Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 12 February 2016
Egypt: Coptic teens tried for video 'mimicking jihadists'
(World Watch Monitor)
Police threaten to arrest Christian family if daughter isn't returned to Muslim abductor in Pakistan
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Why some African governments are clamping down on churches
(Pumza Fihlani, BBC News)
Thursday, 11 February 2016
LDS Church members in Dubai participate in interfaith conference about strengthening homes, families
(Jeanette Barney, Deseret News)
Leave China, study in America, find Jesus
(Han Zhang, Foreign Policy)
Illegal trade in body parts threatens Africans with albinism
(Melanie Lidman, Religion News Service)
Brazil’s abortion rights debate fails to convince some mothers of microcephaly babies
(Janet Tappin Coelho, Religion News Service)
Indonesia: Ahmadiyah community persecuted
(Human Rights Watch)
Illiterate Christian man accused of sending 'blasphemous' texts to Islamic cleric appeals death sentence
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post)
Religion must be practised based on local context: Masagos
(Channel NewsAsia)
More harmony in Muslim-minority regions
(Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, The Jakarta Post)
Amanah: Shariah, civil court judges should form ‘special court’ for interfaith battles
(Ram Anand, MalayMail Online)
Bosnia bans religious symbols in law courts - Mexico stops Sikh in turban boarding plane
(Azmina Sohail, BRIC + New World News)
Custody battle reflects Malaysia's religious turmoil
(UCA News)
Islamic influence creeping into Malaysia's mission schools
(UCA News)
Egypt’s Copts at the crossroads
(Christian Cannuyer, MercatorNet)
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Zika, disease of the poor, may not change abortion in Brazil
(Stephen Eisenhammer, Reuters)
Disillusioned Mexicans await Pope Francis’ visit
(Tim MacGabhann, Religion News Service)
Criticised for rejecting same-sex marriage, but is the Anglican church actually helping gay rights?
(Adriaan van Klinken, The Conversation)
Pakistan approves Hindu Marriage Bill after decades of inaction
(The Times of India)
Reprimands for 3 lawmakers rekindle debate about Israel’s Arab minority
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)
Netanyahu plans fence around Israel to protect it from 'wild beasts'
(Peter Beaumont, The Guardian)
Sikh man barred from Mexico flight sees 'small victory'
(Pater Orsi, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Rivlin and Shaked urge appointment of female Qadis in Shariah Courts
(Greer Fay Cashman, Jerusalem Post)
Israel appoints 7 new Muslim religious court judges
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Egypt military says it is restoring churches destroyed by Islamist extremists
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Christian leaders kept in Sudan since December uncharged, but incommunicado
(World Watch Monitor)
Is Turkey doing enough to protect its Protestants?
(Sibel Hurtas, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Pro-gov’t daily targets opposition spokeswoman’s religion
(Today's Zaman)
Alhurra-Iraq’s Your Question discusses interfaith harmony and terrorism
(Broadcasting Board of Governors)
Khomeini's grandsom banned from running in Iran's elections
(Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty)
Federal Court splits custody of children in interfaith tussle
(Yiswaree Palansamy, MalayMail Online)
A just war against terrorism?
(Gerhard Beestermöller, EuropeInfos: Christian perspectives on the EU)
Six dead in double suicide bombing in Cameroon
(Conor Gaffey, Newsweek)
Ahmadiyyas are not secretive anymore
(Manoj Mair, Hindustan Times)
Head of Religious Affairs to testify as witness in Akşener insult case
(Today's Zaman)
Rouhani calls for more Iranian women to 'lean in' to politics
(Arash Karami, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)
El Paso bishop says pope’s border stop is pastoral, but with a political edge
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Hindu mum distraught after Federal Court gives son to Muslim ex-husband
(Yiswaree Palansamy, MalayMail Online)
Cover story: The head scarf, modern Turkey, and me
(Elif Batuman, The New Yorker)
Analysis: If Muslims and Christians worship a different God, what is the right response?
(Mark Durie, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Strength in weakness: Egypt president’s apology spurs hope
(Jayson Casper, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Christian leaders kept in Sudan since December uncharged, but incommunicado
(World Watch Monitor)
Beef for foreigners not so soon: Haryana
(The Indian Express)
Contempt and ecclesiastical courts
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The clause on Buddhism in the Sri Lankan Constitution should not be changed – Lakshman Seneviratne
(Camelia Nathaniel, The Sunday Leader)
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
How Pope Francis follows a long history interfaith work by past pontiffs
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
Saudi Arabia’s “religious police” arrest doll mascot for breaching Sharia Law
(RT)
Ban Ki-moon: ‘Close the gap between the world that is and the world that should be’
(The Guardian)
Bangladesh church vandalised; priest says religion was not a motive
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
Scientology churches back U.N. World Interfaith Harmony Week
(PR Newswire)
EUCLID celebrates UN World Interfaith Harmony Week
(The Point)
Federal Court to rule if interfaith custody case can be heard in civil court
(V. Anbalagan, The Malaysian Insider)
Family and Society: Farewell, religious liberty, farewell, conscience
(Augusto Zimmerman, News Weekly)
The paradox of religious laws in a secular Constitution
(Jug Suraiya, The Times of India)
Monday, 8 February 2016
Catholic and Latter-day Saint leaders discuss religious freedom in Tonga
(Mormon Newsroom)
Female genital mutilation — the numbers keep rising
(Robin Wright, The New Yorker)
Misuse of anti-extremism in January 2016
(SOVA Center for Information and Analysis)
Churches would break the law if they gave sanctuary to asylum seekers – but does it matter?
(Penny Crofts and Jason Prior, The Conversation)
Pope's visit to violent Mexican city highlights broader ills
(Maria Verza, The Virginian-Pilot)
What will happen when the Pope meets the Patriarch?
(John Pollard, The Conversation)
Bahrain hosts World Interfaith Harmony Week
(Bahrain News Agency)
UN finds 'extermination' of detainees in Syria
(Al Jazeera)
Senegal fears extremism amid imam arrests, regional attacks
(Baba Ahmed, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Mexico Catholic church accused of bending marriage rules for president
(David Agren, The Guardian)
Bosnia women protest at ban on headscarf
(BBC News)
Actor and designer Waris Ahluwalia kicked off plane because of his turban
(Nadya Agrawal, Huffington Post)
Sikh actor barred from flying to US ‘because of turban’
(Mint Press News)
Tajikistan's mutiny participants, leaders of outlawed Islamic Renaissance Party to face court
(Interfax-Religion)
Women, religion and religious freedom
(The Weekly Number)
Egypt: Condemn justice minister’s hate speech
(Human Rights Watch)
Israeli Arabs take their message to the White House
(Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Turkey under pressure to open border to thousands of new Syrian refugees
(Al Jazeera America)
Canada to end bombing missions in Iraq and Syria
(Al Jazeera America)
Interfaith harmony conference condemns attack on BKU
(Zubair Qureshi, Pakistan Observer)
Interfaith harmony: Divided in life, united in death
(Basma Siddiqui, The Express Tribune)
Kazakhstan: "What were they afraid of? We didn't take anyone away"
(Forum 18 News Service)
How Malaysia became one of the most anti-Semitic countries on earth
(Jon Emont, Tablet Magazine)
Individual, Community, and State: Mapping the terrain of religious freedom under the Indian Constitution
(Gautam Bhatia, Legally India)
Mexico: Expelled Christians allowed to return home with full religious rights
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)
Families of Islamist militants named and shamed on Uzbek TV
(Joanna Lillis, The Guardian)
Seven ISIL members preparing terror attacks in Moscow, St. Petersburg detained in Yekaterinburg
(Interfax-Religion)
Patriarch, pope meeting 'a mutual step halfway' between Russia, Western world – Peskov
(Interfax-Religion)
Ending FGC: The religious factor
(Katherine Marshall, HuffPost Religion)
FGM in the context of Islam
(Dr. Mohamed Selim Al-Awa, General Secretary of the International Federation of Islamic Scholars)
Victim critical of pope on abuse asked to leave Vatican commission
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Victim advocate is asked to take leave from Pontifical Commission on Protection of Minors
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sunday, 7 February 2016
Can't take freedom of speech for granted; religion in politics is not healthy: Kamal Haasan
(Zee News)
Christians, Muslims must continue to co-exist peacefully – Bawumia
(Pulse.com.gh)
Pakistan calls on world to combat Islamophobia
(Inquirer.net)
Treasure our cultural, religious freedom, urges Lee
(Borneo Post Online)
The World Interfaith Harmony Week: Annal UN Observance Week February 1-7
Saturday, 6 February 2016
Sabarimala temple: Kerala govt defends ban on women's entry in Supreme Court
(Daily News & Analysis)
Battling Islamophobia : UN moot calls for promoting interfaith harmony
(Daily Times)
Pastor of China's largest church jailed for protesting removal of 1,500 crosses
(Morgan Lee, Christian Today)
Zika presents ethical quandary for Catholics
(Compiled by Jennifer Graham, Deseret News)
Weekend think piece: The 'Passion' that looms over the historic Rome-Moscow meeting
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion (blog))
Letter #9: More on the Pope Francis-Patriarch Kirill Meeting in Cuba
(Robert Moynihan, Inside the Vatican)
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