Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 23 April 2015
On eve of anniversary, Turkey’s ‘cultural genocide’ of Armenian history is ongoing
(Tania Karas, Religion News Service)
Secular militancy as an obstacle to peacebuilding
(Timothy Shah, Religious Freedom Project of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Australian Islamic center linked to Gallipoli centenary plot shuts down
(The Jerusalem Post)
Al-Aqsa Sheikh: Situation in the city is very dangerous
(Middle East Monitor)
Kenyan bishop says ‘stop playing around’ on anti-Christian violence
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux)
Brazilian Jews lobby in favor of controversial anti-terror bill
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Extremist Hindus break into India Catholic schools, demand closure
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
How the happiness U-curve echoes the Buddha’s teachings (Commentary)
(Arthur E. Farnsley II, Religion News Service)
From Calvin to the Caliphate: What Europe’s wars of religion tell us about the modern Middle East
(John M. Owen IV, Foreign Affairs)
RightsInfo – a new human rights initiative
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
What human rights do for religion and belief
(Adam Wagner, Rights Info: Human Rights Information to Share)
World Bank launches interfaith push to eliminate extreme poverty
(Heather Adams, Religion News Service)
OIC: Launch of the first round of extensive consultations to boost relations between the Muslim world and China
(Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, Organization of Islamic Cooperation)
The Academic War on Israel
(Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute)
Calvin and the Caliphate
(Robert Joustra, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)
HDP and CHP also envision a ‘New Turkey’
(Özgür Korkmaz, Hürriyet Daily News)
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Christian-Muslim dialogue: Most Muslims are against killing in the name of God
(AsiaNews.it)
The Gospel Herald: Government-sanctioned persecution of Christians in China increased drastically in 2014
(Isaiah Narcisco, China Aid)
Islam, philosophy and the West: A millennium-old argument
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
The Guardian view on the sentence just passed on Mohamed Morsi
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Grief mixes with anger over Christian Ethiopian deaths
(Jacey Fortin, The New York Times)
A call to end racial and religious profiling: A perspective from LGBTQ South Asian, Muslim, and Middle Eastern communities
(Yas Ahmed, Hyphen Magazine)
Egypt's religious book burning backfires
(Rami Galal, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Shiite militias' role in Anbar fight unclear
(Shelly Kittleson, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Turkey: 1,300 people deported amid ISIS clampdown
(Middle East Monitor)
Myanmar population control law threatens minorities: rights group
(Kieran Guilbert, Reuters)
Government in Malaysia's Selangor state says church should put back cross
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Syriac priest wrestles with Turkey's ethnic tensions
(World Watch Monitor)
Turkey faces delicate battle against Islamic State sympathisers at home
(Humeyra Pamuk and Jonny Hogg, Reuters)
Russia accuses Tajik Man of propagating Islamic extremism
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Iraqi officer under Saddam masterminded rise of Islamic State: Spiegel
(writing by Noah Barkin; editing by Crispian Balmer, Reuters)
Malaysia orders probe after protest forces church to take down cross
(reporting by Praveen Menon; editing by Paul Tait, Reuters)
OSCE chief says 'good chance for peace' in Ukraine
(Agence-France Press, Business Insider)
Pope Francis to stop off in Cuba on way to United States in September
(Nick Miroff, The Washington Post)
Gloriavale leaders close in as members talk of leaving
(John Weeks, New Zealand Herald)
Defying ban, Women of the Wall read from full-sized Torah scroll at Kotel
(Daniel K. Eisenbud, The Jerusalem Post)
Israel's Women of The Wall score another first
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Joint Arab List turns down invite from Arab League
(Jack Khoury, Haaretz)
Religion has got nothing to do with beef ban: Maharashtra Government to Bombay HC
(Economic Times)
EVENT, 22 April 2015: Women and the New Religious Politics in Southeast Asia
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Briefing: The roots of conflict in Yemen – no easy answers
(Charles Cameron, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Coptic Bishop on the Islamist murder of 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya
(John Couretas, Acton Institute Power Blog)
Saudi war in Yemen masks widening domestic tensions
(Afshin Shahi, AsiaNews (Courtesy of The Conversation website))
Turkey must end its 100 years of genocide denial (Opinion)
(Peter Balakian, The Guardian)
India, seeking a boost, plans to put Its ‘idle gold’ to work
(Ellen Barry, The New York Times)
Citing popular demand, Roman course seeks to boost exorcists
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Seven reasons why people are Zion-phobic
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Blog: Martini Judaism)
In Sisi’s Egypt, blasphemy is still a crime
(Hazel Haddon, Foreign Policy)
Pankisi teen reportedly threatened after refusing to join IS in Syria
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
World Values Survey 2010 - Now available at the ARDA
(Association of Religion Data Archives)
Ventura, “From Your Gods to Our Gods: A History of Religion in Indian, South African, and British Courts"
(Marc O. DeGirolami (on Marco Ventura), Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
Brazil leads the world in religious freedom, finds Pew study
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Brazil: A lesson in the peaceful navigation of religious change
(Brian J. Grim, Tony Blair Faith Foundation Opinion)
African Union Commission and European Commission meet to bring new impetus to the EU-Africa partnership
(Press Release, European Commission)
Nigerian churches engage actively in national electoral process
(World Council of Churches)
How a Biblical edict became a boon for Palestinian farmers
(Naomi Zeveloff, The Forward)
Spreading the word: China's Bible industry
(Cang Wei, The Telegraph)
Sunday morning in Shanghai
(Timothy Merrill, The Huffington Post)
Ethiopia mourns 'barbaric' killing of Christians by ISIL
(Al Jazeera America)
Azerbaijan: Baku’s pre-Olympic “religious cleansing”?
(Forum 18 News Service)
Indian cardinal says church attack undermines freedom of religion
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Hindus among multi-religious group of 29 petitioners challenging ‘Hindu law’
(Shibu Thomas, The Times of India)
'Our country is burning' says South African Church leader as migrants are driven out
(Mark Woods, Christian Today - World)
War in Yemen forces Christians to worship underground, bishop says
(Mark Yapching, Christian Today)
Christian cleric accuses India PM of inaction after Agra church attack
(Mark Yapching, Christian Today)
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi wounded in air strike
(Lucinda Borkett-Jones, Christian Today)
Woman set on fire by her husband and father-in-law in latest Pakistani 'honour killing'
(Christian Today)
ISIS recruits 20-year-old woman from Alabama, leaving Muslim parents distraught
(Christian Today)
Israel to remove name of slain Palestinian teenager from memorial
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)
Name of Palestinian teen killed in revenge slaying removed from Israel’s memorial
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Israeli youths shun Orthodoxy over dogma
(Daphne Rousseau, Agence France-Presse)
Former Egyptian president and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi sentenced to 20 years in prison for unlawful arrests, torture of protesters
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Replacing carpet at Jerusalem shrine reveals religious rift
(Daniel Estrin, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Muslim marriage court victory
(Tania Broughton, IOL News)
South African court awards maintence and child support to woman divorced only under Islamic law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Old loyalties, religious cohesion may frustrate Islamic State in Libya
(Ulf Laessing, Reuters)
Malaysia urged to punish Muslims over 'cross' protest
(Agence France-Presse)
Pakistan’s execution surge carries hard-line message for foreign leaders
(Tim Craig, The Washington Post)
Egyptian court sentences Mohamed Morsi to 20 years in prison
(David D. Kirkpatrick and Merna Thomas, The New York Times)
‘Endangered species': Christianity at the brink of extinction in Turkey
(Mary Chastain, Breitbart)
Outside the lines: women in the church
(Helen Alvaré, America: The National Catholic Review)
Old loyalties, religious cohesion may frustrate Islamic State in Libya
(Ulf Laessing, Reuters)
'I sought to kill Jews,' said terrorist who rammed car into Israelis at Jerusalem bus stop
(The Jerusalem Post)
After vision of Christ, Nigerian bishop says rosary will bring down Boko Haram
(Alan Holdren, Catholic News Agency)
Religious freedom enshrined under Article 11 of the Federal Constitution, say Sabah lawmakers
(Sandra Sokial, The Rakyat Post)
Religion, law, politics a potent mix
(Murray Mandryk, The Star Phoenix)
Three jailed for life over murder of prominent religious leader in Dagestan
(Interfax-Religion)
Iranian FM rejects any link between religion, Yemen war
(Press TV)
Monday, 20 April 2015
Catholic archbishop calls freedom a challenge that 'must constantly be won over'
(Mark A. Kellner, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
Turkey's most powerful president since Ataturk: A profile of Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Raziye Akkoc, The Telegraph)
Two Mormon missionaries detained near St. Petersburg
(Interfax-Religion)
African Union condemns ISIL execution of Ethiopians
(World Bulletin)
Christians killed by Daesh
(Christian Solidarity Worldwide)
Mexico: Court hearing planned for imprisoned, forcibly displaced Protestants
(Christian Solidarity Worldwide)
Saudi Arabia’s deepening isolation in Yemen
(Week in Review, Al Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
How far is Hezbollah willing to go in Syria?
(Vahik Soghom, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
Radicalised Western Muslim mothers urge children to jihad
(Mark Yapching, Christian Today)
How tobacco firms tried to undermine Muslim countries' smoking ban
(Sarah Boseley, The Guardian)
Australians rally behind woman who defended Muslim couple
(BBC News)
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