Law and Religion Headlines

Tuesday, 19 September 2017

How Lebanese are countering racist attacks
(Florence Massena, Al Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)

Prospect of Kurdish independence raises talk of war
(Hamdi Malik, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Deadly issue of witchcraft to be tackled at UN human rights gathering
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)

You are not a bigot if you vote 'No' to same-sex marriage, Sydney Archbishop says
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)

Nuns and refugees run through Rome for 'multi-religious' half-marathon praised by Pope Francis
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)

Nigeria: Profligacy in the name of religion
(This Day)

Human rights are the key to confronting Iran
(Ken Blackwell, The Christian Post)

Google responds to report claiming search results are biased against conservative sites
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Where's the biff? Free speech has won every round in the marriage equality debate
(David Marr, The Guardian)

Monday, 18 September 2017

Interfaith summit vs religious extremism to start October
(Manila Times)

State hostility to religious movements of foreign origin in Kazakhstan
(HRWF statement at the OSCE/ODIHR HDIM in Warsaw, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

John Wamwara named first Dooyeweerd Fellow in Law and Religion
(Press Release, Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University)

The enduring power of Mosul’s rich and diverse past
(Stephennie Mulder, The Conversation)

Blogger Sokolovsky's lawyer contests sentence in Sverdlovsk region court
(Interfax-Religion)

Can taking down websites really stop terrorists and hate groups?
(Thomas Holt, Joshua D. Freilich, and Steven Chermak, The Conversation)

Navalny's volunteer gets 2 years for religious affiliation
(Interfax-Religion)

Kadyrov publishes address by Chechen man imprisoned in Iraq calling on Muslims not to join ISIL
(Interfax-Religion)

Turkish terrorists lived in house of Georgian patriarch for several months - Rustavi 2
(Interfax-Religion)

The politics of martyrdom: In Latin America and Russia, the spiritual status of the slain is a minefield
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

In defense of the tragic, impotent silence of Aung San Suu Kyi
(Michael Sainsbury, La Croix International)

‘Error has no rights’: Religious coercion persists, from Russia to America
(L. Martin Nussbaum and John N. Thorpe, National Review)

Leaders mark bicentenary in Pakistan
(Baha'i World News Service)

China: New regulations on religions: Annihilate underground communities, suffocate official communities
(Bernado Cervellera, AsisNew.it)

Total control is behind China’s revised religious regulations
(La Croix International)

Interfaith seeks peace among Muslims, Christians in Nigeria
(Christiana T. Alabi, Daily Trust)

Philosophy, Descartes and the dance of life
(Joseph Cocker, The Guardian)

Israeli government to amend adoption law to give same-sex couples equal rights
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Worried about Jewish pluralism in Israel? So are Israelis.
(Andrew Tobin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

US-Muslim interfaith dialogue conference unites 450 scholars
(Al Arabiya)

Jewish Agency volunteers help Mexico recover from earthquake
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Tamar, Muhammad top baby names in Israel for third straight year
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Malaysia nixes beer festival after Islamist protest
(Darko Janjevic, Deutsche Welle)

Governing requires prayer, wisdom, counsel, pope says
(Junno Arocho Esteves, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Pope praises Rome’s first interreligious half-marathon
(Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service)

Christian children face pressure to convert to Islam in refugee camps in Sudan
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Supreme Court: Restaurants can say they serve kosher food
(Arutz Sheva 7)

High Court ruling may put an end to the Chief Rabbinate’s kashrut monopoly
(Aaron Rabinowitz, Haaretz)

Israel's High Court erodes rabbinate's monopoly on kosher certification
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

The Pope, the Mafia, and the rest of us
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

Indigenous ministry mobilizing emergency hurricane aid in Cuba
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)

Christians with Muslim or Buddhist backgrounds most persecuted in China; leader pleads for Bibles
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

We should end the suffering of patients who know they are dying and want to do so peacefully
(Peter Singer, The Guardian)

Rescued Filipino priest talks of need for religious harmony
(Jim Gomez, Associated Press)

Why Myanmar hates the Rohingya
(Sofia Lotto Persio, Newsweek)

Thousands protest in Bangladesh as Rohingya flee Myanmar
(Julhas Alam, Associated Press)

Regional war and the Middle East
(HIllel Fradkin & Lewis Libby, Hudson Institute)

The overcommitted church
(Thom S. Rainer, The Christian Post)

Australia's Prime Minister vows churches won't be forced to marry same-sex couples
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)

Christians in India warn of 'spiraling hatred' in letter to PM Modi with photos of Hindus burning cross
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)

Same-sex marriage: many synagogues reject rabbinical council's 'no'
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)

Pakistan man sentenced to death for ridiculing Prophet Muhammad on WhatsApp
(Mubasher Bukhari, Reuters)

Hardline Israeli rabbis use tough checks on Jewish identity to block marriages
(Peter Beaumont, The Guardian)

The yoga industry is booming – but does it make you a better person?
(Brigid Delaney, The Guardian)

Historic Armenian Cathedral desecrated in southeast Turkey
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)

Jehovah's Witnesses victims of gas attack in Angola
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

Netanyahu's son criticized after posting anti-Semitic cartoon
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

German nationalist party presents anti-Islam platform
(David Rising, AP News Religion)

Indian priest says Yemeni captors did him no physical harm
(AP News)

Myanmar disaster another case of civilizational climate change
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)

21 boys who died in Islamic school fire buried in Malaysia
(Eileen Ng, Religion News Services)

Sunday, 17 September 2017

Tajikistan, Saudi Arabia decide to cooperate to promote tolerance, counterterrorism
(Interfax-Religion)

The best weapon to de-radicalise Isis returnees? Our own humanity
(Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, The Guardian)

Francis in Colombia: Reconciliation beyond the peace agreement
(Iván Garzón Vallejo, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Saturday, 16 September 2017

How Pope Francis reframes the politics of being ‘pro-life’
(John Gehring, La Croix International)

Kenya: Ban on registration of churches (from March 2017)
(Melissa Lukulu, East African Centrereg for Law & Justice (EACLJ))

The remarkable diplomacy of the Institute for Global Engagement
(Daniel Philpott, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)

Friday, 15 September 2017

'Irrefutable' evidence of massive scorched-earth campaign in Rakhine
(La Croix International)

An informal concordat: Culture wars in modern Russia
(Boris Falikov, Eurozine)

Multifaith Prayer for Rohingya
(Elijah Interfaith Institute)

Nearly 400,000 of Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya seek asylum in Bangladesh
(Kelly McEvers and Zafar Sobhan, NPR)

Nearly 3 weeks into Rohingya crisis, refugees still fleeing
(Julhas Alam and Dar Yasin, Religion News Service)

Catholic Church in Asia responds to Rohingya refugee crisis
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Turkey's Erdogan defends Rohingya to enhance image
(Cengiz Çandar, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

More than one million refugees in Uganda need support, says Lutheran World Federation
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

4 synagogues open in former Soviet Union ahead of Rosh Hashanah
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Divisions in Orthodox church over response to controversial movie
(Pravmir, Russia Religion News)

Mayim Bialik, Michael Douglas join Jewish leaders’ call for religious freedom in Israel
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Montreal imam who asked Allah to ‘destroy the Jews’ will not be prosecuted
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

9th Circuit: Facebook is immune from liability for blocking access to Sikh group's page
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Why are Turks flocking to Greece?
(Zülfikar Doğan, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

200,000 Jewish Kurds headed for Iraqi Kurdistan, howls Turkish press
(Barin Kayaoglu, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Congress fuels Christian rivalries with bid to arm Iraqi militias
(Bryant Harris, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

The invisible Christians of North Korea: Surviving by God's grace alone
(Eric Metaxas, Stan Guthrie, Christian Headlines)

World powers deliberate on how to handle North Korea after latest missile test
(Danika Delello, Christian Headlines)

Asia Bibi nominated for EU’s Sakharov Prize
(Maheeda Bakhsh, Christians in Pakistan)

Jailed Pakistan Christian Bibi nominated for EU's Sakharov Prize
(Stefan J. Bos, BosNewsLife)

Pakistani Christian mother sentenced to death, nominated for prestigious religious freedom prize
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Tunisia ends ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims
(France 24)

Vatican recalls priest from US as child porn investigation opens
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)

Official at Vatican embassy to United States removed over child porn allegations
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Vatican diplomat recalled amid child porn investigation
(Nicole Winfield and Matthew Lee, AP News)

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