christian Concern)
Uyghur forced labor, coercion on an industrial scale exposed
(Ruth Ingram, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
Colombia: Bishops join the cry of the Church in Chocó, "scene of terror" (Spanish)
(Sofía Lobos, Vatican News)
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
“Solid jurisdictional basis”? The ICC’s fragile jurisdiction for crimes allegedly committed in Palestine
(Kai Ambos, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Dr. Seuss books pulled over racist images
(Deutsche Welle)
Germany's Catholic Bishops aim to rewrite the Catechism: Will it lead to a schism from Rome?
(Clemente Lisi, Religion Unplugged)
Christian Solidarity International 'slave rescue' efforts face scrutiny
(Juliana Chan Erikson, Religion Unplugged)
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