Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 23 March 2015
IS shows off Assyrian Christian 'convert' to Islam in new video
(Joanna Paraszczuk, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Tajik IS militants threaten 'jihad' at home (or even in the Kremlin)
(Joanna Paraszczuk, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Gender equality brings peace between states
(Bineta Diop, Saisuree Chutikul, Valerie Hudson, Youssef Mahmoud, Ann Phillips, Virachai Plasai, Marie O'Reilly, Irene Santiago, Jessica Zimerman, International Peace Institute and the Permanent Mission of Thailand to the UN)
Sydney cafe reopens after terrorist attack
(Christian Today)
Schoolchildren from Turkey, Italy, Egypt to discuss fight against religious extremism in St. Petersburg
(Interfax-Religion)
Iraqi Patriarch calls for law to counter violence-inciting preachers
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Family abductions for forceful change of religion continue in Japan
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Australia a puzzling hotbed of Islamic State recruiting
(Rod McGuirk, The Associated Press)
Islamic State calls on backers to kill 100 U.S. military personnel
(Reuters)
Activists urge Lebanon to make marital rape illegal
(Dana Halawi, Reuters)
Over 5,000 mercenaries from CIS fight on ISIS side - expert
(Interfax-Religion)
Analysts unanimous Russia does need Islamic banking
(Lyudmila Alexandrova, Tass Russian News Agency)
The war against Islamic State: The caliphate cracks
(The Economist)
Supreme Court says Quebec province infringed religious freedom of Loyola school in Montreal: Authorities wanted secular perspective in teaching
(Kalyan Kumar, International Business Times)
Turkey's highest religious body says surrogate motherhood is like adultery, calls process religiously unacceptable
(Juan Paulino Cornejo, Design & Trend)
How sectarian violence within Islam hurts the youth
(Huma Munir, World Religion News)
Afghan woman lynched over Koran-burning was innocent: minister
(Al Arabiya News)
Monitor: Islamic State moves west to attack Syrian army in Homs
(The Jerusalem Post)
Freedom to change one's religion is fundamental right, says Vice President Hamid Ansari
(DNA India)
Uzbekistan worried about ISIL activity near its borders
(Interfax-Religion)
Women face setbacks in new Libya
(Mustafa Fetouri, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Rise of religious extremism and atheism: Ominous signs for Bangladesh
(Rupak Bhattacharjee, South Asia Monitor)
Palestinian female judges gavel down taboos
(Ahmad Melhem, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Pakistan: The contested issue of madrasa modernization
(Dr. Sanchita Bhattacharya, South Asia Monitor)
Salafis, Salafism and Modern Salafism: What lies behind a term?
(Mohamed Bin Ali, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
India, fresh attacks on two Catholic churches "evil and dangerous"
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
As Houthi militias move south, UN warns of possible civil war in Yemen
(AsiaNews.it)
Ordinary Afghans take to Kabul streets in protest over Farkhunda's murder
(AsiaNews.it)
Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders meet in Gaza
(Middle East Monitor)
Tunisia will win against terrorism, insists Ghannouchi
(Middle East Monitor)
Egypt’s Sisi again calls for ‘religious revolution’
(Ariel Ben Solomon, The Jerusalem Post)
US delegation encouraged by Sri Lanka's progress in religious freedom
(Eurasia Review)
Rajnath calls for a national debate on anti-conversion law
(Bharti Jain, The Times of India)
World Alliance of Religions Peace Office Meeting held in Georgia
(Spy Ghana)
Sunday, 22 March 2015
Tatar historian hasn't changed but Islam in Tatarstan has
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
Chinese police seize two priests in Mutanjiang
(Bernardo Cervellera, AsiaNews.it)
Layman talk on religion will result in police action, IGP warns
(Malay Mail Online)
Death by stoning law sees Malaysia parties chase Muslim vote
(Niluksi Koswanage and Liau Y-Sing, The Washington Post)
EVENT, 22-23 March 2015: Legal and Moral Challenges of Religious Resurgence
(The International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem)
Saturday, 21 March 2015
Buddhism, China and Russia: Unearthly powers
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Delhi protest marks 300 days of BJP in India
(Anto Akkara, World Watch Monitor)
IS reduces Christian, Shia Muslim shrines to 'rubble' in Iraq
(Religion News Today)
Most (88%) Canadians support requirement for people to show face during Canadian citizenship ceremonies
(Sean Simpson, Ipsos)
Vietnam: church leaders say government drafting new religious law
(Janelle Powers, Crossmap Christian News)
Of human dignity: The Declaration on Religious Liberty at 50
(Charles J. Chaptut, First Things)
FoRB Annual report: In prison for their religion or belief
(Willy Fautré, Mark Barwick, Alfiaz Vaiya, Sebastian Walch and Nathan Black, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Using religion for reform: Trying to change Pakistan’s oppressive blasphemy law from within
(Sarah Muir, VICE News)
Legal recognition of same-sex relationships (International Resource)
(Jones Day)
Why I won't wear the Star of David
(Angela Epstein, The Telegraph)
The crime is the fruit of the theology: Christian responses to 50 Shades of Grey
(Kristin Kobes du Mez, OUPblog Religion)
Church Liability for clergy child abuse
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Friday, 20 March 2015
Can you be an Islamist and a feminist?
(Madawi Al-Rasheed, Al-Monitor: Gulf Pulse)
Maldives: Nasheed’s sham trial comes to an end
(Dr. S. Chandrasekharan, South Asia Analysis Group)
What a Houthi-controlled Yemen means for women
(Maysaa Shuja al-Deen, trans. Sahar Ghoussoub, Al-Monitor: Gulf Pulse)
'SC's obligation to protect women, churches and religious freedom'
(Daiji World)
Boko Haram headlines hide persecution of Christians in mid-Nigeria, too
(Christina Thomas, World Watch Monitor)
Gunmen kill 100 Christian villagers in central Nigeria
(World Watch Monitor)
Woman breaks through chains of forced marriage, and helps others do the same
(Samuel G. Freedman, The New York Times)
Buddhist monks incite hatred against Muslims in Myanmar
(Sarah Judith Hofmann, Deutsche Welle)
Quebec infringed school's freedom: court
(Canadian Press, Orangeville Banner)
Canada's Supreme Court says Quebec Catholic school should be allowed modified religious culture program
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Salmaan Taseer murder case harks back to 1929 killing of Hindu publisher
(Jon Boone, The Guardian)
Afghan cleric and others defend lynching of woman in Kabul
(Hamid Shalizi and Jessica Donati, Reuters)
Russia wants to stop U.N. staff benefits for same-sex couples
(Michelle Nichols, Reuters)
Non-banned ‘banned’ books and Malaysia’s unjust Islamic justice system
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
WCC delegation expresses solidarity with Ukraine
(World Council of Churches)
World churches delegation to Ukraine says Moscow-aligned church crucial in peace process
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Muslim women are fighting to redefine Islam as a religion of equality
(Carla Power, Time)
Is it Islamic (or Christian)? The United States doesn’t get to say
(John Owen, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)
Pope Francis: no crime ever deserves the death penalty
(Vatican Radio)
A very Christian Cinderella
(Robert Barron, Real Clear Religion)
A new enemy - How conflict in the Islamic World is driving international organized crime
(Neil Thompson, The International Relations and Security Network)
Sri Lanka to strengthen laws against terrorist financing, money laundering
(Eurasia Review)
India approves rule requiring one-third of Delhi police to be women
(Agence France-Presse)
Placing ISIS' persecution of the Copts in context
(Samuel Tadros, Tony Blair Faith Foundation)
Isis destroys historic Christian and Muslim shrines in northern Iraq
(Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian)
Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric urges more professionalism in fight against IS
(Reuters)
South African Jewish students oppose use of swastikas in protest
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Four charged in attack on Israelis in Patagonia
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Australia’s prime minister apologizes for Goebbels comparison
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Boko Haram will worsen food crisis in Niger, government official says
(Mark Yapching, Christian Today)
20 doctors and nurses kidnapped by ISIS-affiliated extremists
(Christian Today)
Malaysia Shariah law: Islamist party passes bill to implement harsh Islamic criminal punishments
(Lora Moftah, International Business Times)
Bombings in Yemeni mosques kill more than 130
(Ahmed Al-Haj, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Islamic State claims responsibility for Yemen mosque bombings
(The Jerusalem Post)
Death toll rises to 126 in Yemen mosque bombings
(The Jerusalem Post)
55 killed in twin blasts near Houthi mosques in Sanaa
(Middle East Monitor)
Moscow replays Rusin 'separatist' card in Ukraine's Transcarpathia
(Halya Coynash, Human Rights in Ukraine)
Russia: More literature, website and video bans, but one partially overturned
(Forum 18 News Service)
Abbas paving the way to turn West Bank into an Islamist State
(Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute)
When Christians kill and destroy but also make peace, CAR today
(Jennifer Bryson, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)
Azerbaijan: Human rights activists disappointed by Aliyev's modest pardon
(Aydin Mammadov, Silk Road Reporters)
Russian Orthodox Church concerned about legalization of same-sex "marriage", abortion issue, and secularism in Europe
(Interfax-Religion)
Three Russians arrested in Uzbekistan for creating religious sect
(Russian Legal Information Agency)
Four Russians deported from Turkey for alleged attempt to join Islamic State in Syria
(Ivan Nechepurenko, The Moscow Times)
Finnish Christians celebrate 25 years of helping Russian aliyah
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Bad Faith explores the chasm between freedom of religion and modern medicine
(John Semley, The Globe and Mail)
Court ruling won’t stop action against Trinity Western, challenger vows
(Mark Hume, The Globe and Mail)
Islamic Worlds Festival: "wearing my religion"
(Robbie Harris, WVTF Public Radio)
E. Guinea’s president warns of ‘serious terrorist’ threat to country
(Al Arabiya News)
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