Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 13 June 2017
Syrian war has reshaped Ramadan for many
(Asaad Hanna, translated by Sami-Joe Abboud, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
'Roughly half' of Iraqi, Syrian Christians have fled Middle East since 2011, report says
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Christian girls in India being pressured by parents to become 'religious prostitutes' to Hindu Gods
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Jerusalem notebook: The U.S. embassy- to move or not to move?
(Lela Gilbert, Hudson Institute)
Sri Lanka: over 20 attacks on Christians this year
(World Watch Monitor)
Sri Lanka arrests five over anti-religious violence
(Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis shakes up Vatican bioethics board
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Islamic countries can resolve all of their disagreements peacefully – Aliyev
(Interfax-Religion)
New army church consecrated in Kyrgyz airbase
(Interfax-Religion)
US prepares to deport hundreds of Iraqi Christians
(Griffin Paul Jackson, Christianity Today)
Iraqi Christian immigrants may face death if U.S. deports them
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Turkey's Erdogan calls Qatar embargo 'un-Islamic'
(Deutsche Welle)
South African Council of Churches calls for dissolution of parliament
(Bronwen Dachs, Catholic News Service)
South Sudan bishops cite security concerns as reason for pope not visiting
(Catholic News Agency)
Filipino bishop: Martial law makes farce of Independence Day
(Catholic News Service)
Francis: Migrant crisis require focus on reality, dialogue, commitment
(Catholic News Agency)
Man sentenced to death as Pakistan's war against blasphemy intensifies
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Monday, 12 June 2017
Pakistan: man sentenced to death for blasphemy on Facebook
(Sune Engel Rasmussen, The Guardian)
In a first, Pakistan imposes death sentence for online blasphemy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Women play a key role in interfaith dialogue, Pope says
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Want Pope Francis to visit South Sudan? Work for peace, bishops say
(Catholic News Agency)
Einstein's letters of relativity, God, and moving to Israel go up for auction
(The Associated Press, Haaretz)
Of tribes and terrorism
(Lee Smith, Hudson Institute)
TIME introduces the next generation of Catholic priests
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Disappearing Christians: Their flight from the Middle East
(Eric Metaxas, Christian Post)
Pope Francis threatens to fire priests who don't obey him, says rebellion is destructive
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post)
New study shows euthanasia is about fear, not pain
(Samantha Gobba, Christian Headlines)
Is opposition to the LGBT agenda child abuse?
(Kiley Crossland, Christian Headlines)
World Council of Churches asks for suspension of North Korea sanctions
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
A plea to the pope: Stop being soft on our despot, Venezuela’s bishops tell Francis
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Unreasonable pressures imposed on Jehovah's Witnesses believers
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Russian president praises Jehovah's Witnesses' family values
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Angela Merkel at Argentine synagogue urges fight against anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Nigerian priest shares harrowing story of being kidnapped
(Catholic News Agency)
Vatican: Failure to protect child migrants an insult to human dignity
(Junno Arocho Esteves, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Trump and Francis may face new tensions over Cuba
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Condemned to die: Man sentenced to death for posting comments about the Prophet Mohammed on Facebook
(Charlie Parker, The Sun)
Death sentence for Pak man over sharing ‘blasphemous content’ on social media
(Imtiaz Ahmad, Hindustan Times)
Mormon Apostle speaks at international religious freedom symposium: Religious freedom helps society to thrive
(Newsroom, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Teaching of gender equality sparks infighting in Iran
(Zahra Alipour, Al Monitor: Iran Pulse)
Women-only cafe opens in Upper Egypt
(Reham Mokbel, translated by Cynthia Milan, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Syrian residents suffer under siege during Ramadan
(Tamer Osman, translated by Sahar Ghoussoub, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Saturday, 10 June 2017
The Beirut Declaration and its 18 commitments on Faith for Rights
(Report and outlook, United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner)
Beirut Declaration enhances role of religions in promoting human rights
(United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner)
Religion Watch, June 2017, Volume 32 No. 8
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
Zimbabwe: Prophet given cash to 'cleanse', vanishes with couple's savings
(All Africa)
Liberia: Clergy challenges representative aspirants
(Emmanuel Mondaye, The New Dawn)
Nationalism between Europe and the Middle East – By Sam Farah
(Sam Farah, Syria Comment: Syrian Politics, History, and Religion)
Friday, 9 June 2017
Nazarbayev hopes Islamic world can reach understanding soon
(Interfax-Religion)
Three extremists spreading radical Islam ideas convicted in Uzbekistan
(Interfax-Religion)
Expert on Orthodox shrines compared contemporary Russia to Medieval Europe
(Interfax-Religion)
Woman suicide bomber kills at least 30 in Iraqi market
(Reuters, First Post)
Self-optimization in place of religion?
(Deutsche Welle)
New USCIRF report on minority religions in Kurdistan
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Wilting in the Kurdish Sun: The Hopes and Fears of Religious Minorities in Northern Iraq
(Crispin M.I. Smith and Vartan Shadarevian, Report prepared for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Church says Papua riot sparked by military burning Bibles
(Associated Press)
Turkey's 'American Idol' of Quran recitation backfires
(Pinar Tremblay, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Syria, Christians, and Pluralism in the Middle East
(Most. Rev. Jean Clément Jeanbart & Carl Anderson, Real Clear Religion)
Henan, Protestant church destroyed, 40 Christians arrested
(AsiaNews.it)
Argument: What the Islamic State wants in attacking Iran
(Will McCants, Foreign Policy)
Fallout from Iran attacks spells trouble to come in wider Middle East
(Maziyar Ghiabi, The Conversation)
Can the world ever really keep terrorists off the internet?
(Shontavia Johnson, The Conversation)
Thursday, 8 June 2017
After rushing to Qatar's aid, Turkey may have to rethink its Mideast ties
(Fehim Tastekin, trans. Timur Göksel, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
After the ban of Jehovah's Witnesses, the Church of Scientology seems to be the next priority target
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
St. Petersburg’s Church of Scientology is charged with illegal revenue of $4.8 mln
(TASS)
In the shadow of St. Peter’s, a Mormon temple rises
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Rethinking blasphemy in Indonesia and the fiqh tradition
(Timonthy Gutmann, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Zhejiang Catholic Bishop - Appointed by Vatican, Not Recognized by China - Missing for Half Month [Simplified Chinese]
(Zhu Zhou, Radio Free Asia)
Some 500,000 pilgrims bow to St. Nicholas remains as 3 km line forms outside the Moscow cathedral
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Orthodox Church's relations with Catholics intensify after meeting with Pope - Patriarch Kirill
(Interfax-Religion)
Kazakhstan: Fingerprints, mugshots, fines follow worship raid
(Forum 18 News Service)
In Israel, fighting for women’s political representation
(Josie Glausiusz, Forward)
Kenyan court orders Catholic bishops to pay Muslim restaurant owner $125,000
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
How the Muslim world was invented
(Anver M. Emon and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Foreign Affairs)
Venezuela cardinal says Socialist regime leaves people ‘cruelly repressed’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Venezuela’s bishops say Pope has their backs in tensions with Maduro
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
The war against just war: Enough already
(Peter Steinfels, Commonweal)
Wednesday, 7 June 2017
Alternative treatment for seriously ill child not in his best interests (Charlie Gard)
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)
Attackers bomb Ayatollah Khomeini tomb and Parliament; Saudis blamed
(Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, Religion News Service)
The ’Splainer: What is the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum and why was it attacked?
(Shenaz Kermalli, Religion News Service)
How the Six-Day War transformed religion: Six perspectives on how the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict changed Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Mormonism
(Sigal Samuel, The Atlantic)
How a growing number of Muslim women clerics are challenging traditional narratives
(The Conversation)
The great Sunni-Shia conflict is getting ever closer to the surface
(Douglas Murray, Spectator)
Christian preachers' disappearance in Malaysia stokes fears of crackdown on religious minorities
(Vincent Bevins, The Guardian)
To escape abusive marriages, many Christians in Pakistan convert to Islam
(Naila Inayat, Religion News Service)
Zimbabwe bishops urge violence free 2018 polls, as Mugabe likened to 'God' by youth leader
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
This Vatican adviser is moving Catholics toward LGBT inclusion
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Column: On Faith and Culture)
Mexico City mayor trumpets country’s Sephardic heritage
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Questions surround Cameroonian bishop’s reported suicide
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Muslims and Christians unite to rebuild Mosul monastery
(Catholic News Agency)
Filipino Catholics plead for non-military solution to Islamic violence
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Tuesday, 6 June 2017
To protest Modi, these Indians are cooking beef in public
(Vidhi Doshi, The Washington Post)
The Jerusalem Patriarch condemns attempts of schismatics to seize churches of Ukraine's canonical Orthodox Church
(Interfax-Religion)
FSB adds one more organization to list of terrorist groups
(Interfax-Religion)
Secret Mexican diary sheds light on Spanish Inquisition
(Natasha Pizzey, BBC)
Dialogue with Muslims, defend human dignity, pope tells missionaries
(Junno Arocho Esteves, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
How ISIS genocide victims still face discrimination in Kurdistan
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Priest advocates for Indian children whose parents live with HIV
(Catholic News Service, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Huberta the Hippopotamus, the Bishop who wouldn’t resign – and the Diocese of Mzimvubu
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
EVENT, 6 June 2017: Varieties of Personal Religious Experience in Korean New Religious Movements: A Jamesian Approach
(Prof. Chae Young Kim (Sogang University, Seoul), The Center for Religious Studies FBK-ISR (Trento))
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