Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Pope Francis calls for end to “mediocrity, banality and superficiality” in liturgical music
(Diane Montagna, Aleteia)
9 things you should know about International Women's Day
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)
Women’s rights are human rights: Everything you need to read from International Women’s Day
(Rights Info: Human Rights News, Views & Info)
Why International Women’s Day matters
(Kathleen Kuehnast, United States Institute of Peace)
International Women's Day: Be Bold for Change
(International Women's Day)
#BeBoldForChange for women in India
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)
International Women's Day: What you need to know
(Sophie Tatum, CNN Politics)
‘Double suffering’ when women targeted not only for gender, but also religion
(Oiliva Jackson, World Watch Monitor)
Women in war, women in peace
(United States Institute of Peace)
Thinking about women and girls makes development work better for everyone
(Orlanda Ward and David Hudson, The Conversation)
Celebrating International Women Day: women in the changing world of peacekeeping
(Savrina Karim and Kyle Beardsley, OUPblog)
#InternationalWomensDay: 5 mighty women in the Old Testament
(Joseph Hartropp, Christian Today)
Paint-throwing and dancing at India's Holi festival – in pictures
(The Guardian)
Salvation Army says entry into funeral business will help disadvantaged
(Elle Hunt, The Guardian)
Don't talk about Christina persecution, Sudan warns pastors
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)
Algeria: don't prosecute a writer for insulting Islam
(All Africa)
Why Iraq’s law on Popular Mobilization Units isn't all that popular
(Omar Sattar, translated by Mohammed Khalil, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
How a small-town street sign became center of latest Israeli-Palestinian dispute
(Daoud Kuttab, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Kazakhstan: Article 174 cases increase, Cancer sufferer tortured
(Forum 18 News Service)
Muezzin bill passes first reading in Knesset
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Cyprus’s religious leaders unite against violence to women
(Associated Press, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Cardinal Bertello returns to Ghana to mark independence anniversary
(Damian Avevor, Catholic News Service)
Beating back the caliphate: The Iraqi army is on the brink of defeating Islamic State
(The Economist)
SUDAN: Call for the release of Rev. Hassan Abduraheem and Mr. Abdumonem Abdumawla
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Major Christian charity is closing India operations amid a crackdown
(Ellen Barry and Suhasni Raj, The New York Times)
Separate religion and state, urges UN Special Rapporteur
(National Secular Society)
Argument: Welcome to the post-human rights world
(Sebastian Strangio, Foreign Policy)
Islamic State leader Baghdadi abandons Mosul fight to field commanders, U.S. and Iraqi sources say
(Isabel Coles, John Walcott and Maher Chmaytelli, Reuters)
Islam is a tolerant, compassionate religion, says Muslim World League chief
(Khalid Hameed Farooqi, Geo News)
Holy See calls for respect of religious freedom
(Vatican Radio)
WCC general secretary joins UN dialogue on interreligious peace
(World Council of Churches)
Isolated, female and vulnerable to abuse: Christian nannies in the Gulf
(World Watch Monitor)
MP train blast points to rise in radicalisation of Muslim youth
(Editorial, Hindustan Times)
Canada's new blasphemy laws
(Khadija Khan, Gatestone Institute)
Inside the ghost city of Qaraqosh – The Christian city in Iraq liberated from ISIS
(Marco Gombacci, The European Post)
Kurdistan deserves an amicable divorce from Baghdad
(Masrour Barzani, Chancellor of the Kurdistan Region Security Council, The European Post)
Discrimination of Egyptian Copts, the result of fanaticism in education system
(Fathia Al-Dakhakhni, The Middle East Media Research Institute)
Why is IS targeting Copts in Sinai?
(Muhammed Magdy, translated by Pascale Menassa, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Christians warn Pope Francis: making deal with China is big mistake, would worsen persecution
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post)
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
ISIS’ ‘business model’ struggles as group loses territory and resources
(Reagan Hoezee, Mission Network News)
Pakistan considers tribal merger
(Beth Stolicker, Mission Network News)
What does the laying on of hands say about human freedom?
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)
Has science confirmed Genesis? Study proves rainfall over Africa thousands of years ago, pointing to great flood
(Hazel Torres, Christian Today)
Famine stalks Somalia again
(African Media Agency)
Trump signs new Muslim travel ban excluding Iraq
(Alan Fisher, African Media Agency)
Turkey, US, Russia military chiefs meet to discuss anti-IS strategy
(Amberin Zaman, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Last letters : From Mosul schoolboys to Islamic State ‘martyrs’
(Stephen Kalin, Religion News Service)
How are displaced Iraqis faring in Syria’s camps?
(Khaled al-Khateb, translated by Pascale Menassa, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Can international force save Gaza?
(Akiva Eldar, translated by Ruti Sinai, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
HRC 34: Interactive Dialogue on Freedom of Religion or Belief and on Truth and Justice
(Knox Thames, Mission of the United States, Geneva, Switzerland)
No Freedom of Religion at our holiest site
(Alyse Lichtenfeld, Arutz Sheva 7)
Episcopal, Chinese church relationship strengthened through visit
(Lynette Wilson, Episcopal News Service)
Hezbollah, Israel brace for all-out conflict
(Nicholas Blanford, Middle East Online)
Anti-apartheid priest advises Sri Lankans on healing after war
(UCAN)
Australia: Hindus seen doubling in numbers
(Eurasia Review)
Turkey’s critical constitutional referendum
(Ilke Toygur, Elcano Royal Institute)
Missing 400-year-old Jewish manuscript to return to Mexico
(The Guardian)
Vatican & Rome's Jewish community team up for first art exhibit together
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
India ignores China, Dalai Lama will visit Arunachal Pradesh
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
'Just wait for the magic man': Modi's Hindutva pitch in UP finds many fans in Varanasi
(Anita Katyal, Scroll.in)
Israel's ugly new travel ban tells the world: stay away if you don't agree with us
(Allison Kaplan Sommer, Haaretz)
Monday, 6 March 2017
‘False prophet’: Duterte, the Catholic Church and the fight for the soul of the Philippines
(Emily Rauhala, The Washington Post)
India’s religious minorities have been more likely to migrate internationally
(Philiip Connor, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
LE6 million allocated to help fleeing Christian families
(Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt Independent)
Freedom of religion guaranteed in Kazakhstan but religious extremism should be sorted out – Nazarbayev
(Interfax-Religion)
Pope Francis supports having fewer kids to save the planet? Claims are misleading, scholars say
(Brandon Showalter, Christian Post)
Civil war in the Vatican as conservatives battle Francis for the soul of Catholicism
(Catherine Pepinster, The Guardian)
Angela Merkel calls for calm after Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 'Nazi practices' accusation
(Justin Huggler, The Telegraph)
Palace of biblical king Sennacherib discovered under tomb of prophet Jonah
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Voronezh Jehovah's Witnesses face new charge after successful appeal of old one
(RIA Voronezh, Russia Religion News)
On Jehovah's Witnesses: details are different; outcome is the same
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
8 dead, 28 injured in stampede after church advertises free food at prayer meeting in Zambia
(Leondardo Blair, Christian Post)
What's it like to be an 'invisible' child under China's one-child policy?
(Catholic News Agency)
Too little stomach for the fight: A troubling sign that the will to combat clerical child abuse is waning
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Searches carried out at Ingushetia imam's house
(Interfax-Religion)
Will international forces enter Gaza Strip?
(Adnan Abu Amer, translated by Sami-Joe Abboud, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Shiite trio competes for power in Iraq
(Ammar Alsawad, translated by Sahar Ghoussoub, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Iraqis defiant as extremists threaten to attack Babylon
(Adnan Abu Zeed, translated by Pascale Menassa, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Will Syrian students be banned from Egypt's universities?
(Khalid Hassan, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Egypt proposes inheritance protections for women
(N.A Hussein, translated by Pascale el-Khoury, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Egypt's Christians are being driven out – will the world notice?
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
King Salman praises religious tolerance in Indonesia: Yenny Wahid
(Antara News)
Curbs on religious freedom among human rights problems in India
(The Economic Times)
Religious freedom and business case studies
(Melissa Grim and Brian Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
In places where it’s legal, how many people are ending their lives using euthanasia?
(Andrew McGee, The Conversation)
Egypt's Catholic church praises 'ordinary Muslims' helping Coptic Christians fleeing ISIS
(Joseph Hartropp, Christian Today)
The shrine for Pakistan governor's killer embodies the real danger Pakistan faces from within
(Anam Zakaria, Scroll.In)
Hungry and afraid, Mosul civilians flee
(Agence France-Presse, PRI)
Why some Muslim Syrian refugees are converting to Christianity
(Rebecca Collard, PRI)
Some Egyptians are comparing Trump to an unlikely, Islamist figure
(Salma Islam, Public Radio International)
U.N. human rights experts unite to condemn China over expulsions of Tibetans
(Edward Wong, The New York Times)
Saturday, 4 March 2017
McDonald conference celebates 500th anniversary of Protestant Reformation
(Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University)
Jehovah's Witnesses exonerated in Voronezh
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
New wrinkle against JWs: prosecutor claims programmed literature distribution
(Prosecutor's office of Krasnodar territory, Russia Religion News)
‘False prophet’: Duterte, the Catholic Church and the fight for the soul of the Philippines
(Emily Rauhala, The Washington Post)
Friday, 3 March 2017
India to host Dalai Lama in disputed territory, defying China
(Reuters, China News Daily)
Muslims in Japan launch community outreach program to counter prejudice
(Megumi Iizuka, Japan Today)
Six years on, justice thwarted in case of Pakistan’s murdered Shahbaz Bhatti
(World Watch Monitor)
Gauging support of Islamic law in Malaysia
(Rashaad Ali, RSIS Commentary)
Kaur project showcases the strength and resilience of Sikh women
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
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