Law and Religion Headlines
Saturday, 25 July 2015
Iran executes nearly 700 in just six months, including religious minorities convicted of 'enmity against God'
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Friday, 24 July 2015
Obama administration preparing to release Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard
(Barak Ravid, Haaretz)
Niger churches ‘abandoned’ after Charlie Hebdo destruction
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)
Malaysian government gives back Ireland's 'Allah' CDs
(World Watch Monitor)
Aleppo archbishop aims to help Christians stay in Syria
(Catholic News Agency)
ISIS executes two 'gay' men in ancient Syrian city of Palmyra
(Haaretz)
Study finds growing criticism of Israel among Diaspora Jewry
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Chapel or memorial sign to appear in place of collapsed barracks in Omsk
(Interfax-Religion)
Vatican bans La Repubblica journalist from traveling with pope
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)
Tourists seek spiritual high in Israel’s Safed
(Mordechai Goldman, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
The Islamic State's secret recruiting ground in Turkey
(Mahmut Bozarslan, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Hamas, Salafists try to move beyond bumpy history
(Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
'Life has stopped:' 70 Niger churches struggle to rebuild after Islamist revenge rampage for Charlie Hebdo cartoons
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Why Nigeria’s president thinks the U.S. has ‘aided and abetted’ Boko Haram
(Adam Taylor, The Washington Post)
Kyrgyz PM proposes to build special prison for religious extremists
(Interfax)
Obama disagrees with DP William Ruto on gay rights
(Antony Karanja, Daily Nation)
2 top al-Qaeda leaders killed in Syria and Afghanistan US airstrikes, Pentagon says
(Monica Cantilero, Christian Today)
Turkey stages first air strikes on Islamic State in Syria
(Orhan Coskun and Dasha Afanasieva, Reuters)
Counter-terrorism laws 'not about targeting Muslims', says justice minister
(Shalailah Medhora, The Guardian)
Russian students targeted as recruits by Islamic State
(Aleksandr Panin and Laura Smith, BBC News)
China cracks down on Hong Kong evangelists
(Juliana Liu, BBC News)
WCC acknowledges Mennonite churches’ work for peace at its assembly
(World Council of Churches)
One coastal town's groundbreaking approach to local governance in Turkey
(Sibel Hurtas, Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East)
Central African Republic interfaith group clinches prize in memory of slain UN leader
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Tunisia’s secular government cracks down on mosques in aftermath of massacre
(Carlotta Gall, The New York Times)
Chinese police are said to seize ashes of Tibetan monk Tenzin Delek Rinpoche
(Dan Levin, The New York Times)
A find in Britain: Quran fragments perhaps as old as Islam
(Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times)
Thursday, 23 July 2015
In Pakistan, the Church is pursuing the path of love—even in the face of violence
(Aid to the Church in Need)
Mexico: Smuggling for Christ the King
(Julia G. Young, OUPblog Religion)
Russian Orthodox Church urges authorities against leaving people without ideological "wheel and sails"
(Interfax-Religion)
Valaam abbot gives up Internet, suggests restricting use of smartphones in monasteries
(Interfax)
How do we make the goals of the Synod of the Family a reality?
(Helen Alvaré, America: The National Catholic Review)
High up on a Pakistani mountain, a success story for moderate Islam
(Tim Craig, The Washington Post)
Iran lobbying blitz targets Jewish Democrats
(Lauren French, Politico)
Turkish army trades fire with ISIL fighters in Syria
(Al Jazeera)
US ‘aiding and abetting’ Boko Haram by refusing Nigeria arms, says Buhari
(Al Jazeera America)
Iraqis fleeing ISIS reveal horrors of militants abusing, killing disabled people
(Hermione Macura, The Christian Post World)
Nigeria: Buhari turns down U.S. proposal on gay marriage
(Daily Independent (Lagos), allAfrica)
Living instruments, judicial impotence, and the trajectories of gay rights in Europe and in the United States
(Marko Milanovic, EJIL:Talk!)
Syrian Christians flee asylum in Sweden amid harassment from Muslims who force them to hide their crosses
(Vincent Funaro, The Christian Post)
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
China targeting rights lawyers in a crackdown
(Andrew Jacobs and Chris Buckley, The New York Times)
Chief Imam urges religious tolerance in Ghana
(Ghana Web)
Israeli brothers jailed for Jewish-Arab school arson
(Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky, Reuters)
Proposed constitution threatens religious freedom in Nepal
(Christine Kim, Christianity Daily)
Australian Muslim leader blasts government's deradicalization drive
(Matt Siegel, Reuters)
Jerusalem to fund non-Orthodox groups
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Washington Post petitions U.N. to help free journalist held in Iran
(Joby Warrick, The Washington Post)
Top Egypt militant urges holy war against Egyptian president
(Sarah El Deeb, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Christian mother on Pakistan's death row gets last chance to escape blasphemy execution
(Christianity Today)
Asia Bibi's last chance for freedom
(World Watch Monitor)
Execution of Christian mother Asia Bibi temporarily suspended; Bibi faces death row accused of saying: 'My Christ died for me, what did Muhammad do for you?'
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Dispatches: re-examining Pakistan’s dangerous blasphemy laws
(Saroop Ijaz, Human Rights Watch)
Pakistan Supreme Court to hear Christian woman's blasphemy case
(Mubasher Bukhari, Reuters)
Pak court suspends death sentence for Christian woman
(Arab News)
This town has resisted Islamic State for 18 months. But food is running low
(Loveday Morris, The Washington Post)
Thousands of Christians who fled ISIS are facing a long term future in refugee camps
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
Few around the globe live where all religions are free & equal
(Tobin Grant, RNS Blog: Corner of Church and State)
Most ancient Hebrew document since the Dead Sea Scrolls deciphered – it's Leviticus
(Nir Hasson, Haaretz)
Japanese Anglicans urge rejection of Security Bills
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Tunisia faces legacy of religious oppression in fight against radicalism
(Alice Su, Al Jazeera America)
Ecumenical Institute for the Middle East will train young Christians
(World Council of Churches)
Philippine bishops campaign for action at Paris climate summit
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Boko Haram: Nigeria borrows $2.1 bn from World Bank to rebuild North-East
(Ibanga Isine, Premium Times)
Egypt militant calls for jihad against "new pharaoh" - recording
(Aswat Masriya)
Deradicalisation program is pointless, says influential Muslim association
(Shalailah Medhora, The Guardian)
Israeli government clashes with liberal Jewish streams
(Tia Goldenberg, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Can churches take a stern line on climate change?
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
EVENT, 22 July 2015: Nigeria: A Conversation with President Muhammadu Buhari
(United States Institute of Peace)
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
In the heart of Africa, a sudden upsurge of radical Islam
(John Pontifex, Aid to the Church in Need)
Pope Francis is making Christianity radical again
(John Gehring, On Faith)
Exempt Muslim students from beauty contests – Muslim student leaders
(Portia Arthur, Pulse)
Participants seek religious freedom, indigenous identity, Karnali State
(Ekantipur Report)
Jordanians question Chattanooga shooter's family in Mideast
(Karin Laub and Adam Schreck, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Nigerian leader: Forces ready soon to take on Boko Haram
(Matthew Pennington, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Boko Haram militants attack Nigerian army chief's home
(Lanre Ola and Julia Payne, Reuters)
Syrian Islamists, courting West, say they will protect minorities
(Sylvia Westall, Reuters)
State Duma deputy asks Russian foreign minister to initiate international tribunal for ISIL
(Interfax-Religion)
Saudi Arabia foils terror plots in major crackdown; over 400 suspects arrested
(Monica Cantilero, Christian Today)
Turkey denies turning blind eye to Islamic State as bombing stokes anger
(Mehmet Emin Caliskan, Reuters)
Turkish president an ISIS 'collaborator,' Kurds say after suicide bomber kills 30
(Monica Cantilero, Christian Today)
'People's faces burned off, you could smell burned bodies:' survivors share horror of ISIS' attack in Turkey
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
UAE criminalizes insult to religion
(Arab News)
The UAE’s new anti-discrimination law is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Burundi: Hopelessness and fear as election tensions heat up
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
Cameroon: Nine students burned to death in suspected Boko Haram attack
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
The ethnic roots of China’s Uighur crisis
(Usaid Siddiqui, Al Jazeera America)
Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem in battle with religious council officials over religious services in the city
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
Christians forced to convert to Hinduism or be denied benefits lifting them out of poverty as 'untouchables' in India
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
China: The best and the worst place to be a Muslim woman
(Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Foreign Policy)
World mayors at Vatican seek 'bold climate agreement'
(Al Jazeera America)
Malaysian activists question role of Muslim 'fashion police'
(Trinna Leong, Reuters)
In new sign of Assad’s troubles, Syria’s Druze turn away from president
(Hugh Naylor, The Washington Post)
Despite animosity, Moscow's Muslims change the city
(Mansur Mirovalev, Al Jazeera)
African clergy to protest Obama’s gay-rights ‘agenda’ on trip
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Gay rights 'non issue', Kenyan president says ahead of Obama visit
(Peter Martell, Agence France-Presse)
Obama backs Nigerian president Buhari in war against Boko Haram; pledges $5 million to fund Nigeria's military
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
The Turkish enigma
(George Friedman, Geopolitical Weekly, Stratfor)
EVENT, 21 July 2015: Forum: Women and Countering Violent Extremism
(United States Institute of Peace)
Muslims free to follow religion in China
(Pakistan Observer)
Monday, 20 July 2015
Is it religion or extremism? Part 2: European anti-discrimination laws
(Robbin Hutton, Inside Counsel)
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