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Thursday, 20 September 2018

The brutal truth about persecution of Christians in China
(Michael Brown, The Christian Post)

China is behind halting of aid to Kachin IDPs in Myanmar
(Persecution: International Christian Concern)

Malaysia urged to ban child marriages as older man weds teen
(Eileen Ng, Associated Press)

How an ancient Islamic holiday became uniquely Caribbean
(Ken Chitwood, Religion News Service)

LBGT refugees say they face hostility, violence in Kenyan camp
(Tonny Onyulo, Religion News Service)

How Israeli right lays claim to religion
(Akiva Eldar, Al-Monitor)

Putin attends sanctification ceremony for foundation stone of military's main church at Patriot Park
(Interfax-Religion)

Jehovah's Witnesses detained in Perm
(Interfax-Religion)

Russian justice ministry foresees changes in registration procedures for religious organizations
(RAPSI, Russia Religion News)

Poroshenko addresses Ukrainian parliament
(Religiia v Ukraine, Russia Religion News)

Poroshenko promises state protection for clergy, laity of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate who join unified local church
(Interfax-Religion)

Letter to House Foreign Affairs Committee on Saudi Educational Transparency and Reform Act
(Human Rights Watch)

Soper & Fetzer, “Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective”
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum)

Indonesia’s 2019 elections: How will the religion factor play out?
(Erin Cook, The Diplomat)

Shambhulal Regar, arrested for hacking Muslim man, may contest 2019 polls
(NDTV)

KRG election: 18 Christian candidates compete for 5 quota seats
(Nasir Ali, Rudaw.net)

The “forced conversions” of Pakistan’s Hindu women hide a much bigger problem
(Jürgen Schaflechner, qz.com)

Uzbekistan: Jailings "to intimidate all who speak about freedoms"
(Forum 18 News Service)

Jordan takes steps to support Jerusalem’s Palestinians
(Daoub Kuttab, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)

Plane shot down over Syria puts Russia-Israel relations to the test
(Maxim A. Suchkov, Al-Monitor: Russia/Mideast Pulse)

Security forces extend presence in Minya
(Persecution: International Christian Concern)

181 Montagnard refugees still detained in Bangkok
(Gina Goh, Persecution: International Christian Concern)

New Church growth in Arabian Peninsula
(Katey Hearth, Mission Network News)

'Isis will be looking for targets': guns and fear mark Afghan Ashura
(Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian)

Fasting on Yom Kippur
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

Backlash in Iran as some wartime veterans circumvent new retirement law
(Al-Monitor Staff, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)

Wednesday, 19 September 2018

EVENT, 19 September 2018: International Seminar — Religious Liberty in the United Kindgom - Prof. Mark Hill QC
(Centro Brasileiro de Estudos em Direito e Religião - CEDIRE (FADIR/UFU))

Prof. PLO Lumumba speaks during Africa Religious Liberty Congress in Rwanda
(Adventist Media Center, YouTube)

3rd Africa Religious Liberty Congress - DAY 1 - Judith Uwizye
(Adventist Media Center, YouTube)

Human flourishing is the fruit of religious freedom: Elder Sitati speaks to government officials, scholars and religious leaders in Rwanda
(News Release, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Newsroom)

Promoting Religious Freedom among Religions and Nations
(Elder Joseph W. Sitati of the Seventy, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Newsroom)

Christians have moral mandate to fight racism, populism, say speakers at Vatican-sponsored conference
(Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service)

Message from the global conference against xenophobia: human beings are equal in dignity
(World Council of Churches)

Refugees speak on role of the Church at global conference on xenophobia that brings Vatican and WCC together
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Russian Church to help Syria return to peaceful life - Patriarch Kirill
(Interfax-Religion)

Prosecutor claims Jehovah's Witnesses' crime is severe
(GTRK Perm, Russia Religion News)

News service reports on Jehovah's Witnesses and Pentecostals in same article
(Vedomosti Ural, Russia Religion News)

Are Iraq's empty churches future mosques?
(Claire Evans, Persecution: International Christian Concern)

'Not a sin to thrash gays': as Russian meme convictions mount, police shrug at homophobic slurs
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)

Crimes against Christians may not always be religiously motivated, say experts
(Anne Condodina, Catholic News Service)

Sidhu: Religion not the copyright of Akali Dal
(Manjeet Sehgal, India Today)

India bans instant divorce by Muslim men
(Ashok Sharma, Associated Press)

Nigerian bishops tell citizens not to sell their votes or voter cards
(Peter Ajayi Dada, Catholic News Service)

Police break up Muslim gatherings in Indian-held Kashmir
(Associated Press)

Bahraini soldiers disrupt Shia mourning gatherings, arrest clerics
(Al Bawaba)

Burned by tragedy after tragedy, Sierra Leone desperately needs Jesus
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)

Scripture translation in Indonesia
(Lindsay Steele, Mission Network News)

Super Typhoon Mangkhut slams into the Philippines
(Bethann Flynn, Mission Network News)

Persecution and opportunities for believers in India
(Lindsay Steele, Mission Network News)

Church finally opened in Syria's Kobani
(Claire Evans, Persecution: International Christian Concern)

Hindu extremists accelerate clampdown on Christians in Uttar Pradesh, India
(Morning Star News)

Ethnic Wa army in Myanmar target Christian clergy and churches
(Gina Goh, Persecution: International Christian Concern)

Religiously motivated acid attack killed Pakistani Christian
(William Stark, Persecution: International Christian Concern)

Fulani militants kill two young Christian boys in recent attack
(Nathan Johnson, Persecution: International Christian Concern)

Christian graves vandalized in Algeria
(Claire Evans, Persecution: International Christian Concern)

Indian pastor attacked and threaten for preaching in village
(Laura Mowat, Express)

Iraqi Kurds stuck between Iran, US
(Fazel Hawramy, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

What Putin-Erdogan deal means for Idlib
(Maxim A. Suchkov, Al-Monitor: Russia/Mideast Pulse)

Villages overwhelmed as Idlib's displaced head for Turkish border
(Khaled al-Khateb, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)

All those who are displaced by crisis and conflict need help and protection
(Letters, The Guardian)

Global faith leaders urge action over 'ignored millions' displaced by conflict
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)

Boko Haram kills midwife, threatens to kill other hostages, including Leah Sharibu, unless demands met
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)

Boko Haram executes aid worker, threatens to execute Leah Sharibu and others
(Nathan Johnson, Persecution: International Christian Concern)

Muslims in India protest China's Uighur concentration camps
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)

China and the Vatican may sign deal on bishop appointment soon
(Gina Goh, Persecution: International Christian Concern)

A Conservative rabbi’s arrest reopens debate over discrimination in Israel
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Chinese Churches threatened with surging nationalism
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)

China's internet rules 'will strangle religion'
(UCA News)

Evangelicals, growing force in Brazil, to impact elections
(Marcelo Silva de Sousa, Associated Press)

Good news and bad news: The role of online journalism in the Catholic sex-abuse scandal
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)

Turkish court rejects bid to convert Hagia Sophia to mosque
(Associated Press)

Afghan Shi'ites brace for attacks ahead of Ashura celebration
(Abdul Qadir Sediqi, James Mackenzie, Reuters)

Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Nigeria's undercover atheists: In their words
(Chika Oduah, Al Jazeera)

How we can all repent at Yom Kippur — even if it means losing an election
(Burton L. Visotzky, Religion News Service)

Thousands gather at Western Wall ahead of Yom Kippur
(The Times of Israel)

4 things to know about Yom Kippur
(Rachel E. Greenspan, Time)

What the Yom Kippur fast means to a man who's known hunger
(Sara Toth Stub, NPR: Goats and Soda, Stories of Life in a Changing World)

Yom Kippur Scripture Meditations
(Jewish Voice)

Yom Kippur: A time for feasting as well as fasting
(Ted Merwin, The Conversation)

Nigerian Pentecostal 'megachurches' a booming business
(Fanny Facsar, Deutsche Welle)

European Court says hijab must be allowed in courtroom
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Does Sri Lanka really need new hate speech legislation?
(Daily FT)

Beyond religious bigotry and secular freedom
(Sher Ali Tareen, The News on Sunday)

India's carnatic singers face backlash for performing non-Hindu songs
(Lauren Frayer, National Public Radio)

India: Religious Freedom Issues (PDF)
(K. Alan Kronstadt, Congressional Research Service)

Ethnic army targets Christian clergy, churches in Myanmar’s Shan state
(Radio Free Asia)

Azerbaijan: Second 2018 conscientious objector conviction
(Forum 18 News Service)

Why China is brutally suppressing Muslims
(Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal)

Chinese paper says Vatican may send delegation to China soon
(Reuters)

Amnesty decries Houthi prosecution of Bahais in Yemen
(Maggie Michael, Associated Press)

New Eichmann film puts the lie to Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil"
(Alan M. Dershowitz, Gatestone Institute)

Religious photos of the week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)

Monday, 17 September 2018

Russia, Ukraine and Orthodoxy: Two Patriarchs clash, mirroring Russian-Ukrainian tensions
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Kremlin mouthpiece sees Ukrainian problem as clash of civilizations
(Credo Press, Russia Religion News)

Ukrainian president rejects Moscow's aim of domination
(RISU, Russia Religion News)

Metropolitan Hilarion accuses U.S. of deliberately destroying Russian Orthodox Church
(Interfax-Religion)

Russia’s ongoing Persecution of the Jehovah Witnesses
(Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)

Congolese bishops seek help from regional bloc to ensure free, fair poll
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Israel to approve immigration for 1,000 Ethiopian Jews
(Associated Press)

Madhya Pradesh, Pentecostal pastor arrested on charges of 'forced conversions'
(Nirmala Carvalho, Asia News)

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