Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Angry Buddhist mob swarms Meiktila Monastery after man ‘insults’ religion on Facebook (video)
(Coconuts)
The rise of the 'Madkhalists': Inside Libya's struggle for religious supremacy
(Alison Pargeter, Middle East Eye)
Quebec ponders making masks mandatory after banning the veil
(Tracey Lindeman, The Guardian)
Instead of gossiping about the Kim dynasty, the world should focus on North Korea’s human rights atrocities
(Benedict Rogers, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Monday, 18 May 2020
Religion Photos of the Week - 16 May 2020
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Articles of interest - 18 May 2020
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Law, Religion and Covid-19 Emergency – Ebook, Diresom Papers 1
(Edited by Pierluigi Consorti, DiReSoM: Diritto e Religione nelle Società Multiculturali/ Law and Religion in Multicultural Societies)
Ambassador Brownback warns about the COVID-19 related burdens faced by religious minorities
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Briefing with Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback on COVID-19 impact on religious minorities
(United States Department of State)
Indian dioceses pray with pope, as well as Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims (videos)
(Nirmala Carvalho, Asia News)
Pope joins interfaith prayer for end to pandemic
(Cindy Wooden, The Tablet UK)
Coronavirus puts 4 million girls at risk of child marriage
(Emma Batha, Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
Do we need an International Commission of Inquiry for COVID-19? Part II
(Michael A Becker, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Do we need an International Commission of Inquiry for COVID-19? Part I
(Michael A Becker, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
The hidden victims off Covid19: Human trafficking and modern day slavery
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Yet another girl in Pakistan abducted, forcibly converted and forcibly ‘married’ to her abductor
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
The International Criminal Court is moving forward with investigations into the situation in Afghanistan
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Iran sentences French academic Fariba Adelkhah to five years in prison
(AFP, France 24)
Church Law Society Newsletter Prague – Brno – Olomouc – Stříbro, No. 4/2020
(P. Jiří Rajmund Tretera OP, Záboj Horák, et al., English Version)
Daily Highlight #62: COVID-19 and Religious Freedom in Latin America
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Pastor in Nepal re-arrested on new series of charges to keep him in jail, sources say
(Morning Star News)
LGBTQI+ advocates in Taiwan call for full recognition of same-sex marriage involving foreigners
(SBS News)
Jewish extremist convicted in arson that killed Arab toddler
(Aron Heller, Associated Press)
‘GOD TV’ spat exposes tensions between Israel, evangelicals
(Joseph Krauss, Associated Press)
As mosques reopen in West Africa, COVID-19 fears grow
(Krista Larson, Associated Press)
Tibetans demand China disclose fate of boy taken away in ’95
(Associated Press)
AP PHOTOS: Shrine in Japan offers solace to those at home
(Associated Press)
Brazilian Church ‘on the vanguard’ of fight against COVID-19 in São Paulo
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Eight Jehovah's Witnesses are subjects of criminal case in Siberian city
(Sibir.Realii, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Putin recommends Russian Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr at home
(Interfax-Religion)
LGBT activists in Georgia hold annual rally online due to pandemic
(Interfax-Religion)
Russia: On trial despite age, sickness
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)
Global religious groups say COVID-19 presents 'prophetic moment' for governments on healthcare
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Pope St. John Paul II and religious freedom: An interview with George Weigel
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Atheism to orthodoxy: Russia’s convoluted relationship with God
(Julietta Bisharyan, The California Aggie)
A coalition that will escalate Jewish disunity
(Uri Rege, The Jerusalem Post)
Sri Lankan officials stoke Covid-19 communal hate: 11 years after civil war’s end, no reconciliation efforts
(Meenakshi Ganguly, Human Rights Watch)
Repatriated Muslims say diet at Joburg quarantine site is anti-religion
(Tebogo Monama, IOL News)
Saturday, 16 May 2020
Daily Highlight #60: Advocating for People Forced to Move: The Vatican’s Voice
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
COVID-19 and common humanity
(Brian Bird, Convivium: Canada's Premier Hub for Faith in Common Life)
Futility in the face of pandemic
(Daniel Gilman, Convivium: Canada's Premier Hub for Faith in Common Life)
Shadow and light in the post-COVID Church
(Peter Stockland and Peter Menzies, Convivium: Canada's Premier Hub for Faith in Common Life)
After recent violence, is Afghanistan’s peace process dead?
(Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings)
North Korea 'church' doesn't look like any other but it exists: watchdog
(Caleb Parke, Fox News)
Ukraine’s Catholic prelates condemn surrogacy as a ‘moral evil’
(Ines San Martin, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Patriarchate agrees to remove Stalin from church building
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Iran’s clerics have bungled their coronavirus response, stoking doubts about their rule
(Erin Cunningham, The Washington Post)
China’s pandemic of religious persecution
(David Curry, The Christian Post)
How will antisemitism and Zionism look after the coronavirus?
(Shlomo Fischer, The Jerusalem Post)
European court says Muslim inmate's religious rights were infringed in Russian prison
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
COVID-19 much more fatal for men, especially taking age into account
(Richard V. Reeves and Tiffany Ford, Brookings)
Friday, 15 May 2020
Berkley Forum COVID-19 Blogs
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Daily Highlight #59: Imams Who Oppose Pakistan's Coronavirus Orders
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Thursday, 14 May 2020
USINDO's WEBINAR on Religion and COVID Pandemic (recorded May 7, 2020)
(YouTube Video, The U.S. - Indonesia Society (USINDO))
PaRD-WEBINAR on COVID-19: A test for our humanity (recorded 12 May 2020)
(Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Katherine Marshall, Olivia Wilkinson, Jørgen Thomsen, Rev. Kyoichi Sugino, Mercy Niwe, International Partership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD))
When will we care about domestic violence?
(Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books)
Daily HIghlight #58: Interfaith Youth Mobilize against COVID-19 in Kenya
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
BROADCAST, 14 May 2020: Inspiration & Hope: An Interfaith Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
(The Parliament of the World's Religions, Facebook and YouTube)
Pope joins interreligious prayer, begging God to end pandemic
(Cindy Wooden, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
China: Tibet anti-crime campaign silences dissent
(Human Rights Watch)
Balloons bring Bibles to North Korea
(Male Marvin, Uganda Christian News)
Same-sex marriage will be legal in Costa Rica on May 26. Some legislators hope to delay it
(Alejandro Zúñiga, The Tico Times)
Kazakhstan: "I lost consciousness three times because of the pain"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Russia uses new form of persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
(Versiia Saratov, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Indian Muslims face renewed stigma amid COVID-19 crisis
(Murali Krishnan, Deutsche Welle)
COVID-19 in Ukraine: Religion and geopolitics in a pandemic
(Polina Vynogradova, Geopolitical Monitor)
How clipping Turkey's religious reach has boosted Erdogan in Europe
(Pinar Tremblay, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Vatican finance in crisis thanks to Covid-19 and stock market meltdown
(Nicolas Senèze, La Croix International)
Has covid-19 killed globalisation?
(The Economist)
First coronavirus case found in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camps
(Aljazeera)
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Comment réinventer les rites funéraires en temps de Covid-19 ?
(France Akindes, Bernard Taverne, Firmin Kra, Gabriele Laborde-balen, Khoudia Sow, and Marc Egrot, The Conversation)
Pursuing politics through legal means: U.S. efforts to hold China responsible for COVID-19
(Jacques deLisle, Foreign Policy Research Institute)
COVID-19: Something new under the sun?
(Adam Garfinkle, Foreign Policy Research Institute)
Coronavirus: Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki says Sunday service will go ahead
(Ripu Bhatia, Stuff.co.nz)
Pastor Ted Wilson gives May message to the Adventist Church
(Adventist News Network)
Genetic analysis of thousands of coronavirus patients may explain huge differences in case severity
(Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph)
Afghan attack: Maternity ward death toll climbs to 24
(BBC News)
We will have summer tourist season, promises EU
(BBC News)
With major deficits projected, Vatican says Holy See not at risk of default
(Hannah Brockhaus and JD Flynn, Catholic News Agency)
Locusts threaten East African food crisis, members of Congress call for aid
(Catholic News Agency)
Vatican officials donate salaries to pandemic victims
(Catholic News Agency)
Government of Nicaragua ‘irresponsible’ in handling the pandemic, bishop says
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
U.N. conference on role of religious leaders in addressing covid-19 crisis
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Secretary-General's remarks at high-level video conference entitled, "The Role of Religious Leaders in Addressing the Multiple Challenges of COVID-19" [as delivered]
(The United Nations)
Jehovah's Witness charged in Russian Far East
(Interfax-Dalnii Vostok, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Self-styled Siberian healer incarcerated
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
British tabloids use online reach and clickbait stories to intensify tale of warring popes
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)
RFI joins coalition letter to the White House on misguided report of the UN Special Rapporteur on FoRB
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
UAE’s Higher Committee of Human Fraternity calls for religious unity in response to COVID-19
(Sami Zaatari, Gulf News)
Cultural Disruptions: Martin Marty on the importance of seeking out stories of human goodness in the darkest days
(Martin E. Marty, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
21 Wilberforce launches Global Freedom Center
(21 Wilberforce)
Daily Highlight #55 COVID-19 and Human Trafficking: Unlikely Alliances
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Modi's coronavirus test: The pandemic offers a struggling India the chance to reset
(Anubhav Gupta and Puneet Talwar, Foreign Affairs)
The coming post-COVID anarchy: The pandemic bodes ill for both American and Chinese power—and for the global order
(Kevin Rudd, Foreign Affairs)
Sweden's coronavirus strategy will soon be the world's: Herd immunity is the only realistic option—The question is how to get there safely
(Nils Karlson, Charlotta Stern, and Daniel B. Klein, Foreign Affairs)
What does Washington want from China? Pique is not policy
(Christopher R. Hill, Foreign Affairs)
Is the pandemic China's Sputnik moment? What a virus reveals about two systems
(Branko Milanovic, Foreign Affairs)
Canada’s Virtual National March for Life kicks off with a bang
(Anthony Murdoch, Life Site News)
India: Woman dies after taking abortion pills; 6 booked
(Somendranath Sharma, Mumbai Mirror)
Australia: Gay conversion, euthanasia: Laws on backburner during COVID-19
(Lydia Lynch, The Sydney Morning Herald)
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