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Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Pope's east Africa to cement interfaith relations
(Andrew Ross, Anadolu Agency)

Pope touches down in Kenya for start of African tour
(Andrew Ross and Magdalene Mukami, Andalou Agency)

Pope Francis embarks on Africa tour despite security fears
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)

Religions in Thailand send powerful message of peace
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)

Case of Palestinian artist sentenced to death shows breadth Saudi judges have under Shariah
(Aya Batrawi, Star Tribune)

Tense Christian-Muslim relations provide backdrop to Pope's Africa trip
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)

Rampant persecution of Christians and church destruction escalating in Sudan
(Palmer Williams, American Center for Law and Justice)

Ancient Jewish community endures on Tunisian isle
(Mosa'ab Elshamy, AP The Big Story)

Advocates fear fate of religious freedom office under Liberals
(Deborah Gyapong, The Catholic Register)

Turkey: Reopen Halki Seminary
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Israeli High Court rejects religious family's appeal to prevent transgender woman's cremation
(Tia Goldenberg, Star Tribune)

Vulnerability of women exploited to jeopardise Christian communities
(Helene Fisher, World Watch Monitor)

Attackers stab interfaith group leader in Bangladesh
(UCA News)

U.N. decries Balkans border curbs on refugees; arrivals in Greece fall
(Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters)

Orthodox Jews vow to continue gap-year trips to study in Israel
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)

Ugly clashes at anti-Islam rallies in Australia
(BBC News)

Buddhism is waning in Japan
(Rachel Martin, NPR)

Mali hotel attack: Police seek info on hotel attack gunmen
(BBC News)

Paris attacks and other assaults seen as evidence of a shift by ISIS
(Eric Schmitt, The New York Times)

Tuesday, 24 November 2015

4 ways ISIS grounds its actions in religion — and why that matters (Commentary)
(Ayman S. Ibrahim, Religion News Service)

Want to beat the Islamic State? Help Tunisia
(Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy)

Kadyrov calls law on immunity of holy books from jurisdiction 'triumph of justice'
(Interfax Religion)

Comment: Why is Canada justified in screening out refugees based on gender, but not religion?
(Robyn Urback, National Post)

Russian court says Scientology does not qualify as a religious organization
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Rabbinical High Court expected to reverse decision to void conversion of mother and daughter
(Yair Ettinger, Haaretz)

Rabbinate revoked woman’s conversion after almost 30 years
(Tamar Pileggi, Times of Israel)

Israel's Rabbinical High Court to consider retroactive conversion revocation case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Decorations in, hymns out as Andrews Government cracks down on religion in state school
(Kate McMahon, Herald Sun)

Kazakhstan: Sixth Muslim in secret police pre-trial imprisonment
(Forum 18 News Service)

Putin signs law exempting religious texts from extremism charges
(Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty)

It’s not in the Bible, nor in Koran: Putin signs law exempting holy books from extremism checks
(RT Russian Politics)

Monday, 23 November 2015

Broad Russian laws targeting religious ‘extremists’ used against pacifist sect
(Andrew Roth, The Washington Post)

Church of Scientology Moscow branch 'dissolved' by court
(BBC News)

Russian court bans Moscow branch of the Church of Scientology
(The Guardian)

Russian court bans Church of Scientology in Moscow
(Newsmax)

Why monotheists quarrel: Abraham's children fight because they have so much in common
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Should refugees be vetted on the basis of religion?
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

Press freedom groups condemn prosecution of reporters in Vatican leaks case
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

Turkey has 'all but closed its borders' to Syrian refugees, HRW says
(Philip J. Victor, Al Jazeera America)

Singapore’s lesson for Modi: Smart cities don’t work without religious freedom
(Cherian George, Quartz India)

ISIS terror: One Yazidi's battle to chronicle the death of a people
(Kelly Cobiella, Yuka Tachibana, NBC News)

Terrorism has nothing to do with religion - ISESCO director
(Elmira Tariverdiyeva, Anahanum Khidayatova, Trend)

Religion in Hong Kong schools: teach it, don’t preach it
(Gweneth Rehnborg, South China Morning Post)

PM delinks terror from religion in Malaysia: to keep the radical right at bay
(Shubhajit Roy, The Indian Express)

Sunday, 22 November 2015

Islam religion of 'peace, love, fraternity’
(Mehr News Agency)

BJP, Cong use religion for political ends: CSDS prof
(The Tribune)

Tough to separate politics from religion in poll-bound Punjab
(Vikas Vasudeva, The Hindu)

Delink religion from terror, need new strategies, says PM
(Business Standard)

Saturday, 21 November 2015

Islamic gunmen attack Mali hotel, release hostages able to recite Quran
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

France sends elite special forces to help hotel hostages in Bamako, Mali
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)

Friday, 20 November 2015

What you should know about the Syrian refugee controversy
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)

Australian Christian Lobby asks donors for war chest to fight marriage equality
(Shalailah Medhora, The Guardian)

5 killed in Tel Aviv and West Bank by Palestinian attackers
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)

Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
(David Batty, The Guardian)

Muslims defend Islam from being hijacked by ISIS
(Jonah Bromwich, The New York Times)

About 27 dead after Islamists seize hotel in Mali's capital
(Tiemoko Diallo, Reuters)

Saudi court rules a Palestinian poet must die for apostasy, rights group claims
(Religion News Service)

Boko Haram ‘more deadly terror group’ in 2014 than IS
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)

Syria: Fears for life of free expression advocate
(Human Rights Watch)

Official says Pakistan has executed at least 300 people in past 11 months, think tank reports
(Ecumenical News)

How Iraq just legalized discrimination of minorities
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Veiled women detained, handcuffed spark public outcry in Turkey
(Riada Asimovic Akyol, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Yazidis wary of going back to liberated Sinjar
(Mahmut Bozarslan, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

After IS threat, Turkey’s Alevi community on alert
(Sibel Hurtas, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

How ISIL’s ‘cultural cleansing’ of history is affecting Syria, Iraq
(Ryan Loughlin, Al Jazeera America)

Azerbaijan: Conscientious objector (again) one of 20 current prisoners of conscience
(Forum 18 News Service)

Religious intolerance: Lagos clamps-down on hate preachers
(Olasunkanmi Akoni, Vanguard)

Nigerian state will monitor churches and mosques to fight hate preaching
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Thursday, 19 November 2015

Explaining Mormons and their idiosyncratic view of religious liberty
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

That question once again after Paris: Is Islam a 'religion of peace'?
(Richard Ostling, Get Religion (blog))

After Myanmar election, few signs of a better life for Muslims
(Austin Ramzy, The New York Times)

Boko Haram ranked ahead of ISIS for deadliest terror group
(Dionne Searcey and Marc Santora, The New York Times)

Italian shot in latest attack on foreigners in Bangladesh
(Serajul Quadir, Reuters)

2 Jews killed in Tel Aviv stabbing attack while praying
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Pakistanis beat global median in religious freedom, says Pew survey
(Dawn)

LAUNCH EVENT, 19 November 2015: The OSCE/ ODIHR- Venice Commission Guidelines on the Legal Personality of Religious or Belief Communities in Turkish language
(Istanbul, Freedom of Belief Initiative)

Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Australia's first Muslim Party aims for senate seats
(BBC News)

China accused of trying to 'co-opt and emasculate' Christianity
(Tom Phillips and Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)

Liberals drop controversial Supreme Court of Canada niqab appeal
(Tonda MacCharles, Toronto Star)

Senior Muslim cleric urges anti-IS ideological battle
(Agence France-Presse)

For the Islamic State, paroxysms of violence portend apocalypse
(Craig Whitlock and Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post)

Putin vows payback after confirmation of Egypt plane bomb
(Andrew Osborn, Reuters)

Syrian refugee policy takes focus in US 2016 politics
(Laurie Kellman, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Facebook immune for blocking Sikhs' page
(Maria Dinzeo, Courthouse News Service)

Facebook is immune from suit for removing Sikh group's page in India
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

SC asks UP to mull shifting of crematorium near Taj Mahal
(Times of India)

India's Supreme Court orders crematorium moved to save Taj Mahal from pollution damage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

HHS mandates violate women's rights, religious freedom, civil rights (Opinion)
(Alveda King, Charisma News)

'Genocide' commemoration to remember, not to stir hatred, say Armenians
(Robert Evans, Ecumenical News)

India among highest supporters for religious freedom: Pew Research
(Zee News)

Theologian documents global scale of gender-based violence against women
(Anglican Communion News Service)

NGOs sue local religious councils for over-charging for mikvah usage
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)

ISIL says Norwegian, Chinese captives executed
(Al Jazeera America)

Afghan refugees in Pakistan face harassment, discrimination, HRW says
(Zehra Abid, Al Jazeera America)

Uzbekistan: New fines, Bible destructions follow UN concern over religious censorship
(Forum 18 News Service)

Senegal bans burqa to stop terrorists disguising in Islamic dress
(Simon Allison, The Guardian)

Call for all major religions to be taught in schools
(Jody O'Callaghan, Stuff)

Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Turkey: Will schools respect parents' and pupils' freedom of religion or belief?
(Mine Yildirim, Forum 18 News Service)

Journalist in leaks case denounces Vatican law, says it infringes on freedom of expression
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

Iranian cartoonist jailed in latest media crackdown
(D. Parvaz, Al Jazeera America)

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