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Monday, 4 September 2017

Pope Francis prays for flooding victims in United States, South Asia
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

As Pope Francis heads to Colombia, will third time be the charm?
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Saturday, 2 September 2017

Philippine troops retake Catholic church and bridge in Marawi from Muslim extremists
(Lorraine Caballero, Christian Daily)

Friday, 1 September 2017

Cutting young girls isn't religious freedom: The First Amendment doesn’t protect the barbaric act of female genital mutilation
(Kristina Arriaga, The Wall Street Journal)

The peculiar Benedict complex
(Massimo Faggioli, La Croix International)

Who censors access to Iran's Khamenei?
(Al Monitor: Iran Pulse)

Turkey charges US pastor as ‘spy’; conviction would mean life in prison
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)

Sudan church leader re-arrested, with at least 6 more, over government pressure for property
(World Watch Monitor)

Family imprisoned, tortured for fleeing North Korea – and for their Christian faith
(World Watch Monitor)

Kano, Nigeria: father and son killed, three women and a baby kidnapped
(World Watch Monitor)

Talaq to be part of curriculum in madrassas: Sunni sect Dargah
(PTI, The Indian Express)

Talaq order has implications for Sabarimala rule on women’s entry, says Indira Jaising
(The Indian Express)

All’s well that ends well: India Supreme Court's "triple talaq" decision
(Tahir Mahmood, The Indian Express)

Korean Red Cross president works on humanitarian impact of divided country
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Russian chief mufti calls on Muslims to pray for Russia's prosperity
(Interfax-Religion)

Russian tourist jailed for 7 months in Myanmar for refusing to take off shoes in temple
(Interfax-Religion)

Over 200,000 Muslims attend Kurban Bayram prayer in Moscow
(Interfax-Religion)

Putin speaks of Muslims' role in social life in Kurban Bayram greetings
(Interfax-Religion)

Israeli government must reinstate Western Wall deal or explain why it won’t, Supreme Court orders
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Turmoil in Venezuela to vie for Pope’s attention in Colombia
(Joshua Goodman and Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)

Catholic Church and government in Goa, India, exchange accusations
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

This is what it’s like to be a Jehovah’s Witness in Russia
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)

Why aren't Uyghur Muslims in China allowed to go to Hajj?
(Aydin Anwar, TRT World)

Pastors arrested in Sudan as government moves to take over church
(Evangelical Focus)

Press release of the Wilberforce Foundation (same-sex marriage in Australia) - full text
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Why Turkey’s president cares so much about an 11th-century battle
(Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post)

What language tells us about changing attitudes to extremism
(Josie Ryan, The Conversation)

Kenya targets WhatsApp administrators in its fight against hate speech
(Mercy Muendo, The Conversation)

The mysterious drop in the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean
(James McAuley, The Washington Post)

Religion at state expense: SC verdice in the Gujarat shrines compensation case raises important questions
(Faizan Mustafa, The Indian Express)

Religious practices are protected only as long as they do not run counter to law: HC
(Mohamed Imranullah S., The Hindu)

Evolution and Islam: Turkey's hot back-to-school story and (let's work it in) the specter of jihad
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)

Spirituality gone awry in India: what is Dera Sacha Sauda, and who is its jailed leader?
(Swati Parashar, The Conversation)

In Response to Persecution: Essays from the Under Caesar’s Sword Project
(Daniel Philpott and Timothy Samuel Shah, Religious Freedom Institute)

The Importance of Building and Sustaining a Culture of Religious Freedom: Lessons from Nigeria and Kenya
(Fr. Robert Dowd, Religious Freedom Institute)

Past and Present Challenges to Religious Freedom in Pakistan
(Religious Freedom Institute)

Thursday, 31 August 2017

Will Christianity Survive in the Middle East? A Christian Perspective
(Kent R. Hill, Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy)

Religious education in public schools: joint presentation before the Supreme Court of Argentina
(Migrants, ESCR & Other Rights)

Iraq says Tal Afar ‘fully liberated’ from Islamic State
(Sinan Salaheddein, Associated Press Top News)

Boats carrying fleeing Rohingya sink in Bangladesh; 26 dead
(Tofayel Ahmed and Julhas Alam, Associated Press International News)

Burma: The world’s ‘most friendless people’ are under assault yet again
(Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post)

CHP Justice Assembly serves to undermine FETÖ trials, AK Party says
(Daily Sabah)

India: Religion at state expense
(Faizan Mustafa, Kashmir Monitor)

Two ISIL members plotting terror attacks in Moscow region on Eid al-Adha
(Interfax-Religion)

China: Priests, laypeople injured defending church property
(Catholic News Service)

‘Shalom alechem!’ Pope Francis greets rabbis at the Vatican, praises ‘fruitful dialogue’
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

More than 1.7 million Muslims gather for start of hajj
(Omar Akour and Ahmed Hatem, Associated Press International News)

Technology is changing Hajj
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)

Hajj pilgrimage entangled in web of Saudi politics
(Ata Batrawy, Religion News Service)

Iraq’s Sunnis wrestle with militants’ religious legacy
(Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press International News)

Torched villages, dead civilians, squalid refugee camps: Myanmar’s Rakhine state is caught in a cycle of horrific violence. Here’s why
(Jonathan Kaiman, The Los Angeles Times)

Taj Mahal is Muslim tomb not Hindu temple, Indian court told
(Amrit Dhillon, The Guardian)

Tajikistan: Conscientious objector's military trial imminent
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

Majority support for minority rights in Pakistan
(Muhammad Akram, Religious Freedom Institute)

Pakistan verdict on Bhutto assassination angers supporters
(Munir Ahmed, Associated Press International News)

China is urging women to quit their jobs, focus on family
(Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch)

Kay Goldsworthy to be Australia's first female Anglican archbishop
(Australian Associated Press, The Guardian)

Churches offer sanctuary to asylum seekers left homeless by Coalition cuts
(Ben Doherty, The Guardian)

Why the rise of the robots could allow humans to flourish again
(Giles Fraser, The Guardian)

Church plans interfaith alliance
(The Times of India)

John Howard says religious freedom should be protected before marriage equality survey
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)

Same-sex marriage: John Howard wants more detail on religious exemptions ahead of same-sex marriage survey
(Sabra Lane and Stephanie Dalzell, ABC Online)

The Religious Problem with Religious Freedom
(Robert Joustra, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)

Revealed: who supports marriage equality in Australia – and who doesn’t
(Francisco Perales and Alice Campbell, The Conversation)

Pope asks world leaders to listen to ‘cry of the Earth’
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)

Nigerian clergy demand compensation for churches destroyed by Boko Haram
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)

Wednesday, 30 August 2017

Tajik youth organization ready to combat alien morals and customs
(Interfax-Religion)

Explainer: what is antifa, and where did it come from?
(Troy Whitford, The Conversation)

Why so many Indians support men like the recently convicted guru
(Swati Gupta and Vidhi Doshi, The Washington Post)

Pope will put ‘soul’ into Colombia’s peace process
(Inés San Martín, The Tablet)

As artificial intelligence advances, what are its religious implications?
(Ellen Duffer, Religion & Politics: Fit for Polite Company)

Burkas are political symbols not Islamic ones, Muslim scholar says
(Siobhan Hegarty, Religion and Ethics Report)

Vatican and Moscow are closing up as they are afraid of Europe's Islamization
(Interfax-Religion)

UN committee criticizes Russia for rights violations
(Portal-Credo.Ru, Russia Religion News)

Violence involving Myanmar's Rohingya on the rise again in northern Rakhine
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Members of unidentified religion reject medical aid for daughter
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)

Protestant church fined because of inadequate signs
(Religiia i Pravo, Russia Religion News)

Peter Henne on religion-state relations and counterterrorism (podcast)
(Research on Religion)

Ukraine readies for record pilgrimage of 40,000 Jews to Uman
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew to issue joint environmental statement
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Mass returns to Mosul, after the Iraqi city is liberated from the Islamic State
(Catholic News Agency)

Turning point for India: Supreme Court’s triple talaq judgment sets the country on course to a uniform civil code
(Baijayant 'Jay' Panda, The Times of India)

Sex-trafficked Nigerian teens: Why so little reporting on religious roots of this tragedy?
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

‘Let Muslims practise their religion in prison’
(Donstan Bonn, Daily Express)

Interfaith leaders declare cigarette haram, argue for price increase
(Ardi Wirdana, Indonesia Expat)

As Sudan seeks sanctions relief, U.S. presses religious freedom
(Lesley Wroughton, Reuters)

NDPers tying themselves in knots to defend the niqab: DiManno
(Rosie Dimanno, Toronto Star)

A Nazi eagle inflames a heated debate in Uruguay
(Leonardo Haberkorn, Associated Press Religion)

Former loyalists lose faith in Myanmar’s democracy icon
(Denis D. Gray, Associated Press Top News)

Japan’s deputy prime minister retracts Hitler comment after criticism
(Asia Times)

Cambodian clampdown yields a deafening silence
(David Hutt, Asia Times)

The liberal endgame
(Elliot Milco, First Things)

Treaty Interpretation and The Child in International Refugee Law
(Eirik Bjorge, EJIL: Talk!)

Turkey purge in the past 30 days: 922 dismissed, 1711 detained, 998 jailed over coup charges
(Turkey Purge)

Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Religious liberty congress passes resolutions, honors advocates
(Libna Stevens, Adventist News Network)

The left is alienating its allies by shutting down free speech
(Debra W. Soh, CBC News | Opinion)

Diaspora Jews now have their own religious pre-military academy
(Anna Ahronheim, Jerusalem Post)

Kazakhstan: 22nd known 2017 criminal conviction
(Forum 18 News Service)

Police raid Jehovah's Witnesses' picnic in south of Russia
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)

Israeli ministry drops opposition to adoption by same-sex couples
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

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