Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 7 January 2020
Cairo seeks support to keep Turkish troops out of Libya
(Ahmed Gomaa, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Multibillion-dollar lawsuit in Israel against Arab Bank
(Danny Zaken, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Monday, 6 January 2020
Churches in Australia act on national fire crisis with responders and prayers
(Peter Kenny, World Council of Churches)
Kaifeng Jewish ommunity suffers new suppression
(Wang Yichi, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
Italy expels Moroccan imam, cites his support for IS
(Associated Press)
Women perform in favor of abortion before Mexican cathedral
(Amy Guthrie, Associated Press)
Kenyan Catholic leaders alarmed at increase in terror attacks
(Fredrick Nzwili, Catholic News Service)
HWPL: Pan-Religious statement alarms the Christian Council of Korea
(Yahoo News)
Mob sets fire to Catholic church serving Chilean police
(Catholic News Agency)
Supreme Court of the Philippines rejects petition to legalize same-sex marriage
(Catholic News Agency)
Sunday, 5 January 2020
Quiet hope: A New Year's Resolution
(R.J. Snell, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)
Censorship highlights role of alternative media outlets in Lebanese revolution
(Hanan Hamdan, Al-Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)
Saturday, 4 January 2020
Global Family Day ushers in 2020
(T Sandeep Bhushan, The Hans India)
The decade's biggest religion news stories
(Paul O'Donnell, Religion News Service)
At the door of the new decade, we must strive for a better legacy for human rights
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Trends in terrorism: What's on the Horizon in 2020
(Colin P. Clarke, Foreign Policy Research Institute)
Start of a new year: Stories and trends to watch for on the Catholic beat in 2020
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)
Catholic Relief Services prepares for busy 2020 in Africa
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Against the tide of humanity: India proceeding with discriminatory laws
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
‘India is biggest threat to interfaith harmony’: Rehman Malik
(ARY News)
Back to India’s secular future: Protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act are rallying Indians of all stripes around their country’s foundational principles
(Kapil Komireddi, Foreign Policy)
Christians face ‘heightened intolerance’ in India, activist claims
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Third case registered against Raveena Tandon, 2 others in Punjab for ''hurting religious sentiments''
(Outlook India)
Modi's 'Muslim problem': Are Indian Muslims 'invaders', 'scumbages' or equal ciizens? – OpEd
(M. Adil Khan, Eurasia Review)
Israel’s Parliament moves toward invalidating some conversions to Judaism
(Dan Perry, Associated Press)
Ivory Coast cardinal calls on president to pardon opposition supporters
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Nigeria: Sanwo-Olu urges Muslims to practice peace with people in other religion
(Nigerian Tribune)
How to avoid another war in the Middle East: De-escalating after the Soleimani strike
(Kelly Magsamen, Foreign Affairs)
What Soleimani’s death means for Iran, West Asia and the world
(Kabr Taneja, Observer Research Foundation)
Let's remember what Christmas is all about
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Pope: Governments must ensure all have access to health care
(Associated Press)
Friday, 3 January 2020
US strike on Iranian military leader sparks escalation fears
(Jack Detsch, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Mideast expert calls strike on Iranian general a ‘game-changer’
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News)
Will Iran's response to the Soleimani strike lead to war? What Tehran is likely to do next
(Ilan Goldenberg, Foreign Affairs)
The death of the U.S.-Iraqi relationship (Soleimani wasn’t the only casualty of the U.S. strike in Baghdad)
(Emma Sky, Foreign Affairs)
How Russia is reading the killing of Qasem
(Maxim A. Suchkov, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Yemeni local tribal mediation succeeds in releasing 135 prisoners
(Naseh Shaker, Al-Monitor: Gulf Pulse)
Opposing same-sex marriage is not "vilification"
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Sri Lanka president urges limit on minority political power
(Associated Press)
Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
A battle for the soul of the nation: eugenics and religion in post-revolutionary Mexico, 1925–1935 (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Elizabeth O’Brien, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Between Catholic tradition and the nationalist state: the Mexican Christian family movement, 1960–1970 (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Emilio Coral Garcia, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Cristero legacies: conflict, landlessness, and Bracero emigration in Mexico's Rosary Belt (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Alberto García Maldonado, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
December 12, 1531: Garrido Canabal against Guadalupe (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Ben Fallaw, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Food for healing: food sovereignty movements in Mexican and Mexican-American communities (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Alyshia Gálvez, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Montezuma’s gold: U.S.-Mexican diplomacy and the rebuilding of Mexican Catholicism, 1937–1960 (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Matthew Butler, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
“Chicago Católico”: Making parishes Mexican in Pilsen (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Deborah Kanter, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
“The Revolution is afraid”: Cristeros and Sinarquistas in Mexico and the United States, 1926–1950 (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Julia Young, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
President of Asia’s bishops’ confederation calls for end of police brutality in Hong Kong
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Australia's churches act on national fire crisis with responders and prayers
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Harassment of ordinary Jehovah's Witnesses in south of Russia
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
The deadly perils of religious nationalism
(Saad Hafiz, Counter Punch)
Soleimani air strike could mean new danger for Iraqi Christians
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
Qasem Soleimani: A portrait of a revoluntionay
(Al Bawaba News)
More than 100 Uyghur graveyards demolished by Chinese authorities, satellite images show
(Matt Rivers, CNN World)
Thursday, 2 January 2020
Militias lay siege to US embassy in Iraq
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Trump responds swiftly after pro-Iranian protestors attack U.S. embassy in Iraq
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
US Embassy attack backfires on Iran-backed militias in Iraq
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Religious scholars visit Kartarpur Corridor
(The International News)
Iran VP denies Tehran behind attack inside Iraq
(Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)
IS militants exploit political unrest in Iraq to rise again
(Adnan Abu Zeed, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Archbishop accuses Togo government of ‘specializing in fraud’ ahead of vote
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Sick Jehovah's Witness mistreated in prison
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Is Brazil becoming an Evangelical theocracy?
(Raphael Tsavkko Garcia, Sojourners)
Religious faith in the ‘Mahdi’ could bring catastrophe to Turkey
(Ergun Babahan, Ahval)
China announces new measures to govern religious groups
(Gina Goh, International Christian Concern)
When retail and reverence collide
(Indu Viswanathan and Parth Parihar, Religion News Service)
Turkish parliament approves troop deployment to Libya
(Diego Cupolo, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Netanyahu boasts about Israel’s situation, ignores security negligence
(Akiva Eldar, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Nowhere else to flee: Why Idlib’s humanitarian crisis is so dangerous
(Madeline Edwards, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Strategy of the radical right to pass Knesset-entry threshold
(Danny Zaken, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Nineveh plains transitional justice report: 2019 in review
(Claire Evans, International Christian Concern)
New challenges to Christianity's growth in Nepal
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Chinese Christians face difficulties for Hong Kong Christians' involvement in protests
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
They made a mark on the religious scene this decade; some rose, others fell
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Nine years for 'subversion': Protestant pastor convicted in China
(Al Jazeera)
US calls on China to release jailed Pastor Wang Yi
(AFP, Deccan Herald)
Roundtable: The Uyghus, China, and Islamist terrorism
(Michael P. Noonan, Colin P. Clarke, Jacqueline Deal, June Teufel Dreyer, Foreign Policy Research Institute)
Wednesday, 1 January 2020
Pope Francis apologizes for losing patience with woman who grabbed him
(Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency)
Can mindfulness save Buddhism in Japan?
(Karen Jensen, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review)
Moscow patriarchate breaks fellowship with Alexandria
(RISU, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Russia Orthodox Church cuts ties with Alexandria patriarch
(Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press)
Articles of Interest - 30 December 2019
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Top 10 religious liberty and church state developments of 2019
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Where will the next decade take religion? Experts predict the future of faith
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)
Religious harmony exists in Pakistan
(Zamir Ahmed Awan, Modern Diplomacy)
Christmas season a challenge in majority-Buddhist Bhutan
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Kabardino-Balkaria civil authorities seek information identifying religious affiliation
(Credo.Press, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Religious freedom in Sudan: Christmas now an official holiday
(Al Jazeera)
Sudan’s minister of religion orders graft probe in his ministry
(Zdravko Ljubas, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)
Israel: Religious freedom important in next election for 63% of Jewish voters - survey
(Rossella Tercatin, The Jerusalem Post)
Tuesday, 31 December 2019
Montenegro passes controversial religion law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religious freedom in 2020 — three key challenges and how to fight back
(Joseph D'Souza, Fox News Opinion)
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS, Due 31 December 2019: Distance Learning Fellowship
(Center for Women, Faith & Leadership (CWFL), Institute for Global Engagement)
Hundreds protest in Serbia against new Montenegro church law
(Daniel Bellamy, EuroNews)
Montenegro opposition leaders urges more protests over religion law
(Samir Kajosevic, Balkan Insight)
Pro-Iranian militias behind US Embassy attack in Baghdad
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Monday, 30 December 2019
Australian Jews decry Israeli health minister’s appointment
(Associated Press)
China sentences Protestant pastor to 9 years for subversion
(Associated Press)
A harmful doctrine: The Catholic Church is wrong about gay people
(Mollie Wilson O'Reilly, Commonweal)
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