Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 20 October 2017
Raqqa liberated: Now what?
(Ruth K'lama, Mission Network News)
Quebec bans face covering in public
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Quebec enacts 'religious neutrality law' to curb full-face veils in public
(Scott Neuman, NPR)
Quebec, Islam and face-covering: Quebec’s ban on face-coverings risks inflaming inter-communal tensions
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Quebec enacts new religious neutrality law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Trudeau on Quebec face-cover ban: not our business to tell women what to wear
(Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian)
North Korean defector shares horrors of living under Kim Jong-un's regime
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Hamas: 'We will wipe out Israel'
(Laura Lacey Johnson, Christian Headlines)
In the same-sex marriage vote, the bishops have soft-pedalled on sin
(David Marr, The Guardian)
Being Boring – How Bureaucrats Determine Religious Freedom
(Helge Årsheim, Guest Post, Law & Religion UK)
Can Israel be any more "transparent?"
(Jeffrey Salkin, Religion News Service)
Two tearful faces that make me pray for peace with North Korea
(Richard Mouw, RNS Column: Civil Evangelicalism)
Family looks for answers after Christian boy beaten to death in Pakistan
(Amel Ghani, Religion News Service)
Learning from the past: The day a 'Christian government' turned on an ecumenical organization
(Anli Serfontein, Ecumenical News)
Israel's religious community faces off against prostitution
(The Jerusalem Post)
Austrian Jews to Israel: Respect our stand on far right Freedom Party
(Herb Keinon, The Jerusalem Post)
Tajikistan: One more prisoner of conscience
(Forum 18 News Service)
Jehovah 's Witness in Tajikistan sent to jail for 6 months for refusing to wear army uniform
(Interfax-Religion)
G7, Facebook, Google, Twitter agree on plan to counter Islamist terror
(Deutsche Welle)
Afghanistan mosque blasts: Dozens dead in suicide bomb attacks
(Deutsche Welle)
Venezuela bishops ‘deplore’ elections blasted as a fraud by opposition
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Freedom to provide religious instruction in Australian schools
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
EVENT, 19-20 October 2017: Second Annual Religious Liberty Public Lecture and Conference: Freedom of Belief Freedom of Action
(Lecture by Professor Rex Ahdar, The University of Notre Dame Australia - Sydney School of Law)
There’s a rising global tide of crackdowns on LGBT communities
(Max Bearak, The Washington Post)
Call to challenge decline of religious freedom in Russia
(Eno Adeogun, Premier)
Christians in Azerbaijan face rising persecution from government, ACLJ tells UN
(Lorraine Caballero, Christian Daily)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: the essence of what it means to be human
(Keymanthri Moodley, The Conversation)
Rosie Costa
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Aung San Suu Kyi was a ‘bright light’ for some Rohingya. That dream is dead.
(Max Bearak, The Washington Post)
Christians who use ‘Allah’ ‘don’t contravene public order law’
(Bede Hong, The Malaysian Insight)
By excluding Hannah Mouncey, the AFL’s inclusion policy has failed a key test
(Catherine Ordway and Allistar Twigg, The Conversation)
Burqa bans: Which countries outlaw face coverings?
(Liam Stack, The New York Times)
Roy Green: European Court of Human Rights has twice decided on face covering law
(Roy Green, Global News)
“The reformation is unending,” Adventist leader tells European Parliament
(Victor Hulbert, Adventist News Network)
Thursday, 19 October 2017
Though ISIS is losing ground, war may be lost if Christians can't return home
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Central Americans fleeing violence can't return home yet, bishops warn
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
Excluding people with disabilities makes Church 'incomplete'
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Diwali, festival of lights – in pictures
(The Guardian)
Tony Abbott needs to go back to Bible class if he quotes it on climate change
(Geoff Thompson, The Guardian)
Algeria: ‘unjust law’ still denying churches their ‘right to worship’
(World Watch Monitor)
Dalai Lama attacks Trump's America
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
"Deeply disappointed at this miscarriage of justice" - Catholicos Aram I on ECHR's Sis decision
(Armenpress)
Turkey, Hungary and Poland: The politics of school textbooks
(Dana Alexandra Scherle, Daniel Heinrich, Deutsche Welle)
Turkey: Religious officials to perform civil marriages
(Umut Uras, AlJazerra)
Is Kaliningrad on the brink of inter-ethnic conflict?
(Sergey Sukhankin, The Jamestown Foundation)
Interior Ministry official suggests criminalizing gay propaganda
(Interfax-Religion)
Moscow mufti warns that foreign radical preachers want to sway CIS Muslim space
(Interfax-Religion)
Prominent Tajik heart surgeon detained on suspicion of links to Salafis – media
(Interfax-Religion)
Uzbekistan: Surveillance, raids, Bible destruction, jailing, torture
(Forum 18 News Service)
Jehovah's Witness in Kazakhstan acquitted
(Radio Azattyk, Russia Religion News)
Jewish group says Canada’s Islamophobia measure inhibits free speech
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Ontario won't follow Quebec on religious bill
(Northumberland News)
'Not up to the federal government' to challenge Quebec's religious neutrality law: Trudeau
(Peter Zimonjic, CBC News)
Peace an urgent task in world of war and conflict, pope says
(Crux)
Why Islamist attack demands a careful response from Mozambique
(Eric Morier-Genoud, The Conversation)
Argument: Can Somalia ever win against al-Shabab?
(Alex de Waal, Foreign Policy)
South Africa: Bishops call for strengthened governance to save workers’ pensions
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
All interfaith marriages not ‘love jihad’: Court
(The Times of India)
Call for reviewing education policy to curb terrorism
(Daily Times)
Need for right legislation to regulate freedom of religion
(Atyab Alshatti, Arab Times)
Interfaith peace prayer held in Taunggyi
(Yain Tai, Burma News International)
Life in everyday death: The Rohingyas in Bangladesh and Myanmar (Response to: Religion and the persecution of Rohingya Muslims)
(Nasir Uddin, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Rohingya Muslims pay the ultimate price for their religious and ethnic identity (Response to: Religion and the persecution of Rohingya Muslims)
(Tina Mufford, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Web Summit: Freedom of religion in the tech business
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
New era of Coptic martyrs: RNS dives into big questions about a deadly serious subject
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
USCIRF condemns Pakistan's blasphemy convictions of Ahmadis
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Crux reports from Lebanon-Syria border, where Western ideals clash with deadly local realities
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Assisted suicide legislation advances in Australia’s Victoria state
(Catholic News Agency)
Politics podcast: Tiernan Brady and Cory Bernardi reflect on the marriage postal ballot
(Michelle Grattan, The Conversation)
‘Identity politics’ have not taken over university history courses
(Paul Sendziuk and Martin Crotty, The Conversation)
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Memo to the IPA: history teaching is driven by student demand, not ‘identity politics’
(Trevor Burnard, The Conversation)
USCIRF condemns Pakistan sentencing three Ahmadis to death for blasphemy
(Press Release, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
From the Arctic, Ecumenical Patriarch calls for fresh deliberation on fate of the earth
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Lutheran-backed group says environmental and civil society leaders are targeted in Colombia
(Ecumenical News Reporter)
Who behaves like an extremist—Jehovah's Witnesses or the Russian state?
(Anton Chivchalov, Echo of Moscow)
Hong Kong bishop emphasizes pastoral over political concerns
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Ukrainian bishop sees ‘real chance of peace’ in country’s crisis
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service)
Five steps that can bring peace in Myanmar
(Ramesh Thakur, Japan Times)
For years, U.N. was warned of threat to Rohingya in Myanmar
(Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy)
Eyewitness: the Rohingya horrors and Aung San Suu Kyi’s whitewash
(Ellen Wiles, The Conversation)
Marawi’s lessons
(Business Mirror)
A dangerous proposition
(Faizan Mustafa, The Hindu)
Zardari felicitates Hindu community on Diwali
(Pakistan Today)
How two Christians and climate change saved India
(Vijay Jayaraj, The Christian Post)
Israel should practice what it preaches to the Palestinians
(Akiva Eldar, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Jewish labor site ruled ‘discriminatory,’ fined NIS 40,000
(Dov Benovadia, Hamodia)
Israeli court fines online "Jews-only" job site
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
After 1,700 years large section of Western Wall and Roman theater discovered
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Female Israeli soldier uses ninja moves on threatening crowd of ultra-Orthodox protesters
(Ruth Eglash, The Washington Post)
Deadly explosion in Somali capital Mogadishu brings shock, outrage, and resilience
(Laura Hammond, The Conversation)
Somalia sees bloodiest terror attack in country’s history
(Reagan Hoezee, Mission Network News)
Security situation for Christians in Mali gets worse
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Kenya elections continue to take dramatic shifts
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)
With midnight raids and chat-room traps, Egypt launches sweeping crackdown on gay community
(Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post)
Tajikistan authorities draw up list of gay and lesbian citizens
(The Guardian)
A man tortured in Chechnya for being gay dares to go public with his story
(Andrew Roth, The Washington Post)
Interfaith solidarity: Triumphs and backlash
(Shaheen Pasha and Jordyn Rozensky, Altmuslimah)
True dialogue respects deeply held beliefs of others, say speakers
(Beth Griffin, CatholicPhilly.com)
As a Muslim, I'm proud to support marriage equality
(Mehreen Faruqi, The Guardian)
Sex versus death: why marriage equality provokes more heated debate than assisted dying
(Julian Savulescu, The Conversation)
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