Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Protestant churches embrace gluten-free bread for Communion as Vatican reaffirms ban
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Islamophobia is still raising its ugly head in Australia
(Mehmet Ozalp, The Conversation)
'We want to separate synagogue from state,' say 55% of Israel's Jewish population
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
Teachers honour Catholic Bishop for commitment to education
(Ghana Web)
India: Chouhan launches RSS website, says serving the needy biggest religion
(Hindustan Times)
Religious leaders from Indonesia, Singapore call for greater interaction to strengthen harmony
(Charissa Yong, Straits Times)
Pakistan: National Assembly body expresses solidarity with religious minister
(Parvez Jabri, Business Recorder)
Al-Qaeda propagandist employed by CNN to make prize-winning Syria doc
(Whitney Webb, Mint Press News)
No time for rest as Turkey's Justice March reaches Istanbul
(Amberin Zaman, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Opposition leader's 'Justice March' will change Turkey's political landscape
(Cengiz Çandar, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Monday, 10 July 2017
GOP lawmakers offer to introduce legislation to help baby Charlie Gard
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Charlie Gard's death sentence: The consequences of usurping parental rights
(John Stonestreet, G. Shane Morris, BreakPoint)
How the AP Stylebook censors 'pro-life' and other conservative words
(Rachel Alexander, The Hill)
Gluten-free bread for Holy Communion is toast, says Vatican
(The Guardian)
Christians face lengthy prison sentences in Iran
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Palestinians pinning their hopes on Sisi
(Uri Savir, translated by Inga Michaeli, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq at risk of fragmentation
(Omar Sattar, translated Cynthia Milan, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
In Jerusalem, secret sale of church land to developers revealed
(Ahmad Melhem, translated by Sahar Ghoussoub, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Israel's dangerous game in Gaza
(Ben Caspit, translated Sandy Bloom, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Iran congratulates Iraqis on Mosul liberation
(Arash Karami, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Marawi conflict is not a religious war, Philippine bishops insist
(Catholic News Agency)
Holy tattoo! A 700-year old Christian tradition thrives in Jerusalem
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
What lies behind the rise of Christian universities in Africa
(Joel Carpenter, The Conversation)
Demographic, cultural impact of old Hajj routes in Africa
(Sanaa Al-Tahir, Sudanow)
Cameroon – Religious tolerance: Mutual respect!
(Godlove Bainkong, Cameroon Tribune)
Saint Teresa's famous blue-rimmed white cotton sari trademarked
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)
Food aid starts to reach 5m Boko Haram victims, now at risk of famine
(World Watch Monitor)
Cardinal returns to Australia to face sexual assault charges
(Religion News Service)
Have Israel's religious authorities 'blacklisted' 160 Rabbis?
(Daniel Estrin, NPR)
Israeli blacklist of US rabbis points to widening rift
(Ilan Ben Zion, Religion News Service)
At least 6 Hindu pilgrims killed in militant attack in Indian Kashmir
(Fayaz Bukhari, Religion News Service)
Mennonites' resolution is 'antisemitic and unwise,' legal expert says
(Benjamin Glatt, Jerusalem Post)
What comes after ISIS? The jihadi group's defeat in Mosul and Raqqa is about to usher in a new era — and new conflicts — across the Middle East
(Foreign Policy)
International community has 'moral responsibility' to provide security for liberated Mosul
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
LGBT issues are raised in Western organizations only for purpose of condemning Russia or other countries – Slutsky
(Interfax-Religion)
Israeli politician: We need U.S. Jews to play a bigger role in our politics
(Manuel Trajtenberg, Forward)
Saudi Arabia exports extremism to many countries - including Germany, study says
(Matthias von Hein, Deutsche Welle)
Euthanasia, dignity, and “spirituality lite”
(Martin E. Marty, The University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
At his own wake, celebrating life and the gift of death
(Catherine Porter, The New York Times)
Pathos, bathos, and euthanasia
(Gilbert Meilaender, Commonweal)
Sunday, 9 July 2017
Charlie Gard: Supreme Court turns down appeal, now all depends on Strasbourg
(David Hart QC, UK Human Rights Blog)
Saturday, 8 July 2017
Outrage after Turkey seizes ancient Assyrian religious buildings
(Andrea Nierhoff, SBS)
Mob justice reveals anti-Syrian sentiment in Turkey
(Barin Kayaoglu, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Here's how to respond to religious freedom crises around the world
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News InDepth)
Pope Francis to G20 Summit: With great power comes great responsibility
(Catholic News Agency)
Economic solutions need broader vision, Pope tells G-20 leaders
(Junno Arocho Esteves, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
At G20 summit protesters charge barricades; churches issue call to peace
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
35 years ago: When Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II met to defeat an evil empire
(Paul Kengor, The Stream)
Egypt reportedly spending $22 million to restore historic synagogue in Alexandria
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Mexican priest found bound, stabbed to death in his room
(Catholic News Agency)
Friday, 7 July 2017
Trump is the first president to skip visiting Holocaust monument since 1989
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
As India and Israel embrace, talk about a "Zionist-Hindu" conspiracy is spiking in Pakistan
(Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, Haaretz)
The true success story of Jews in the 20th century
(Ofri Llany, Haaretz)
No one actually knows where Israel ends and the Palestinian territories begin
(Shakked Auerbach, Haaretz)
How Israeli parents are fighting Jewish missionizing in secular schools
(Allision Kaplan Sommer, Haaretz)
Philippines police push for Muslim ID cards as counter-terrorism measure
(Oliver Holmes, The Guardian)
Creationist uses Trump order to get permission to take rocks from Grand Canyon
(Naaman Zhou, The Guardian)
U.S. sends warning to North Korea following long-range missile test
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Eritrea: 160 Christians arrested in government crackdown
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
North Korea expert: time to be worried about long-range missle
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Vatican, al-Azhar focus on papal trip speeches in latest meeting
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Author of 10th-century Hebrew biblical text is identified
(Medeleine Buckley, Religion News Service)
Kenya to add chaplains to public high schools to improve discipline
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
The clash of traditions
(Mark L. Movsesian, Library of Law and Liberty)
"Trust in Crisis – The Emergence of the Quiet Citizen"
(Dr Jan-Jonathan Bock & Dr Sami Everett; eds. Dr Julian Hargreaves, Asher Kessler & Austin Tiffany, Woolf Institute: Studying Relations between Jews, Christians & Muslims)
"The Missing Muslims – Unlocking British Muslim Potential for the Benefit of All"
(Citizens Commission on Islam, Participation & Public Life)
Reconsidering Religious Radicalism
(Volume 15, 2017, The Review of Faith & International Affairs)
IGE to lead delegatioin to 4th Annual Sino-US Counterterrorism Dialogue
(Institute for Global Engagement)
Indians take to the streets in protest against religious violence
(World Watch Monitor)
Metropolitan Hilarion denies calling for restoration of monarchy
(Interfax-Religion)
Donald Trump visits Poland: Looking for religion (and old-school journalism) in the coverage
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Vatican, al-Azhar focus on papal trip speeches in latest meeting
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Faith in the classroom (Editorial)
(The Jerusalem Post)
Frank Wolf – Congressman, 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative
(5 Minutes of Religious Freedom: A web series, Newseum Institute: Religious Freedom Center)
Tanabata, the festival of the stars
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
The Maldives: Why does this exotic spot produce a disproportionate number of jihadi fighters?
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Copts tired of ‘sacrificing willingly’ for Egypt’s unity
(World Watch Monitor)
Four more Copts killed in ‘most aggressive campaign in history of modern Egypt’
(World Watch Monitor)
Marc Chagall, religious artist
(Maya Balakirsky Katz, OUPblog Religion)
Third Iranian convert given lengthy sentence alongside pastor
(World Watch Monitor)
A Pope and a President in Poland
(Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal)
Sverdlovsk Region Court mitigates sentence for 'Pokemon catcher'
(Interfax-Religion)
Church officials upset that Myanmar won’t allow UN fact-finders
(Catholic News Service)
Islamic State loses Mosul
(Alex Anhalt, Mission Network News)
Thursday, 6 July 2017
What a Mormon doing Buddhist meditation has to do with the future of faith
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News InDepth)
Mormon missionaries from U.S. return to Botswana after four-year absence
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)
Turkey’s oldest indigenous culture fears extinction
(Ayla Jean Yackley, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
The other side of Bible distribution in China
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)
Believers defy persecution to minister in Sudan
(Alex Anhalt, Mission Network News)
Hamas turns to Iran
(Shlomi Eldar, translated by Sandy Bloom, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Netanyahu offers friendship to those ignoring Palestinians
(Akiva Eldar, translated by Ruti Sinai, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Anger over allowing Muslim prayer rooms in Ontario schools
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Malaysian Muslim group joins Indonesian call for Starbucks boycott over LGBT stand
(reporting by Ebrahim Harris in Kuala Lumpu and Yuddy Cahya in Jakarta; writing by Rozanna Latiff; editing by Robert Birsel and Paul Tait, Reuters)
Top theologian is out in Pope Francis' move to be more inclusive
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Security not only concern for Syrians returning home
(World Watch Monitor)
Iran sentences four more Christians to 10 years in jail for ‘missionary activities’
(World Watch Monitor)
Indian women wear cow masks to ask: are sacred cattle safer than us?
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)
Vatican acknowledges past problems at ‘pope’s hospital’
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
In Myanmar, one girl’s plight epitomizes Rohingya struggle
(Todd Pitman, Religion News Service)
Hobby Lobby to forfeit ancient Iraqi artifacts in settlement with DOJ
(Dan Whitcomb, Religion News Service)
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