Law and Religion Headlines
Sunday, 28 February 2016
'Terrorism in religion’s name must be resisted’
(The Financial Express)
Turkey’s top religious official backs reopening of Halki Seminary ‘in principle’
(Hürriyet Daily News)
Mysuru varsity to host interfaith dialogue
(The Hindu)
Saturday, 27 February 2016
Byzantine details: How are the Orthodox Christian churches organized, and why?
(Richard Ostling, Get Religion (blog))
Ethiopia: IRCE condemns attack on places of worship
(Abiy Hailu, The Ethiopian Herald, All Africa)
Media struggle to grasp what friends (including females) meant to St. John Paul II
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion (blog))
Pope Francis gives unity symbol to Argentine president Macri
(The T and D)
Right to die: Should public hospitals have freedom of religion?
(Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News)
Friday, 26 February 2016
Christian channel gives hope to refugee children fleeing Syria with on-air education
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Indonesia's Psychiatry Association classifies LGBT people as having a 'mental disorder'
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
U.S. plans to put advisers on front lines of Nigeria’s war on Boko Haram
(Eric Schmitt and Dionne Searcey, The New York Times)
Anger as Christian lawyer paraded on Chinese state TV for 'confession'
(Tom Phillips, The Guardian)
Two suicide bombers kill 15 at Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad
(Reuters)
Disputes delay video surveillance at tense Jerusalem shrine
(Karin Laub and Josef Federman, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
How Tunisia became a top source of ISIS recruits
(Yaroslav Trofimov, The Wall Street Journal)
UK lawmakers' report finds Pakistani Christians, Ahmadis and Hindus face persecution
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Human rights group calls for the release of detained Sudanese pastors
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Ugandan rabbi said to make history with parliament win
(JTA, Times of Israel)
Analysis: The Marrakesh Declaration avoids hard questions
(Peter Riddell, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Assistant Secretary of State Tom Malinowski visits Iraq
(Embassy of the United States (Iraq))
Muslim leaders in Central African Republic unite to support social cohesion
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
Excommunicated Brazilian obstetrician fights for women’s right to abort Zika babies
(Janet Tappin Coelho, Religion News Service)
Interfaith activists sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labor
(Zarni Mann, The Irrawaddy)
Bahrain jails secular opposition leader Ibrahim Sharif
(BBC News)
European court says Italy failed to protect detained Egyptian cleric
(Gabriele Steinhauser and Manuela Mesco, The Wall Street Journal)
Israel rights groups: Dozens of Palestinians detained abused
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Amnesty criticizes India for intolerance of dissent
(Nirmala George, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Sedition arrests in India inflame old free-speech tensions
(Nida Najar and Swati Gupta, The New York Times)
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Men, women religious gather to study better response to migration
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)
Canadian gvmt panel recommends forcing Christian hospitals to euthanize patients
(Lianne Laurence, Lifesite)
Why Israeli politicians are turning against the IDF
(Ben Caspit, trans. Danny Wood, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
New thinking on International Religious Freedom
(Daniel Philpott, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)
A Global Peril: The state of religious freedom today
(Elias D. Mallon, America: The National Catholic Review)
Islamic awakening: An ancient faith encounters modernity
(Daniel Philpott, America: The National Catholic Review)
Report from Vietnam: The struggle between government and religion
(Thomas J. Reese, S.J., and Mary Ann Glendon, America: The National Catholic Review)
Liberty’s Rise and Fall: A modern history of religious freedom
(Drew Christiansen, America: The National Catholic Review)
Peace is Our Calling: Catholics on the front lines of religious freedom advocacy
(Maryann Cusimano Love, America: The National Catholic Review)
Airline faces religious objection to in-flight movie
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
China publicizes purported confession of Christian lawyer
(Associated Press: The Big Story)
Nigerian churches unite to address violence in north
(Freedom Declared)
Pakistan: Pro-women bill passes despite clerical opposition
(Elliot Friedland, The Clarion project)
Egypt sentences 4 Coptic teenagers for contempt of Islam
(Maggie Michael, Associated Press)
Iran pledges new funds for families of Palestinian terrorists
(JTA)
I am happy you chose Ghana - Prez Mahama tells Catholic Bishops
(Ernest Senanu Dovlo, Ghana Web)
Defending the Faith: Of Napoleon and 'religious wars'
(Daniel Peterson, Deseret News)
Religion, culture and tradition: No excuse for violence
(Dunya News Pakistan)
Some are pushing to call the Islamic State’s actions ‘genocide.’ What would that mean?
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
How one Palestinian sheikh hopes to unite Sunnis, Shiites
(Mohammed Othman, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
What is Abadi doing to protect Iraq’s Christians?
(Omar al-Jaffal, trans. Cynthia Milan, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Kazakhstan: Now 13 Sunni Muslim prisoners of conscience, 12 restricted freedom sentences over 15 months
(Forum 18 News Service)
Obama weighs in on BDS settlement fight — but battle likely won’t end there
(Ron Kampeas, JTA)
Senior bishop of the Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith of Ukraine: Spiritual leaders are to insistently remind authorities of their position
(RISU: Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
EVENT, 25 February 2016: Daniel Philpott leading discussion on "Under Caesar’s Sword" – the February 2016 Faith & International Affairs Conference Call
(Institute for Global Engagement)
Public Lecture, 25 February 2016: “Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism” by Dr. Benedikt Koehler
(Jointly organised by IAIS Malaysia, IDEAS and Istanbul Network, Held at International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Why donor countries are giving less to the Palestinians
(Adnan Abu Amer, trans. Kamal Fayad, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Why Israelis and Palestinians demonize each other
(Shlomi Eldar, trans. Hanni Manor, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Caste protests spotlight India's contentious quota system
(Deutsche Welle)
Why does China have women-only mosques?
(BBC News Magazine)
Taiwan Declaration for Religious Freedom
(The Weekly Number)
Russia: Extremism ploy used against Jewish school teacher
(SOVA Center for Information and Analysis, Russia Religion News, Stetson University)
Controversial bill on evangelism introduced in Russian parliament
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News, Stetson University)
Russia: Debate over use of expert analysis of new religious movements: Academics do not want to be instruments of persecution of believers
(Roman Lunkin, Religiia i Pravo, Russia Religion News, Stetson University)
Rights of conscientious objectors in Ukraine threatened
(English translation by Human Rights Without Frontiers International, Institute of Religious Liberty)
The moral cost of appeasing Iran
(Mohshin Habib, Gatestone Institute)
‘Through a religious prism’: Iran's clergy view upcoming elections with wariness
(Denise Hassanzade Ajiri and Kelly Golnoush Niknejad, The Guardian)
Iraqi Kurdish troops rescue Swedish teen from Islamic State
(Balint Szlanko, Associated Press, ABC News)
Malaysia: Inter-faith committee reminded to bridge relations
(Mazwin Nik Anis, The Star Online)
Najib: Strengthen interfaith understanding, tolerance and respect for national harmony
(Aiezat Fadzell, The Sun Daily)
Nigeria churches unite for first time to address violence in north
(World Watch Monitor)
Catholic Archbishop Charles Bo on interfaith harmony in Myanmar
(Zaw Kham Hein, Mizzima)
UK government policy on freedom of religion in Pakistan inadequate, finds report
(Rose Gamble, The Tablet)
Italy faces fine over CIA abduction of Egyptian cleric
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)
The CIA’s abduction and extrajudicial transfer to Egypt of the imam Abu Omar infringed the applicants’ rights under the Convention
(Press Release issued by the Registrar, European Court of Human Rights)
A Sri Lankan lesson in free speech
(Kenan Malik, The New York Times)
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
The bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA meet with the Ecumenical Patriarch
(RISU: Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Rabat hosts a seminar on the challenge of mutual recognition in interfaith relations
(Morocco World News)
Gambia: Religious freedom at risk after Islamic State declaration
(Evangelical Focus)
How to help the women and girls rescued from Islamic State
(Leanne K Simpson, The Conversation)
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: Secularism at home and abroad
(Anna Su, The Immanent Frame)
Taiwan attempts to set religious freedom example to its neighbors with major convention
(Caleb Romero, The Christian Times)
Party's increased control of religions in China could backfire
(UCA News)
Striking 'heartland of Christianity' in China: Report reveals gov't persecution of Christians
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post)
South Africa’s Anglican bishops move toward gay inclusion
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Arab Israeli professor breaks barriers at home and abroad
(Tia Goldenberg and Areej Hazboun, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Israel razes West Bank homes of two Palestinian assailants: army
(Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing by Jeffrey Heller/Jeremy Gaunt, Reuters)
Muslim militants attack Filipino troops, more than 20 dead
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
IS gets millions in ransom for abducted Christians
(Bassem Mroue, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
The most important abortion case at the Supreme Court in a generation focuses on women, not fetuses
(Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post)
The post-colonial caliphate: Islamic State and the memory of Sykes-Picot
(James Renton, The Conversation)
Canadian Parliament officially condemns BDS
(JTA)
Netanyahu meets with US Reform leaders in wake of Western Wall decision
(JTA)
Variety pulls pro-BDS ad accusing Israel of ‘apartheid’
(JTA)
Salman Rushdie faces another Iranian death decree
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
Georgia: Proposed insulting religious feelings law withdrawn – for now
(Forum 18 News Service)
Pope Francis again blasts ‘fake’ Christians in Mass homily
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Malaysia: Interfaith custody tribunal not constitutional, says Bar
(V. Anbalagan, The Malaysian Insider)
China’s clampdown on ‘hundreds of millions of religious believers’ drives more of the faithful underground
(Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D, Breitbart News)
Monday, 22 February 2016
Bangladesh Arrests Three Men in Priest’s Beheading
(Julfikar Ali Manik, The New York Times)
How heavy metal music is causing a stir in Egypt
(Ahmen Fouad, trans. Joelle El-Khoury, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
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