Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 29 April 2019
Sudan’s military rulers condemn attack on Islamist party
(Fay Abuelgasim and Samy Magdy, Associated Press)
Pastor, 5 others killed in Burkina Faso church attack
(Associated Press)
UN chief demands that the world step up to stamp out hatred
(Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press)
After Sri Lanka blasts, government targets the niqab veil
(Jon Gambrell and Gemunu Amarsinghe, Associated Press)
Religious freedom in Australia: SMBC “hot topic”
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Legal Spirits Episode 008: Religious hate speech (Part II)
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum)
As churches are demolished at home, Chinese Christians find religious freedom in Kenya
(Jenni Marsh, CNN)
Saturday, 27 April 2019
Leader of bombed evangelical church in Sri Lanka offers forgiveness to attackers: WEA
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Jehovah's Witness in pretrial custody in Krasnoyarsk territory
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Sri Lankan government pledges to rebuild 175-year-old church damaged in deadly Easter bombings
(Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine)
Friday, 26 April 2019
Terrorism has no religion, say UAE-based Sri Lankan community
(Jumana Khamis, Gulf News)
Examining religion and violence
(Damien Cave, The New York Times)
NPR offers a series on what a radically Hindu-ized India will look and feel like
(Julia Duin, Get Religion)
Friday Five: Godbeat grant, Sri Lanka bombings, Easter perspective, Israel outlook, softball hot dogs
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Uzbekistan: bloggers jailed for criticising muftiate
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Ukrainian court avoids dispute over church issue
(RISU, Russia Religion News)
Actions against Jehovah's Witnesses in Novosibirsk
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Actions against Jehovah's Witnesses in Krasnoyarsk territory
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Chilean bishops fear new measure would try to force breaking confession seal
(Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service)
Baha’i community concerned over fate of its members in Yemen
(Associated Press)
Islamist preachers in Sudan call for pro-military rally
(Fay Abuelgasim and Noha Elhennawy, Associated Press)
Sri Lanka Muslims brave militant threats for Friday prayers
(Jon Gambrell, Associated Press)
Sunday Mass canceled across Sri Lanka a week after bombings
(Emily Schmall, Jon Gambrell and Bharatha Mallawarachi, Associated Press)
USCIRF calls on State Department to lift Saudi CPC waiver after mass Shi’a execution
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Thursday, 25 April 2019
Asia Bibi is set to be released from Pakistan in two weeks
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Interfaith dialogue can combat extremism
(Farzana Mahmood, Dhaka Tribune)
A day after Lilly Endowment news, Associated Press posts job opening ads for seven religion journalists
(Bobby Ross Jr., Get Religion)
Sri Lanka Muslims, refugees fear backlash from Easter attack
(Jon Gambrell, Associated Press)
Sacred spaces matter: Beauty calls the world to God
(John Stonestreet, G. Shane Morris, Christian Headlines)
A carnage beyond the pale
(Ziauddin Choudhury, Dhaka Tribune)
As Sri Lanka mourns, Islamic State claims Easter bombings
(Emily Schmall and Krishan Francis, Associated Press)
Why no one expected an ISIS attack in Sri Lanka
(Emily Tamkin, The Washington Post)
Sri Lanka’s long, tragic history of violence
(Emily Tamkin, The Washington Post)
ISIS still has global reach, despite the caliphate's collapse
(Robin Wright, The New Yorker)
359 'People were in pieces!' Sri Lanka: Islamist terror on Easter
(Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone Institute)
Another Easter bloodshed, this time in Sri Lanka
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Who is Sri Lanka blast mastermind Zahran Hashim?
(AFP, Dhaka Tribune)
Radicalization among Sri Lanka’s Muslims was slow and steady
(Aya Batrawy, Associated Press)
Sri Lanka Easter bombings were retaliation for Christchurch mosque shootings, official says
(Joanna Slater, Amantha Perera, and Shibani Mahtani, The Washington Post)
Who are Sri Lanka’s Christians?
(Matthew Schmalz, The Conversation)
The Easter Sunday massacre: Sri Lanka's complex religious landscape is a challenge
(Julia Duin, Get Religion)
After Sri Lanka, news media pros should consider taking a long, detailed look at China
(Richard Ostling, Get Religion)
Wednesday, 24 April 2019
‘Tolerance does not flourish without hard work,’ says Nahyan
(Emirates News Agency)
Opinion: We must resist the perverse logic of religious terrorism
(Felix Steiner, Deutsche Welle)
Mark Hemingway takes GetReligion-like stroll through years of New York Times religion gaffes
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion)
Embarrassing gaffes continue to show media’s ignorance of religion
(Jarrett Stepman, The Daily Signal)
Crimea: Residents "don't believe" FSB allegations against imam
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Choice on Myanmar: Defend religious freedom now, or pay price later
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Religion News Service, AP and The Conversation launch global religion journalism initiative
(Religion News Service)
AP joins global initiative to expand reporting on religion
(Associated Press)
Marriage between man and transwoman is valid: Madras HC
(ETB Sivapriyan, Deccan Herald)
Indian court says Hindu Marriage Act covers marriage involving transgender woman
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Is China conducting a crackdown on religion?
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
China: Over 11,000 Church of Almighty God believers arrested, 20 died from mistreatment in China in 2018
(Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Tuesday, 23 April 2019
Fewer students identifying a religion fuels push to scrap scripture
(Jordan Baker and Nigel Gladstone, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Poll: Two-thirds of Israeli Jews support unity government without Haredi parties
(Times of Israel)
Before Australian elections, bishops call for help for most vulnerable
(Catholic News Service)
Faith communities and gene editing
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Just what is the editing in "gene editing"? (Responding to: Faith communities and gene editing)
(Ayo Wahlberg, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Germline gene editing: The cruellest cut of all? (Responding to: Faith communities and gene editing)
(Trevor Stammers, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
When do we edit the human genome? A question for the theologian and ethicist (Responding to: Faith communities and gene editing)
(Ted Peters, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Saudi Arabia beheads 37 for terrorism crimes; most Shiites
(Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Associated Press)
100 years after the Amritsar massacre - contemporary challenges and the needed response
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
U.S. religious liberty czar says ‘no signs’ of change in China since Vatican deal
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Monday, 22 April 2019
Law and religion round-up – 21st April
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Religious minorities across Asia suffer amid surge in sectarian politics
(Hannah Beech, Dharisha Bastians and Kai Schultz, The New York Times)
Nearly 300 killed in Sri Lanka Easter Sunday bomb blasts at churches and hotels
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
COGAT prepares for Ramadan, increased freedom of religion and worship
(Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, The Jerusalem Post)
A tale of two popes: Benedict XVI is a pole of attraction for critics of Pope Francis
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
UOC on Poroshenko election failure: God treats authorities the way authorities treat the Church
(Interfax-Religion)
New Ukrainian president has ambiguous relationship with church
(Religiia v Ukraine, Russia Religion News)
Moscow church wins reprieve in Ukrainian court
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Ukrainian church involved in secular political contest
(Credo.Press, Russia Religion News)
Local official regrets arrest of Protestant preacher
(Svobodnaia Media, Russia Religion News)
Antisemitic attack at start of Passover in Moscow
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Russian court concedes Jehovah's Witnesses mistreated
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
National newspaper supports Jehovah's Witnesses
(Alexander Chernykh, Kommersant)
World’s largest Catholic country debates the right number of priests
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Sri Lanka bombings: Local Islamists to blame, government says
(Deutsche Welle)
Sri Lanka’s bloody Easter puts spotlight on a new terror threat
(Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post)
Sri Lanka blocks social media after Easter Sunday bombings
(Matt O'Brien and Stephen Wright, Associated Press)
NYTimes: Easter church bombings underscore rising religious persecution in Asia
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
USCIRF strongly condemns Easter Sunday bomb attacks in Sri Lanka
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Sri Lanka blames local Islamist extremist group for Easter bombings that killed 290; U.S. offers FBI assistance in probe
(Joanne Slater, Amantha Perera, and Shane Harris, The Washington Post)
Insecurity: Inter-Faith cautions clerics against ‘unholy’ utterances
(Vanguard)
Muslim World League signs deal with Moscow to promote interfaith dialogue
(Arab News)
Indonesia’s election is over but identity politics will linger
(Benedict Rogers, The Diplomat)
Saturday, 20 April 2019
25 years after the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, 62,000 genocide victims will get a burial
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Friday, 19 April 2019
Arson reported at Russia’s largest yeshiva during Passover
(Associated Press)
Friday Five: Religious holidays, Notre Dame fire, declining church ties, journalist grants, Chick-fil-A
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Hackers threaten, blackmail World Council of Churches communication director
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Nicaraguans use Good Friday processions to protest
(Gabriela Selser, Associated Press)
Thursday, 18 April 2019
Israeli scientists print first 3D heart using human tissue
(Kayla Koslosky, Christian Headlines)
Twitter drops ‘hate map’ nonprofit SPLC as 'safety partner' amid accusations of discrimination
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Kitniyot or not? As Jewish traditions merge in Israel, a Passover debate emerges
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
#MeToo, ‘Mary Magdalene’ focus on women’s stories in Bible as Easter nears
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
What does the outpouring of grief over Notre Dame say about our relationship with religion?
(Tiwa Adebayo, World Religion News)
Emperor performs ritual to report abdication to Shinto gods
(Mari Yamaguchi, Religion News Service)
Hmong: Religious persecution continues in Vietnam
(Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
Bortnikov warns about 1,500 trained Islamist terrorists returning to Europe
(Interfax-Religion)
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