Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 1 December 2016
Students at Toronto university walk out on vote to mark Holocaust Education Week
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Two Iranians charged in planned attack on Israeli embassy in Kenya
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Leading Syrian theologian supported a legal ban on Wahhabism
(Interfax-Religion)
Woman cannot give evidence in a niqab, Australian court rules
(Paul Farrell, The Guardian)
Shiite forces advance on Tal Afar in Mosul operation
(Shelly Kittleson, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Why Iraq's Sunnis fear new PMU law
(Omar Sattar trans. Cynthia Milan, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Iraq's Shi'ite militias could prove bigger test than Mosul
(Stephen Kalin, Reuters)
Eastern Aleppo becoming 'one giant graveyard' says UN humanitarian chief
(Julian Borger, The Guardian)
Amid flames and suspicions in Israel, acts of Jewish-Arab cooperation
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)
Indonesia protests awaken fears for minority Chinese
(Stephen Wright, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Indonesians join thousands of soldiers, police at rallies
(Niniek Karmini, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Uzbekistan: More literature-related arrests, raids, fines, jailings
(Forum 18 News Service)
Latvia's entry ban on Kurayev another Russophobic gesture - Russian Foreign Ministry
(Interfax-Religion)
Leading Syrian theologian supported a legal ban on Wahhabism
(Interfax-Religion)
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal makes plea to allow women to drive
(Ben Rosen, Christian Science Monitor)
Another mass grave dug by ISIS in Iraq, and a ghastly ritual renewed
(Tim Arango, The New York Times)
How does Putin use Orthodox Church in international politics?
(Kristina Stoekl, Vedomosti, Russia Religion News)
Australian judge says Muslim plaintiff cannot testify without removing veil
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Training can help Botswana’s teachers manage multiculturalism
(Annah Anikie Molosiwa, The Conversation)
Partial decriminalization of abortion in Brazil provokes ire of religious right
(Janet Tappin Coelho, Religion News Service)
When will Asia finally have same-sex marriage?
(Linda Van Der Horst, Foreign Policy)
New project to assess media portrayal of refugees in Europe and promote their rights to speak on their own behalf
(World Association for Christian Communication - Europe (WACC Europe) and the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME), Conference of European Churches)
The long view on Burma: Forget short-term solutions to Burma’s interethnic violence. It will take generations to set things right
(Hunter Marston, Foreign Policy)
A genocide in the making: The world can no longer look away from the intensifying assault on Burma’s Rohingya minority.
(Sir Geoffrey Nice and Francis Wade, Foreign Policy)
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Russian government has manual for officials who deal with religious groups
(Website of Federal Agency for Affairs of Nationalities, Russia Religion News)
Turkmenistan: Who is obstructing Russian Orthodox diocese?
(Forum 18 News Service)
Orthodox Church revives plans for teaching religion in all grades
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Turkey’s Erdogan: Israel restricting Muslim worship
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Meet the soft-spoken US-born rabbi challenging Israel’s religious establishment
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
Miami archbishop recalls Catholic persecution in Cuba, prays for peace
(Catholic News Service)
Mexico charges 2 candidates, priest in political meddling
(Associated Press, The Big Story)
Mexico charges priest with electioneering offense
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
14 defendants referred to prosecution on charges of attacking Coptic-owned residence in Sohag
(Taha Sakr, Daily News Egypt)
Ahok: Many Jakartans believe I defamed a religion
(Tempo.co)
Freedom in Cuba remains a dream - writes former World correspondent
(Maiusa Reyes, LapidoMedia: Centre for Religious Literacy in Journalism)
Australian government: Jewish community members ‘discouraged from reporting’ child sex abuse
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Indonesians join thousands of soldiers, police at interfaith rallies
(ABC News)
Rivlin decries bill to muffle mosques, urges interfaith dialogue
(The Times of Israel)
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Syria denounces Qatar for saying it will continue to back rebels
(Reuters)
Global Business & Interfaith Peace Awards 2016
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Global project to know and help persecuted Christians launched from Rome
(Stand Together: A Shared Project for Christian Minorities)
How to build an economy that goes beyond religious differences?
((Fouad Makhzoumi), Stand Together: A Shared Project for Christian Minorities)
President Rivlin hosts interfaith meeting on Muezzin issue
(Ido ben Porat, Arutz Sheva)
Yemen’s Baha’is keep the faith amid conflict and crackdown
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
Signs of hope: Ancient relics found in Monastery destroyed by ISIS
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
The man who could have stopped the Islamic State
(Brian Fishman, Foreign Policy)
Religious freedom report highlights threat of ‘Islamic hyper-extremism’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Raqqa’s displaced flee to Iraqi border areas
(Kamal Sheikho trans. Sami-Joe Abboud, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Battle of the generations kicks off in Hamas
(Moath al-Amoudi trans. Pascale el-Khoury, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Kurdish soldiers bring own weapons to fight IS in Mosul
(Adam Lucente, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
An initiative to assist Iraqi refugee women
((Baroness Emma Nicholson), Stand Together: A Shared Project for Christian Minorities)
Iranian Kurds fighting IS in Iraq put Tehran on alert
(Ali Hashem, Al Monitor: Iran Pulse)
How Ankara plans to manage Kurds' religious affairs
(Pinar Tremblay, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
IS cells lurking in Iraq's Anbar continue to strike liberated areas
(Mustafa Saadoun trans. Beatrice Farhat, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Their town now liberated, Iraqi Christians talk of life under ISIS
(Kristen Chick, Christian Science Monitor)
Ransacked homes and little hope for returning Iraqi Christians
(Isabel Coles, Religion News Service)
Life 'an endless nightmare' for 500,000 Syrian children living under siege
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
India shrine: Women enter Mumbai's Haji Ali after ban ends
(BBC)
Indonesia’s only Christian governor questioned by police amid ‘blasphemy’ furore
(Imogen Faux, World Watch Monitor)
New center for immigrant children in Jerusalem
(Stand Together: A Shared Project for Christian Minorities)
Jewish community of Russia intercedes for Tatiana Navka
(Interfax-Religion)
Religious freedom in Vietnam still at risk despite new law
(Jardine Malado, Christian Times)
New Australian 'biodiversity' law 'a direct assault on Aboriginal laws, culture, religion
(Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Indy Bay)
Rabbis speak out against women's enlistment in IDF
(Mordechai Goldman, trans. Sandy Bloom, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Muslims sentenced to death for torture, murder of Christian couple over alleged Koran burning
(Morning Star News, Christianity Today)
Pakistan sentences 5 to death in killing of Christian couple over supposed Qur'an burning
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The abuse of Halacha: Keeping religious law under control
(Nathan Lopes Cardozo, The Algemeiner)
Castro's death: For a follow-up, Associated Press story misses big religious angles
(Jim Davis, GetReligion)
Sami rejects law against forced conversion of religion
(Iftikhar Alam, The Nation)
Winter closes in on refugees fleeing Iraq's Mosul
(Reuters)
In fight for Mosul, an effort to bridge divide with Sunnis
(Hussein Malla, Hamza Hendawi, and Qassim Abdul-Zahra, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Two more Yazidi mass graves found near Mosul
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
In northern Iraq, Yazidis risk all to flee Islamic State
(John Davison, Reuters)
Mufti of Ukraine is afraid that the country will be turned in ISIS territory
(Interfax-Religion)
Failure to bring IS to justice shows UN genocide conventions ‘obsolete’
(Gabrielle Desarzens, World Watch Monitor)
Religious extremism is spreading to inland China: official
(Christian Shepherd, Michael Martina, and Nick Macfie, Reuters)
Talks to heal Catholic rift in China gain momentum under Francis
(Chris Buckley, The New York Times)
Hijab-wearing news anchor makes history in Canada
(Noor Wazwaz, NPR)
Thousands in Asia protest persecution of Myanmar's Rohingya
(Julhas Alam, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Pakistan province bans forced conversions of Christian girls to Islam
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Monday, 28 November 2016
China takes a chain saw to a center of Tibetan Buddhism
(Edward Wong, The New York Times)
Rabbis question if spouses may live together if marriage contract burnt in fire
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
VIDEO: A Century of Genocides: Is Better Accommodation of Conscience an Answer? (Ján Figeľ and Cole Durham)
((YouTube Video), Emory Law School 100th Anniversary Keynote Presentation)
Religion can promote active citizenship among youths — religious leaders
(Rula Samain, The Jordan Times)
Islamic religious texts must be read in context to understand blasphemy
(Ismatu Ropi, The Conversation)
‘We must distinguish between Islam and terrorism’
((Ján Figeľ), World Watch Monitor)
Reporter becomes Canada’s first hijab-clad news anchor
(The Guardian)
China is confiscating the passports of citizens in its Muslim-heavy region
(Echo Huang, Quartz)
Spiritual security in Putin’s Russia
(Julie Elkner, Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Latvia's entry ban for Protodeacon Kurayev "beyond comprehension" - Russian Embassy
(Interfax-Religion)
After Castro, priests pray for end to communism in Cuba, Venezuela
(Associated Press, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Egypt reduces sentence for poet accused of religion contempt
(Associated Press, Fox News)
Saturday, 26 November 2016
UN accuses Buddhist Myanmar of 'ethnically cleansing' its Muslim Rohingya minority
(The Journal)
More Rohingyas flee to Bangladesh as violence spreads in Myanmar
(Mohammad Nurul Islam, Reuters)
Spreading hatred against Buddhists ‘worsens Rohingya conflict’
(The Jakarta Post)
Friday, 25 November 2016
Survey of schools for Pakistan’s Christian minority: 50% have no playground, 15% no notebooks
(World Watch Monitor)
Pakistan province criminalises ‘forced conversions’, forbids minors from changing religion
(The Indian Express)
Victims of Boko Haram, Fulani violence to receive trauma counselling
(World Religion News)
Boko Haram launches three assaults in Cameroon within 24 hours
(Sylvain Anzongo, Josiane Kouagheu, Emma Farge, and Alexander Smith, Reuters)
Indian film explores religious practice that conflicts with secular law
(Patti Ghezzi, Emory Law School: Center for the Study of Law and Religion)
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