Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
The book you need to read right now (Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi)
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Religious youth group asks Culture Minister to delay Argentina match
(Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post)
Faith drives young woman from Malawi in standing up for justice
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Judge has some mercy on Jehovah's Witness
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
European court challenges Russian government over ban of Jehovah's Witnesses
(Portal-Credo.ru, Russia Religion News)
Russian city hounds various nontraditional religions
(Orlovskie Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Pakistan: Officials take part in a new assault on the Ahmadiyya Muslim community
(Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Meet the Saudi woman who criticized the system through poetry on reality TV
(Philipp Jedicke, Deutsche Welle)
Argentine pol forced to apologize for sampling Jesus-shaped cake
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Pope scolds FIFA for slave labor in Qatar
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Lebanon LGBT scene empowered despite crackdown
(Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press)
Christians in Australia are not persecuted, and it is insulting to argue they are
(Robyn J. Whitaker, The Conversation)
Love, violence and daily survival: inside Morocco’s LGBTIQ community
(Moha Ennaji, The Conversation)
Lingayat religion tag: Will move SC if needed, dares Mathe Mahadevi
(Deccan Herald)
Indian secularism under threat: from Ahimsa to Himsa
(Kamran James, Daily Times)
Interfaith leaders pledge to back Myanmar peace efforts
(UCA News)
Pope Francis urges Chinese Catholics to make gestures of fraternity, reconciliation
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Various Christians, Tibetan Buddhists or Muslims. Pick your top China religion story
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
'She refused to convert to Islam,' 85 days on, kidnapped schoolgirl Leah Sharibu remains in captivity
(Chika Oduah, CNN)
Dapchi crisis: CNN is only US network to follow up on missing Leah Sharibu
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Denial of parents’ right to bury their children: Özer
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Unity in the Divided Church of the Holy Sepulchre
(Augusta Anthony, The Media Project)
KSA, Vatican playing major role in defeating extremism: Interfaith official
(Noor Nugali, Arab News)
Irish vote highlights widespread popular support for legal abortion in Western Europe
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
Why Japan wants its past persecution of Christians to be world renowned
(Kate Shellnutt, Christianity Today)
Monday, 28 May 2018
Gambia’s dictator ordered a witch hunt. This village is still haunted by it
(Sally Hayden, The Washington Post)
Muslims in Athens: Where Islam flourishes despite being half-underground
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Multi-religious delegation meets with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to deliver letter to the Peoples of Myanmar
(Press Release, Religions for Peace)
Where did Ireland go? Abortion vote stuns both sides
(Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura, The New York Times)
‘Quiet revolution’ leads to abortion rights win in Ireland
(Gregory Katz, Renata Brito, and Leo Enright, Associated Press)
The Latest: Irish PM plans to move quickly on legal abortion
(Associated Press)
Why are Christians now hesitant to share their faith?
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
India’s growing anti-conversion laws: perspectives from an Indian Christian
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)
Australia: Government has opened Pandora’s box on human rights, religious freedom
(Crispin Hull, The Canberra Times)
Religious Freedom amendments introduced in NSW
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
State-Religion Arrangements and Religious Freedom in Asia
(Jaclyn L. Neo, (prepared for the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law (forthcoming))
Friday, 25 May 2018
Fearing extremist violence, Egypt silences 20,000 storefront mosques
(Jacob Wirtschafter and Amr El Tohamy, Religion News Service)
Egypt: Coptic villagers persuaded to shut church to keep the peace
(World Watch Monitor)
Is Ramadan easier in Nigeria than New York?
(Bim Adewunmi, The Guardian)
How did this giant jade Buddha travel the world?
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Malaysia: inquiry into Pastor Koh, missing for 15 months, hears of police collusion
(World Watch Monitor)
Eritrea: Rights groups call for renewal of UN Special Rapporteur’s mandate
(World Watch Monitor)
Fulani violence against Nigeria Christians hits record high
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)
Presbyterians are making their voices heard ahead of Colombia’s presidential election
(Dennis Smith, The Presbyterian Outlook)
Historic building demolished, Ahmadiyya place of worship vandalised in Sialkot
(Imran Sadiq, Dawn)
Russia: 28 new raids, now 20 criminal investigations
(Forum 18 News Service)
Russia is rounding up Jehovah's Witnesses - are other groups next?
(Marc Bennetts, Newsweek)
Jehovah's Witness in Birobidzhan released from two-months detention
(Website of the court of the Jewish autonomous oblast, Russia Religion News)
Third week of Christensen trial
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Who would head new Ukrainian Orthodox Church?
(RISU, Russia Religion News)
Leadership of Ukrainian church warns against consequences of autocephaly
(Portal-Credo.Ru, Russia Religion News)
The Cadbury Lectures 2018: Global religious and secular dynamics and trends
(University of Birmingham)
Justice for Noura, justice for Sudanese women
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Exit polls suggest Irish voters have repealed abortion ban
(Gregory Katz and Renata Brito, Religion News Service)
Ireland abortion referendum: close result expected in historic vote
(Harriet Sherwood, Emma Graham-Harrison, Lisa O'Carroll, The Guardian)
Two dozen Jehovah's Witnesses now face charges
(Portal-Credo.Ru, Russia Religion News)
China leads world in religious diversity
(Brian J. Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Thursday, 24 May 2018
CAP urges Malaysians to avoid commercialisation of religion during Ramadan
(Audrey Dermawan, New Straits Times)
Lessons from religious groups for a ‘Ghana beyond aid’
(James Kwateng-Yeboah, The Conversation)
Bulgarian PM Borisov will go on a Visit with Pope Francis
(novinite.com)
Uzbekistan: Criminal prosecution follows Easter worship meeting?
(Forum 18 News Service)
20 years after Suharto, Indonesia's democracy faces renewed challenges
(Ayu Purwaningsih, Deutsche Welle)
Mass atrocity crimes in Myanmar
(Engy Abdelkader, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Religious leaders in Myanmar call for investigation of crimes in Rakhine State
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Vatican diplomat expresses hope for peace on Korean peninsula
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
After latest Christian deaths, Nigeria’s bishops warn ‘clock is ticking’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Pakistani mob demolishes mosque belonging to minority sect
(Associated Press)
No discrimination against anyone on basis of religion: Rajnath
(The Times of India)
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Korean churches plan prayer vigils ahead of Trump-Kim June summit
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Week two of trial of Danish Jehovah's Witness Dennis Christensen
(Orlovskie Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Christensen trial recessed until next week
(Orlovskie Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Judge prejudiced in Christensen trial
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Mystery witness scheduled to testify in Christensen case
(Orlovskie Novosti, Russia Religion News)
The State of Israel confronts anti-Semitism. But what is it?
(Armin Rosen, Tablet)
‘Buhari must wake up’ Nigeria’s bishops say after church attack
(Katrin Gänsler, Deutsche Welle)
Cardinal: Nicaragua talks at impasse, suspended indefinitely
(Associated Press)
12 years without an execution: Is Zimbabwe ready to abolish the death penalty?
(Mai Sato, The Conversation)
The Palestinian struggle transcends religion
(Abdallah Fayyad, The Atlantic)
What good is religion? International development has focused on material goods, but religion has an important role to play in human flourishing
(Manini Sheker, Aeon)
Chaldean Patriarch congratulates surprise Iraqi election winner
(World Watch Monitor)
Protestant churches in Algeria call on government to treat them fairly
(World Watch Monitor)
Francis cardinals make up almost half of electors of next pope
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
Jewish group questions sainthood for WWII-era cardinal
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
Dubai's Sikh community hosts inter-faith Iftar
(MENAFN)
Singapore can organise inter-faith forum along the lines of Shangri-La Dialogue, suggests President Halimah
(Audrey Tan, Singapore Times)
Pakistan hails elevation of man for all faiths: Messages of congratulations and pride pour in for only the second Pakistani to become a cardinal
(Zahid Hussain, UCA News)
Pakistan’s Muslims, Christians welcome news of nation’s new cardinal
(Robin Gomes, Vatican News)
How do Buddhists celebrate Vesak: The birth of Buddha?
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Announcing Under Caesar's Sword: How Christians Respond to Persecution
(University of Notre Dame)
Ending global blasphemy laws is Government priority, says Foreign Office Minister
(Ekklesia)
Philippines: Marawi, a year after Islamist siege, 50,000 still in temporary shelter
(World Watch Monitor)
Sanja Matsuri festival – Yakuza day in pictures
(Arnel Hecimovic, The Guardian)
The (holy) ghost in the machine: Catholic thinkers tackle the ethics of artificial intelligence
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Christians in Nepal suspect Hindu extremists in sudden attacks on churches
(Morning Star News)
‘Zero anti-Semitism’ in Azerbaijan, says interfaith delegation in S.F.
(Rob Gloster, The Jewish News of Northern California)
Politics podcast: Dean Smith on the pros and risks of new religious freedom protections
(Michelle Grattan, The Conversation)
No discrimination on basis of religion: Rajnath
(The Hindu)
20 Cuban pastors and spouses killed in plane crash
(Morgan Lee, Christianity Today)
Brazilian synagogue damaged in arson attack
(Marcus M. Gilban, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Cameroon bishops urge dialogue to prevent ‘civil war’
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
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