Law and Religion Headlines

Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Monday, 16 November 2015

Pope, Paris and ISIS: mainstream media coverage broad but shallow
(Jim Davis, Get Religion (blog))

Don’t give ISIS what it wants: Ensure that cooler heads prevail after an attack, resist the urge for retribution, and other ways to make sure the terrorists don’t win
(Stephen M Walt, Foreign Policy)

Argument: Paris, city of violence - The recent terrorist attacks are sadly only the latest bloodletting in the French capital’s long and brutal history.
(David A. Bell, Foreign Policy)

How the Islamic State declared war on the world
(Will McCants, Foreign Policy)

Paris attacks and the civil war between Islam's medievalists and modernisers
(Husain Haqqani, Telegraph)

Ugandan girl severely beaten for converting from Islam to Christianity
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)

Chad declares state of emergency amid wave of Boko Haram attacks and suicide bombings
(Shainee Mamanglu-Regala, Christian Today)

Boko Haram destroyed more than 1,000 schools this year, UN says
(Al Jazeera America)

ISIS threatens Washington with Paris-style attacks
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

After the Paris attacks, here’s how to think about the relationship between ISIS and Islam
(Will McCants, The Washington Post)

Strategy shift for ISIS: inflicting terror in distant lands
(Eric Schmitt and David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times)

Boko Haram attacks persist, but Nigerian officials say group is losing ground
(Dionne Searcey, The New York Times)

World religious leaders condemn Paris carnage
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

Proposed Iraqi law would force some children to become Muslim
(Julia A. Seymour, World Magazine)

EVENT, 16-18 November 2015: Religion, Harmony, and Sustainable Development
(G20 Interfaith Summit in Istanbul)

Sunday, 15 November 2015

Christians, Muslims unhappy as Nepal bans religious conversion in its draft constitution
(Shianee Mamanglu-Regala, Christian Today)

Saturday, 14 November 2015

9 things you should know about Islamic State
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)

ISIS forces attack Christians who speak Aramaic, language of Jesus Christ
(Ray Nothstine, The Christian Post)

IS suicide blast, roadside bomb hit Baghdad Shiites, kill 26
(Qassim Abdul-Zahra, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Day of mourning in Lebanon after deadly Beirut bombings
(Al Jazeera)

Worshippers killed as bomb hits Yemen mosque in Houthi-dominated region: residents
(Reuters)

Friday, 13 November 2015

Corbyn to raise 1984 Sikh genocide with Modi
(Hardeep Singh, Network of Sikh Organisations)

Narendra Modi’s visit to the UK is overshadowed by nationalist violence in India
(Mirza Waheed, The Guardian)

As Indian Prime Minister visits Britain, religious minorities' rights are raised
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Religious freedom advocates need to speak out on Bangladesh killings
(Paul Fidalgo, Paul Fidalgo)

Lutheran-led peace march prompts some Salvadoran gangs to halt violence
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Lebanon in mourning following Bourj el-Barajne massacre
(Paul Dakiki, Asia News)

Indonesian Bishops: The hope of Catholics is not optimism, but faith in God
(Mathias Hariyadi, Asia News)

In dispute between Jews, Montreal salon owner fined for barring hairdresser from Shabbat work
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Hundreds of Christian fighters battle to defend Biblical Syrian town from ISIS
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Central African government reassures Vatican over pope visit
(Reuters)

Assad forces backed by Russian airstrikes break ISIS siege of key Syrian air base
(Shianee Mamanglu-Regala, Christian Today)

Isis claims responsibility as suicide bombers kill dozens in Beirut
(Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian)

Government accuses six Islamic schools of breaching Education Act
(Daniel Hurst, The Guardian)

Thursday, 12 November 2015

U.S. Holocaust Museum: The Islamic State’s war on Yazidis is genocide
(Henry Johnson, Foreign Policy)

US Jews will abandon Israel over religious exclusion, warns delegation
(Amanda Borschel-Dan, The Times of Israel)

Draft of new religion law raises alarm
(The Voice of the Martyrs Canada)

Myanmar's Christians cautiously hopeful
(World Watch Monitor)

Fleeing Boko Haram – nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)

BJP's Bihar defeat a vote against ‘intolerance’
(Anto Akkara, World Watch Monitor)

Azerbaijan: Police torture one Muslim, 10 more short-term prisoners of conscience
(Forum 18 News Service)

Crowds gather to protest religious intolerance in India
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)

BJP's Bihar defeat a vote against ‘intolerance’
(Anto Akkara, World Watch Monitor)

Iraqi patriarch protests over law compelling some Christian children to convert to Islam
(Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald)

ARMM governor signs law creating religious authority
(Inquirer)

Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Continue open-minded approach to helping the needy regardless of race, religion: Tharman
(Janice Haing, The Straits Times)

C. Java indigenous religion targeted in attack
(Jakarta Globe)

One Nigerian woman's fight against Boko Haram
(Florence Taylor, Christian Today)

Nigerian military arrest two of the 100 most wanted Boko Haram terrorists
(Florence Taylor, Christian Today)

Why some Christians in northern Iraq are choosing to stand and fight
(Kristen Chick, The Christian Science Monitor)

Afghans protest 'beheadings of ethnic Hazara by ISIL'
(Shereena Qazi, Al Jazeera)

Vietnam's religious freedom needs your voice
(Standard Newswire)

Defining welcome to refugees by religion, race, or ethnicity aids haters & conflict
(Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey, Huffington Post)

State Duma backs law protecting religious texts from extremism claims
(Sputnik International)

Armenian community in Turkey gets more freedom in education
(Daily Sabah)

How the Church is challenging injustice in Angola
(Tomilola Ajayi, Christian Today)

ISIS 'Cyber Caliphate' thieves back in business, hack 54,000 Twitter accounts
(Shianee Mamanglu-Regala, Christian Today)

Russia sends 'most ruthless' special forces to root out ISIS, other Assad foes in Syria
(Shianee Mamanglu-Regala, Christian Today)

Palestinians most sympathetic toward ISIS, survey finds
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Killers of Pakistani Christian couple burned alive in brick kiln still at-large
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Vodou is elusive and endangered, but it remains the soul of Haitian people
(Kim Wall and Caterina Clerici, The Guardian)

Progress fans flames of militant unrest in changing Bangladesh
(Jason Burke, The Guardian)

Afghan president condemns slayings of minority Shiites
(Lynne O'Donnell, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Senegal's President Sall condemns 'excessive form of Islam'
(BBC News)

ARGUMENT: Is Islam to blame for its extremists? Part II of FP's debate between Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Manal Omar on whether Islam's core teachings paved the way for today's violent fanatics.
(Manal Omar, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Foreign Policy)

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Religion and violence René Girard, a French-born thinker on faith, culture and war
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

ARGUMENT Islam Is a Religion of Violence? Can the wave of violence sweeping the Islamic world be traced back to the religion's core teachings? An FP debate about the roots of extremism.
(Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Foreign Policy)

ARGUMENT: Islam Is a Religion of Peace? Can the wave of violence sweeping the Islamic world be traced back to the religion's core teachings? An FP debate about the roots of extremism.
(Manal Omar, Foreign Policy)

Journalists, intellectuals demand restrictions on ‘contempt of religion’ charges
(Sarah El-Sheikh, Daily News)

How the world’s longest-running Chabad house survives in Morocco
(Ben Sales, JTA, Jewish Journal)

Sibling rivalries, religious conflict and another potential hotspot in need of media attention
(Ira Rifkin, Get Religion (blog))

New movement demands that Buddhism be made the official religion in Thailand
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)

Executions in Saudi Arabia at a 20-year peak, says Amnesty International
(Reuters)

Egypt electoral law a step toward justice for women
(Khalid Hassan, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

Euro court rejects French comic's plea over fine for anti-Semitism
(Reporting by Brian Love; Editing by Andrew Callus and Tom Heneghan, Reuters)

Patriarch Kirill accuses West of indifference towards plight of Middle Eastern Christians
(Interfax Religion)

Great Commission Church commissions six new pastors
(Ghana Web)

Church leaders welcome review of Indonesian religion law
(Katharina R. Lestari, UCA News)

Joint statement of concern on Vietnam’s draft Law on Religion
(Freedom House)

Monday, 9 November 2015

Qld election non-voter’s fine dropped over Aboriginal religious belief
(Stefan Armbruster, SBS News)

China says graft fight in Tibet also aimed at religion
(Reuters)

Russia in Syria protects all citizens of the country irrespectively of their religion
(Interfax-Religion)

Church group: Police detain Taiwanese pastor on China visit
(Associated Press)

PM Davutoğlu calls for combined int’l air and ground campaign against ISIS
(Daily Sabah)

37 Assyrian Christians released in Syria
(World Watch Monitor)

Philippines' indigenous Lumad people protest in Manila for their habitat
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Is Congress paving the way for a Christian safe zone in Iraq?
(Julian Pecquet, Al-Monitor: Congress Pulse)

Amnesty: Saudi Arabia’s executions at 20-year high
(Al Jazeera America)

Muslim opposition to Pakistan’s blasphemy law
(Jennifer S. Bryson, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)

Kazakhstan: Seven years' restricted freedom for discussing faith
(Forum 18 News Service)

Moscow conference highlights upswing in religious extremism
(Bettina Krause, Seventh-Day Adventist Church)

For the Russian Orthodox, a Nationalist Paradox
(Cory Bender and Wade Kusack, Daniel Philpott: Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)

The Spirit, the Letter and the Synod: A careful analysis of Pope Francis's words reveals his true intentions regarding communion for the divorced and remarried
(Jacob W. Wood, Aleteia)

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