Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 2 November 2015
ISIS advances, en route to conquer Christian town despite western airstrikes
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
ISIS kills 2 Syrian activists in Turkey: 'every apostate will be slaughtered silently'
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Insight: Myanmar's radical monks shaping historic election
(Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski, Reuters)
In bid to counter Iran, Ayatollah in Iraq may end up emulating it
(Tim Arango, The New York Times)
Pope hints Central African Republic visit could be canceled
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
Inside the Indian temple that draws America’s tech titans
(Annie Gowen, The Washington Post)
Rabbinical Council of America officially bans ordination and hiring of women rabbis
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
How the AKP dominated yesterday's election in Turkey
(Mustafa Akyol, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Kazakhstan: Last days for embattled mosque community?
(Forum 18 News Service)
Thailand: Push to make Buddhism state religion
(Nanchanok Wong Samuth, Bangkok Post)
A huge win for Turkey’s ruling AK party: President Erdogan is back in the driver’s seat
(The Economist)
Blasphemy and the death penalty: Misconceptions explained
(Arafat Mazhar, Dawn)
President Sirisena, Thai PM hold bilateral talks to enhance economics, culture, religion, tourism
(Melanie Santiago, Newsfirst)
Preach Godliness, not religion – Osun speaker
(Yinka Kolawole, This Day Live)
Blogger killed in Bangladesh, three others wounded, police say
(Farid Ahmed, CNN)
2 men who published writings critical of extremism are stabbed in Bangladesh
(Ellen Barry and Julfikar Ali Manik, The New York Times)
More stabbings in Bangladesh of those involved in criticizing Islam
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sunday, 1 November 2015
The future of married priests
(D. Paul Sullins, OUPblog Religion)
Nitish, Lalu had sought religion-based quota in 2005: PM Modi
(Katihar/Madhepura, News World India)
Saturday, 31 October 2015
US envoy to Lanka notes importance of religious freedom
(Colombo Gazette)
Maryam Rajavi: Religious dictatorship ruling Iran cannot save itself by committing a crime against humanity at Camp Liberty
(National Council of Resistance of Iran)
EVENT, 31 October 2015: Pope Francis: The Legacy of Vatican II
(Lecture and book signing with Eduardo J. Echeverria, First Things)
EVENT, 31 October 2015: The Fletcher Conference on Religion, Law & Diplomacy: ASEAN
(The Fletcher School, Tufts University)
Friday, 30 October 2015
Attack kills dozens in Syria as talks begin in Vienna
(Associated Press, The Big Story)
Clerical battles over legally sanctioned retaliatory killings and stoning continues in Iran
(International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran)
Gay couples celebrate civil unions for first time in Chile
(Associated Press, The Big Story)
Vatican envoy highlights religious freedom in address to UN session on human rights
(Catholic Culture)
Fighting Boko Haram: Media accounts tell more about the war than the enemy
(Jim Davs, Get Religion (blog))
Can Burma save Buddhism from the politicians?
(Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy)
East Jerusalem after the storm
(Gregg Carlstrom, Foreign Policy)
Pakistan's Supreme Court warns against false blasphemy allegations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Idol immersion pollutes environment, an 'illiterate attitude', says Madras High Court
(NDTV)
Indian judge concerned over water pollution from immersing of idols
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Cardinal Tauran rues intolerance, says religion’s true mission is peace
(Catholic Culture)
Religious freedom and places of worship
(Mun'im Sirry, Jakarta Post)
5 inconvenient truths about Israeli-Palestinian violence
(Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy)
CAR rebels: ‘One day, we will start a big war’
(Ty McCormick, Foreign Policy)
Thursday, 29 October 2015
Burma’s million-strong Rohingya population faces ‘final stages of genocide,’ says report
Arab-Jewish preschool an island of sanity amid violence, parents say
(Shira Rubin, USA Today)
Catholicism the most trusted religion in South Korea
(Vatican Radio)
South Koreans losing trust In religion despite steady support for Catholicism: Survey
(Michelle Mark, International Business Times)
Nigerian military says it has rescued over 300 held by Boko Haram
(Dionne Searcey, The New York Times)
Nigerian military: 338 captives rescued from Boko Haram
(MIchelle Faul, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Jewish activists step up activities at sensitive holy site
(Daniel Estrin, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi awarded Sakharov human rights prize
(BBC News)
Hindu ‘cattle patrols’ in India seek to protect cows from beef eaters
(Rama Lakshmi, The Washington Post)
Christian lawyers call for Chinese colleagues' release
(Anto Akkara, World Watch Monitor)
Two Sudan churches destroyed, one for a ‘marketplace’
(World Watch Monitor)
Hobby Lobby owners said to be cooperating with probe of importation of religious artifacts from Iraq
(Lindsey Bever, The Washington Post)
Dispatches: Censorship is back in Indonesia
(Andreas Harsono, Human Rights Watch)
Iran: End ban on women at volleyball matches
(Human Rights Watch)
Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi awarded rights prize
(Al Jazeera America)
Testimony of USCIRF Chairman Robert P. George on "The Crisis of International Religious Freedom"
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Michel Houellebecq and the Islamist Future of Europe
(Robert Carle, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
Communiqué: World Council of Churches, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, Evangelical Lutheran Church in German
(World Council of Churches)
World Council of Churches supports South African nuclear move at UN
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
World's oldest bible on show as British Museum tracks Egypt's religions
(Al-Arabiya)
Life and Death Matters: The Cosmic Man
(Anna Lise Seastrand, Sightings)
Four people lynched in Central African Republic's capital - sources
(Reuters, Thomson Reuters Foundation)
UN Commissioner: Time running out for Christianity in the Middle East
(Gregory Tomlin, Christian Examiner)
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi wins EU’s Sakharov rights prize
(Reuters, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 29 October 2015: Religion, Human Development, and Democracy in Africa: Lessons from Nigeria
(Kellogg Institute for International Studies)
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Catholicism and the family: Pope Francis can embrace contradictions—unlike most of his bishops
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
FULL TEXT: Pope Francis homily at the closing Mass of the XIV General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops
(Ecumenical News)
Pakistan supreme court warns against false blasphemy accusations
(The Guardian)
India's Supreme Court to examine Muslim divorce law for gender discrimination
(Michelle Marks, International Business Times)
SC to examine Muslim personal law, aim to end gender bias
(Bhadra Sinha, Hindustan Times)
Pope Francis urges world religions to fight extremism, fundamentalism
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Why Pakistani Hindus leave their homes for India
(BBC News)
Israel sends Islamic Movement sheik to prison for incitement
(William Booth and Ruth Eglash, The Washington Post)
Gay priest decries 'inhuman' treatment of homosexual Catholics
(Caroline Wyatt, BBC News)
In Indonesia, minorities under threat from Muslim hardliners
(Kanupriya Kapoor, Reuters)
UN rights chief, Palestine's Abbas, warn of Holy Land strife worsening along religious lines
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Syria's 'holy war'
(Sami Nader, Al-Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)
Even fatwas don't bring Egyptians out to vote
(Rami Galal, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Defrocked priest decries Vatican treatment of gays
(Al Jazeera America)
Azerbaijan: "Residents wanted to worship. Instead, they came face to face with police truncheons"
(Forum 18 News Service)
2015 Lantos Prize Laureates Announced: Rebiya Kadeer, Irshad Manji, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali
(Lantos Foundation)
The World Congress of Families Website
World Congress of Families opens as LDS apostle preaches love for all
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Balancing LGBT rights? Mormon leader speaks at 'natural family' conference
(Brady McCombs, Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor)
Tooley, Vicari speak at World Congress of Families IX in Salt Lake City
(Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism: The Institute on Religion & Democracy's Blog)
LDS doctrine 'completely linked' to traditional family, Elder M. Russell Ballard tells World Congress of Families
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Pope Francis: ‘World expects religions to work together for peace’
(Catholic Herald)
Pope marks 50 years of Catholic-Jewish relations with call for more interfaith friendships
(Nicole Winfield, Huffpost Religion)
50 Years of the Jewish-Christian dialogue – the way forward
(Ron Kronish, Huffpost Religion: The Blog)
‘Attacks on Jews are anti-Semitism, as are attacks on Israel,’ Pope Francis tells Jewish leader
(World Jewish Congress)
Nostra Aetate fifty years on
(Jonathan Sacks, First Things)
Fears mount in Vietnam as religion law nears debate
(UCA News)
Designate Pakistan as country of concern on religious freedom: US lawmakers
(Business Standard)
Asia Bibi ‘healthy and safe,’ says her lawyer
(Asif Aqeel, World Watch Monitor)
Calls for blasphemy law reform not against religion: apex court
(Hasnaat Malik, The Express Tribune)
Losing Palestine: Analysis
(Haviv Rettig Gur, The Times of Israel)
Why Netanyahu won’t approve a Palestinian state
(Raphael Ahren, The Times of Israel)
Muslim MK slams Christian lawmaker over Temple Mount
(Ilan Ben Zion and Joshua Davidovich, The Times of Israel)
Israel shuns first peace studies programme in the Arab world
(Jayson Casper, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
How the Middle East conflict is warping Judaism
(Jeremy Kalmanofsky, Forward | Opinion)
Australia school criticised for letting Muslim students walk out during national anthem
(Jonathan Pearlman, The Telegraph)
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
The Catholic Church in India asks govt to focus on values, inclusiveness
(Vatican Radio)
United Church of Canada and United Church of Christ formalize full communion
(Ecumenical News)
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