Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Cairo continues to mediate Libya conflict despite failures
(Mohamed Saied, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Egypt’s first-ever female governor marches to a different drummer
(Menna A. Farouk, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Vatican, Al-Azhar team up to counter religious justification for violence
(Elise Harris, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Post-truth and international criminal tribunals
(Marko Milanovic, EJIL:Talk!)
Solar panels make Morocco’s mosques a model for green energy
(Louise Osborne, Deutsche Welle)
No breakthrough expected at new Syria talks
(Laura Rozen, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Why Israel's ultra-Orthodox are fighting fur ban
(Mordechai Goldman, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Turkish-Iranian hits reach their peak as Syria talks kick off
(Semih Idiz, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Iraq seeks to clamp down on gun ownership
(Wassim Bassem, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Will Saudi Arabia allow Pakistani general to command military alliance?
(Bruce Riedel, Al Monitor: Gulf Pulse)
Saudi clerics keep mum about concerts in the kingdom
(Ibrahim al-Hatlani, Al Monitor: Gulf Pulse)
Archaeologists to start digging ancient site where they believe the Ark of the Covenant once stood
(Hazel Torres, Christian Today)
Having a heart for Muslim missions — it does make a difference
(Lindsey Koh, Mission Network News)
The Muslim world's contributions to medical science
(Asad Raza, Islamic Insights)
Archbishop of Caterbury warns of crisis in South Sudan as millions face starvation
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)
Armed conflict, starvation, and sickness: the forgotten children caught up in Lake Chad's crisis
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)
Iraq starts offensive to retake western Mosul from ISIS
(Rukmini Callimachi and Falih Hassan, The New York Times)
Iraq poised for disaster as 750,000 civilians remain trapped in ISIS-held Mosul
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
Turkey allows women in military to wear hijabs, in cultural shift
(Patrick Kingsley, The New York Times)
Turkey lifts military ban on Islamic headscarf
(The Guardian)
Prominent rights advocate penalized in dubious proceedings
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Social cohesion and enterprise through interfaith action (Manchester Empowerment+)
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
How modern technology is reshaping Thailand’s ancient animist beliefs
(David Hutt, Southeast Asia Globe)
Australia: ABC has no plans to cut Yassmin Abdel-Magied, despite campaign
(Ben Winsor, SBS)
Over 200 Muslim leaders died for promoting true Islam in the North Caucasus - Pshihachev
(Interfax-Religion)
Head of Georgian church targeted for assassination
(Megi Kikaleishvili, RIA Novosti)
Jehovah's Witnesses fear that fines in regions threaten existence of national center
(Kavkazskii uzel, Russia Religion News)
Did Netanyahu’s visit to Australia teach us anything new?
(Irris Makler, Forward)
Help stop war in Ukraine, aid children in need, says church leader
(Carol Glatz, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
“Anything worth doing...” (Responding to: The Vatican: A religious body or holy mediator?)
(Drew Christiansen, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Injecting morality in conflict: The role of religious and interreligious actors in peacebuilding and policy making (Responding to: The Vatican: A religious body or holy mediator?)
(Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
French presidential candidate Le Pen refuses to wear headscarf to meet with Lebanese grand mufti
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
3. Views of Islam and extremism in the U.S. and abroad
(Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy)
Letter to the editor: Stand against persecution and exclusion
(Daniel Philpott, The Observer)
Faith, ethniticy, and illiberal citizenship: Authority, identity, and religious "others" in Aceh's border areas
(Moch Nur Ichwan, Contending Moderities)
Exclusive: Myanmar probing police 'cover-up' of deaths of two Rohingya Muslims
(Shwe Yee Saw Myint and Yimou Lee, Reuters)
Kenyan court forces the country to review its options on Dadaab refugee camp
(Cristiano D'Orsi, The Conversation)
Malaysia: Syariah Courts Act RUU 355 isn't about religion, but politics, claims Zaid
(Farezza Hanum Rashid, The New Straits Times)
Malaysia: a kidnapping, religious pressure, and Sharia
(Ruth K'lama, Mission Network News)
Egyptian police accused of ‘complicity and apathy’ in case of kidnapped Christian woman
(World Watch Monitor)
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Do we have the faith to change the world?
(Natasha Moore, The Spectator Australia)
Canada's Muslims embrace their country – even when it doesn't embrace back
(Anita Elash, Christian Science Monitor)
IKIM International Conference on Religion and Civilization Sustainability
(Najibrazak.com)
Georgian prosecutors, Church could probe arrested deacon jointly - Patriarch of Georgia
(Interfax-Religion)
Lavrov on Kiev's decision to block the UN Security Council's statement on the death of Churkin: it's not Christian
(Interfax-Religion)
Five ways human rights help the fight for social justice
(Sian Lea, Rights Info: Human Rights News, Views & Info)
The Vatican: A religious body or holy mediator?
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The Pope’s divisions (Responding to: The Vatican: A religious body or holy mediator?)
(Robert J. Joustra, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Vatican, Rome’s Jews putting on first-ever joint museum show
(Associated Press, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Kazakhstan: Imam imprisoned after 10 years' absence
(Forum 18 News Service)
US religious freedom report on India rejected as ‘Hinduphobia’
(Bhavya Dore, Religion News Service)
India: Some people trying to divide society on basis of caste and religion: PM Modi
(Daily News and Analysis)
India: PM drags religion into poll cauldron
(The Tribune India)
India:How minority NGOs are specially targeted in Modi regime
(India Tomorrow)
Putin’s holy war
(Marc Bennetts, Politico.eu)
Trump talk of terror listing for Muslim Brotherhood alarms some Arab allies
(Declan Walsh, The New York Times)
Catholics and Jews mark history of the menorah with first joint show
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Teenage Iranian chess master banned from national team for refusing to wear a headscarf
(Marissa Payne, The Washington Post)
Marine Le Pen refuses headscarf, nixes talks with Lebanese cleric
(Andrea Rosa and Hussein Malla, The Washington Post)
France's Le Pen cancels meeting with Lebanon's Grand Mufti over headscarf
(Deutsche Welle)
Heads of Azerbaijan's religious confessions appeal to int’l organizations, ECHR
(APA)
EVENT, 21 Februay 2017: The Moscow Cathedral Mosque in the life of migrants from Central Asia
(George Washington University, Central Asia Program)
Monday, 20 February 2017
Anthology of African Christianity highlights the continent where the faith is growing fastest
(World Council of Churches)
Iran: A cunning plan to break the ban on women at Iranian soccer matches
(Public Radio International)
J is for jihad: How the Islamic State indoctrinates children with math, grammar, tanks, and guns
(Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy)
The right to marriage and divorce for Egypt’s minorities: Tinkering with the issue
(Mai Shams El-Din, Mada)
Malaysians rally for and against sharia law
(Reuters, Bangkok Post)
Russian Church accuses opponents of St. Isaac's Cathedral handover of attempting to "rock the boat"
(Interfax-Religion)
Tower struggle: Inside the row over a mighty Russian cathedral
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Orthodox Church warns Russians against militaristic rhetoric
(Interfax-Religion)
Priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church attacked in the Odessa Region
(Interfax-Religion)
A house divided: As church and society diverge, so do Christianity’s liberals and hardliners
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Jehovah's Witnesses appeal to favorable ruling of Constitutional Court
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
High court renders significant decision against Jehovah's Witnesses
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Threat to national office of Jehovah's Witnesses grows
(Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Saransk Jehovah's Witnesses lose in Supreme Court of Mordovia
(Press Service of the Supreme Court of republic of Mordovia, Russia Religion News)
Cherkessk Jehovah's Witnesses congregation abolished
(Regnum, Russia Religion News)
Kremlin joins noisy dispute over St. Petersburg cathedral
(Eurasia Daily, Russia Religion News)
Thousands demonstrate in St. Petersburg dispute
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Blogger who was catching pokemons in Orthodox church appeals his detention in ECHR
(Lyudmila Klenko, RAPSI - Russian Legal Information Agency)
Islamic State threatens to wipe out Egypt’s Copts
(World Watch Monitor)
Islamic State extremists threaten to eliminate Egypt’s Christians
(ARA News)
Ikea apologises for women-free catalogue for strictly-Orthodox Jews
(Times of Israel)
Ikea aims to reach Israel’s ultra-Orthodox with a female-free catalog
(Sam Kestenbaum, Forward)
In Israel, retailer takes criticism for catalog aimed at ultra-Orthodox Jews
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The Christian migrants building Qatar’s football stadiums
(World Watch Monitor)
Myanmar: Tensions ahead over changes to 'race and religion' laws
(Nyan Hlaing Lynn, Frontier Myanmar)
Loudspeakers at religious places irk students preparing for examination
(The Tribune India)
Eduating religious leaders improves uptake of male circumcision in Tanzania
(Jennifer A. Downs, MedicalResearch.com)
Pakistan: ‘Interfaith harmony key to isolating terrorism’
(The News International)
Inter-faith harmony need of the hour: Khatoo Mal
(Pakistan Observer)
Kinnaird College adopts project to engage Pakistani interfaith communities
(Pakistan Today)
A Jehovah’s Witness in Surskoe not able to avoid army by alternative service
(L. Naumova, Ulyanovsk Press via Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
The Kyrgyz Baptists: A case study in religious persecution in Central Asia
(Uran Botobekov, The Diplomat)
Saturday, 18 February 2017
The myth of white male supremacy
(Augusto Zimmermann, The Spectator Australia)
Friday, 17 February 2017
Interfaith dialogues are built on trust
(Herald Malaysia Online)
A Bridge Between the Strong and the Weak — Second in a seven-part series on international religious freedom
(Mormon Newsroom)
Vatican's top legal aide says divorced-and-remarried may receive Communion
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Short film competition: Religious freedom is good for business
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Many countries make it hard to marry someone from another religion
(The Economist)
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