Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
Why countries can’t meet the demand for gear against covid-19
(The Economist)
Our health depends on each other. That’s why we need to fight this threat together
(Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, TIME)
Mozambique: The rise of an insurgency
(Benamin Harbaugh, International Christian Concern)
Turkey's press freedom decreases
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Coronavirus does not spare North Korea, according to sources
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Providence bishop calls for evangelization, renewal after coronavirus
(Catholic News Agency)
Elderly and disabled have same right to treatment as others amid pandemic, say bishops
(Catholic News Agency)
Israel's new foreign minister, the man without a tie
(Rina Bassist, Al-Monitor)
Delayed S-400 activation could offer chance for Turkey-US ties to warm
(Diego Cupolo, Al-Monitor)
Saudi Arabia wins oil price war - at a huge cost
(Al-Monitor)
What we know about the 'devious' coronavirus
(Al-Monitor)
At least seven dead in Yemen flash floods
(Al-Monitor)
Lebanese protesters back on the streets... in their cars
(Al-Monitor)
US zeroes in on shadowy Lebanese playmaker in Iraq
(Al-Monitor)
Iran says it's released 1,000 foreign prisoners since outbreak began
(Al-Monitor)
Young Christian woman and pregnant convert seriously injured in eastern Uganda
(Morning Star)
African church leaders: Insurgents could increase attacks during pandemic
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
England’s bishops praise worldwide drop in executions
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Religious tension in India aggravated by coronavirus
(Srinivas Mazumdaru, Deutsche Welle)
Citizen complaint about church people not observing lockdown precautions
(Ivan Zhilin, Novaia Gazeta)
The pandemic and the toll of transatlantic discord: At a time of crisis, the U.S.-European relationship can—and must—be saved
(Karen Donfried and Wolfgang Ischinger, Foreign Affairs)
Don't let great powers carve up the world: Spheres of influence are unnecesary and dangerous
(Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs)
In India, a pandemic of prejudice and repression
(Siddharth Varadarajan, The New York Times)
Israeli court rules against print shop that refused to serve LGBT group
(Jacob Magid, The Times of Israel)
Religious group’s mass gatherings across Asia spark virus clusters
(Faseeh Mangi, Bloomberg)
Saskatchewan gov’t reverses ban on drive-in religious services after legal challenge
(LifeSiteNews)
Now that the world has spotted Hindutva bigotry, Modi insists that coronavirus doesn’t see religion
(Rohan Venkataramakrishnan, Scroll.in India)
COVID-19, Africans’ hardships in China, and the future of Africa-China relations
(Yun Sun, Brookings)
Applying coronavirus pain for geopolitical gain
(Francesco Sisci, Asia Times)
Indian industries try in vain to ease lockdown
(Asia Times)
COVID-19 widens the rift between Israel’s ultra-orthodox and secular communities
(Gil Zohar, Religion Unplugged)
Coronavirus is highlighting the rift In Islam between modernists and literalists
(Lawrence Pintak, Religion Unplugged)
Germany’s largest newspaper editor-in-chief to China’s president: You’re endangering the world
(Arthur Block, The Levant News)
Quackery in Iran: Desperate Iranians are getting bad medical advice
(The Economist)
Tensions Surround Rituals Following COVID-19 Deaths: Obligatory Cremation in Sri Lanka
(Daily Highlight, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Travelling in time of corona: Margaret Atwood talks about narrow escape from Covid-19
(India Today)
Monday, 20 April 2020
WEBINAR Recording — COVID-19, RELIGION, and BELIEF: Episode 2: FoRB, COVID-19 and Human Dignity
(Ewelina Ochab, Jan Figel, Brett Scharffs, Marco Ventura, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints European Office)
WEBINAR Recording: The COVID-19 Crisis: From Past Experience to Present Realities
(Katherine Marshall, David Robinson, Olivia Wilkinson, Barbara Brilliant, Daleen Raubenheimer-Foot, Peter Kwame Yeboah, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Launch of GLOBAL Multi-religious Faith-in-Action COVID-19 Initiative
(Religions for Peace)
To be born a Sikh... (Comment from India)
(Ira Pande, Tribune India)
Church meetings and COVID-19 in Australia
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Latter-day Saints participate in global COVID-19 relief efforts
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
First Presidency provides guidance on how to administer the Church in challenging times
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Responding to COVID-19: Answers to Questions
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Can Human Dignity help heal us in our coronavirus moment?
(Brett G. Scharffs, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
Coronavirus emergency in the Monastic Autonomous Republic of Mount Athos. Contagion without Covid-19
(Pierluigi Consorti, DIRESOM Papers)
Turkey’s coronavirus cases highest in Middle East
(Arab News)
Egyptian singers spread gratitude, hope amid pandemic
(Ayman Fayed, Arab News)
The constraints that bind (or don’t): Integrating gender into economic constraints analyses
(Ana Revenga and Meagan Dooley, Brookings)
End te coronavirus crackdown, for the children — OpEd
(Adam Dick, Eurasia Review Opinion)
UN Institute expects COVID-19 fallout to push half a billion people into poverty
(J Nastanis, InDepth News)
Providing food security in the face of a global health crisis
(Bahá’í World News Service)
Call for Malaysia to allow Rohingya refugees ashore
(Eurasia Review)
Coronavirus spread in India sparks intolerance towards minority Muslims
(Niala Mohammad, Voice of America)
WHO: No evidence survivors of COVID-19 are immune from the disease
(Lisa Schlein, Voice of America)
WHO’s to blame? World Health Organization under scrutiny over its handling of coronavirus
(Caline Malek, Arab News)
Catholic Relief Services: Don’t forget migrants, refugees amid pandemic
(Catholic News Agency)
Beware of the virus of ‘selfish indifference’, says pope on Divine Mercy Sunday
(Catholic News Agency)
Historical development of favoritism and nepotism in Pakistan — OpEd
(Mehwish Mahar, Eurasia Review)
Scientists test drug that slash COVID-19 viral load by 94%
(Andreia Verdélio, AgênciaBrasil)
COVID-19: Satellite data reveal global pollution levels plummeting
(Passant Rabie, Inverse)
COVID-19 Economic Crisis Challenges Religious Communities
(Daily Highlight, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Churches mostly empty for Orthodox Easter due to virus rules
(Jim Heintz, Associated Press)
Pope dreams of post-virus world where inequalities abolished
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
‘Holy Fire’ ceremony held in empty Jerusalem church
(Associated Press)
COVID-19 gives new urgency to plans to modernize Catholic healthcare in Brazil
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Inside the fringe Japanese religion that claims it can cure Covid-19
(Sam Kestenbaum, The New York Times)
UN report on religious freedom deems abortion and gender identity as human rights
(Emilie Kao and Shea Garrison, The Daily Signal - Commentary)
Russian president takes note of Christian holiday
(Interfax-Religion, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Antisemitic attack fails in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Muslim board calls on Russian Muslims not to visit mosques during Ramadan
(Interfax-Religion)
Jews are concerned with attempts to blame them in spreading coronavirus
(Interfax-Religion)
Kazakhstan: Emergency hospital stay for jailed Muslim
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Algeria’s religious minorities are being restricted
(International Christian Concern)
Palghar lynching: India police arrest more than 100 suspects
(BBC News)
American soft power can help protect Christians in Nigeria
(William Upton, The Washington Examiner)
Family cut off from Lao pastor since his mid-March arrest for Christian service
(Radio Free Asia)
Will a new government in Malaysia reset India ties?
(Yatharth Kachiar, The Diplomat)
UAE-based Kerala businessman apologises for poem that 'hurt religious sentiments'
(The News Minute)
Indian hospitals refuse to admit Muslims as coronavirus causes Islamophobia surge
(Joe Wallen, The Telegraph)
COVID-19 makes life harder for hundreds of thousands of Africa’s persecuted Christians
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
China shuts down zoom Easter church service, detains church members
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Pope Francis postpones World Youth Day and Meeting of Families due to coronavirus
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
Brazilian Supreme Court to consider legalizing abortion in Zika cases
(Catholic News Agency)
The loneliness pandemic: How the quarantined are grappling with solitude and faith
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
The loneliness pandemic: The elderly in ICUs battle coronavirus and solitude
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
Experts: Coronovirus brings spike in anti-Semitic sentiments
(Aron Heller, Religion News Service)
Iran uses pandemic to further provocations in the Gulf
(Seth J. Frantzman, National Review)
Hong Kong police swoop on the territory’s most prominent democrats: The 15 arrested include veteran champions of liberal causes
(The Economist)
Factsheet: Religious freedom in Nigeria
(International Christian Concern)
Intel: Trump, Erdogan discuss coronavirus as pandemic worsens in Turkey
(Al-Monitor)
Lebanon bank attacked with explosive amid economic crisis
(Al-Monitor)
Growth in the LDS Church is slowing -- but not for reasons you might suspect
(Emma Penrod, Religion Unplugged)
Saturday, 18 April 2020
What do countries with the best coronavirus responses have in common? Women leaders
(Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes)
Women leaders are doing a disproportionately great job at handling the pandemic. So why aren't there more of them?
(Leta Hong Fincher, CNN)
Women are leading Canada's
(Victoria Forster, Forbes)
What religious leaders can do: Imams, clerics, and pastors can play a crucial role in the fight against Covid-19
(Samia Huq, Dhaka Tribune)
Preference to the Poor: Priority Ethics for Development Leaders
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Putin won't attend Easter vigil at Christ the Savior Cathedral
(Interfax-Religion)
It's a fact that the Holy Fire in Jerusalem is a hoax? Associated Press appears to assume that
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
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