Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Hundreds of Tibetans defy China, gather at birthplace of Buddhism in India
(Annie Gowen, The Washington Post)
Govt. will adhere to principles of good governance: President
(Zahrah Imtiaz, Daily News)
Azerbaijan: Police claim "everything was done well"
(Forum 18 News Service)
Rise in numbers of Jews leaving for Israel from some European countries
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
In Israel, religious single moms gain greater acceptance
(Jennifer Richler, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Stampede kills six in religious India festival
(Agence France-Presse)
Russian Orthodox church will actively participate in restoring Syrian shrines
(Interfax-Religion)
The Pope says yes to Palestine: embassy opens in Vatican
(Informed Comment)
Hamas, Fatah announce deal to form Palestinian unity government
(Jack Khoury, Haaretz)
Iran clergy unrepentant as power transfers in the United States
(Mansour Kashfi, Geopolitical Monitor)
Kerry: two state solution vital to creating peace
(John Kerry, World Affairs Journal)
What will be the cost of Aleppo victory for Damascus?
(Fehim Taştekin, Turkey Pulse)
Christians bring the Gospel to Aleppo's ruins
(CBN News)
Syrians converting to Christianity despite persecution
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Why Israeli ultra-Orthodox secretly visit West Bank tomb
(Mordechai Goldman, Israel Pulse)
When hate goes viral: the danger of social media in Bangladesh
(Center for International Media Assistance)
Traditionalist blames crime, corruption on negligence of African traditional religion
(Vanguard)
Amid religious tensions, interfaith advocates work for harmony
(San Yamin Aung, The Irrawaddy)
Georgia, the JWs & human rights again: Tsartsidze & Ors
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Monday, 16 January 2017
Joint Symposium with Opinio Juris: Simon Chesterman’s ‘Asia’s Ambivalence about International Law & Institutions: Past, Present, and Futures’
(Mary Guest, EJIL:Talk!)
Asia’s Ambivalence About International Law & Institutions: Introduction to Opinio Juris and EJIL:Talk! mini-symposium
(Simon Chesterman, EJIL:Talk!)
Will the Asian Vision of International Law become Dominant in 2017?
(Eyal Benvenisti, EJIL:Talk!)
Comment on Simon Chesterman, `Asia’s Ambivalence about International Law and Institutions: Past, Present and Futures’
(Antony Anghie, Opinio Juris)
Asia's Ambivalence About International Law & Institutions: Past, Present, and Futures
(Simon Chesterman, SSRN)
What is World Religion Day 2017? Holiday celebrates spiritual unity and peace between faiths
(Tom O'Connor, International Business Times)
World Religion Day strengthens interfaith understanding
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Baha'i - The World's Faith
(BBC World Service Heart and Soul)
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
(World Council of Churches)
Here’s Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have Dream’ speech in its entirety
(Relevant)
Indonesia’s Minangkabau culture promotes empowered Muslim women
(Sadiq Bhanbhro, The Conversation)
Terrorism: never in God’s name, says the Pope
(Tim Wyatt, Church Times)
Minister: Respect each other’s religion to maintain harmony
(Malay Mail Online)
More people losing their religion in Kashmir
(The Milli Gazette)
‘Provoked in the name of religion’: Bombay HC grants bail to 3 murder accused
(Ayesha Arvind, Hindustan Times)
Burning of pictures: People appealed to maintain religious harmony
(Otly Kashmir)
"Why does our Parliament favour Christians over others?"
(Emily Smith, Daily Mercury)
Nonreligious children aren’t more generous after all
(Katherine Lindemann, ResearchGate)
Religious leaders in Turkey's Hatay urge solidarity, say 'terror has no religion'
(Daily Sabah)
World-wide unity prayers to recall Reformation, celebrate reconciliation
(World Council of Churches)
Australia mayor with Jewish roots shuns synagogue in Israel feud
(Dave Goldiner, Forward)
Australian populist anti-Islam politician Pauline Hanson to skip Trump inauguration
(Deutsche Welle)
'Kafir Harbi' in Malaysia: another path to polarization
(Maszlee Malik, ISEAS)
China arrests ex-pastor of largest state-run megachurch
(UCAN, Eurasia Review)
Egypt drops case against mob that attacked Christian woman
(Associated Press, The New York Times)
Egyptian prosecutors say insufficient evidence in case of attack on Christian woman
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Teacher talking about yoga is arrested in Russia for illegal missionary activity
(Elise Meyer, World Religion News)
Modernizing Islam: Iran's reformists and re-constructionists square off
(Mahmoud Sadri, Eurasia Review)
Nepal: A tug-of-war for religious freedom
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)
Pope meets Palestinian leader; Vatican calls Jerusalem holy
(Nicole Winfield, SFGate)
How new UN secretary-general plans to advance two-state process
(Uri Savir, Israel Pulse)
Christians in Asia and India at risk amid rising religious nationalism
(Madeleine Davies, Church Times)
Why did Oman join Saudi Arabia’s anti-terrorism alliance?
(Giorgio Cafiero, Gulf Pulse)
What prompted Russia’s shift in stance on Syria opposition?
(Anton Mardosov, Russia Pulse)
Syrians express 'deep anger' at Turkey for war
(Week in Review, Pulse of the Middle East)
Syria: Christians are being killed for refusing to deny Jesus, staying behind to help victims
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post)
Catholic bishops asked to study how Church responds to youth in crisis
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Sunday, 15 January 2017
Overseas Muslim marriages and Australian law
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Practitioners’ Guide to Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict
(Dapo Akande, EJIL:Talk!)
Saturday, 14 January 2017
A year in prison for Algerian Christian for Facebook post
(WorldWatch Monitor)
Morocco implementing burqa ban
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Friday, 13 January 2017
Syria's Catholic leader urges end to Western sanctions
(Stefan J. Bos, BosNewsLife)
Money-for-prayer: new Islamic State trick of financing
(Leyla Hemid, Basnews)
Can Rohingya refugees finally leave the shadows?
(Pretti Jha, Foreign Policy)
Ukraine: ban of independent Russian TV undermines media freedom
(Freedom House)
Religious freedom according to major world religions
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
World report 2017: demagogues threaten human rights
(Human Rights Watch)
Is the media really hostile to religion?
(Reut Hadar, Arutz Sheva)
2 Egyptian universities start religion-blind admission
(Jacob Wirtschafter, Al-Fanar Media)
The Urdu press: religion and politics
(The Indian Express)
Vietnam's religious law: testing the faithful
(Luke Hunt, The Diplomat)
Argument: We are on the verge of darkness. The global rise of populism is a dangerous threat to democracy and human rights.
(Kenneth Roth, Foreign Policy)
Growing beef trade hits India's sacred cow
(WRN Editorial Staff, World Religion News)
Russia: Religious freedom survey, January 2017
(Forum 18 News Service)
Plan to hand control of St Petersburg cathedral to church sparks outcry
(Alec Luhn, The Guardian)
Is Turkey wiping out Kurdish institutions during lengthy state of emergency?
(Mahmut Bozarslan, Turkey Pulse)
Iran invited for this year’s Haj
(Talib Bin Mahfouz, Saudi Gazette)
Muslim woman founded the first university in the world
(Amal Al-Sibai, Saudi Gazette)
If we don’t tame religion, it’ll kill Nigeria
(Niyi Odebode and John Alechenu, Punch)
'Real Housewives of ISIS' on BBC gets laughs from Muslims; who'd have thunk it?
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Thursday, 12 January 2017
National sovereignty, political idea of the year
(Ben Peterson, Library of Law and Liberty)
Cameroon has been using witchcraft to fight Boko Haram
(Christian Locka, Global Post)
With its foreign funding cancelled, can Gujarat's oldest Dalit NGO survive?
(Aarefa Johari, Scroll.in)
Israel's education minister takes on role of political censor
(Akiva Eldar, Israel Pulse)
Why Saudi Arabia and Egypt are competing for influence in Africa
(Ayah Aman, Egypt Pulse)
In Lebanon, even private schools caught in education crisis
(Josephine Deeb, Lebanon Pulse)
South Africa: attacks on mosques an attack on democracy
(FW De Klerk Foundation, News 24)
Saudi Arabia’s dream of becoming the dominant Arab and Muslim power in the world has gone down in flames
(Patrick Cockburn, The Independent)
Church, state seeing eye to eye in Putin's Orthodox Russia
(Nataliya Vasilyeva, Associated Press, Times Free Press)
Putin's Christmas message notes Russian Orthodox Church's role in preserving civil peace, accord
(Interfax-Religion)
Attempts to make Bible "extremist" stumble
(Roman Lunkin, Religiia i Pravo, Russia Religion News)
Israel’s Supreme Court stops top rabbinical court from overturning religious divorce
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Israel’s chief rabbis embrace friendlier approach to marriage, but is it enough?
(Andrew Tobin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Mexico’s Catholic church calls for search for missing priest
(Associated Press, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Canada: "No core identity?"
(David T. Koyzis, First Things)
'We'll fight for our right to be Jews,' says Venezuelan group leader
(Tamara Zieve, Jerusalem Post)
The Islamic State is pulling Turkey into a vortex
(Asli Aydintasbas, The Washington Post)
Drawing inspiration from Trump, far-right Kahane movement seeks U.S. revival
(Taly Krupkin, Haaretz)
Archaeologists find vast pagan sanctuary outside Roman city in north Israel
(Ruth Schuster, Haaretz)
Jehovah’s Witnesses in India to sue for right to not stand for national anthem
(Rahul Kalvapalle, Global News)
High Court hints women should be allowed to read Torah at Western Wall
(Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post)
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