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Friday, 14 August 2015

United Church of Canada aims to divest from fossil fuels
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Korea: Still divided 70 years on
(World Watch Monitor)

Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric calls for reforms to start with judiciary
(Saif Hameed and Stephen Kalin, Reuters)

Iraqi Kurds say Islamic State attacked them with chemical weapons
(Isabel Coles, Reuters)

Pope Francis says Sundays are a gift from God not to be shunned
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Analysis: The revival of Sikh nationalism begins to worry India
(Slok Gyawali, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)

Syrian Rebel Leader Subhi al-Refai on U.S. relations with Ahrar al-Sham
(Aron Lund, Syria Comment (Joshua Landis))

Thursday, 13 August 2015

Nigeria's Boko Haram militants 'have new leader'
(BBC News)

Buhari charges Nigeria’s military chiefs to defeat Boko Haram in 3 months
(Talatu Usman, Premium Times)

Dabke troupes dance on in Gaza
(Rasha Abou Jalal, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)

Muslim, Arab world ‘big victims of terror’
(Mohammed Rasooldeen, Arab News)

Bangladesh says arrests two Islamists over killing of secularist blogger
(Ruma Paul, Reuters)

Islamic State says in broadcast that it killed Croatian hostage
(Omar Fahmy and Ahmed Aboulenein, Reuters)

Kazakhstan: "What right do authorities have to scare our children?"
(Forum 18 News Service)

Religious council can dictate who can practise shariah law, says federal lawyer
(V. Anbalagan, The Malaysian Insider)

Court bans LGBT march in Odessa
(Interfax-Religion)

UOC asks Constantinople not to interfere in church affairs in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)

Ukraine's border guard service reports detention of priest allegedly involved with militia battalion in Donbass
(Interfax-Religion)

Islamic extremists send death threat to 19 bloggers and intellectuals
(Sumon Corraya, Asia News)

For Christian activist, Sri Lanka is ready for historic elections
(Jehan Perera, Asia News)

Hong Kong: Card Tong issues an "urgent appeal" against cross demolition in China
(Asia News)

Four Sudanese Christian women found innocent of 'immoral dress'
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)

China intensifies anti-church campaign as faithful risk lives in defying state orders
(Monica Cantilero, Christian Today)

India weighs update to 1970s abortion law
(Menaka Rao, BBC News)

Morocco moves to legalize abortions in cases of rape and incest
(Jessica Morris, USA Today)

Truck bomb targeting Shiites kills 67 at Baghdad market
(Vivian Salama and Sinan Salaheddin, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

ISIS enshrines a theology of rape
(Rukmini Callimachi, The New York Times)

Knesset c'tee nixes Agriculture Ministry regulations for Yom Kippur chicken ritual
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)

In Israel, Knesset committee rejects agriculture ministry rules on kapparot ritual
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

70 years after WWII, the Holocaust is still very important to American Jews
(Becka Alper, Pew Research Center FactTank)

Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Card. Parolin in Indonesia: "Unique nation for tolerance and respect for diversity"
(Mathias Hariyadi, Asia News)

India: Gujarat, book on father of the Constitution withdrawn because "anti-Hindu"
(Asia News)

Iran: Parliament mulls fining women for not wearing hijab
(Radia Zamaneh, Eurasia Review)

Women to vote for the first time in Saudi municipal elections
(Asia News)

Lebanon: Maronite bishop stopped at gunpoint in a country where anarchy reigns
(Fady Noun, Asia News)

Sri Lanka: Church’s social doctrine to guide Christian voters in the country’s upcoming elections
(Melani Manel Perera, Asia News)

Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan Political Council converges in Istanbul
(Interfax-Religion)

Kaliningrad resident sentenced to four years in jail for calls for 'jihad'
(Interfax-Religion)

Sudan bars Christian pastors from leaving Muslim country following their release from prison
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Kenyan clergy joins battle against deadly homemade brews
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)

Pope’s climate push at odds with U.S. Catholic oil investments
(Religion News Service)

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, who has massacred thousands of Christians, has been driven out of power, claims Chad's president
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Appeal court rules against Ktunaxa in Jumbo dispute
(Arne Petryshen, Cranbrook Daily Townsman)

Asylum seeker forcibly returned to Afghanistan after appeals exhausted
(Ben Doherty, The Guardian)

Canadian court says aboriginal religious freedom not infringed by approval of ski resort
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

US journalist for Jewish paper posts first report after gaining rare access to Iran
(Amanda Holpuch, The Guardian)

Elevation of Syriac bishop 100 years after martyrdom reminder of persecution
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

IS affiliate in Egypt releases image of slain Croat captive
(Brian Rohan, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Pakistani religious party leaders urged to help revive Taliban peace talks
(Jon Boone, The Guardian)

New route to conversion challenges Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Eestablishment
(Jodi Rudoren, The New York Times)

Australians to vote on gay marriage if government elected
(Rob McGuirk, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Reporting from Iran, Jewish paper sees no plot to destroy Israel
(Rick Gladstone, The New York Times)

Kuwait's Sunnis question fellow Shiites' loyalties
(Ibrahim Al-Hatlani, Al-Monitor: Gulf Pulse)

Ein Karem: One village, three religions
(Mordechai Goldman, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

LGBT in El Salvador: Beatings, intolerance, death
(Nina Lakhani, Al Jazeera)

Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Russian forces kill 4 militants, including rebel chief
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Israeli police question head of extremist anti-coexistence group
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

China prepares to ordain second bishop with Pope's approval
(Sui-Lee Wee, Reuters)

USCIRF Condemns Trial Outcome of Ethiopian Muslim Leaders
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

USCIRF Welcomes Release of Pastors in Sudan
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Foreign Policy — The (Non)Free Exercise of Religion
(Katrina Lantos Swett and Mary Ann Glendon, Foreign Policy)

IS in Syria releases 22 Christians held since February
(Bassem Mroue, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Saudi Arabia: Prominent writer detained
(Human Rights Watch)

Dispatches: Nepal’s transgender passport progress
(Kyle Knight, Human Rights Watch)

Egypt rejects Qatar offer to mediate with Muslim Brotherhood
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)

South Sudanese church leaders support proposed peace agreement
(Anglican Communion News Service)

Cameroon military releases 72 people illegally held
(Edwin Kindzeka Moki, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Former Shin Bet head: Jewish terror slow-growing 'cancer' in Israel
(Akiva Eldar, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

The latest target of India’s morality police: Unmarried couples in hotel rooms
(Adam Taylor, The Washington Post)

Tanzania: Church prohibits followers from voting
(Peti Siyame, allAfrica)

Fast-to-death ritual banned
(Rakhee Roy Talukdar, Calcutta Telegraph)

Indian court bars Jain practice of santhara as suicide
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

New South Wales public school floated plan for student prayer group register
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)

Captured Hamas fighter provides terror tunnel information
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

ISIS 'cannot be reconciled with Islam' says Turkey's religious authority
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)

Christianity facing threat of being rendered illegal under Nepal's new constitution
(Rio Ribaya, Christian Today)

Thousands of Iraqi Christians flee as ISIS massacres 2,000 civilians, blasts Baghdad with car bombs
(Hermione Macura, The Christian Post)

Christian Evangelist, USCIRF: Iran under President Rouhani cracking down hard on churches
(Hermione Macura, The Christian Post)

Over 15,000 Assyrian Christian families in danger from ISIS following mass kidnappings of hundreds
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

China prepares to ordain second bishop with Pope's approval
(Wee Sui-Lee, Reuters)

Chinese Christians resist government plan to remove crosses
(Ian Johnson, The New York Times)

Number of young people joining Islamic State declines sharply in Chechnya - Kadyrov
(Interfax-Religion)

Kazakh Islamist sentenced to 13 years for "jihad" propaganda
(Interfax-Religion)

Australia ruling party blocks members from voting for gay marriage
(Matt Siegel, Reuters)

Holy Land Catholic body urges action against Jewish extremists
(Agence France-Presse)

Azerbaijan: Muslim bookseller's prison sentence "a judicial secret"
(Forum 18 News Service)

Monday, 10 August 2015

Asking headscarved women to remove topcoat for security check violates freedom: Court
(Hurriyet Daily News)

Canadian pastor admits to trying to ‘overthrow’ North Korea, dictatorship’s news agency says
(The Canadian Press, National Post)

Cornerstone Blog: Religious Freedom in Southeast Asia
(Stephen Bailey, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

Draft law on freedom of religion and belief under public discussion
(allAfrica)

The new Druze militia factions of Suwayda Province
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment (Joshua Landis))

We should protect Ethiopia from any form of extremist tendencies - Sheik Salahadin Wazir
(Abraham Dereje, The Ethiopian Herald)

Religious Freedom in a Multicultural World conference, 25 Sep 2015
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Seven ways religious freedom contributes to sustainable development
(Brian J. Grim, The Weekly Number)

Faith and Conflict in the 21st Century
(Teresa Morgan, OUPblog Religion)

Religious Zionist rabbis form private conversion court
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Israel releases at least 9 Jewish suspects in firebombing of Palestinian home
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Sudan reiterates its protection for religious freedoms
(Sudan Tribune)

India's Muslim women fight to end triple talaq law that yields instant divorce
(Amrit Dhillon, The Guardian)

US ties relations with Hanoi to improvement in respect for human rights
(Nguyen Hung, Asia News)

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