Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 13 March 2017
Juju is not illegal in Zambia; Senegal within their right to practice their religion - Chipenzi
(Peter Adamu, Zambia Reports)
Shiv Sena leader alleges rival used religion for votes in Mumbai civic body polls, files case
(Tanushree Venkatraman, Hindustan Times)
Column: Change hearts to fight religious persecution
(Doug Bandow, The Detroit News)
What is Salafism?
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Is the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization?
(Treje Ostebo, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis is pushing for change. Now the church must catch up
(Joanna Moorhead, The Guardian)
Pope may be backsliding on paedophile crackdown, Catholic official says
(Australian Associated Press, The Guardian)
Christianity is exploding in Bangladesh despite persecution
(James Jacobson, Christian News Wire)
What's the future of gospel music in Zimbabwe?
(Fred Zindi, The Standard)
Venice Commission: Proposed constitutional amendments in Turkey would be a “dangerous step backwards” for democracy
(Council of Europe)
Christians in Syria: Current situation and future outlook
(Otmar Oehring, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung: Facts & Findings)
Saturday, 11 March 2017
1. Erdogan’s lust for power is destroying Turkey’s democracy
(Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, Transconflict)
2. Erdogan – a classic case of how power corrupts
(Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, Transconflict)
3. Erdogan exploits Islam for personal and political gain
(Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, Transconflict)
Religious Free Speech in Australia: CDF v Gaynor
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Women of Conscience
(Third in a seven-part series on international religious freedom, Mormon Newsroom)
The crisis of liberty in the West
(Ryan T. Anderson, The Heritage Foundation)
Aleppo: the key to conflict resolution in the Syrian civil war?
(Belgin San-Akca, OUPblog)
The Syrian crisis: American interests and moral considerations
(Marc LiVicche, Nina Shea, Hudson Institute)
Rethinking the role of human rights in the international refugee regime
(James W. David, Lawfare)
Christian group, Compassion International, closes India operations amid crackdown by Hindu nationalists
(Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post)
Israel extends closure on West Bank and Gaza by 24 hours
(Gili Cohen, Haaretz)
Thai authorities seek to defrock scandal-hit Buddhist abbot
(Oliver Holmes, The Guardian)
Friday, 10 March 2017
Violence against Jehovah’s Witnesses on the rise in Georgia
(OC Media)
The Israeli anti-BDS travel ban in (legal) context
(Elena Chachko, Lawfare)
Islam is changing Russia rapidly and profoundly – OpEd
(Paul Goble, Eurasia Review)
Online Christian programs get deleted in China
(UCA News)
Hungary allotted about €134,000 for restoring three Russian churches and building a new one
(Interfax-Religion)
Mormon congregation exonerated of migration charge
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Ukrainian Orthodox promote European cooperation
(Mikhail Omelian, Press Service of Chernigov diocese of UPTsKP)
Moscow cozies up to the Right
(Alex Altman and Elizabeth Dias, Time)
U.S.-Vatican ties won’t change with Trump, diplomat says
(Keanine Griggs, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Pope Francis will visit Colombia in September
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Pakistan church demands humane treatment of Afghans
(Kamran Chaudhry, UCA News)
China rewards 'patriotic' Tibetan monks
(UCA News)
On 6th anniversary of Syrian war, education remains a casualty
(Tara Kangarlou, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Syrian children suffering 'toxic stress'
(Madeleine Davies, Church Times)
Despite massive setbacks, IS still bares its fangs in Iraq
(Hamdi Malik, Mohammad Khalil, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Iraq's 'Awakening' vets cautious about post-IS period
(Shelly Kittleson, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Egypt's religious institutions to offer couples premarital sex ed
(Khalid Hassan, translated by Pascale el-Khoury, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
What is happening in the Turkish military?
(Ali Bayramoglu, translated by Timur Goksel, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
The boys made to fight for IS
(Naomi Grimley, BBC News)
China kicking out dozens of South Korean missionaries
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Over 80 Christians arrested in China for worshiping at "illegal" house churches
(Hazel Torres, Christian Today)
Refugees head home as missionaries
(Beth Stolicker, Mission Network News)
World Vision warns of millions at risk in east Africa, launches hunger crisis appeal
(Joseph Hartropp, Christian Today)
Ethiopia: religious wisdom for maintaining peaceful co-existence
(The Ethiopian Herald via All Africa)
Nigeria: treat kidnapping like Boko Haram — Catholic bishops
(Abbas Jimoh, Daily Trust)
Arab fight for equal rights is only being won on the battlefield
(Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz)
For first time, Hamas prepared to accept pre-1967 borders for Palestinian State
(Jack Khoury, Haaretz)
Israel wants to completely criminalize paying for sex
(Sharon Pulwer, Haaretz)
Uniting church has faced 2,500 reports of child sexual abuse, royal commission hears
(Christopher Knaus, The Guardian)
Pope Francis: married men could be ordained to ease priest shortages
(The Guardian)
The legacy of Savitri Bai: why thousands of women are marching near the RSS headquarters in India
(Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri, Scroll.In)
Israeli lawmakers aim to silence Muslim call to prayer
(Deutsche Welle)
Central Asia and Islamic State: the Russian connection
(Iris Oppelaar, The Diplomat)
The coming Islamic culture war
(Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Nathaniel Barr, Foreign Affairs)
Convocatoria de Trabajos / Call for Papers (Fecha límite 10 de marzo de 2017)
(Para El Tema Monográfico del 4° Número, "Acomodaciones por motivos religiosos", La Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho y Religión)
10 things you may not know about the making of the OED (Part 1)
(Peter Gilliver, OUPblog)
Applications due 10 March 2017: Lorenzo Natali Media Prize for promoting FoRB
(International Cooperation and Development, The European Commission)
Thursday, 9 March 2017
Sudan: Starvation ‘imminent’ as conflicts stop deliveries
(Madeleine Davies, Church Times)
"Court strikes blow against discrimination of Separdic haradi girls
(Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post)
Peruvian marches against gender ideology attract 1.5 million
(David Ramos, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Kazakhstan: A 'controversial' imam in prison. The case of Imam Abdukhalil Abduzhabbarov in the light of ICCPR Article 5
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Abortion stops a beating heart: The Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017
(Arthur Goldberg, The Witherspoon Institute, Public Discourse)
Will Turkey be added to European list of undemocratic countries?
(Amberin Zaman, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Compassion International and India: The New York Times leaves a UN-shaped hole
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Civil Liability for injury in church hall
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
In Russia, the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses begins all over again
(Giles Fraser, The Guardian)
Israeli premier fears Sunni terrorism in Middle East will be replaced by Shia
(Interfax-Religion)
When Israel's Court has to prevent Palestinian land theft
(Akiva Eldar, translated by Ruti Sinai, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Will massive trench keep Iraqi holy cities safe from terror?
(Omar al-Jaffal, translated by Cynthia Milan, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Is an 'Arab NATO' in the works?
(Ahmed Fouad, translated by Sami-Joe Abboud, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
How culture could help end Palestinian divisions
(Asmaa al-Ghoul, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
The women of Boko Haram: Driven to extremism
(Muhammad Al-Amin, Deutsche Welle)
Lines at 'visa wale' Hanumanji temples go up in Trump era
(Divya Kaushik, The Times of India)
Former officers fight to keep Israel’s military friendly to women and gays
(Andrew Tobin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
According to Muslim prophecy ISIL terrorists should be ruined by inner contradictions - Tatarstan mufti
(Interfax-Religion)
Over 80 countries have experienced manifestations of terrorism disguised as religion - Metropolitan Hilarion
(Interfax-Religion)
Pentecostal pastor expelled from Russia for alleged evangelism
(Mikhail Shubin, Otkrytaia Rossiia)
Government opposition to protestants in eastern Russia
(Religiia i pravo, Russia Religion News)
‘Cultural’ practices continue to force girls out of school: Time to act decisively
(Relebohile Moletsane, Brookings)
The constitutional frontiers of international economic law
(Stephan Schill, EJIL:Talk!)
Under the Shogun’s Sword
(Daniel Philpott, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)
All the chatter about *Silence*
(Margaret Harper McCarthy, Crisis Magazine: A Voice for the Faithful Catholic Laity)
Atheist missionaries are spreading humanist ideals in the Philippines
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
China kicks out Korean missionaries in 'unprecedented' numbers
(Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, Christianity Today)
Indonesia jails leaders of "deviant sect" for blasphemy
(Reuters)
Zakir Naik breaches Penal Code, interfaith body says
(Malay Mail Online)
'Muting mosque' bill derided as an attack on religious freedom
(SBS.com.au)
Is biology truth or homophobic?
(Chelsen Vicari, Juicy Ecumenism: The Institute on Religion & Democracy's Blog)
Putting genies back into bottles: Sex before marriage
(Katrina Fernandez, Aleteia)
WCC gravely concerned over Israel’s travel ban
(World Council of Churches)
Venezuela’s opposition leader asks: Where is the Vatican?
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
At the Vatican, Sister Simone Campbell blasts ‘male power’
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis signals openness to ordaining married men
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Rules of thumb for processing the latest papal bombshell
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Zimbabwe: Bill to outlaw child marriages in motion
(Fairai Machivenyika, The Herald - Zimbabwe)
EVENT, 9 March 2017: Purifying the land of the pure: a history of Pakistan's religious minorities
(Hudson Institute)
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