Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Christians still fearful in Imran Khan's Pakistan
(Staff writer, Christian Today)
One Pakistani family's search for God in the slums
(Kamran Chaudhry, UCANews)
Pakistani Christians petition government for compensation for demolished homes
(Dawn)
Exclusive: Iran moves missiles to Iraq in warning to enemies
(John Irish, Ahmed Rasheed, Reuters)
Attack on Rouhani exposes deep crack among Iranian conservatives
(Ehsan Bodaghi, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)
Female Reformist MP raises eyebrows with fiery speech in Iranian parliament
(Al-Monitor Staff, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)
Shiite split heats up as Iraqi lawmakers fail to elect speaker
(Hamdi Malik, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Meet the Iraqi Christians trapped in immigration limbo
(Matthew Petti, Reason)
C. African Republic: as Sudan hosts peace talks, Russia offers to get more involved
(World Watch Monitor)
Tamil Nadu, music too loud at a festival: Christian mission damaged
(Nirmala Carvalho, Asia News)
Australian Christians choose homeschooling in droves amid religiously targeted bullying
(Kayla Koslosky, Christian Headlines)
Should we live to be 500? Christians and secularists come together over transhumanism
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Meet the worshipers who believe they’re aliens in human form
(Ye Charlotte Ming, National Geographic)
“I have lost everything”: In central Mali, rising extremism stirs inter-communal conflict
(Philip Kleinfeld, IRIN News)
Under Imran Khan govt, religious minorities remain discriminated against
(Omer Farooq Khan, Times of India)
Saudi Arabia seeks death penalty in trial of outspoken cleric
(Ben Hubbard, The New York Times)
Church has key role in quest for Colombian reconciliation to keep peace
(Barbar Fraser, Catholic News Service)
Cuban bishop calls for rejecting redefinition of marriage
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Turkish military’s tradition of secularism facing tough test
(Metin Gurcan, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Likud lawmaker seeks to ban Palestinian flag in Israel
(Entsar Abu Jahal, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Iraqi Jews organizing to regain citizenship
(Saad Salloum, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Bumpy road ahead for Egypt's first female Coptic governor
(Meena A. Farouk, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Egypt: Legalizing unlicensed churches: In 11 months: 220 approvals out of 3730 required
(Youssef Sidhom, Coptic Solidarity)
Egypt: Copts’ homes attacked despite advance notice to police of threats
(World Watch Monitor)
Egypt: Coptic Christians 'pay the cost' during Islamic holiday
(One News Now)
Christianity crackdown: Violent mob ransacks and loots home church in Egypt - two stabbed
(Harvey Gavin, Express)
Christians in Egypt jailed for worshipping in unlicensed house
(Morning Star News)
Beijing targets independent religions as party control tightens
(Lucy Hornby, Financial Times)
No news of Chinese Catholic priest missing for 8 months
(World Watch Monitor)
Christian leaders in China slam govt. intervention
(NHK)
Protestant churches in China's Henan hit by dawn police raids
(Radio Free Asia)
Priest refuses to betray his faith despite rising persecution in China
(Fr Stanislaus, Asia News)
Persevering churches: Assessing the impact of China's growing religious restrictions
(June Cheng, World Magazine)
Philippines: internet café bomb attack kills two Christian teenagers
(World Watch Monitor)
One year later: Church in Zanzibar still fighting for the right to worship
(Nathan Johnson, Persecution: International Christian Concern)
Government remains blind: Continued killings of Christians in Plateau, Nigeria
(The Punch)
Nigerian priest abducted while driving to Sunday mass; kidnappers demand ransom
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Parents seek global petitions to Nigerian President to ‘#BringBackOurLeah’
(World Watch Monitor)
As refugee camps close, Nigerian Christians fear being left to the mercy of Boko Haram
(Christian Today staff writer, Christian Today)
Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram told to return to dangerous areas to vote
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)
Almost 50 troops killed in Boko Haram raid on army post
(CBS News)
Archbishop Chaput wants Pope to cancel youth conference
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
Netanyahu welcomes "friend" Duterte to Jerusalem
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Indonesian province bans men and women from dining together
(AFP in Banda Aceh, The Guardian)
Indonesia: Aceh region bans unmarried couples at same table in cafes
(Associated Press)
Religious photos of the week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 5-7 Septermber 2018: 2° Congreso en Estudios de la Religión - 2018: Diversidad de creencias y de sentido en una sociedad plural
(Centro UC Derecho y Religión, Santiago, Chile)
Is 'The Wedding' a new beginning for LGBTQ cinema in Egypt?
(Youssra el-Sharkawy, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
The redress scheme for child sex abuse victims is unjust and damaging
(Judy Courtin and Chris Atmore, The Guardian)
The Guardian view on the Catholic crisis in the US: out in the open
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Israel should have barred Duterte
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS: Martini Judaism)
South Africa court orders recognition of Muslim marriages
(Darko Janjevic, Deutsche Welle)
Transforming Tajikistan: how the Rahmon regime turned religion into a site of struggle
(Edward Lemon, Open Democracy)
Bobi Wine case heightens tensions between Museveni and Uganda church leaders
(Doreen Ajiambo, Religion News Service)
Earthly powers: A fillip for Ukrainian hopes of spiritual independence
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Efforts to make Ukrainian Orthodox Church autocephalous aimed at elevating Poroshenko's electoral ratings - Metropolitan Hilarion
(Interfax-Religion)
Analysis: International significance of Ukrainian issue
(Christopher Stroop, Moscow Times)
Ukrainian president weighs in on church question
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Kidnappers want ransom for priest abducted on Saturday in Nigeria
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Religious leader advocacy for nuclear disarmament
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The Russian Church must work for disarmament (Responding to: Religious leader advocacy for nuclear disarmament)
(Nicholas Sooy, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
I hope the Russians love their children too (Responding to: Religious leader advocacy for nuclear disarmament)
(Theodore Dedon, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Harnessing the power of faith to eliminate nuclear weapons (Responding to: Religious leader advocacy for nuclear disarmament)
(Marie Dennis, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Malaysian Muslim lesbian couple caned in public punishment
(Associated Press)
Pak army ad reserves sanitation jobs for ‘non-Muslims only’, sparks row
(Times of India)
'God punished you for eating beef': ugly responses to Kerala floods prove bigotry is alive and kicking
(Rakhi Bose, News 18)
One in six Uyghurs held in political ‘re-education camps’ in Xinjiang’s Onsu county
(Radio Free Asia)
Chinese paper blames West for encouraging Xinjiang extremists
(Reuters)
China's crackdown on religion: Why religious freedom must be for all
(John Stonestreet and Roberto Rivera, Christian Headlines)
China mistaken in curbing religious freedom of minors
(Peter Lui, La Croix)
Why the Muslim world isn't saying anything about China’s repression and 'cultural cleansing' of its downtrodden Muslim minority
(Alexandra Ma, Business Insider)
The party’s scourge: Falun Gong still worries China, despite efforts to crush the sect
(The Economist)
Tibetan pilgrim sees restrictions, heavy police presence in Lhasa
(Radio Free Asia)
New report reveals how Myanmar military blocked aid to Christians in Kachin
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Kazakhstan: Religious freedom survey, September 2018
(Forum 18 News Service)
Myanmar court jails Reuters reporters for seven years in landmark secrets case
(Shoon Naing and Aye Min Thant, Reuters)
Monday, 3 September 2018
Does the Secular Society know better than a child’s parents?
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
World has to confront oceans 'littered by fields of floating plastic,' says Pope Francis
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Pope Francis faces worst crisis of his five-year papacy
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Pope decries emergency of plastics blighting world’s seas
(Frances D’Emilio, Associated Press)
The universality of international law
(Jo Wojtkowski, OUPblog)
Saturday, 1 September 2018
Thailand: Compulsory Buddhist education diminishes religious freedom: UN Envoy
(Punsita Ritthikarn, Khaosod English)
New Pakistani Prime Minister to push for global blasphemy laws
(Ed Brayton, Patheos)
Pakistan rally ends after Dutch cartoon contest is canceled
(Associated Press)
Uniform civil code 'neither necessary nor desirable', says Law Commission in consultation paper
(Times of India)
Stop the persecution of Chinese refugees of The Church of Almighty God in South Korea
(Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
International religious freedom report cites 28 nations falling short
(Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service)
Catholics in Australia won’t make priests report confessions
(Rod McGuirk, Associated Press)
Cleric: ‘No going back’ on Ukraine split from Russia Church
(Ayse Wieting, Associated Press)
Coptic diocese says group attacked Christian homes in Egypt
(Associated Press)
Friday, 31 August 2018
Sexual libertinism won't save the church
(David French, National Review)
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Book Review: *On Islam* Fails to Enlighten
(David A. Rahimi, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
Religion, banned books and the ECHR: Ibragimov and Others v Russia
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
New inter-State application brought by Ukraine against Russia
(The Registrar of the Court, European Court of Human Rights)
Fighting the Burnout Culture: How personalist philosophers and Benedictine monks can help stressed-out college students
(Margarita A. Mooney, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
From ‘Judeo-Christian’ to ‘Potluck Nation,’ Muslim social activist pleads for religious pluralism
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
India’s Bnei Menashe community sets sights on immigrating to Israel
(Priyadarshini Sen, Religion News Service)
Indonesian president invokes ‘Pancasila’ to counter rising Islamism
(Nithin Coca, Religion News Service)
Religion: Empowering or oppressive to women?
(Donah Mbabazi, The New Times)
Religious freedom feels the heat from growth in atheism and irreligion
(Will Jones, Christian Today)
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