Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 9 August 2018
What is behind the Fulani herdsmen-farmers conflict?
(World Watch Monitor)
Bible gateway reveals the #1 most searched terms
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Chinese Hui Muslims rally to protect Weizhou Grand Mosque from government’s wrecking ball
(Nectar Gan, South China Morning Post)
Religion must obey Chinese law, paper says of mosque protest
(Sam McNeil and Yanan Wang, Associated Press)
China shutting down churches, seizing Bibles in 'ambitious new effort' to eradicate religion
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Thousands in China mosque standoff over demolition plan
(Yanan Wang, Associated Press)
Vigilante killings in Tanzania spur a hunt for witch-hunters
(Religion News Service)
Follower of Krishna penalized under anti-evangelism law
(Prosecutor's office of Yamalo-Nenets, Russia Religion News)
Jehovah's Witnesses arrested for a year's worth of activity
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Fighting for Judaism in the Jewish State
(Seth Farber, The New York Times)
When it comes to conflict, religion is part of the solution
(Sharon Rosen and Kimberly Hart, The Hill)
Cardinal condemns violence at student protests in Bangladesh
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Ghana bishop complains of growing Chinese influence in the country
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Maharashtra: Lingayats to relaunch protests for separate religion tag
(Daily News and Analysis)
At world’s largest refugee camp, trauma victims seek healing in God
(Tonny Onyulo, Religion News Service)
‘Peace in world impossible without religious freedom’
(The News International)
Argentine Senate rejects legalizing elective abortion
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Argentina’s Senate rejects bill legalizing abortion during the first 14 weeks of a pregnancy
(Max Radwin and Anthony Faiola, The Washington Post)
Argentina rejects legal abortion — and not all Catholics are celebrating
(Verónica Giménez Béliveau, The Conversation)
Abortion activists vow to press fight despite Argentina loss
(Luis Andres Henao and Almudena Calatrava, Associated Press)
The Guardian view on Argentina and abortion: a setback, but not the end
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Wednesday, 8 August 2018
Business success in a religiously diverse world
(Michael Bodson, President and CEO DTCC, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Religion needs to be governed by law
(Liu Peng, Global Times)
South Korea is going crazy over a handful of refugees
(S. Nathan Park, Foreign Policy)
Christians in China's heartland face government suppression
(Yanan Wang, Christian Science Monitor)
Christian heartland on front lines of China’s campaign of religious suppression
(South China Morning Post)
Christian heartland opens window into fight for China’s soul
(Yanan Wang, Associated Press)
At gathering of 37,000 Ahmadi Muslims, USCIRF Commissioner Johnnie Moore vows to make religious freedom in Pakistan a priority
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF))
Fighting intolerance, Ahmadi Muslims have won unlikely allies
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)
Who are Pakistan’s Ahmadis and why haven’t they voted in 30 years
(Peter Gottschalk, The Conversation)
In Russia coverage, the National Prayer Breakfast is a convenient whipping boy
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
How religious freedom erodes, one step at a time
(Emilie Kao, The Daily Signal)
Feeling sidelined, Israel’s Druze protest Jewish nation bill
(Ilan Ben Zion, Religion News Service)
Druze who served faithfully in Israeli army join protest against Nation-State Law
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Donbas: Luhansk: Armed raids, worship bans, fines
(Forum 18 News Service)
Greece not issuing long-term visas to Russian priests - Russian patriarch's ex-spokesman
(Interfax-Religion)
Catholic Church offers to mediate Zimbabwe election dispute
(Bronwen Dachs, Catholic News Service)
Australian unions seek limits on religious groups’ hiring freedom
(Catholic News Agency)
Faith, finance and the future of humanity: Remembering Tessa Tennant, giant of green finance
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Religious photos of the week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Study: most wealthy countries aren’t religious. Then there’s the US.
(Tara Isabella Burton, Vox)
Tuesday, 7 August 2018
Facing a groundswell of support for legal abortion, Argentina’s Catholic Church moderates its tone
(Veronica Gimenez Beliveau, The Conversation)
Fighting violent extremism by teaching tolerance
(Doug Bandow, The American Spectator)
Iran arrests central bank's top foreign exchange official
(Al Jazeera)
Jehovah's Witnesses: Why some persecuted faiths grab consistent headlines and others don't
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Religious identity and conflict in the Middle East
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Saudi Arabia assails Canada over rights criticism, sending message to West
(Ben Hubbard, The New York Times)
Saudi Arabia expels Canadian envoy for urging activists' release
(Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian)
Why in the world is Saudi Arabia sanctioning Canada?
(Daniel W. Drezner, The Washington Post)
Monday, 6 August 2018
Banning Muslim veils tends to backfire -- why do countries keep doing it?
(Sigal Samuel, The Atlantic)
Canadian liberals protest opening new Chick-Fil-A restaurants in Toronto
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
High-profile Chinese monk accused of sexually harassing nuns
(Staff and agencies, The Guardian)
Indonesian imam continues prayers in Bali during earthquake – video
(Musholla As-Syuhada, The Guardian)
20,000 Israelis march in Jerusalem Pride parade
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Retired Pope Benedict accused of anti-Semitism after article on Christians and Jews
(Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service)
Pope Benedict XVI accused of anti-Semitism
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
Hindu extremist violence on the rise in southern Indian states
(Tejaswi Ravinder, World Watch Monitor)
Religious minorities fear backlash as Sunni Islam declared state religion of Comoros
(World Watch Monitor)
‘Only jihadists want to see Christians leave the Middle East’
(World Watch Monitor)
We’ll close one church every week, Indian Christians told
(World Watch Monitor)
International conference on media and religion brings scholars from across the globe to Boulder
(University of Colorado Boulder, College of Media, Communication and Information)
Russian woman faces five years of jail for posting memes 'insulting' religion
(Jason Lemon, Newsweek)
Repression of Alternative Orthodoxy in Russia
(Alexander Soldatov, Novaia Gazeta)
Pentecostal believer wins appeal of fine for personal testimony
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Religion News Service)
Rights advocates identify Jehovah's Witnesses as political prisoners
(Novaia Gazeta, Russia Religion News)
Pope Innocent III and papal power in the church and politics
(William Hamblin & Daniel Peterson, Deseret News Faith)
Use internet to promote tourism that respects environment, Vatican says
(Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service)
So how much do you trust Pope Francis? Here's why death penalty debate is heating up
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Is the Pope right about the death penalty?
(Rev. Mark H. Creech, The Christian Post)
The pope is right: the death penalty has no place in Catholicism
(Austen Ivereigh, The Guardian)
The Guardian view on the pope and the death penalty: a welcome hardening of the line
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Catholic Church teaching saying death penalty is 'inadmissible' has little initial reaction, but...
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Doing some thinking, with the Catholic left, about Pope Francis, death penalty and LGBTQ future
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Can you be Christian and support the death penalty?
(Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation)
ERLC video: Malaysian liberty burdened by I.D. cards
(Tom Strode, Baptist Press)
Blood, soil and paper: Thailand’s mission to reduce statelessness
(Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul, The Conversation)
In key moment, Argentina to vote on loosening strict abortion laws
(Ryan Dube, The Wall Street Journal)
Unions seek to end religious bodies' right to discriminate in hiring
(Luke Henriques-Gomes, The Guardian)
Google plans to launch censored search engine in China, leaked documents reveal
(Ryan Gallagher, The Intercept)
Rome Statute at 20: Suggestions to states to strengthen the ICC
(Fergal Gaynor and Christopher “Kip” Hale, EJIL: Talk!)
Peru scandal showcases need for oversight of lay movements
(Elise Harris, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Sunday, 5 August 2018
Pope Francis: ‘death penalty inadmissable’
(Linda Bordoni, Vatican News)
Pope Francis changes teaching on death penalty, it’s ‘inadmissible’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Francis kills the death penalty for Roman Catholicism
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
New revision of number 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the death penalty – Rescriptum “ex Audentia SS.mi”, 02.08.2018
(Holy See Press Office)
Letter to the Bishops regarding the new revision of number 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the death penalty, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
(Holy See Press Office)
The Pope's groundbreaking rejection of the death penalty
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Pope’s death penalty teaching lies beyond prudential judgment
(Father Jeffrey F. Kirby, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Doing some thinking, with the Catholic left, about Pope Francis, death penalty and LGBTQ future
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Saturday, 4 August 2018
Death penalty doctrine: Francis builds on insights of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Prosecutor in US disagrees with Pope Francis’s death penalty ruling
(Associated Press)
Indian Catholic leaders doubt death penalty will deter child rapists
(Catholic News Service)
US court hears case against Germany over Namibia genocide
(Howard Rechavia Taylor, Al Jazeera Africa)
Namibia’s long fight for justice
(Gouri Sharma, New Internationalist)
Putin man in the middle between Assad, Erdogan over Idlib
(Week in Review, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Brazil’s top court wrestles with abortion at special hearing
(Peter Prengaman and Beatrice Christofaro, Associated Press)
Suicide bombing at mosque in Afghanistan kills at least 29
(Amir Shah, Associated Press)
Friday, 3 August 2018
Interfaith Foundation India: Responding to the changing needs of our times
A deeper respect for life: Francis’s stance on capital punishment
(Paul Moses, Commonweal)
China and its creepy facial recognition technology targets Uighur Muslims
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
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