Law and Religion Headlines

Friday, 8 March 2019

4 things to know about Ash Wednesday
(William Johnston, Religion News Service)

Thursday, 7 March 2019

Rabbi leads US evangelicals in visit to Muslim Azerbaijan
(Aya Batrawy, Associated Press)

Turks fire back as Trump ends preferential trade status
(Jasper Mortimer, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Church in South Africa calls for better treatment of migrant workers
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Has Islamic State returned to Iraq?
(Mustafa Saadoun, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Iraqi Kurdistan takes aim at gun control
(Dana Taib Menmy, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Islamic State roots run deep in Middle East discontent
(Metin Gurcan, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Hundreds of Jordanians march toward capital demanding jobs
(Osama Al Sharif, Al-Monitor: Jordan Pulse)

'Buddhism under threat': Thai election gives platform to radicals
(Panu Wongcha-um, Reuters)

Krasnodar Territorial Court upholds deportation of 2 U.S. religious missionaries from Russia
(Interfax-Religion)

Costa Rica authorities raid Catholic Church offices
(Associated Press)

Deaths from suicide, drugs and alcohol reach highest level ever
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)

Russia detains, plans to deport American Mormons over visas
(Associated Press)

New Zealand: 'Archaic' blasphemous libel law repealed in Parliament
(Jamie Ensor, Newshub)

U.S. Mormons to be deported from Russia for illegal teaching
(Interfax-Religion)

One of 2 U.S. Mormons detained in southern Russia to be deported
(Interfax-Religion)

Americans prosecuted for participating in church service
(Nezavisimaia Gazeta—Religii, Russia Religion News)

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

State Department aware Russian police detaining 2 Latter-day Saint volunteers
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News Faith)

Peskov couldn't confirm media reports on detention of 2 Mormons in southern Russia
(Interfax-Religion)

India bans Kashmir religious group amid sweeping crackdown
(Aijaz Hussein, Associated Press)

Lent 2019: 5 interesting facts about the 40 days religious observance
(Leah MarieAnn Klett, The Christian Post)

Siberian Jehovah's Witnesses continue to draw news media attention
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)

Samoa prime minister calls for prayers for priests after Pell conviction
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

No flights or internet during Bali’s sacred Day of Silence
(Associated Press)

Chinese official insists no love for Dalai Lama in Tibet
(Associated Press)

Israeli panel won’t bar Jewish radicals from election
(Ilan Ben Zion, Associated Press)

Superior Court green-lights suit regarding alleged sexual abuse among Jehovah's Witnesses
(Caroline St-Pierre, The Canadian Press)

Argument: The West needs to take the politics of women in ISIS seriously
(Kanisha D. Bond, Kate Cronin-Furman, Meredith Loken, Milli Lake, Sarah E. Parkinson, and Anna Zelenz, Foreign Policy)

LDS continues push to drop use of the word "Mormon"
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

Iraq’s Patriarch Sako proposes national covenant
(Claire Evans, International Christian Concern)

Iran lawyer convicted after defending women protesters
(Jon Gambrell, Associated Press)

Pell lawyer will remain on legal team, despite report he would quit
(Catholic News Agency)

Bishop objects to death sentence for Filipino woman in Saudi Arabia
(Catholic News Agency)

Nicaraguan bishops not mediating latest round of peace talks
(Catholic News Agency)

New global religious freedom mov’t underway: 'We can’t just keep talking about it'
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Pastor abducted by militant Buddhists in Myanmar, second to be captured in 2 months
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Indonesia’s largest Islamic group calls for end to ‘infidel’ usage
(Gina Goh, International Christian Concern)

Report shows 57 percent jump in aggression against Christians in India
(Morning Star News)

Boko Haram IS faction replaces figure head
(Nathan Johnson, International Christian Concern)

Kachin Baptist convention pressured to support Myitsone dam
(Gina Goh, International Christian Concern)

Children bear witness to Turkey’s educational discrimination
(Claire Evans, International Christian Concern)

West African Court faults government of Nigeria for failing to stop killings in Benue state
(Christian Headlines)

Canada sees exponential rise in trans-identified kids, referrals to gender clinics
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Tuesday, 5 March 2019

Russian Orthodox Church rep notes Christians' role in ending Cold War
(Interfax-Religion)

Anglican Canon Law: Identity, Ecclesiology and Ecumenism (by Professor Mark Hill QC)
(Neil Foster reporting, Law and Religion Australia)

Anglican Canon Law: Identity, Ecclesiology and Ecumenism
(Professor Mark HIll QC, Sharwood Lecture in Church Law, Trinity College, the University of Melbourne)

Holy See: freedom of religion - “litmus test”of other human rights
(Robin Gomes, Vatican News)

The violent toll of Hindu nationalism in India
(Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker)

New Pakistani leader’s education aims may include reining in religious schools
(Naila Inayat, Religion News Service)

World's nations urged to protect 'mutually reinforcing' freedoms of expression, and religion or belief by UN expert Ahmed Shaheed
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Turkey: Minority foundations still cannot hold elections
(Mine Yildirim, Norwegian Helsinki, Forum 18 News Service)

Forecast re Russia's impending Islamization baseless - expert on Islamic studies
(Interfax-Religion)

Medvedev meets with Patriarch of Bulgaria
(Interfax-Religion)

Religious persecution harms individuals, communities, Vatican official says
(Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service)

Nigerian archbishop: Church works as bridge between Muslims, Christians
(Beth Griffin, Catholic News Service)

Nicaragua’s bishops unsure about resuming negotiations with Ortega
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Pakistan minister quits over remarks against minority Hindus
(Associated Press)

Pope Francis to open archives on Pope Pius XII on March 2, 2020
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)

Vatican to open Pius XII archives
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Pope Francis’ visit to Morocco to focus on migrants
(Amira El Masaiti, Associated Press)

'The Church has understood the seriousness of pedophilia': An interview with François Ozon, producer of the French film 'By the Grace of God'
(Pierre-Olivier Boiton, La Croix International)

U.N. religious freedom expert seeks visit to China's Xinjiang
(Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters)

Save Uighur, save China
(Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

Quebecers more wary of religion, not more racist than other Canadians: study
(Jacob Serebrin, Montreal Gazette)

Monday, 4 March 2019

India: Unchecked attacks on religious minorities reform laws choking freedom of expression, association
(Human Rights Watch)

No let-up in China’s push to ‘Sinicise religion’ despite global outcry over crackdown
(Nectar Gan, South China Morning Post)

The campaign to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism
(Yossi Beilin, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Five myths about socialism
(Sheri Berman, The Washington Post Outlook)

Submission to the European Union ahead of the EU-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue
(Human Rights Watch)

The book no socialist dares to read
(Paul T. Hogan, MercatorNet)

Birmingham diocese seeks to undo parish system
(Pat Ashworth, Church Times)

Monumental loss: Azerbaijan and 'the worst cultural genocide of the 21st century'
(Dale Berning Sawa, The Guardian)

Kashmir is in a perilous state because of India’s pivot to nationalism
(Ajai Shukla, The Guardian)

Egypt’s unemployment rate declines to pre-revolution levels amid economic recovery
(Menna A. Farouk, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

Refusing funds will cost Palestinians, perhaps Israel
(Ahmad Melhem, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)

Intel: How China just struck back at Turkey over its criticism of Uighur Muslims
(Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Trump should push to end persecution of Chinese Christians as part of trade negotiations
(Tim Head, The Hill)

Mass arrests of Chinese megachurch members continue; some 'violently beaten'
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

How evangelical-supported group has helped 750,000 Jews migrate to Israel
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Turkey faces growing Kurdish insurgency in Syria's Afrin
(Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Gospel for Asia settles class-action lawsuit, maintains it did 'not act fraudulently'
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Finding their religion: A number of films broach the subject of faith in the 21st century
(The Economist)

Role of faith-based organizations is critical for fighting HIV, says UN agency
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Russian Council of Muftis head forecasts dramatic increase in number of Muslims in Russia
(Interfax-Religion)

Africa's self-styled prophets and their 'miracles'
(Silja Fröhlich, Deutsche Welle)

The young German Jews who left everything behind — and moved to Israel
(Dana Regev, Deutsche Welle)

Islamic council rejects Israeli court closure at holy site
(Associated Press)

Palestinians, Jordanians challenge Israel at Al-Aqsa over banned prayer space
(Daoud Kuttab, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)

Israel bans senior Islamic clerk from entering Aqsa Mosque
(Associated Press)

Egypt’s top cleric calls polygamy ‘injustice,’ draws debate
(Samy Magdy, Associated Press)

Genderless babies are the new craze – ‘we don’t want our children pigeon-holed’
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)

Pope Francis warns against gossip, forgetting one's own sinfulness
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)

Argentine bishop calls for pro-life commitment after C-section on young girl
(Catholic News Agency)

South Sudan's bishops fear peace treaty will fail
(Catholic News Agency)

Archbishop Auza warns of new threats to religious freedom
(Jim Fair, Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)

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