Law and Religion Headlines

Monday, 23 April 2018

Iran police’s assault on woman over headscarf stirs debate
(Nasser Karimi and Mohammad Nasiri, Associated Press)

Pakistani arrested for burning Christian woman to death
(Associated Press)

Pakistan's first school for transgender students opens
(Shah Meer Baloch, Deutsche Welle)

ECtHR rules application in Alfie Evans case inadmissible
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Mormonism’s global future
(John G. Turner, The Wall Street Journal)

Maldives: Religious freedom difficult to accept, Nasheed tells EU
(AVAS Online)

Senior Houthi official killed in coalition air raid last week, Yemen rebels say
(France 24 Internaitonal)

Five things Catholics can do to support international religious liberty
(Courtney Grogan, Catholic News Agency)

Protestant five-year plan for Chinese Christianity
(UCANews)

European Court interprets provision allowing churches to hire on basis of religion
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

'BJP is not playing politics of religion'
(Deccan Herald)

Saturday, 21 April 2018

India's vicious patriarchy
(Supriya Nair, The Atlantic)

Spike in attacks in India may draw international focus
(Bill Bumpas, One News Now)

Indian nuns help indigenous women break free of shackles
(Saji Thomas, La Croix International)

Priest shot dead marks 2nd clerical murder this week in Mexico
(Yucatan Times)

Inflammatory speech by the Houthi leader targets Bahá'ís in Yemen with genocidal intent
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Friday, 20 April 2018

Jehovah's Witnesses report widespread harassment and arrests
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)

Jehovah's Witnesses seek asylum in Europe
(Thomas Nilsen, Berents Observer)

Federal crime fighting bureau directed against Jehovah's Witnesses
(Website of Investigation Directorate for Ivanovo oblast, Russia Religion News)

Initiatives for dialogue between US and North Korea welcomed by World Council of Churches
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Kiev envoy goes to Istanbul with request on Ukrainian autocephaly for Ecumenical patriarch
(Interfax-Religion)

Argentine women see legal abortion closer than ever
(Debora Rey, Associated Press)

Vatican reportedly rejects German bishops' proposal for intercommunion of spouses
(Catholic News Agency)

Commentary: Religious persecution in the occupied territories of eastern Ukraine
(Mykhailo Cherenkov, Catholic News Agency)

Critics blast US crackdown on protected Vietnamese immigrants
(Kevin Jones, Catholic News Agency)

Rural areas southwest of Kirkuk grapple with fears of IS sleeper cells
(Shelly Kittleston, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)

Israeli Arabs torn on country’s Independence Day
(Mazal Mualem, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Ontario Catholic schools refuse to revoke ban on donations
(La Croix International)

Chadian bishops call for referendum on new constitution
(Lucie Sarr, La Croix International)

Breaking good: How religion, science can work together
(David Briggs, Association of Religion Data Archives (the ARDA): Ahead of the Trend)

A theological perspective on what is actually said in the Quran
(Abdur Rab, World Religion News)

Lantos Foundation & Uyghur National Movement seek contact with disappeared Uyghurs

Iran: do non-Muslims have the right to hold elected public office or not?
(World Watch Monitor)

Religion’s major influence in Saudi Arabia
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

Palestinians skeptical about Arab League support for Jerusalem
(Daoud Kuttab, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)

Australia: High Court upholds rejection of inter-state vilification orders
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Excavations start on Palestine’s oldest monastery
(Huda Baroud, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)

Egypt church application triggers attack
(World Watch Monitor)

102 churches (and 54 church-associated buildings) to be legalised in Egypt
(Egyptian Streets)

102 unlicensed Egyptian churches granted legal status
(Ahram Online)

Egypt’s Protestant leader rejects community reconciliation
(World Watch Monitor)

Interfaith marriage in India puts many couples at risk
(Bhayva Dore, Religion News Service)

Case of Jewish boy taken by pope flares over doctored memoir
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)

Kazakhstan: Parents challenge schoolgirl headscarf ban
(Forum 18 News Service)

Thursday, 19 April 2018

Sri Lanka: Facebook told to block religious hate speech
(World Watch Monitor)

Myanmar leader says fleeing villagers can return home, while army says they must leave Tanaing
(Kyaw Myo Min, Khin Khin Ei, and Nay Rein Kyaw, Radio Free Asia)

Myanmar NGO asks state leader to help rescue villagers displaced by war
(Thet Su Aung, Radio Free Asia)

The Prosecutor’s request for a ruling on the ICC’s jurisdiction over the feportation of Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh: A gender perspective
(Andrea Raab, EJIL: Talk!)

ICC jurisdiction and the Rohingya: Crisis in Myanmar
(Geoff Curfman, Just Security)

At 70, Israel sits atop a volcano
(Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Ultra-Orthodox join Israelis in national mourning on memorial days
(Danny Zaken, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Why Israel’s independence day should not be a religious holiday
(Michael Segalov, The Guardian)

Israeli independence day causes controversy
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)

Christians in south India protest against violence, harassment
(Tejaswi Ravinder, UCANews)

Nigerian journalist says new information from Boko Haram indicates 30 Chibok girls in custody still alive
(Ahmad Salkida, Sahara Reporters)

Hindu radicals force pastor to flee village after series of attacks
(ICC's India Representative, Persecution: International Christian Concern)

Pro-Israel Christian group condemns mainline Protestants' statement defending Palestinians
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Prosecuting ‘The Beatles’ before the ICC: A gateway for the opening of an investigation in Syria?
(Alexandre Skander Galand, EJIL: Talk!)

On Syria: Trump may be right
(David W. Lesch, Syria Comment)

If major church leaders of Syria blast President Trump's missiles and tweets, is that news?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Turkish conservatives are getting alarmed by the “plague” of deism and atheism
(Terry Firma, Friendly Atheist)

China targets Sydney radio host in war on religion
(Primrose Riordan, The Australian)

Wolves to lambs: Finding God behind bars in El Salvador
(Jose Cabezas and Nelson Renteria, Reuters)

Draconian blasphemy laws seen as holding Indonesia back
(Katharina R. Lestari, UCA News)

Ukraine moves to split church from Russia as elections approach
(Natalia Zinets, Reuters)

Ukrainian Orthodox Church's autocephaly is geopolitical issue – Poroshenko
(Interfax-Religion)

Metropolitan Hilarion on situation in Ukraine: secular administration cannot initiate creation of autocephalous Church
(Interfax-Religion)

Catholicos of All Armenians urges protestors, police to exercise restraints
(Interfax-Religion)

Pastor jailed and tortured for preaching shares horrors Christians prisoners face in Vietnam
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Mormons plan to build temple in Russia
(Andrei Melnikov, Nezavisimaia Gazeta Religii)

East African Mormons look forward to a Nairobi temple
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)

As nuns lead fight against trafficking, governments say they’re listening
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Mexican priest stabbed to death in church
(Associated Press)

Indian police arrest 18 Rohingya Muslims
(Associated Press)

US warns Turkey of consequences if jailed pastor isn’t freed
(Matthew Lee, Associated Press)

Turkey misses opportunity to release Pastor Andrew Brunson, sets next hearing to May 7
(Press Release, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

American pastor gets initial hearing in Turkish court
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Jailed Evangelical Presbyterian pastor in Turkey finally gets full-court press coverage
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

Egypt legalises 166 unlicensed churches
(MIddle East Monitor)

'Haifa is essentially segregated': cracks appear in Israel's capital of coexistence
(Ian Black, The Guardian)

Cuba’s new leader ‘not a reformer’
(Mariusa Reyes, World Watch Monitor)

A new type of Catholic emerges: the conservative dissenter
(Christopher Lamb, Religion News Service)

Victorian Catholic brother sentenced to five years for sexually abusing students
(Australian Associated Press, The Guardian)

New report reviews religion and secularism in Kazakhstan
(Amir Khaidar, The Astana Times)

Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Will Jordan reclaim sovereignty over controversial land on Israeli border?
(Osama Al Sharif, Al-Monitor: Jordan Pulse)

Congress seeks to exert more control over Middle East wars
(Bryant Harris, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)

New Bible seeks to connect modern and ancient Israel
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)

App faith: how religions are embracing technology
(Tim Dowling, The Guardian)

Movie Maman Colonelle recognized for highlighting human rights in Democratic Republic of Congo
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Syrian mufti plans visit to Russia
(Interfax-Religion)

Russia: "Everyone has become much more cautious"
(Forum 18 News Service)

Anti-evangelism law applied to Chinese movement
(Roman Lunkin, Religiia i Pravo)

Russia still trying to expel Israeli rabbi
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)

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