Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 14 July 2017
Travesty international: Turkey has arrested Amnesty International’s local director
(The Economist)
Youth feed 2000 homeless people every night in Uruguay
(Catholic News Agency)
Praying together, staying together: The axis between Russian Orthodox and American evangelicals is intact
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Rights advocates: Russia ignoring principles of the civilized world
(ReligioPolis, Russia Religion News)
Is a robot a person?
(Alessandro Calcagno, Europeinfos: Christian perspectives on the EU)
State policy blamed for negative attitudes toward Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia
(RBK, Russia Religion News)
Jehovah's Witnesses brace for court decision
(Novaya Gazeta, Russia Religion News)
Venezuela bishops accuse Maduro of seeking to install 'military dictatorship'
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Shariah’s winding path into modernity
(Mustafa Akyol, The New York Times)
Jerusalem’s top Muslim cleric detained following deadly Old City shooting
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
In Ukraine, Vatican cardinal says there’s hope for the future
(Catholic News Agency)
Open letter from USCIRF Vice Chair Sandra Jolley to Gulmira Imin on the 8th anniversary of her arrest
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Charlie Gard: who is best placed to decide his fate?
(Nicholas Clapham, The Conversation)
EVENT, 14 July 2017: How to stabilize Iraq after ISIS—and why it matters
(Nancy Lindborg, Ambassador Ekkehard Brose, Joseph Pennington, Sarhang Hamasaeed, United States Institute of Peace)
Liberation from militants leaves devastation in Mosul
(Susannah George, Associated Press International News)
Thursday, 13 July 2017
Vatican-approved article criticizes conservative Catholic support of U.S. evangelical political agenda
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
'Justice for all' in Turkey must include Kurds
(Pinar Tremblay, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Resolving Article 140: Settling the issue of Iraq’s disputed territories ahead of an independence referendum for Kurdistan
(Megan Connelly and Matthew Barber, Syria Comment: Syrian Politics, History, and Religion)
How to gauge China’s development in its ethnic minority regions? Watch it light up from space
(Enze Han, The Conversation)
'This is not a good place for religion': China's Uighur Muslims struggle under 'police state'
(FirstPost)
China’s religious revival fuels environmental activism
(Javier C. Hernández, The New York Times)
Are Chinese Christians persecuted? Not exactly
(Richard Mouw, RNS Column: Civil Evangelicalism)
US Rights Commission holds hearing on religious freedom in Tibet
(Molly Lortie, The Tibet Post International)
Luther’s Revolution: The Reformation did a lot more than transform Christianity.
(Elizabeth Bruenig, The Nation)
Anti-Semitism abroad serves Netanyahu's plan
(Akiva Eldar, translated by Ruti Sinai, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Mexico a ‘case study in government inaction’ as third priest killed this year
(World Watch Monitor)
Terrorist threat forces Egyptian Christians to cancel summer activities
(Jayson Casper, World Watch Monitor)
Sudan sanctions extended for three months
(World Watch Monitor)
Notable Christians who’ve had a change of heart on LGBT issues
(Madeleine Buckley, Religion News Service)
Confidant of Pope Francis condemns US religious right
(Rachel Zoll, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis allies accuse Trump White House of 'apocalyptic geopolitics'
(Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian)
Indonesia’s president signs decree banning radical groups
(Associated Press, South China Morning Post)
Rash of sentences ‘shows government’s fear of growth of Christianity in Iran’
(World Watch Monitor)
CTD ties rise in extremism to proliferation of radical madrasas
(Salis bin Perwaiz, The News)
Jailed Algerian Christian receives partial presidential pardon
(World Watch Monitor)
Murder of fifth Copt in six weeks creating ‘state of fear and terror’ among Egypt’s Christians
(World Watch Monitor)
Kazakhstan: Another jail term, another trial imminent
(Forum 18 News Service)
Not a single instance of harassment against gays reported in Chechnya – Lavrov
(Interfax-Religion)
Investigative Committee fully rules out religious motive in Nemtsov murder case, only motive is financial gain
(Interfax-Religion)
Survey of Russians shows popular agreement with Supreme Court's decision
(Andrei Dubrovsky, Novaya Gazeta)
Conscientious objectors win right to perform civilian service
(Toliatti.Ru, Russia Religion News)
Cuban Jewish leaders call on US Jewish community to strengthen ties
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Muslim ID proposal sparks anger in Philippines Marawi
(Ana P. Santos, Deutsche Welle)
Vatican indicts two ex-officials of children’s hospital for financial crimes
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Venezuelan bishops: End the ‘inhuman repression’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Yemen’s foreign minister says kidnapped Salesian is still alive
(Catholic News Service)
Islamic State and the appropriation of the Crusades – a medieval historian’s take
(Jason T. Roche, The Conversation)
Respecting humanity ingrained in our religion: JKLF on condemning yatri killings
(Greater Kashmir)
Global Baptists address religious freedom issues in Russia and the USA
(Evangelical Focus)
White House condemns attack on religious pilgrims in India
(Associated Press, US News & World Report)
Wednesday, 12 July 2017
Religious freedom protection in Australia- 2017 update
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Hijabers of Instagram: the Muslim women challenging stereotypes
(Alila Pramiyanti and Emma Baulch, The Conversation)
Modi’s polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
(Irfan Ahmad, The Conversation)
India Supreme Court suspends cattle slaughter ban
(BBC News)
Israel seeking Saudi flight deal to bring pilgrims to Mecca
(Jonathan Ferziger and Yaacov Benmeleh, BloombergPolitics)
Divine credentials: The never-ending argument over what is “real Islam”
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Ethnic minorities troubled by Malaysian state introducing public cainings for sharia crimes
(Rozanna Latiff, Reuters)
Bangladesh: Inu defends Sec 57 for public security, sanctity of religion amid outcry
(bdnews24)
Gender-based violence concerns 'all of humanity,' say world church leaders
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Atambayev calls on people of Kyrgyzstan to focus on education instead of religion
(Interfax-Religion)
Unidentified believer in far north of Russia found guilty of sharing faith
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Catholic Cemetery vandalized in Goa, India
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Catholic Malta legalizing gay marriage over church objection
(Associated Press)
African calls West’s imposition of abortion ‘cultural supremacy’
(Simon Caldwell, Catholic News Service)
The FAQs: What you should know about the Charlie Gard controversy
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)
South Africa: Every religious practitioner must be registered — CRL Commission report
(Ernest Mabuza, Times Live)
South Africa: Strict laws needed to curb commercialisation of religion
(Sibongile Mashaba, Times Live)
South Africa: Religion report causes a stir
(Rusana Philander, Tamryn Christian and Mariska Joubert, IOL)
Concerns and Objections to CRL Recommendation to License Religion in South Africa
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Watershed judgment clarifies limits of religion in South Africa’s public schools
(Georgia Alida du Plessis, The Conversation)
A shariah-compliant default? The curious case of Dana Gas sukuk
(Bonds & Loans)
UAE company stops payments, saying its wwn Islamic bonds are no longer shariah-compliant
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
UNESCO makes Hebron old city Palestinian world heritage site
(Peter Beaumont, The Guardian)
UNESCO Hebron motion important to all faiths
(Daoud Kuttab, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
UNESCO supports terrorism
(Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute)
Okinoshima: Japan's UNESCO World Heritage Site that's banned to women
(CNN)
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Charlie Gard's parents given two days to prove their baby should be allowed treatment in the US
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Trouble among America's Gulf Allies
(John R. Bolton, Gatestone Institute)
Coptic Orthodox nuns attacked in Palestine
(Reagan Hoezee, Mission Network News)
Christians in Iran handed lengthy prison sentences
(Reagan Hoezee, Mission Network News)
Pope Francis creates new path to beatification under ‘offering of life’
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
'1984' in Israel and Palestine
(Dmitry Shumsky, Haaretz)
Who are we to tell religious Jews what to do at the Western Wall?
(Irit Linur, Haaretz)
Polls show Zionist Union, under new leadership, surge to second place
(Times of Israel)
Avi Gabbay, a business exec with little political experience, just won Israel's Labor Party primary and hopes to replace Netanyahu
(Chaim Levinson, Amir Teig, and Almog Ben Zikri, Haaretz)
Pope Francis creates fourth pathway to becoming a saint
(Agnece France-Presse, The Guardian)
Pope Francis is concerned with 'dangerous' U.S. - Russia partnership
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
NGO takes on 'religionization' in Israel's secular schools
(Udi Shaham, Jerusalem Post)
Anti-evangelism law used against blogger reporter
(Portal-credo.ru, Russia Religion News)
Russian hypocrisy shown in international gathering
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Bishops say Venezuela aims to install ‘military dictatorship’
(Cody Weddle, Catholic News Service)
Salvadoran cardinal: Pope sending him to Korea to work for peace
(Junno Arocho Esteves, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
First Canadian prosecution for selling mislabeled kosher food
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Creation Foods Company fined $25,000.00 for offence under the Food and Drugs Act
(Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Government of Canada)
Food distributor fined for sending fake kosher cheese to Jewish camps
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
What lies behind the rise of Christian universities in Africa
(Joel Carpenter, The Conversation)
The real Benedict Option
(Scott P. Richert, Crisis Magazine)
The Catholic Church says no to gluten-free communion. Here’s why
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post: Acts of Faith)
Gluten and Communion: What's a celiac to do?
(Mary Rezac, Catholic News Agency)
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