Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 4 May 2015
Madhya Pradesh: Government bans Christian gathering on "law and order" concerns
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
US official calls for Myanmar to increase protections for religious minorities
(Thengi Lynn, Voice of America)
After Texas shootings, far-right Dutchman now in the center of U.S. free speech debate
(David Francis, Foreign Policy - The Cable)
Religious Composition by Country, 2010-2050
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Congo-Brazzaville bans Muslim women from wearing full-face veils, citing terrorism prevention
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Bennett to advance Judaism, not democracy, in education system
(Akiva Eldar, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Kenya politician says 'no room for gays' in country
(Al Jazeera America)
Somalia bans media from using 'al-Shabab' name
(Hamza Mohamed, Al Jazeera)
Interfaith groups stress inhumane nature of nuclear weapons
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Putin raises 'extremism' fines for Russian media tenfold
(Howard Amos, The Moscow Times)
Clashes erupt between police and Ethiopian Jews in Tel Aviv
(Middle East Monitor)
Egyptian secular party seeks to change national Islamic identity
(Middle East Monitor)
Burial rites, religious rights and contagious diseases
(Ileana Varela, Florida International University News)
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says police shouldn’t enforce Islam
(Raw Story)
No one jailed in Iran for their opinions? Many take to social media to disagree
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Tajikistan suspects Turkish man of recruiting for IS militants
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Hindu assault empties entire Christian village
(Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News)
India: Two youths held on charges of proselytisation at choultry
(The Hindu)
Hanoi consults bishops on a new law on faiths that violates religious freedom
(Asia News)
China lodges US protest after religious freedom criticised
(The Economic Times)
Jewish emigration from Ukraine and Russia is surging
(Mark Abdomanis, Forbes)
Overt religious persecution in eight of 10 Asean states, study finds
(Malay Mail Online)
Sunday, 3 May 2015
Ambassador David Saperstein's joint visit to Burma to promote religious freedom
(Imperial Valley News)
Saturday, 2 May 2015
Congress gives Egypt a pass on religious rights violations
(Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East)
Religion, state, politics and society — Nicholas Chan
(Malay Mail Online)
Republic of Congo bans full-face veils in attempt to prevent religious extremist attacks
(Rose Troup Buchanan, The Independent)
US report assails Pakistan over state of ‘religious freedom’
(Anwar Iqbal, Dawn)
Washington: Religious freedom has worsened under Modi
(AsiaNews.it)
Can interreligious dialogue help in the fight against radicalisation?
(José Luis Bazán - COMECE, Europeinfos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Friday, 1 May 2015
America, religion and anarchy: Freedom's foes
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Charlie Hebdo and PEN: Free all speech
(J.F., The Economist)
USCIRF issues 2015 Annual Report
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
U.S. religious freedom commission calls for criminal prosecution of Islamic State
(Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Egypt’s Salafists at a crossroads
(Ashraf El-Sherif, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Angola shuts eight churches after deadly clashed with sect
(Colin McClelland, Bloomberg Business News)
Anbar’s displaced Sunnis not safe from sectarianism
(Adnan Abu Zeed, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Congress gives Egypt a pass on religious rights violations
(Julian Pecquet, Al-Monitor: Congress Pulse)
Spirituality may be key to 'dying well,' even in a less-religious age
(Compiled by Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Israeli city asks court to okay ban on Jehovah's Witnesses event
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Turkey's Alevis 'under the shadow of military tanks'
(Paul Benjamin Osterlund, Al Jazeera)
The peacemaking Palestinian evangelicals of Israel
(Jayson Casper, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Russia: Jailed for exercising freedom of religion or belief in public
(Forum 18 News Service)
2014: A year of particular concern
(World Watch Monitor)
Emir of Kano orders church rebuilding
(Christian Solidarity Worldwide - USA)
Pakistan: Hindu settlements in Kashmir violate UN resolutions
(Arab News)
Sri Lanka: Kerry visit to show US 'applauds vision' of new government
(Eurasia Review)
With malice toward nun
(Nina Shea, Hudson Institute)
For Singapore archbishop, from education to health case, Catholics have built the nation’s future
(AsiaNews.it)
Baghdad grants amnesty to deserters to fight the Islamic State group
(AsiaNews.it)
India refuses to criminalise marital rape because of 'social issues and religious beliefs' in country
(Heather Saul, The Independent)
Tasmania: ‘Bigoted’ religious freedom law passes
(Jackson Stiles, The New Daily)
Religion and state: Nepal surrogacy, women of the wall, and social media for social change
(Breaking Israel News)
Saudis turn to religion to bend Pakistan's Yemen policy
(Aamir Latif, Anadolu Agency)
Saudi King, Romanian PM discuss regional security, terrorism
(Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Arab News)
Egypt without God? Atheists collect signatures to form a secular party
(Al Bawaba News)
Invisible atheists: The spread of disbelief in the Arab world
(Ahmed Benchemsi, New Republic)
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Nigeria: Abducted women and girls forced to join Boko Haram attacks
(Amnesty International)
Gloriavale responds to abuse allegations: 'It doesn't mean they're all true'
(One News, TVNZ)
West Coast MP dismisses calls to shut Gloriavale school
(Jody O'Callaghan, Stuff.co.nz)
No dice required: A medieval prayer wheel surfaces, but how it was used is anyone’s guess
(David Van Biema, Religion News Service)
USCIRF issues its 2015 Annual Report
(Katrina Lantos Swett et al., United States Commission for International Religious Freedom)
Hypocritical Hindu radicals honour one Dalit abroad
(Lenin Raghuvanshi, AsiaNews.it)
US report slams Modi government on Ghar Vapasi, attacks on Christians and derogatory statements
(Aman Sharma, The Economic Times)
India rejects US report on religious freedom, says it’s based on limited understanding
(The Indian Express)
Amid Nepal’s shattered shrines and temples, a religious fatalism sets in
(Vishal Arora and Kevin Eckstrom, Religion News Service)
Kenyan court says LGBT rights group may be formed; Christian churches object
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
What do people want from Turkey’s top religious body?
(Hürriyet Daily News)
Erdoğan vows to transform entire political system, again demands ‘400 MPs’
(Hurriyet Daily News)
Persecution of Christians in China at record high
(Ariel Cohen, The Jerusalem Post)
Using church funds, Zochrot promotes a “de-Zionized Palestine,” meaning free of Jews.
(The Jerusalem Post)
Mapped: These are the world's most religious countries
(Raziye Akkoc, The Telegraph)
Malala attackers sentenced to life in prison
(Arab News)
Best qualified men ‘selected to undertake big responsibilities’
(Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Arab News)
Buddhist monk seeks PM's intervention in Buddha shrine dispute resolution
(Abdul Qadir, The Times of India)
Iran ‘godfather’ of Islamic jihadists: Opposition leader Maryam Rajavi
(BasNews)
Russia sentences four members of banned Islamic group to long prison terms
(Russian Legal Information Agency)
Life for 69 Islamists who torched church in Kerdasa
(AsiaNews.it)
Vietnam’s two faces
(World Watch Monitor)
BOOK LAUNCH, 30 April 2015: Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law
(Edited by the Reverend Robin Griffith-Jones and Professor the Worshipful Mark Hill QC, Cambridge University Press)
EVENT, 30 April 2015: Advancing Leadership for Women of Faith: Practical Tools and Lessons Learned
(April 2015 Faith & International Affairs Conference Call, Institute for Global Engagement)
Court clears lifting of headscarf ban in Turkey’s secondary schools
(Hürriyet Daily News)
Washington urged to condemn Tajikistan's constraints on religious freedom
(Edward Lemon, Inside the Cocoon)
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Pope Francis orders Vatican to open files on Argentina dictatorship
(Uki Goñi, The Guardian)
Indonesia executions: Convicts praised God, sang Christian hymns before death by firing squad
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today - World)
Is Erdogan signaling end of secularism in Turkey?
(Pinar Tremblay, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Arab youth use social media to send message of peace to Israel
(Shlomi Eldar, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
LGBT Kenyans gain the right to organize, and churches promise to fight
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Russian State Duma adopts amendments to religion law
(Russia Religion News)
Crimean Tatars: restriction of freedom of religion since illegal annexation
(Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
Iraqi cleric warns US Congress against recognising Kurds, Sunnis as “separate countries”
(BasNews)
71 get life sentences for torching Christian church in Egypt
(Sarah Sirgany and Greg Botelho, CNN)
Parents in Winnipeg debate religion in their schools
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
When you don't stand
(Jordana Brown, The Jewish Press)
Armenian Christians sue in Turkey to regain church property
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Belarus president pans Minsk governor for not taking Jews 'under control'
(The Jerusalem Post)
Syrian Catholic leader pleads with US Christians not to forget his threatened church
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Bahrain’s crackdown on free speech could inflame sectarian tensions
(Emanuel Stoakes, Al Jazeera America)
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