Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 26 March 2018
Israeli court says Jews have right to pray at Temple Mount gates
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
USCIRF study reveals numerous passages in Saudi textbooks inciting violence and intolerance
(USCIRF, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF))
Pakistani Christian embroiled in a ‘fabricated’ blasphemy case acquitted by the court
(Madeeha Bakhsh, Christians in Pakistan)
As Palm Sunday approaches, Egyptian Christians still face a deadly enemy one year after church bombings
(Christian Today staff writer, Christian Today)
Philippine city offers hope and peace after the war
(Asia News)
Turkey increases pressure on Christians with Andrew Brunson indictment
(Turkish MInute)
No Holy Week observance in war-torn Philippine city
(Joe Torres, UCANews)
Boko Haram kept one Dapchi girl who refused to deny her Christianity
(Ruth Maclean, The Guardian)
Op-ed: Gay clergy will live in torment until the Catholic church drops this hypocritical oath
(Kevin McKenna, The Guardian)
India: police leave Catholic hospital separated from power supply after attack
(Anto Akkara, World Watch Monitor)
Egyptian mob celebrates blocking application for new church
(World Watch Monitor)
Vatican battles progressive female elements during conferences
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Archbishop Oscar Romero was gunned down inside his own church 38 years ago. Soon he’ll become El Salvador’s first saint
(Michael E. Lee, Religion News Service)
Young Catholics call for an authentic, empowering church
(Thomas Reese, RNS: Signs of the Times)
Religious photos of the week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
On Palm Sunday, the pope urges youth to raise their voices
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Saturday, 24 March 2018
Goodbye to the Religious Affairs Bureau: religions are now under the direct control of the Party
(Wang Zhicheng, Asia News)
More than academic: Religious freedom is economic
(Brian Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Friday, 23 March 2018
Sir Roger Bannister's "miracle" on the track
(Arthur Remillard, Sightings: Religion in Public Life (University of Chicago Divinity School))
EVENT, 23 March 2018: ISIS's genocide of Christians – A step toward itscaliphate: The past, present, and future of Christians in the Middle East
(9:00 am - 12:00 noon, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC)
Russian Jews hope there won't be precedents of extremism and hostility at FIFA World Cup
(Interfax-Religion)
Turkmenistan: Jailings of conscientious objectors resume
(Forum 18 News Service)
Prosecutor challenges alienation of Jehovah's Witnesses' property
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Cardinal Tong says opposing Vatican-China deal is 'unreasonable'
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
China expert says Vatican deal on bishops might really happen
(Barb Fraze, Catholic News Service)
Cross removal 'kingpin' gets key China post
(UCANews)
State Administration for Religious Affairs absorbed into United Front Work in China
(Sarah Zheng and Zhou Xin, South China Morning Post)
China’s Communist Party overhaul includes religious affairs control
(Catholic News Service)
Jewish candidate for Muslim party breaks barriers in Tunisia
(Bouazza Ben Bouazza, Associated Press)
4 nations sign statement on combating online hate speech
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
More than 70% of blasphemy cases spring up from Punjab recent report says
(Madeeha Bakhsh, Christians in Pakistan)
Christian leaders and civil society groups have had enough with the abuses of the blasphemy law
(Kamran Chaudhry, Asia News)
Pakistan Christian escapes death for ‘clearly fabricated’ blasphemy
(Asif Aqeel, World Watch Monitor)
Hebrew prophet's tomb in Iraq saved from collapse
(Judit Neurink, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Re-Jew-venating Civilization
(Rabbi Michael Shevack, World Religion News)
What was the 'crime' of Jesus that got him crucified?
(Dr. Jerry Newcombe, Christian Headlines)
Egypt: Christian teacher charged with contempt after asking questions about Muhammad
(Christian Today staff writer, Christian Today)
No faith to state
(Waqar Gillani, The News On Sunday)
Exponential increase in attacks against Christians in Telangana, India
(ICC"s Indian Correspondent, International Christian Concern)
The Vatican is wooing Silicon Valley
(Sigal Samuel and Josephine McKenna, The Atlantic)
Indian ‘cow protectors’ jailed for life over murder of Muslim man
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)
Indian state recognizes 800-year-old tradition as a separate religion
(Bhavya Dore, Religion News Service)
Thursday, 22 March 2018
Jehovah's Witness gets a break in criminal case
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Ethiopian Protestant loses appeal against prison sentence for ‘causing outrage to religious peace and feeling’
(World Watch Monitor)
Coptic teacher charged with contempt of religion for questions about Muhammad
(World Watch Monitor)
What is the deal with Christian dating?
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
My hijab is my identity and my own choice
(Anila Sadiq, World Religion News)
The truth about Hindus killing Muslims over beef
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
The last male rhino of its kind dies. African religious leaders call it a spiritual loss
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
On Israeli posters, Paddington Bear gets kosher for Passover
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Evangelicals haven’t always cozied up to Russia
(Gregory Alan Thornbury, Religion News Service)
The Sephardic chief rabbi must go!
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Lone Nigerian captive refused to convert for Boko Haram
(Sam Olukoya and Bashir Adigun)
US pastor Andrew Brunson accused of using Christianity as part of a terrorist plot
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
The ’Splainer: Why do Jews eat gefilte fish at the Passover seder?
(Kimberly Winston and Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
The Liberals don't get why religious Canadians refuse to submit to their political dictates
(Barry W. Bussey, National Post)
Circumcision laws can be drafted that don't infringe upon religious rights
(Farzana Hassan, Toronto Sun)
Vatican stages UN event to protest ‘genocide’ against Down Syndrome
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Boko Haram returns Nigeria girls, warns not to put in school
(Haruna Umar and Krista Larson, Associated Press)
Boko Haram frees most schoolgirls abducted last month
(Catholic News Agency)
Mother says Nigerian girl refused to convert
(Associated Press)
At least 14 dead, several hurt in car bomb in Somali capital
(Abdi Guled, Associated Press)
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Russia: Misuse of anti-extremism legislation for religious persecution in February 2018
(SOVA Center for Information and Analysis)
A rabbi, a priest and an imam walk into an environmental conference
(Sarah Levi, The Jerusalem Post)
Patriarch Kirill: We fight for justice in Syria
(Interfax-Religion)
Orthodox leader sweet talks Russian president
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Ukrainian lawmakers complain about pro-Russian stands of Orthodox clergy
(Religiia v Ukraine, Russia Religion News)
The Saudis take on radical Islam
(Adel Al-Toraifi, The Wall Street Journal)
Cameroon's Pentecostal churches under fire
(Moki Kindzeka, Deutsche Welle)
India’s Supreme Court ruling allows ‘passive euthanasia’
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Russian Catholic leaders pledge to work with Putin after election win
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service)
Part 1: A few steps forward, a few steps sideways and a few steps backwards: The CAT’s revised and updated GC on Non-Refoulement
(Başak Çali and Stewart Cunningham, EJIL: Talk!)
Part 2: A few steps forward, a few steps sideways and a few steps backwards: The CAT’s revised and updated GC on Non-Refoulement
(Başak Çali and Stewart Cunningham, EJIL: Talk!)
Christian victims of Pakistan terror attacks remembered
(Kamran Chaudhry, UCANews)
The Latest: Afghan official says 31 dead in suicide bombing
(Associated Press)
"N" for Nazarene -- the remnants of Iraq's Assyrian community
(Nina Shea, Assyrian International News Agency)
Maronite church warns that religious schools closing because of new law
(Agenzia Fides)
Philippine Protestant bishop freed after 10 months in jail
(Joe Torres, UCANews)
Myanmar President Htin Kyaw resigns
(Euan McKirdy, CNN)
Stephen Hawking and the limits of our knowledge: Scientism vs. revelation
(John Stonestreet and G. Shane Morris, The Christian Post)
Easter banner torn down from Pakistan church
(Asif Aqeel, World Watch Monitor)
Pope confirms plans to visit Dublin for August family rally
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Moscow patriarch has last word on pope's visit to Belarus
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Vatican media chief resigns over doctored letter scandal
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
Letter from Benedict brings down Vatican media czar
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
EVENT, 19-21 March 2017: The 6th Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism
(ISAGP (Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy), Jerusalem)
Christians and Muslims in India vexed that government is seeking to revise history with pro-Hindu narrative
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
George Pell: two men allege cardinal sexually offended against them as children at pool
(Melissa Davey, The Guardian)
George Pell allegedly exposed himself to choir boy, court hears
(Melissa Davey, The Guardian)
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Treating the Divine in science fiction
(Ada Palmer, Sightings: Religion in Public Life (University of Chicago Divinity School))
Um Sameh, the wonder woman of eastern Ghouta
(Barrett Limoges, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Muslim, Christian religious leaders launch first interreligious dialogue platform in the Arab World
(KAICIID)
Persecution rising, but Christianity in China is ‘vibrant,’ Baylor prof says
(Terry Goodrich / Baylor University, Baptist Standard)
Canada Summer Jobs Motion is defeated but the issue remains very much alive
(Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities: Intersection)
SC: Can a person refuse to follow law on secular matters?
(Times of India)
When Pope Francis asks young people what they think
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
Church official regrets that unlike Oxford and Harvard restoration of university churches in Russia provoke negative reaction
(Interfax-Religion)
Russia: Increasing land use fines "a lottery"
(Forum 18 News Service)
Anti-evangelism law invoked against Baptists in Orel
(Orlovskie Novosti, Russia Religion News)
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