Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 19 December 2016
Indian PM's camp seeks support from unlikely quarter: Muslim women
(Rupam Jain and Tom Lasseter, Reuters)
Most Israeli Jews would deny vote to those rejecting Israel as Jewish nation-state, report says
(Judy Maltz, Haaretz)
To win its war on terror, Pakistan must accept Ahmadis as Muslims
(Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, The Diplomat)
Of martyrs and anthems: The Indian conception of nationalism borrows heavily from religion
(Shoaib Daniyal, Scroll.in)
Uzbekistan: Torture, prison for "illegal" religious materials
(Forum 18 News Service)
Caste and religion-based politics hurting farmers, says Ajit Singh
(Nistula Hebbar, The Hindu)
Islam is peaceful religion: Manmoon Hussain addresses Seerat-un-Nabi (P.B.U.H) conference in Islamabad
(Radio Pakistan)
‘Media can help establish interfaith harmony’
(Pakistan Observer)
Jewish-Azerbaijani Hanukkah party: Why wouldn’t we go?
(Diana Cohen Altman, The Algemeiner)
Bangladesh is vanishing the opposition
(Poppy McPherson, Foreign Policy)
China doesn't mind Islamic extremists, as long as they're not Uighur
(Alice Su, Foreign Policy)
Sunday, 18 December 2016
“Mercy is not a principle, it should be lived”: participants at KAICIID’s symposium in Rome
(KAICIID)
Saturday, 17 December 2016
Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall in Kazakhstan burned down
(Zakon.kz, Russia Religion News)
Vatican official: Religion in public has never been more at risk
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Bishops oppose restoring death penalty, but many Filipinos back Duterte
(Catholic News Service, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Is Saudi Wahhabism fueling Rohingya Muslim insurgency?
(Shamil Shams, Deutsche Welle)
Friday, 16 December 2016
Burma's religious freedom crisis
(Thomas Reese, National Catholic Reporter)
'Everything is gone': ISIS deals brutal final blow to Iraqi Christians
(Joseph Hartropp, Christian Today)
Egypt's top cleric: anti-Christian attacks 'assault on God'
(The Associated Press)
How to fight Boko Haram? Open a school
(Maeve Shearlaw, The Guardian)
Canadian diplomats visit pastor imprisoned in North Korea
(David Ljunggren, Andrea Hopkins, James Dalgleish, and Andrew Hay, Reuters)
South-East Asia takes stock after a year of alarming democratic decline
(Scott Edwards and Moch Faisal Karim, The Conversation)
'Unity of Muslims and dialogue within the religion is important '
(Pars Today)
American pastor imprisoned in Turkey on 'terror threat' charges for Christian faith
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post)
Orthodox leaders reject claim of haredi population crisis in Israel
(Ariel Ben Solomon, Jewish News Service)
Chinese Muslim website blocked after Xi Jinping letter
(Al Jazeera)
Egypt: USCIRF condemns terrorist attack at Coptic cathedral; urges protection for community and end to impunity
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Kazakhstan: Pensioners fined for praying with pensioners
(Forum 18 News Service)
Kyrgyzstan: No grave, no prosecutions over twice-exhumed Christian
(Forum 18 News Service)
Burma's Rohingya Muslims speak of massacres and rape as government denies genocide
(Lizzie Dearden, The Independent)
Thursday, 15 December 2016
Euthanasia and palliative sedation are distinct concepts – intent matters
(Xavier Symons, The Conversation)
Religion and education around the world
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Key findings on how world religions differ by education
(Carlyle Murphy, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
Turkey’s constitutional overhaul
(The Economist)
Religious rights in a pluralistic world
(Canadian Baha’i News Service)
In quest for equal rights, Muslim women win right to enter sacred Indian tomb
(Bhavya Dore, Religion News Service)
2016 Religious Freedom Project Fellows: Findings from the Field
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Crisis of religious freedom (Responding to 2016 Religious Freedom Project Fellows: Findings from the Field)
(Gabrielle Girgis, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Does religious identity matter for economic outcomes? (Responding to 2016 Religious Freedom Project Fellows: Findings from the Field)
(Muzna Fatima Alvi, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Libya is a test of whether the jihadists of Islamic State can adapt
(The Economist)
Google is not ‘just’ a platform. It frames, shapes and distorts how we see the world
(Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian)
Parents' complaints about religious education at North Otago school prompts review
(NZHerald.co.nz)
Air Force officers can’t grow beard on religious grounds, says SC
(The Hindu)
Images from Aleppo: How the world closed its eyes to Syria's horror
(Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times)
After siege, Aleppo's famed Umayyad Mosque is damaged but endures
(Laila Bassam, Reuters)
Nepal’s new constitution outlaws evangelism
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
How Iraq's PMU law is disrupting national unity efforts
(Omar Sattar trans. Cynthia Milan, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Russian Church has built and restored only half of churches existed before revolution
(Interfax-Religion)
Another court hearing, but no end in sight for Iranian Christian converts
(World Watch Monitor)
Popular Chinese Muslim website down after posting letter critical of Xi
(Christian Shepherd, Reuters)
Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa are twice as likely as Christians to have no formal education
(David McClendon, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
Russia's Communist Party turns to the Orthodox Church
(Mansur Mirovalev, Al Jazeera)
Nigeria: tensions persist after Zaria mass killings
(Katrin Gänsler, Reuters, AFP)
Sharansky, MKs against Shas bill criminalizing pluralist prayer at Western Wall
(Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post)
What religion was Jesus? Facts about Christ before Christianity began
(Tom O'Connor, International Business Times)
Blasphemy trial tests pluralism in mostly Muslim Indonesia
(Sara Schonhardt and Anita Rachman, Wall Street Journal)
Former ambassador: Trudeau’s de-emphasis on religion in foreign policy leaves Canada with ‘blind spot’
(Steve Weatherbe, Life Site News)
Lebanese activists succeed in first step to repealing controversial 'rape law'
(Florence Massena, Al Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)
Two Christian pastors facing death penalty in Sudan for their faith: Global petition launched
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Pilgrims seeking miracles flock to ancient grave of Iraqi poet
(Wassim Bassem trans. Sahar Ghoussoub, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Protestors attack Ahmadi mosque in Pakistan on prophet Mohammad's birthday
(Mubasher Bukhari, Mehreen Zahra-Malik, and Toby Chopra, Reuters)
Saudi police arrest woman for removing veil on Twitter
(Agence France-Presse)
Cathedral bombing in Cairo leaves Egypt alarmed, and its president scrambling
(Declan Walsh, The New York Times)
Islamic State claims responsibility for Egypt church bombing
(Mariam Fam, The Associated Press)
Anger grows among Egypt’s Christians after deadly church bombing in Cairo
(Sudarsan Raghavan and Heba Mahfouz, The Washington Post)
Unlearning the caliphate at reopened schools in Iraq
(Safa Majeed, Agence France-Presse)
Under IS rule, Mosul descended into darkness, dread, pain
(Lori Hinnant, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Tearful Jakarta governor denies insulting Koran in blasphemy trial
(Kanupriya Kapoor, Reuters)
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Moscow schools are teaching Orthodoxy
(Alexander Chernykh, Kommersant, Russia Religion News)
Uzbekistan: Prisoners' human rights still denied
(Forum 18 News Service)
Pope Francis faces a conservative backlash over the divorced and remarried
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Meet the women shaking up Israel's ultra-Orthodox community
(Eli Bitan, +972 Magazine)
Saudi police detain young woman for removing abaya - media
(Reuters)
Emergence of political Islam puts Indonesian president to a test
(Kanupriya Kapoor and Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Reuters)
Running the world’s largest Muslim city is tricky. Especially when you’re Christian.
(Patrick Winn, USA Today)
Nigeria Maiduguri: Two 'young girls' used as human bombs
(BBC News)
Russia extends reach into France via new orthodox cathedral
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
‘Uganda: Who is to blame for traditional schools losing value?
(Dr Josue Okoth, The Monitor via AllAfrica)
Indonesia’s only Christian governor insists ‘no insult intended’ as ‘blasphemy’ trial begins
(Imogen Faux, World Watch Monitor)
Nigeria: Kebbi Christians face latent pressure to abandon faith
(World Watch Monitor)
We should follow other countries’ lead on hate speech by changing 18C
(Murray Wesson, The Conversation)
Change process but not Section 18C, says Jewish council
(Michelle Grattan, The Conversation)
Sheikha Lubna calls for interfaith dialogue to promote tolerance
(Big News Network)
US envoy on religious freedom meets Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, talks triple talaq
(The Economic Times)
Top US diplomat on religious freedom, David Saperstein, visits India
(The Economic Times)
The freedom of religion as a human rights priority
(Aaron Rhodes, Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
EVENT, 13 December 2016: Burma at the brink: Religious freedom violations threaten its future
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Is the Islamic State 'crumbling'? Long-form magazine journalism excels on such topics
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
‘Charter of Medina’ initiated religious freedom: Ramesh
(Pakistan Observer)
Govt taking steps to promote interfaith harmony: Sardar Yousuf
(Radio Pakistan)
Dogara’s perspective on interfaith dialogue
(Vanguard)
Empower women by standing for religious freedom
(Kristina Arriaga and John Ruskay, Religion News Service)
From pledges to action: Human rights defenders play a vital role in advancing justice
(FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Indonesia calls for interfaith dialogue in Rakhine
(Anadolu Agency)
USCIRF issues reports on religious freedom violations in Burma
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Monday, 12 December 2016
On the 100th anniversary of the Revolution the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia will commemorate its victims
(Interfax-Religion)
Working Definition of Antisemitism
(International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance)
Jehovah's Witnesses' challenge of fine in Karelia fails
(Republic of Karelia, Russia Religion News)
Jews of Russia condole with Turkey and urge it to refuse double standards in relation to terrorists
(Interfax-Religion)
'Rebel' Saudi Arabia woman who posted photo without head scarf is arrested
(Mazin Sidahmed, The Guardian)
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