Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Freed at last: Iranian pastor released from prison after six years
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)
Interfaith leaders call for peace, unity
(Indra Budiari, The Jakarta Post)
Inter-religious dialogue takes place in Yogyakarta
(Tempo.co)
‘Slight improvement’ in treatment of Palestinians – Rabbis for Human Rights
(Tamara Zieve, The Jerusalem Post)
Women’s NGOs take the initiative in the West Bank’s locked-up politics
(Emma Heywood, The Conversation)
Christian groups oppose Dutch government's plan to allow suicide for elders who have 'completed life'
(Andre Mitchell, Christian Today)
Vancouver Island doctor takes stand against Catholic hospital’s assisted dying policy
(Mike Hager, The Globe and Mail)
Lack of compassion or something else? Why Canada's Catholic hospitals won't help patients die
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Tuesday, 18 October 2016
Myanmar: cardinal sees religious intolerance as ‘poision’
(Catholic Culture)
Cardinal attacks religious intolerance
(Vatican Radio)
New initiative aims to protect Palestinian working women
(Entsar Abu Jahal trans. Pascale Menassa, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Largest Christian town In Iraq 'liberated from ISIS'
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
The persistent myth that Islam was banned in Angola
(BBC)
Mexico arrests suspect in killings of 2 priests in Veracru
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
On the role of Chinese religion in environmental protection
(Ian Johnson, The New York Times)
Christian pastor accused of being a spy continues to suffer in jail in China
(Andre Mitchell, Christian Today)
After losses in Syria and Iraq, ISIS moves the goal posts
(Anne Barnard, The New York Times)
Mosul battle: EU 'should prepare for returning jihadists'
(BBC)
As Britain and Russia spar, their spiritual leaders confer
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
OIC calls for political solution to Syrian crisis, says Damascus responsible for conflict - secretary general
(Interfax-Religion)
Nigerian girls are released, news media say – but most reports keep their religion hidden
(Jim Davis, GetReligion)
Bhumibol Adulyadej and Buddhist kingship in Thailand
(Akhilesh Pillalamarri, The Diplomat)
Syrian rebels seize "doomsday" village where Islamic State promised final battle
(Reuters)
India: Are Hindutva and Indianness the same thing? The Supreme Court will consider this today
(Shoaib Daniyal, Scroll.in)
Russia: Supreme Court rules against Jehovah's Witnesses
(Oleg Sivozhelezov, RAPSI, Russia Religion News)
Vatican advances financial clean-up with Italian tax deal
(Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service)
Mexico arrests suspect in latest killings of Catholic priests
(Associated Press, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Syrian priest who escaped ISIS says, ‘Boycott Saudi Arabia!’
(Berthold Pelster, Catholic News Agency)
Has Shabaab been weakened for good? The answer is ‘yes’ and ‘no’
(Stig Jarie Hansen, The Conversation)
India: Striving for Hindu rashtra at the expense of democracy
(FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Monday, 17 October 2016
Religious minorities find protection, support in southern Iraq
(Wassim Bassem trans. Sami-Joe Abboud, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
WCC general secretary on pilgrimage of unity, justice and peace to churches in Australia
(World Council of Churches)
21 Chibok schoolgirls, reuniting with parents, tell of Boko Haram slavery
(Chris Stein and Dionne Searcey, The New York Times)
What lies behind the release of the Nigerian schoolgirls held by Boko Haram?
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)
Boko Haram 'ready to release 83 more Chibok schoolgirls', government says
(James Macintyre, Christian Today World)
The end of Christendom
(Eamon Duffy, First Things)
Head of Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill begins UK trip
(BBC)
Christianity is urged to strengthen relations between Russia and Britain - Patriarch Kirill
(Interfax-Religion)
Patriarch Kirill urges Christians of England to develop together Russia-UK relations
(Interfax-Religion)
Wishes for long life were proclaimed to Elizabeth II at the patriarchal service in London
(Interfax-Religion)
Jehovah's Witnesses suffer setback in protecting their existence
(Portal-credo.ru, Russia Religion News)
Jehovah's Witnesses congregation in far east dissolved
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Jehovah's Witnesses leader evades silly charge of crime
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Serov Jehovah's Witnesses sue justice ministry
(Kommersant.ru, Russia Religion News)
St. Petersburg Jehovah's Witnesses raided by investigators
(ntv.ru, Russia Religion News)
Why supporters of same-sex marriage call it ‘marriage equality’: Cloudy and ambiguous language can be ethically perilous
(Margaret Somerville, MercatorNet: Conjugality)
Interfaith group being unfair to Muslims, says Hadi
(Malaysiakini)
Azerbaijan continues to promote interfaith tolerance
(Today.AZ)
Turkey: Freedom of belief and security threats
(Mine Yildirim, Forum 18 News Service)
Syrian rebels seize 'doomsday' village where Islamic State promised final battle
(Angus McDowall and Tom Perry, Reuters)
Game over for ISIS recruiters, predict US analysts
(Charles Cameron, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Iraqi attack on Mosul begins as forces push toward Islamic State stronghold
(Loveday Morris and Kareem Fahim, The Washington Post)
The battle to retake Mosul: What will it mean for civilians?
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
Car bomb explodes near Syria's holiest Shi'ite mosque
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)
Indonesia: Aceh flogs 13 young people for breaking its strict Islamic laws
(Agence France-Presse)
Malaysia: Interfaith group urges MPs to reject Hadi’s Bill, says will empower hudud
(Malay Mail Online)
Malaysia's troubled Muslim-Hindu ties
(Syed Farid Alatas, The Straits Times)
Religion and politics in Malaysia: A possible national destabilization?
(Brian Wood, The McGill International Review)
Jordan tones down textbooks' Islamic content, and tempers rise
(Diaa Hadid, The New York Times)
Kazakhstan, Egypt intend to coop in promoting interfaith dialogue
(Kazakhstan 2050)
China bans parents from 'luring children into religion' in Muslim province
(Lizzie Dearden, The Independent)
Settlement debate flares again in Israel's quarrel with rights group
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)
What if nature, like corporations, had the rights and protections of a person?
(Chip Colwell, The Conversation)
Dangerous echoes of the past as church and state move closer in South Africa
(Dion Forster, The Conversation)
The question of religious freedom and the law in India
(Abhik Chimni, The Citizen)
Cardinal vows prayer, aid after disaster at Hindu procession
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
India: Muslim groups reject law panel move on uniform civil code
(The Hindu)
Ramayana museum row: Opposition slams BJP for linking religion with politics
(Daily News and Analysis)
A Hindu and a Muslim started living together. What happened next won’t surprise you.
(Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, The Wire)
Pakistan's new strategy: Exploit India's fault-lines on caste and religion, encourage Modi baiters
(Prabhash K Dutta, India Today)
Sunday, 16 October 2016
UNESCO declares Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site – as Muslim
(William Watkinson, International Business Times)
Tensions Mount: A row at the UN bodes ill for the sharing of Jerusalem’s holiness
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Saturday, 15 October 2016
UNESCO chair hopes for delayed vote on Jerusalem resolution, calls for more dialogue
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Friday, 14 October 2016
Tension rises on Temple Mount during Jewish holy days
(Ben Caspit trans. Sandy Bloom, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Iraq’s Turkmens call for independent province
(Wassim Bassem trans. Sahar Ghoussoub, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
How Burkina Faso's different religions live in peace
(BBC)
Malaysia’s secular versus religious divide: Why mediation could hold the key
(Saleena Saleem, Asia & the Pacific Policy Society)
King of Bahrain donates land for new church
(Joseph Hartropp, Christian Today)
“Peace Bells for Aleppo” ring throughout Finland, spread worldwide
(World Council of Churches)
First Russian monastery to open in South America
(Interfax-Religion)
Uzbekistan to host meeting of OIC Council of Foreign Ministers on October 18-19
(Interfax-Religion)
Poroshenko asked to ban Eurovision opening at Kiev's St. Sophia cathedral
(Interfax-Religion)
Saudi funding of Wahhabi ideology must stop in order to fight it - al-Assad
(Interfax-Religion)
Foreign Policy's story on ISIS' brutality of women tantalizes but disappoints
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Jan Figel - EU Special Envoy for FORB outside the EU, about his mission
(30 June 2016 at the launch of the annual report on Freedom of Religion or Belief by the Intergroup in the European Parliament, Brussels, YouTube Video Presentation)
Testaments Old and New? Bob Dylan's story is baptized in all of that, chapter and verse
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Nigeria's Boko Haram frees 21 kidnapped Chibok girls after 2-1/2 years
(Alexis Akwagyiram and Felix Onuah, Reuters)
Chibok girls ‘not swapped’ but released after ‘careful negotiation’
(World Watch Monitor)
Chibok girls give much-needed boost to Buhari's leadership
(Thomas Mösch, Deutsche Welle)
Newsweek Pakistan -- The fight for equal rights: Can global religious freedom help support women's rights?
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Asia Bibi’s appeal delayed; 150 Islamic leaders call for her to hang, whatever the outcome
(Asif Aqeel, World Watch Monitor)
Why was Asia Bibi's death penalty appeal postponed, and what happens next?
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
The Guardian view on blasphemy in Pakistan: a dark moment for religious freedom
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Asia Bibi blasphemy appeal adjourned in Pakistan as judge pulls out
(Jon Boone, The Guardian)
Supreme Court adjourns hearing of Asia Bibi case
(Nasir Iqbal, Dawn.com)
Asia Bibi: Pakistan Supreme Court adjourns death row appeal
(BBC)
Pakistan steps up persecution with ban on 11 Christian TV stations
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)
What the appointment of Antonio Guterres as UN secretary-general means for the refugee crisis
(Geoff Gilbert, The Conversation)
Turkey to deport American Christian couple as ‘national security risk’
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
Anglican clergy defy British embassy to kick-start Egyptian tourism
(Jayson Casper, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
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