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Monday, 29 May 2017

Orthodox church leadership sitting on information about tsar's bones
(Portal-credo.ru, Russia Religion News)

Arab League not to take special measures to protect Christians in its member countries
(Interfax-Religion)

Severe treatment of foreign Jehovah's Witness in heart of Russia
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)

Wave of vandalism against Jehovah's Witnesses continues
(Russia Religion News)

Eight-year-old Jehovah's Witness chided for singing songs for classmates
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)

Supreme Court turns down local Jehovah's Witnesses' appeal
(RAPSI, Russia Religion News)

Jehovah Witnesses file appeal against court judgment outlawing organization in Russia
(Interfax-Religion)

Danish citizen arrested in connection with raid on Jehovah's Witnesses
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)

Salvation Army appeals local court decision to high court
(Elena Mukhametshina, Vedomosti)

Canadian premier Trudeau meets Pope Francis at the Vatican
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Bishop commends Ghana’s plan to hand back management of mission schools
(Damian Avevor, Catholic News Service)

Palestinian judge bans divorce during Ramadan
(Al Jazeera)

No Ramadan divorces in Palestinian territories
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Saturday, 27 May 2017

African court rules Kenya violates forest people's land rights
(Katy Migiro, All Africa)

Friday, 26 May 2017

WCC moderator calls for foreign policy rethink to promote “peace with justice”
(World Council of Churches)

Fears for imprisoned Algerian Christian as Ramadan begins
(World Watch Monitor)

Church leader among dead in Central African Republic
(World Watch Monitor)

Egypt Coptic Christians killed in bus attack
(BBC News)

Attack on bus carrying Christians in Egypt may negatively impact resumption of flights between Russia, Egypt - source
(Interfax-Religion)

Russian Orthodox Church mourns victims of terror attack against Copts in Egypt
(Interfax-Religion)

Gunmen kill 35 Egyptian Christians in Ascension Day bus attack
(World Watch Monitor)

World Council of Churches condemns attack in Egypt on Coptic Christians
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Pope Francis calls Egypt attack on Christians, killing 28, “barbaric”
(Associated Press)

Indonesia’s social and political fabric stretched as bombs hit Jakarta
(World Watch Monitor)

Putin to visit Russian cultural spiritual center after talks with Macron - Kremlin
(Interfax-Religion)

Unknown individuals wreak havoc on church of Moscow Patriarchate in western Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)

Sunnis, Shias and America: Why Trump’s pro-Sunni tilt worries human-rights campaigners
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Estonian Jewry celebrates revival 75 years after Nazis declared it extinct
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The Islamization of Kashmir's separatist movement
(Shamil Shams, Deutsche Welle)

100 Christians detained, 10 years after Eritrea put Patriarch under house arrest
(World Watch Monitor)

Arrests made after attack on Catholic prayer hall in south India
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

After years of cramped spaces, Ukrainian Catholics bless chapel in Odessa
(Mariana Karapinka, Catholic News Service)

Church leaders urge calm in Venezuela, Brazil
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Pakistan: 3 months in prison for eating, drinking in public during Ramadan, $250 for providing food
(Asif Aqeel, World Watch Monitor)

Burma: Interfaith prisoners of conscience Pwint Phyu Latt & Zaw Zaw Latt released
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Iran: Release Maryam Naghash Zargaran
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Political chaos in Libya makes it a haven for radical terrorist groups
(Natasha Ezrow, The Conversation)

Indonesian president threatens to ‘clobber’ those who threaten pluralism
(Ed Davies, Religion News Service)

Islamic terrorists have no knowledge of religion, says Zahid
(Muzliza Mustafa, The Malaysian Insight)

Indonesian Embassy in Vatican holds interfaith dialogue
(The Jakarta Post)

Indonesia: National mosque imam calls for interfaith dialogue, tolerance
(Max Walden, Asian Correspondent)

Former Catholic priest does euthanasia (in numbing detail) recorded by the New York Times
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

Russia: Fines, vandalism follow Jehovah's Witness liquidation
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)

Thursday, 25 May 2017

G7 must address famine, say world churches and church aid groups
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Putin presents icon to Sretensky Monastery church
(Interfax-Religion)

Unity of Russian nation should be preserved – Putin
(Interfax-Religion)

Lutheran songs: a musical gift for all Christians
(Chiara Bertoglio, MercatorNet)

Chileans stand up for abortion rights
(Sophia Boddenberg, Deutsche Welle)

Antimicrobial resistance and faith-linked healthcare providers
(Berkley Forum, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Faith in a glass of water (Responding to Antimicrobial resistance and faith-linked healthcare providers)
(Susan Barnett, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Telling the story (Responding to Antimicrobial resistance and faith-linked healthcare providers)
(Jonathan Trapp, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Manchester by the Sea (a post-Christian film) and the decline of the working class
(John O. McGinnis, Library of Law and Liberty)

On abortion: If we trust women, we should listen to them
(Philippa Taylor, MercatorNet)

Contesting the re-primitivism of the West (a review of John M. Rist, What is Truth? From the Academy to the Vatican)
(Graham McAleer, Library of Law and Liberty)

Down but not out: How Islamic State clings on in Libya
(The Economist)

Six questions on Ramadan answered
(Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Religion News Service)

Wednesday, 24 May 2017

In asking Trump to be peacemaker, Pope Francis' meeting is not all smiles
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

China’s population may be smaller than official data suggests
(Shannon Roberts, MercatorNet)

The Economist’s free market ideology fails vulnerable women
(Michael Cook, MercatorNet)

Is religious liberty in the West an historical accident?
(Bugra Kalkan, Istanbul Network for Liberty)

Asking Gandhi tough questions
(Sarah Azaransky, OUPblog)

Azerbaijanis fined and detained for selling religious books
(World Watch Monitor)

Jakarta’s Christian ex-governor drops blasphemy appeal ‘for sake of the people’
(World Watch Monitor)

Blasphemy law has no place in a 'tolerant nation' like Indonesia, say UN experts
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Ukraine: Donbas militants 'sentence' 63-year-old Ukrainian religious scholar on insane charges
(Halya Coynash, Human Rights in Ukraine)

Religious Freedom and Muslim Terrorism: A Rights-Based Approach
(Augusto Zimmermann, Quadrant Magazine LX (10) October 2016, 63-68)

Putin meets with Coptic patriarch Tawadros II
(Interfax-Religion)

Putin expresses gratitude to pope for permission to bring St. Nicholas' relics to Russia
(Interfax-Religion)

Putin, Medvedev visit Patriarch Kirill to offer name day congratulations
(Interfax-Religion)

Patriarch Kirill to visit Kyrgyzstan
(Interfax-Religion)

The Federation of Jewish Community of Russia criticizes Ukrainian political circles for heroizing Nazi symbols
(Interfax-Religion)

A Vatican meeting, and a clash of moral visions
(Matthew Sitman, Bloomberg)

A fantastic meeting: Donald Trump meets Pope Francis
(MSR, The Economist: Democracy in America)

Trump in Israel calls for end to sectarian conflict in Middle East
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Pope Francis gives President Trump some homework at their first meeting
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)

Pope and Trump focused on life, religious freedom and conscience, Vatican says
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Why Melania Trump wore a head covering in Rome but not in Saudi Arabia
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post: Acts of Faith)

Taiwan's high court rules same-sex marriage is legal, in a first for Asia
(Bill Chappell, National Public Radio)

Following sixth journalist murder this year, Mexican bishops speak up
(Catholic News Agency, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Gunmen take Catholic hostages; Philippines’ Duterte imposes martial law
(Catholic News Service)

Duterte declares martial law in Philippine island of Mindanao in response to militant attacks
(Jonathan Kaiman, The Los Angeles Times)

Chaos in the Philippines as Islamist group storms city, abducts Christians and sets church on fire
(World Watch Monitor)

Priest sex abuse suit filed against Guam Archdiocese
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Religious intolerance tarnishes Pakistan's image: minister
(Sehrish Wasif, The Express Tribune)

Interfaith activists among released convicts in prisoner amnesty
(Hein Ko Soe and Sean Gleeson, Frontier Myanmar)

What is terrorism? What do terrorists want?
(Frederic Lemieux, The Conversation)

What is the Shia-Sunni divide?
(Ken Chitwood, The Conversation)

The Islamic State and the end of lone-wolf terrorism
(Jen Easterly and Joshua A. Geltzer, Foreign Policy)

Religion good for the body as well as the soul - report
(Stephen Gadd, CPH Post Online)

Iraqi president calling Yezidis ‘remnants of Zoroastrianism’ sparks anger
(Rudaw)

'Plan B' for Turks: move abroad
(Zulfigar Dogan, translated by Timur Goksel, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Austalia: Muslim leaders clash in fiery debate on Sunrise
(Debra Killalea, News.com.au)

Pope Francis names new cardinals from El Salvador, Laos, Mali, Spain and Sweden
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Iran's conservatives question election results
(Rohollah Faghihi, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)

Muslims mark the 1,095th anniversary of Islam in Russia
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)

Why Ramadan is called Ramadan: 6 questions answered
(Mahammad Hassan Khalil, The Conversation)

Could an Islamic reformation prevent violent radicalisation in Egypt?
(Georges Fahmi, The Conversation)

Indonesia: President invites interfaith figures to Bogor Palace
(Antara News)

Zubair urges religious scholars to promote interfaith harmony
(Pakistan Today)

Freedom of Speech Section 18C - Blasphemy Law by Stealth
(Dr Augusto Zimmermann (WA Law Reform Commissioner), Vision Christian Radio / 20Twenty)

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