Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 22 October 2015
Top Bosnian Muslim cleric raps Orban on Islam remarks in migrant crisis
(Reuters)
Israeli soldier kills Jewish civilian in 'identity mishap'
(BBC News)
In Israel, Hanukkah season is already here
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Egypt's fake mosque problem
(Hala Ali, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Some Middle Eastern Christians are speaking up against “holy war” in Syria
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Indian PM's mild reaction to violence over eating cows gets few bites in U.S. media
(Ira Rifkin, Get Religion (blog))
Barack Obama asked to address religious persecution in Pakistan
(Economic Times)
After Netanyahu talks, Kerry says may be way to ease Israeli-Palestinian strife
(Arshad Mohammed, Reuters)
Kerry to Netanyahu: Time for all to end inflammatory rhetoric
(Reuters, Religion News Service)
Why Benjamin Netanyahu's defense of Hitler is so wrong — and matters so much
(J.J. Goldberg, Forward | Opinion)
Jehovah's Witness grandparents ordered to keep faith to themselves
(Jason Proctor, CBC News)
B.C. couple must stop talking religion with granddaughter, judge rules
(Matthew Robinson, Vancouver Sun)
Canadian court: Grandparents have no right to force religious exposure on grandchild over mother's objections
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Metropolitan Hilarion, Pope discuss persecution of Christians in Middle East
(Interfax-Religion)
Big in Iceland: Paganism
(Uri Friedman, The Atlantic)
Imams in Tunisia protest against arbitrary dismissal
(Middle East Monitor)
US criticizes Vietnam on religious freedom
(New America Media)
Christianity's danger spots, including imperilled Iraq, presented to UK parliamentary chamber
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
In second attempt, Gerakan to challenge hudud through Muslim members
(Ida Lim, Malay Mail Online)
Islamists issue death threat against leading Bangladeshi blogger
(Deutsche Welle)
Russian security officers arrest 22 Hizb ut-Tahrir members
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Church calls on West not to supply arms to Mideast militants
(Interfax-Religion)
Over ten natives of Central Asia suspected of involvement with ISIL detained in Moscow area
(Interfax-Religion)
Dramatic religious and economic shifts to impact planet, new study
(Brian J. Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Religious freedom isn’t a trump card, but it does need to be a part of marriage equality and rights debate
(Tim Wilson, Brisbane Times)
Synod on the Family: Press Briefing Day 14
(Vatican Radio)
The ‘Blogging Bishop of Brisbane’ dishes on the real story of Vatican synod
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Long-term mercy vs short-term mercy: Australian cardinal answers questions about the Synod on the family
(Cardinal George Pell, Mercator Net)
On the Road Together – The soil of real experience (Report on the Synod on the Family)
(Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Archdiocese of Brisbane)
First reports on hot-button issues from Pope Francis’s meeting reveal deep divisions
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Pope's family synod: No changes, but everything has changed
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press, The Big Story)
UNESCO condemns Israeli 'aggression' at Al-Aksa, but pulls controversial text on Western Wall
(Tovah Lazaroff, The Jerusalem Post)
UNESCO passes Arab resolution: Cave of Patriarchs 'Islamic'
(Ari Soffer, Arutz Sheva 7)
UNESCO to vote on proposal declaring Western Wall a Muslim site
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Hamas leader calls on Abbas to join the Intifada
(Al Bawaba)
Palestinians take to the streets to protest discrimination
(Ahmad Melhem, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Are Palestinian UN workers glorifying violence against Israelis on social media?
(Nathan Guttman, Forward)
Indian court provides ‘minor relief’ from ban on Christianity
(Anto Akkara, World Watch Monitor)
News about the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions
The Islamization of Thailand – Analysis
(Murray Hunter, Eurasia Review)
Christian persecution reaches 'extreme' levels in these 10 countries
(Vincent Funaro, The Christian Post)
Turkmenistan: Nine months of persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
(European Association of Jehovah's Christian Witnesses, OSCE/ODIHR Human Dimension Implementation Meeting)
USCIRF welcomes release of State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report; urges prompt CPC designations
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Singapore mega-church founder Kong Hee found guilty of $35m donations fraud
(Associated Press, The Guardian)
With the Saudis, the West should take no prisoners
(Adam Coogle, Human Rights Watch)
Dispatches: Going backwards on child marriage in Bangladesh
(Heather Barr, Human Rights Watch)
Feeling targeted, Ultra-Orthodox take up arms
(Mordechai Goldman, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Egypt’s Salafist leader say he's learned from the Muslim Brotherhood's mistakes
(Walaa Hussein, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Syrian Christian militias liberate Hasakah
(Jean Aziz, Al-Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)
Amnesty International says Rohingya death toll higher than UN estimates
(Philip J. Victor, Al Jazeera America)
'Halal tourism' emerges as businesses serve Muslim travelers
(Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Indian Jain monk seeks eight months to walk 2,200 km to court
(BBC News)
Texas teen arrested for homemade clock to move to Qatar
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Razing of Indonesian churches denounced after sectarian tension flares
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Canada’s new leader to pull planes from anti-Islamic State coalition
(DeNeen L. Brown, The Washington Post)
Trudeau says Canada will withdraw from anti-ISIL coalition
(Al Jazeera America)
Anger at Netanyahu claim Palestinian grand mufti inspired Holocaust
(Peter Beaumont, The Guardian)
Ethnicity and Myanmar’s elections
(Kyaw San Wai, Naoko Kumada, RSIS Commentaries)
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
Breaking down the decentralization debate at the 2015 Synod of Bishops
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
In Egypt vote, ultraconservative Islamists try balancing act
(Brian Rohan, Associated Press, The Big Story)
Buddhist nationalism divides Myanmar
(News 24)
WCC concerned about increasing violence in Jerusalem
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Islamist hard-liners attack Indonesian churches
(Benjamin Soloway, Foreign Policy)
UN Chief visits Israel in bid to halt violence
(Ori Lewis, Forward)
Church attack routs thousands of Indonesian Christians
(World Watch Monitor)
Indonesia's Aceh province tears down churches after religious violence
(Kanupriya Kapoor, Reuters)
Christian churches demolished in Indonesia to appease mob of enraged Muslims
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
The birth of the Bab 2015: Bahá'ís remember a prophet
(Carol Kuruvilla, Huffington Post)
Kyrgyzstan: Police impunity for torturing people at religious meeting?
(Forum 18 News Service)
ISIS' ethnic cleansing forces 100,000 Christians to flee city in single night
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Aussie tourists harassed in India for Hindu goddess tattoo
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Jews fleeing violence in France find it in Israel
(Shira Rubin, USA Today)
Saudi Arabia hajj disaster death toll at least 2,177
(Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Christianity was the only way out, says North Korean defector
(Ed Pilkington, The Guardian)
Pope Francis to meet poor, Muslims, and evangelicals in Africa
(Nicole Winfield, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Facebook to be sued for ‘promoting terror’
(World Religion News)
Saudi Arabia hajj disaster death toll at least 2,177
(Jon Gambrell, Associated Press)
Death count from hajj stampede now believed to be over 2,100
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Muslim women’s group demands ‘gender just reform’ in personal law
(The Hindu)
Experts object to Russia’s banning of JW.ORG
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
EVENT, 20 October 2015: Secular revolutions and religious counterrevolutions
(Michael Walzer, José Casanova, Jocelyne Cesari, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Monday, 19 October 2015
ISIS in Afghanistan: A growing threat to Pakistan?
(Sara Mahmood, RSIS Commentaries)
ISIS’ Southeast Asia Unit: Raising the security threat
(Jasminder Singh, V. Arianti, RSIS Commentaries)
Canadian Prime Minister uses anti-Muslim comments to garner votes
(Herb Scribner, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
O Canada! Say no to Muslim-bashing, eh?
(Dean Obeidallah, The Daily Beast)
Religious freedom abuses at risk of increasing in Vietnam
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
International religious freedom ambassador says greatest threat to extremism is girls reading books
(Matthew Brown, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Interfaith lovefest ‘brings hearts and minds together’
(Kristen Moulton, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Women's Assembly re-imagines traditions at Parliament of the World's Religions
(Marjorie Cortez, KSL.com)
Fighting ‘the OK racism of our time’ — Islamophobia
(Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Religions parliament calls for peace, justice
(Muneeb Nasir, OnIslam)
Parliament of World's Religions attendees reflect on conventions message
(Aldo Vazquez, Good4Utah)
Religion feeds all comers because ‘we are all equal human beings’
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Parliament of the World's Religions attendees break bread together at Sikh community's langar
(Marjorie Cortez, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Parliament of the World’s Religions: Cities should make compassion a guiding value, mayors say
(Kristen Moulton, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Religious leaders told to use moral authority to fight greed and poverty
(Marjorie Cortez, Deseret News)
WCC expresses concern over renewed violence in Jerusalem
(World Council of Churches)
Could Christianity be facing extinction in the Middle East?
(Earle Cornelius, Lancaster Online)
General secretary affirms churches’ commitment to justice and peace in the Middle East News
(World Council of Churches)
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