Law and Religion Headlines

Sunday, 21 June 2015

EVENT (DAY RATE information), 21-24 June 2015: Oxford Conference: "Magna Carta and Freedom of Religion or Belief"
(St Hugh's College, Oxford (full Mon, Wed programmes now available), Sponsored by the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, organized in cooperation with the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion)

International Yoga Day controversy as India is accused of pushing 'Hindu agenda' on Muslims
(Siobhan Fenton, The Independent)

Inside Islamic State group's rule: Creating a nation of fear
(Zeina Karam, Vivian Salama, Bram Janssen, and Lee Keath, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Saddam’s former army is secret of success for Baghdadi’s Islamic State
(Samia Nakhoul, Reuters)

Laudato si’: On care for our common home
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Ramadan and remembrance
(Sophia Rose Arjana, OUPblog Religion)

Laudato si’: a press guide to the new Encyclical
(Vatican Radio)

Pope's Encyclical on environmental protection issued; Republican presidential candidates may be pressed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Coptic boys on bail, anti-Islam charges pending
(World Watch Monitor)

Arson attack guts part of Israel's Church of Loaves and Fishes
(Baz Ratner, Reuters)

Afghan clerics protest nomination of first woman to Supreme Court
(Mirwais Harooni, Reuters)

Russia: Abusive counterinsurgency tactics in southern republic
(Human Rights Watch)

Sikh's Cossie Club ban over turban 'nothing to do with religion' - manager
(Luke Appleby, ONE News)

Blasphemy in Pakistan: The case of Aasia Bibi
(Zehra Abid, Al Jazeera America)

Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Islamic clerics fight to keep Pakistan's blasphemy laws that persecute Chrsitians
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Girl attacked with rock in Rio after leaving party at center for Afro-Brazilian religion
(Star Tribune)

Ramadan begins this evening
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

In Myanmar's election year, radical Buddhism heightens tension
(Andrew C. Marshall, Reuters)

The death penalty is cruel. But so is life without parole
(Stephen Lurie, New Republic)

Community 'Justice' expels Copts from their homes
(Jayson Casper, World Watch Monitor)

Chad arrests five and bans burqa after suicide bombings
(Madjiasra Nako and Emma Farge, Reuters)

Social media posts say U.S. Embassy moved July 4 celebration to June 4 to 'accommodate' Ramadan
(Louis Jacobson, PoltiiFact)

Afghanistan appoints first female Supreme Court judge
(Euronews)

Afghan president appoints first woman to Supreme Court, but clerics object
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Jordanian media and Muslims criticize U.S. ambassador's support of LGBT event
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Religious climate activists energized by pope’s environment encyclical
(Sarah Posner, Al Jazeera America)

Pope Francis: Seek forgiveness for shutting out refugees
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

‘Ethnic cleansing’ by Kurds in Syria: Turkey
(Arab News)

Canada: Anglican church bells ring as reminder of violence against Indigenous women
(Anglican Communion News Service)

European Court decides that Israel is not occupying Gaza
(Marko Milanovic, EJIL:Talk!)

The Review of Faith & International Affairs: New issue now online
(Journal of the Center on Faith & International Affairs at the Institute for Global Engagement)

Cilicia Catholicosate says lawsuit demands return of historical seat not financial compensation
(Asbarez)

Community 'justice' expels Copts from their homes
(Jayson Casper, World Watch Monitor)

Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan urges President Rahmon to stop govt pressure on it
(Interfax-Religion)

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Extremist groups transform concept of jihad
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

ILO slams Qatar Airways for sexist policies
(Al Jazeera America)

Over the secular ridge of human wants: the constitutional legitimacy of secular-state funding of religious education in Australia and Europe
(Vito Breda, Social Science Research Network)

IDF to ease restrictions on Palestinians over the month of Ramadan
(Gili Cohen, Haaretz)

One Iraqi village’s antidote to turmoil: Ban political and religious debate
(Loveday Morris, The Washington Post)

Taliban in Afghanistan tells Islamic State to stay out of country
(Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post)

Islamic State group loses key town on Turkish border
(Zeina Karam, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Al-Qaida's No. 2 figure killed in US strike in Yemen
(Maggie Michael, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

The Sunshine approach: Running a business with a social mission
(Religious Freedom and Business Foundation)

Israel freezes funding for Arab theater over controversial play
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

US airstrike kills 'The Uncatchable' jihadist, Libyan government says
(Monica Cantilero, Christian Today)

Former nuncio Jozef Wesolowski committed to trial
(Vatican News)

Encyclicals, Pope Francis and the Environment
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Egyptian Christians stand firm in their faith in Jesus before ISIS execution, families testify
(Monica Cantilero, Christian Today)

Monday, 15 June 2015

In Myanmar's election year, radical Buddhism heightens tension
(Andrew R.C. Marshall, Reuters)

Saudi Arabian courts are inadequate for resolving employee’s claim against Boeing, because those courts discriminate against non-Muslims
(Eugene Volokh, The Washington Post)

Children need heterosexual parents, says pope after gay pride march
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

Egyptian lawyer interrogated for drafting anti-torture law
(Marwa Al-A'Sar, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

The fight goes on for Lebanon's LGBT community
(Sophie Chamas, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)

Will Israel reach out to Syrian Druze?
(Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

The massacre of Druze villagers in Qalb Lawza, Idlib Province
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment (Joshua Landis))

Announcing the Voices of the Women's Initiative at the 2015 Parliament
(Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions)

Analysis: Understanding the jihadists through their poetry and piety
(Charles Cameron, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)

The Rohingyas: The most persecuted people on Earth?
(The Economist)

The Economist explains: The Magna Carta
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

800th anniversary of the Magna Carta; what did it have to do with religious freedom?
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Cousin of ISIS leader released from detention in Georgia
(Interfax-Religion)

Mexico's Supreme Court deems same-sex marriage ban 'unconstitutional'
(Monica Cantilero, Christian Today)

Iraqi gov't officials suspected of illegally seizing 70 percent of Christian property in Baghdad
(Vincent Funaro, The Christian Post)

Russia sponsors education to combat Islamist influence
(Russia Religion News)

Fears of new crackdown as China holds two former members of rights group
(Tom Phillips, The Guardian)

Dalai Lama's spokesman dismisses Australian tour protesters as a 'cult'
(Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian)

Sudan president flouts arrest warrant, returns home from South Africa
(Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times)

Sudan's president, who has persecuted Christians 'under Shariah law,' is on the run after UN calls for his arrest for war crimes
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Kenya police and military accused of victimising Muslims over terror attacks
(Mark Anderson, The Guardian)

Members of Islamist organization sentenced in Bashkortostan
(Interfax-Religion)

Why is the Turkish Kurdish party HDP praising Hezbollah?
(Al Bawaba News)

Rising religious persecution: Islam threatens minorities
(Doug Bandow, Cato Institute)

CALL FOR PAPERS deadline 15 June 2015: Sharia in the Asia-Pacific: Islam, Law and Politics
(Organising team, Religious Studies Programme, Victoria University of Wellington)

Sunday, 14 June 2015

The last gasp of the Cradle Christians?
(Chris Seiple, Institute for Global Engagement)

The Iran-Syria Alliance: Sectarianism or Realpolitik?
(Mohammad Ataie, Syria Comment (Joshua Landis))

UAE legal Q&A: Penalty for breaking law by eating in public
(The National)

On social media, a mysterious threat to impose Sharia Law in one area of Jordan's capital Amman
(Al Bawaba News)

Looking for God in the sociology of religion and in Game of Thrones
(Anna Strhan, OUPblog Religion)

Saturday, 13 June 2015

Syrian Kurds nearing Islamic State border stronghold
(Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal)

Demolishing the Islamic State Myth: Defeating the propaganda of ISIS
(Mohammad Alami Musa, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS))

Muslim groups back Yoga Day,Catholics unhappy
(Smriti Kak Ramachandran, The Hindu)

Egyptian Law and the European Court of Human Rights
(Saba Mahmood & Peter G. Danchin, Politics of Religious Freedom: Contested Norms & Local Practices)

Muslim academic and peace activist calls for compulsory teaching of all religions to defeat terrorism
(Rachel Olding, The Sydney Morning Herald)

Friday, 12 June 2015

Bahrain convicts 57 over 'bombing plot'
(BBC News)

China's Panchen Lama promises Xi he will uphold national unity
(Reuters)

Why Erdoganism failed in Turkey?
(Saleh Zamani, Ph.D., Iran Review)

Nude trekkers atop Mount Kinabalu deported for offending religious sensibilities
(Trevor Grundy, Religion News Service)

Pope Francis will meet with a married gay activist on trip to Paraguay
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)

Saudi Arabia guarantees rights of disabled
(Arab News)

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