Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
US watchdog group: Turkey’s actions in Syria endanger religious diversity
(Elizabeth Hagedorn, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
DAILY HIGHLIGHT #75: The COVID-19 Vaccine Challenge: Faith Fears?
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
USCIRF commends Bahrain for release of prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
USCIRF releases new report about religious prisoners of conscience in Vietnam
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Religion Photos of the Week - 6 June 2020
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Nigeria: Alleged Christian persecution: Presidency accuses IPOB of misleading US, UK
(Omololu Ogunmade, This Day)
Interview: Leading Sant’Egidio’s Prayer for Peaceful Coexistence in US, Cardinal Farrell prays for unity & against division
(Deborah Castellano Lubov, Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)
Round Up 8.6.2020 – George Floyd protests spread worldwide, Hong Kong concerns rise and the UK eases coronavirus lockdown…
(Thomas Hayes, UK Human Rights Blog)
Will COVID-19 increase religious hostilities and discrimination?
(Marie Juul Petersen & Claire Thomas & Sajjad Hassan, OpenGlobalRights)
Coronavirus pandemic: Tracking the global outbreak
(BBC News)
George Floyd: Black Lives Matter protests go global
(BBC News)
Controlling thought: Changes in usage and semantics, when imposed, are usually exercises in power.
(Theodore Dalrymple, Law & Liberty)
God has ‘removed’ coronavirus, Tanzania’s president claims
(Tom Odula, Associated Press)
Turkey seeks 191 soldiers for alleged tie to US-based cleric
(d, Associated Press)
Spain begins trial for killings of 5 Jesuits in El Salvador
(Aritz Parra, Associated Press)
The U.S. must use the new Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act to sanction Chinese officials for religious persecution
(Nury Turkel, TIME)
Uzbekistan: When will draft religion law be made public?
(Mushfig Bayram, Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Faith leaders hold local Black Lives Matter vigil in South Africa to protest lockdown deaths
(Anli Serfontein, Ecumenical News)
Argentina adopts International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Afghanistan should ward off pervert / militaristic Islamic teaching by establishing enlightened religious education centers
(Mohammed Gul Sahibbzada, MENAFN)
Egypt Islamic body causes uproar by declaring Ottomans' Istanbul seizure 'occupation'
(Ragip Soylu, Middle East Eye)
Gantz asks High Court for delay on passing ultra-Orthodox military draft law
(The Times of Israel)
Monday, 8 June 2020
Articles of interest - 8 June 2020
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
A welcome development – the National Commission on Freedom of Religion or Belief in Sudan
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
China: Believers forced to choose between faith or survival
(Tang Zhe, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
A culture of impunity: religious discrimination in Mexico
(CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Jihadism, a growing reality in Mozambique
(Jonatán Soriano, Evangelical Focus Europe)
Bishop: New anti-terrorism bill in Philippines is ‘inhuman, unjust and unlawful’
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Vatican agreement with China likely to be renewed, archbishop says
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Lebanon deescalates sectarian clashes after tense night
(Bassem Mroue, Associated Press)
Ivory Coast: Parish sells masks to help retired bishops, priests, imams
(Catholic News Service)
Take care in letting your guard down against COVID-19, Pope Francis advises
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Decision to bar distribution of ''prasad'' at religious places was taken by Centre: Punjab CM
(Outlook India)
China, Russia and Iran chide U.S. over racism while persecuting minorities in their own countries
(Shane Croucher, Newsweek)
Renewing religious discourse: Fundamental dialectics
(Hasan Ismaik, Egypt Indepedent Opinion)
Remarks of SRSG Patten at the virtual Launch Event for the Handbook for United Nations Field Missions on Preventing and Responding to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
(Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Logo Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, United Nations)
Bedouins say Israeli police ignoring violence in their communities
(Afif Abu Much, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Syria’s Kurdish-led alliance sweeps Deir ez-Zor for Islamic State sleeper cells
(Jared Szuba, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Jordan Valley Palestinians watch as Israel imposes authority ahead of looming annexation
(Ahmad Melhem, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Palestinian Lives Matter: Huge Jewish-Arab rally in Tel Aviv decries Netanyahu's plan to annex 1/3 of West Bank
(Juan Cole, Common Dreams)
Is Islamic State making a comeback in Sinai?
(Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Expanding Euthanasia during the Pandemic
(Brian Bird, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)
COVID-19, the right to education and Bangladesh
(Psymhe Wadud, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
DAILY HIGHLIGHT #83: “Infodemics”: Bangladesh Illustrates Links Between COVID-19 and Discrimination
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Christian families in India banned from burying their dead
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
DAILY HIGHLIGHT #82: Geneva Communities Mobilize to Support Those in Need
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Faith and Community Mobilization During COVID-19: Caravane de la Solidarité in Geneva, Switzerland
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Lebanon’s ‘pillar’ of Catholic education at risk of collapsing
(Doreen Abi Raad, National Catholic Register)
French president demands Iran release anthropologist dual citizen
(Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Sunday, 7 June 2020
DAILY HIGHLIGHT #81: Turning Tragedy into Hope: Hasidic Jews Donate Lifesaving Plasma
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Saturday, 6 June 2020
Coronaspection: World religious leaders look inward during a time of global hardship
(Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Tablet Magazine - Belief)
US cardinal at Vatican prays for Floyd, and America’s future
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
George Floyd’s death an American tragedy with global echoes
(Jill Lawless, Associated Press)
Future Trends: Global news which may provide insight to the future
(Institute for Economics & Peace and Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on racial and ethnic minorities needs to be urgently addressed – Bachelet
(United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner)
We Can't Breathe: UN OHCHR Experts Issue Joint Statement and Call for Reparations
(Diane Desierto, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Vatican: No active coronavirus cases among employees
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
Friday, 5 June 2020
The pandemic is still gathering pace in most of the world
(The Economist)
Calls for action amid growing Covid-19 pressures on religious communities globally
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church: A New Document of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
(Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Throne, blogs.goarch.org)
Deadly tide: Infections are rising fast in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
(The Economist)
Vatican roundup: Causes of saints, rising intolerance and crime, Astalli Center
(The Irish Catholic)
The gospel according to Xi: Beijing considers publishing official translations of holy texts like the Bible.
(Matthew Taylor King, The Wall Street Journal - Opinion)
An interfaith dialogue on religious responses to COVID-19 in Bangladesh
(Sarah Thompson, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Burundi court upholds presidential election results questioned by bishops
(Eloge Willy Kaneza, Associated Press)
Erdogan wants to convert the Hagia Sophia church into a mosque
(novinite.com)
Pope Francis dealing with issue of release of Ukrainian national guardsman convicted in Italy - Zelensky
(Interfax-Religion)
A State is a State is a State? Some Thoughts on the Prosecutor’s Response to Amici Briefs on Territorial Jurisdiction – Part II
(Malcolm N Shaw, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
A State is a State is a State? Some Thoughts on the Prosecutor’s Response to Amici Briefs on Territorial Jurisdiction – Part I
(Malcolm N Shaw, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
'Palestinian Lives Matter,' shout Israeli protesters over killing of Iyad Hallak
(https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/06/israel-palestinians-arabs-east-jerusalem-iyad-al-hallak.html, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Elderly Turks furious over 'nonsense' lockdown
(Sibel Hurtas, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Professor removed from department chair position for stressing importance of biological sex
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
Churches in China must preach 'patriotism' to reopen after coronavirus
(Catholic News Agency)
El Salvador pro-life groups decry 'misleading' CBS report amid abortion fight
(Catholic News Agency)
COVID-19 compounds economic crises in Yemen, Jordan, Palestine
(Al-Monitor)
Facebook closes accounts linked to Kurdish intelligence in Iraq
(Adam Lucente, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
In Hong Kong, the spirit of Tiananmen lives on
(Marco Respinti, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
Thursday, 4 June 2020
DAILY HIGHLIGHT #78: Rising Stigma amid the Pandemic: India’s Muslim Community
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
IS claims Kabul mosque attack that killed prayer leader
(Associated Press)
World Council of Churches postpones its assembly to 2022 due to COVID-19
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Supreme Court increases severity of penalty for convicted Jehovah's Witness
(Krymskii Protsess, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
‘We need a miracle,’ retired Hong Kong cardinal says on security law
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
China makes preaching patriotism compulsory to reopen churches
(Catholic News Service, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Court in Crimea jails second Jehovah's Witness for six years
(Reuters)
No crowding, no physical offerings: Indian Health Ministry announces SOPs for religious places
(The Wire)
Religious institutions of Uzbekistan, Malaysia sign cooperation agreements
(AKI Press)
Myanmar jails doctor for insulting monks over sex education
(Reuters)
Ghana: With so many Christians in government, why does corruption persist?
(Vatican News)
Without annual meeting, amid decline, Southern Baptists continue debate on race, women’s roles
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
On 4 June We Remember…
(FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Will the Yazidis survive in the Middle East?
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Racism is a disease of the heart and other epiphanies in a journey towards anti-racism
(Hena Zuberi, Muslim Matters)
Can human love make a comeback?
(Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review)
Riots are violence
(David Harsanyi, National Review)
DAILY HIGHLIGHT #77: COVID-19 in Africa: Puzzles, Positive News, Religious Roles
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Who Is My COVID-19 Neighbor?
(Andy Olsen with Susan Mettes, Christianity Today Magazine)
Trump signs order on international religious freedom after JPII shrine visit
(Catholic News Agency)
Christians, Muslims hope Mosul project helps rebuild trust
(Dale Gavlak, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Iran debates 'honor killings' after girl's murder shocks country (But religious authorities continue to oppose change.)
(Shabnam von Hein, Deutsche Welle)
New level of harsh penalty requested for Jehovah's Witness
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
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