Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 17 March 2016
Iran's Jews on life inside Israel's 'enemy state': 'We feel secure and happy'
(Kim Sengupta, The Independent)
Death toll of pilgrims in Jordan bus crash rises to 16
(Omar Akour, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
The Economist explains: What we know about Saint Patrick
(B.C., The Economist)
India’s youth are trading fatalism and karma for free will—and higher expectations
(The Economist)
John Kerry: ISIS responsible for genocide
(Elise Labott and Tal Kopan, CNN)
John Kerry: ISIL is guilty of genocide
(Al Jazeera)
Kerry says ISIS guilty of genocide
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Israel’s religiously divided society: part I
(Marcus Roberts, MercatorNet.com)
Patriarch Kirill asks president of Israel to involve religious leaders in settlement of Middle Eastern problem more actively
(Interfax-Religion)
World Sufi Forum: Fight against terrorism is not confrontation against any religion, says PM Modi
(DNA)
Tsegyal Dranyi takes charge as new Secretary of Department of Religion and Culture
(Central Tibetan Administration)
Canada’s religious freedom ambassador joins Christian think tank
(Michelle Zilio, The Globe and Mail)
IGE CONFERENCE CALL, 17 March 2016: Issues Facing Kurdistan
(Institute for Global Engagement)
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Kaduna govt defends controversial bill banning outdoor religious music
(Mohammed Lere, Premium Times Nigeria)
How Muslim governments impose ignorance
(Mustafa Akyol, The New York Times)
Belgium says Algerian killed in raid may have had links to radical Islam
(Aurelien Breeden, The New York Times)
House unanimously passes resolution calling ISIS actions "genocide"
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Muslim preacher jailed over inciting speeches at al-Aqsa
(Michael Bachner, YNet News)
Israeli court sentences Muslim preacher for incitement to racism
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
What naming ISIS’ actions ‘genocide’ would mean to Christians (Commentary)
(Jennifer A. Marshall, Religion News Service)
Can Coptic Church help solve Egyptian-Ethiopian dam dispute?
(George Mikhail, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Najaf's forgotten Christian heritage
(Wassim Bassem, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Israel's war between the Jews
(Akiva Eldar, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
What’s behind the Indonesian president’s troubling silence on LGBT persecution?
(Phelim Kine, The Conversation)
Kazakhstan: Religious books banned as "extremist", but Prosecutor "can't remember" why
(Forum 18)
Indonesia elects anti-terrorism chief to combat Daesh recruitment, attacks
(Al Bawaba)
This is our land, this is our spirit – one year on from Youhanabad
(CSWPress, ForB in Full (blog))
Flawed Pew survey question produces flawed answer on how many Israeli Jews want Arabs kicked out
(Ira Rifkin, Get Religion (blog))
ISIS, rape and birth control: Stunning New York Times feature raises new questions
(Julia Duin, Get Religion (blog))
‘Religion, tradition made senators reject gender equality bill,’ Senate President explains
(Jola Sotubo, Pulse.ng)
Two suicide bombers kill 22 at mosque in northeast Nigeria's Maiduguri
(Lanre Ola, Reuters)
Uyghur imam, farmers sentenced for illegally practicing religion in China’s Xinjiang
(Radio Free Asia)
Refugee sponsors tackle the thorny issue of religion
(Tazeen Inam, Ipolitics)
The baffling appeal of being “spiritual but not religious”
(David Mills, Aleteia)
Mother Teresa to be made a saint, though not everyone will celebrate
(Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor)
In tougher times, more Saudi women drive for social change
(Elizabeth Dickinson, The Christian Science Monitor)
PM can negotiate with Saudi royalty for Haj quota hike, Rafizi says
(Kamles Kumar, Malay Mail Online)
Jewish settler: 'I am a passionate defender of Palestinian rights.'
(Jayson Casper, LapidoMedia: Centre for Religious Literacy in Journalism)
Azhar’s Grand Imam in Berlin for global interfaith conference
(Egypt State Information Service)
Kenya’s vicious war against its youth: Security forces say they're targeting terrorists, but it's young people who keep dying
(Nanjala Nyabola, Foreign Policy)
Zika and abortion: will the virus prompt Latin America to rethink abortion and birth control?
(Alexandra Minna Stern, The Conversation)
Refugee crisis: Russian withdrawal from Syria won’t let Europe off the hook
(Geoff Gilbert, The Conversation)
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Enterprising Christians see hope, despite Syria’s five years of war
(World Watch Monitor)
Indian-origin man becomes 1st Sikh police chief of Kuala Lumpur
(Hindustan Times)
Julie Bishop to challenge Iran's treatment of Baha'i minority during talks with foreign minister
(Dan Conifer, ABC)
Myanmar: Htin Kyaw confirmed as next president in history-making vote
(The Irrawaddy)
Pakistan religious groups say law protecting women from abuse 'un-Islamic'
(Mubasher Bukhari, Reuters)
India doesn't appreciate the US judging its religious freedom
(Nimisha Jaiswal, Global Post)
Palestinian-American IS fighter surrenders to Iraqi Kurds
(Balint Szlanko, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Al Qaeda's branch in Africa makes a lethal comeback
(Dionne Searcey, Eric Schmitt, and Rukmini Callimachi, The New York Times)
Bill threatens to remove last safety net for refugees fleeing death, torture and persecution
(Joyce Chia, The Conversation)
Al Qaeda gunmen drank in bar before unleashing Ivory Coast attack
(Joe Bavier, Reuters)
Plight of Pakistani Christian asylum seekers in Thailand
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Buddhist Youth leader Lê Công Cầu faces expulsion for supporting Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam
(Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, Quême: Action for Democracy in Viet Nam)
Unlike U.S., few Jews in Israel identify as Reform or Conservative
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
Questions, questions, questions .... (Faith & Religion in Science)
(Tom McLeish, OUPblog Religion)
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief on his mission to Bangladesh
(Heiner Bielefeldt, United Nations General Assembly)
Syria: Five years of suffering must end
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
House votes to condemn ISIS atrocities in Iraq, Syria as genocide
(Associated Press, New York Daily News)
The U.S. House just voted unanimously that the Islamic State commits ‘genocide.’ Now what?
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
AQIM: West Africa Rivals of Islamic State
(Deutsche Welle)
Thai Buddhism's unholy mess
(Denis D. Gray, Asian Review)
India: RSS bats for women in all temples
(The Pioneer)
‘Buddha’s teachings can resolve global issues’
(Subodh Ghildiyal, The Economic TImes)
The Dalit who lost his limbs for protesting against his daughter’s gang-rape
(Nirupama Dutt, Scroll.in)
Argument: The Islamist behind Sudan’s throne
(Nesrine Malik, Foreign Policy)
The return of Salmaan Taseer's abducted son gives Pakistan another ray of hope
(Beena Sarwar, Scroll.in)
India: Face challenge from narrow, unitary cultural nationalism, says Church
(Johnson T A, The Indian Express)
The death of Iran's Islamic left: How elections hurt the reformers
(Ray Takeyh and Reuel Marc Gerecht, Foreign Affairs)
What a shrine with dogs reveals about the state of puritan Islam in Pakistan
(Haroon Khalid, Scroll.in)
Knights of Columbus releases major report on genocide of Christians
(Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)
At the edge of the abyss: the rise of religious offence laws
(Nilanjana S Roy, Business Standard)
How to beat the Islamic State through non-violence
(Srdja Popovic and Raphael Mimoun, Foreign Policy)
Criminal case opened against Russian deputy culture minister linked with restoration of churches
(Interfax-Religion)
Nigeria: No religion, culture prohibits women from adquiring education
(allAfrica)
Divorce court: Talmudic sages explore the grounds for divorce and in so doing reinforce ethical leniency and humane interpretation over strict constructionism
(Adam Kirsch, Tablet Magazine)
Why feminists need to learn about religion
(Kristin Aune, The Conversation)
US lawmakers accuse IS of genocide
(World Watch Monitor)
Monday, 14 March 2016
ISIS burns hundreds of Christian textbooks in cultural cleansing of Christianity
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
South Sudan churches confirm UN report: Children, the disabled being burned alive; mass rapes amid civil war
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Syrian women risk their lives to expose shocking horrors of daily life under ISIS rule
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Egypt: Reverse blasphemy sentences against Christian children
(Human Rights Watch)
Human rights group calls on Egypt to stop sending Christian children to prison on blasphemy charges
(Katherine Weber, The Christian Post)
Rights group calls on Egypt to reverse blasphemy conviction
(Hamza Hendawi, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Egypt's justice minister sacked after comments criticised as blasphemous
(Reporting Mostafa Hashem and Haithem Ahmed; Writing by Ahmed Aboulenein and Lin Noueihed; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Stephen Powell, Reuters Africa)
Sierra Leone abortion bill blocked by President Bai Koroma again
(BBC News)
Big audience for panel with Dalai Lama despite Beijing protest
(Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters)
Egypt's justice minister fired following comments on 'imprisoning prophet'
(Ahram Online)
Egypt's justice minister fired over comment seen as blasphemous
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Egypt dismisses minister after 'prophet' comments
(Al Jazeera)
The Cafunfo witch hunt
(Rafael Marques de Morais, Maka Angola)
Reducing interreligious tensions in the Central African Republic
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
Is it really not racist to oppose immigration?
(Simon Goodman, The Conversation)
Despite positive steps, Australia still needs to do more to end forced marriage
(Jennifer Burn, The Conversation)
The Latest: Pope Francis condemns Ivory Coast attack
(Associated Press, The Boston Herald)
‘El-Rufai will die if he regulates religion in Kaduna’ – Apostle Suleiman
(Janeth, YNaija.com)
Govt rejects proposal to ban mentioning terrorists’ religion in mass media
(RT)
In Italy, Adventist scholar speaks against close church-state relations: Juan Martin Vives presents at major international conference in Venice
(Bettina Krause, Adventist Review)
India making no progress on religious liberty, human rights
(Bill Bumpas, One News Now)
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