Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Getting more women into ministerial jobs is not that hard – here’s how to do it
(Claire Annesley, The Con)
New data shows women clergy earn 85 to 90 cents for a man’s dollar (analysis)
(Tobin Grant, Religion News Service)
Why the world needs a UN treaty to combat violence against women
(Ronagh McQuigg, The Conversation)
On International Women’s Day, 7 reasons we still need to fight for women’s human rights
(Corallina Lopez-Curzi, Rights Info)
Knesset celebrates International Women’s Day, calls for improvements
(Lahav Harkov, The Jerusalem Post)
Ten ways Israeli and Jewish women cracked the glass ceiling this past year
(Judy Maltz, Haaretz)
Namibia: 42% of women in top jobs
(Tuyeimo Haidula, The Namibian)
Statement by the President Obama on International Women's Day
(Barack Obama, The White House)
Japan observes International Women's Day with mimosa flowers and grim statistics
(Global Voices)
10 ways we've defended women’s rights in the past year
(Amnesty International)
Women are the ones fighting the tough environmental battles around the world
(Marlene Cimons, Climate Progress)
The courage of Cuba’s Ladies in White
(CSWPress, ForB in Full)
More Headlines on Women's Human Rights Issues
Talking to India on religious freedom, says U.S
(Varghese K George, The Hindu)
Gunmen kill 4 nuns and 12 others in Yemen
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
Egypt: 'suicide' claim for third Christian conscript in nine months
(World Watch Monitor)
EVENT: 8 March, 2016, The Israeli Mosaic: Identity, Society and Religion, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel
(The Institute for National Security Studies)
Monday, 7 March 2016
EU Refugee Crisis: Turkey as an Effective Partner? Appeasing Erdogan’s Turkey without regard for European values won’t create an effective border
(Aykan Erdemir, The Globalist)
Erdogan’s war on media enters a new phase
(Aykan Erdemir, Foundation for Defense of Democracies)
Refugee crisis: Turkey seeks $3.3bn extra at EU talks
(Al Jazeera)
Pakistan’s religious minorities demand new laws to guarantee civil rights
(Shafique Khokhar, AsiaNews.it)
Pakistani lawyers' group behind spike in blasphemy cases
(Reuters)
Sisters of Mother Teresa killed in Yemen, witnesses to the love of Christ
(Cardinal Oswald Gracias, AsiaNews.it)
Pope terms massacre of the Sisters of Mother Teresa, senseless and diabolical act
(Cardinal Pietro Parolin, AsiaNews.it)
ISIS threatens 'apostate Putin' in new propaganda video
(Damien Sharkov, Newsweek)
Islamic council praises Malcolm Turnbull after first prime ministerial visit in decades
(Shalailah Medhora and Michael Safi, The Guardian)
Egypt says Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood killed chief prosecutor
(Maram Mazen, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Aging, indebted Japan debates right to 'die with dignity'
(Linda Sieg, Reuters)
Gunmen kill 16 at nursing home in Yemen started by Mother Theresa
(Saeed Al-Batati and Kareem Fahim, The New York Times)
New proposal to divide Jerusalem unites people against it
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)
Indonesia leader calls on Muslim world to unite on Palestine
(Niniek Karmini, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
U.S. strikes al Shabaab training camp in Somalia, more than 150 killed
(Phil Stewart, Reuters)
Nominations are open for the 2016 Global Business & Interfaith Peace Awards
(The Weekly Number)
Pope Francis calls murdered nuns in Yemen ‘today’s martyrs’
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Israeli-American journalist compares Jewish Iranians to pets
(Mint Press News)
Who's really taking Christian homes in Iraq?
(Omar Sattar, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Omar al-Bashir attends Islamic summit in Jakarta
(Al Jazeera)
Euthanasia: let’s clarify what the law is before we debate changing it
(Paul Komesaroff, The Conversation)
Euthanasia: more options doesn’t always expand our freedoms, sometimes it limits them
(Neil Levy, The Conversation)
Refugee-run school in Indonesia a model for governments to emulate
(Sally Clark and Carly Copolov, The Conversation)
How should Indonesia deal with emerging religious cults?
(Ismatu Ropi, The Conversation)
Australia: Morrison will fight same-sex marriage
(Michelle Grattan, The Conversation)
Top Pakistani religious body rules women's protection law 'un-Islamic'
(Mehreen Zahra-Malik, Reuters)
Ukrainian parliament may intervene in church seizures
(Russia Religion News)
Ukrainian religious leaders issue frantic call to save Ukrainian democracy
(Russia Religion News)
Head of Muslim community believes searches are intimidation of Crimean Tatars
(RISU: Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishops met the Pope Francis
(RISU: Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Foreign minister of Ukraine: Religious and cultural identity of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar peoples destroyed in Crimea
(RISU: Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Why are Jehovah's Witnesses persecuted in Russia?
(Russia Religion News)
Nigeria’s membership of Islamic coalition not religious – Foreign Affairs Minister
(Levinus Nwabughiogu, Vanguard)
Pakistan and blasphemy: Worryingly, a liberal’s killer is honoured in Pakistan
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
A bill on transfer of religious communities to another jurisdiction presented in Parliament
(RISU: Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Look at the Hindu Maha Shivaratri Festival
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
DCOP Kofi Boakye, Ampah-Bennin are my spiritual sons – Obinim
(Ghana Web)
Stop forcing our girls into marriage, religion – Christians in Kano warn Muslims
(Ameh Comrade Godwin, Daily Post)
Bangladesh cannot have a State religion and be secular at the same time
(Hindustan Times)
After 28 years, Bangladesh revives case to drop Islam as state religion
(Searjul Quadir, Reuters)
‘No religion sanctions violence against women’: Interfaith leaders
(Nyein Nyein, Irrawaddy)
Adolescents promote embracing diversity during World Interfaith Harmony Week
(Carl Buhariwala, Indian Link)
Harakat al-Hawiya al-Arabiya al-Druziya: Defending Druze Identity in Suwayda’
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment (Joshua Landis))
Fighting female genital mutilation among India's Bohra
(Sophie Cousins, Al Jazeera)
Rohith Vemula-Kanhaiya Kumar link irks BJP as it brushes caste under the flag
(Vandita Mishra, The Indian Express)
Findings & Footnotes: March 2016
(Religion Watch, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
*Risen* the Movie: a scholarly review and comparison
(Greg Carey, OUPblog Religion)
Chief rabbis to draw up alternative deal for pluralistic prayer area at Western Wall
(Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post)
In Israel, Western Wall compromise may be unraveling
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sunday, 6 March 2016
Ese’s abduction, a criminal act not religious – Soyinka, Falana
(Gbenga Adeniji, Punch)
Soyinka, Falana react to Ese Oruru's abduction
(Nkem Ikeke, NAIJ.com)
Did you say interfaith dialogue: How do you go about that?
(Abdellatif Zaki, Morocco World News)
Pope gives rare 'blessing' to Toronto rabbi and wife
(Toronto Metro News)
Religious parties fear abolition of blasphemy law
(Obaid Abbasi, The Express Tribune)
Turkish police fire tear gas at newspaper as EU laments rights record
(Ayla Jean Yackley, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Religion goes undercover as publishers seek to reach the “nones”
(Religion Watch, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
On/File: A continuing survey of people, groups, movements and events impacting religion
(Religion Watch, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
Saturday, 5 March 2016
Welcoming a more multicultural New Zealand
(Rizwan Mohammad, Indian Weekender)
The Dir’ al-Watan Brand: Liwa Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment (Joshua Landis))
Biblical nomads will return to the Holy Land, thanks to a Canadian farm
(Dan Levin, The New York Times)
Prime Minister’s Office refuses to endorse Brandis' same-sex marriage timetable
(Michelle Grattan, The Conversation)
Scientific paper which says the human hand was designed by a 'Creator' sparks controversy
(Doug Bolton, Independent)
Friday, 4 March 2016
Top Pakistani religious body: Women's protection law is un-Islamic
(Siobhan O'Grady, Foreign Policy)
Four Catholic nuns among the dead in massacre by gunmen in Yemen
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)
India denies visas to US religious freedom body
(David Brunnstrom, Reuters)
India withholds visas from US religious freedom monitors
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Government defends denying visa to US body tracking religious freedom
(Bharti Jain, The Times of India)
EU/Turkey: Don’t negotiate away refugee rights
(Human Rights Watch)
Australian report on laws that encroach on traditional freedoms
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pell says meeting with Australia abuse survivors was 'hard and honest'
(Stephanie Kichgaessner, The Guardian)
Bus crash enrages ultra-Orthodox
(Mordechai Goldman, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Iran election: Women make gains in new parliament
(Ted Regencia, Al Jazeera)
Religion should not be used as a political tool: Hamid Karzai
(The Times of India)
Cardinal George Pell, top Vatican official, meets abuse victims after testimony
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)
Kula hopes gov’t interfaith panel will not succumb to bugbears
(Terence Netto, Malaysiakini)
Pakistan: ‘Expected visit of Pope Francis will promote interfaith harmony’
(Daily Times)
Interfaith activist NY Rabbi Schneier talks with Bahrain King on Mideast Issues
(Menachem Rephun, JP Updates)
Organizing a student protest? Have a look at 1970s Germany
(Christoph Zeller, The Conversation)
Christian hamlet in Syria bears scars of fierce fighting
(Vladimir Isachenkov, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Boko Haram falls victim to a food crisis it created
(Dionne Searcey, The New York Times)
In Ukraine towns ravaged by war, Evangelical missionaries find fertile ground
(Andrew E. Kramer, The New York Times)
India says U.S. religious freedom body has no right to judge
(David Brunnstrom, Reuters)
Thursday, 3 March 2016
ALRC Freedoms Inquiry on Religious Freedom - Part 1
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
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