Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 16 March 2015
Religion and politics in Nigeria ahead of elections
(Clement Ejiofor and Egbo Ekene, Naij.com)
Russian Central Muslim Board urges artists to be more delicate about believers' feelings
(Interfax-Religion)
Partners in peace: executions in Iran are surging
(John Hayward, Breitbart News Network)
Religion divides Winnipeg school board
(Nick Martin, Winnipeg Free Press)
Bombers kill 17, injure at least 80 in Pakistan church attacks
(Asif Aqeel, World Watch Monitor)
How Islamic Is the Islamic State? Not at all. What the Atlantic got wrong about ISIS
(The New Republic)
Split of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood blow to regional group
(Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Monks plan to sue Myanmar minister for using chemicals to end protest
(Reuters)
Court rules haredi paper must publish ad by haredi women’s party
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
Israeli court tells ultra-Orthodox paper to publish ad by party running women candidates
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Controversial Russian opera director agrees to remove risque Jesus poster
(Peter Spinella, The Moscow Times)
Courts should not meddle with faith and religion: Shiv Sena
(The New Indian Express)
ISIS executes nine 'spies' for 'betraying the religion of Allah'
(CNN, Al Bawaba News)
Kurds probe 2 possible Islamic State chemical weapon attacks
(Maea Bambuck and Sinan Salaheddin, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
How Egypt’s coup really affected Tunisia’s Islamists
(Monica Marks, Monkey Cage)
Azerbaijan: Six new freedom of religion or belief prisoners of conscience
(Forum 18 News Service)
Quebec charter left a legacy of religious, racial tension
(Maria Vanta, Deseret News National Edition | Faith)
World seeking to hide persecution of Christians, says Pope Francis
(Diane Montagna, Aleteia)
Bishops call on Pakistanis to stand with fellow Christians, against extremists
(AsiaNews.it)
Four Muslims among the victims of Lahore's anti-Christian attack
(Shafique Khokhar, AsiaNews.it)
Muslim leaders condemn Lahore church attacks
(Silent Thinker, AsiaNews.it)
Pakistani Christians clash with police over church attacks
(Zaheer Babar, Associated Press, ABC News)
Sunday, 15 March 2015
3 Zhejiang Christians released from detention
(Rachel Ritchie, China Aid)
Siberian prosecutor not letting go of alleged blasphemy case
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Deadly attack on Pakistan Christians ignites murderous mob
(Farhan Bokhari, CBS News)
Twin bombings at churches in Pakistan kill 14, wound 78
(Mubasher Burkari, Reuters)
Contemporary Islamic views support reform in favor of women
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Filipino Canadian film and panel tackle LGBT issues and religion
(Craig Takeuchi, Georgia Straight)
Some trying to create confusion in name of religion: Akhilesh Yadav
(Zee News)
Erdoğan and Huntington
(Şahin Alpay, Today's Zaman)
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Saturday, 14 March 2015
West Bengal: after elderly nun raped, faithful march to demand justice
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
US religion panel seeks permission to visit India
(Vatican Radio)
"Arc of justice is long" for 2002 Gujarat riot victims: Lantos-Swett
(Narayan Lakshman, The Hindu)
Islamic State blows up façade of ancient Mosul Chaldean monastery
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Palestinian women demand quota increase
(Asmaa Al-Ghoul, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Turkey detains Indonesians suspected of trying to join ISIL
(Al Jazeera America)
Spring 2015 Issue of RFIA now available: Public Order & Public Morality: Uses & Abuses of the Legal Limits on Free Speech & Religious Liberty
(The Review of Faith & International Affairs)
Friday, 13 March 2015
Vatican Secretary of State praises Belarus' efforts on Ukrainian settlement
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Support for Christians' human rights in the Middle East in a joint statement signed by 53 States
(AsiaNews.it)
Congress urged to take multi-prong approach to religious persecution
(Patricia Zapor, Catholic News Service)
Vatican backs use of force to stop IS 'genocide'
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Fasting and food: Not by bread alone
(B.C. and M.TZ., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Does ‘religious freedom’ give Tanzanian witchdoctors the right to murder albinos?f
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Tannhauser opera staged in Novosibirsk desecrates Christian symbols - Mufti of Moscow
(Interfax-Religion)
Owners of Russian blocked websites complain to the European Court
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
IDF education chief seeks to ban rabbis at swearing-in ceremonies
(Marissa Newman, Times of Israel)
Role of rabbis in Israel army ceremonies is in dispute
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Four Yeshiva Melbourne leaders stand down after child sex abuse scandal
(Melissa Davey, The Guardian)
Blocked online, Islamic State supporters launch “CaliphateBook”
(Reuters)
Islamic State group accepts Boko Haram pledge of allegiance
(Zeina Karam, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Analysts weigh in on Boko Haram's alliance with IS
(Deutsche Welle)
Indian beef ban hits ‘untouchable’ Dalits hardest
(Anto Akkara, World Watch Monitor)
Video: Heroic "White Helmets" in Syria rescue baby buried in rubble
(Zoe Romanowsky, Aleteia)
Daesh's child recruitment overdrive
(Al Bawaba)
IDF top education officer: No place for rabbis at swearing-in ceremonies
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
China enhances efforts to combat violence committed in name of religion
(The Global Times)
Religious freedom slipped in India, US Senators told
(Zee News)
The real war on Christianity
(Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Yochi Dreazen, Foreign Policy)
Kazakhstan - UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief releases his report
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom (EIFRF))
European Parliament Intergroup welcomes the adoption of EP human rights report and Emergency Resolution on attacks against Assyrians
(The report however neglects to mention a wider range of religious or belief groups, European Parliament Intergroup on FoRB & RT)
A collision of culture and religion in Quebec
(Allan Woods, The Star Canada)
Thursday, 12 March 2015
'Systematic persecution' of Iran's minorities under Rouhani too
(Sam Hailes, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Canadian imams issue fatwa against Islamic State
(Agence France-Presse)
Does Obama's 'freedom of worship' hurt international religious freedoms?
(Samuel Smith, Christian Post)
Jewish center, cemetery attacked in central Argentina town
(JTA)
Russia to import halal meat to Arab countries
(Interfax-Religion)
WCC leadership focuses on peace-building and inter-religious initiatives during a solidarity visit to Israel and Palestine
(World Council of Churches)
Niqab debate important for Canadians, religious freedoms ambassador says
(Stephanie Levitz and Joan Bryden, The Globe and Mail)
Colonial Williamsburg may help guard Iraq relics imperiled by ISIS
(John Clarke, Reuters)
Niqab debate important for Canadians, Andrew Bennett says
(Stephanie Levitz and Joan Bryden, CBC News)
Canadian PM's comments on Muslim veil set off Twitter flurry
(Julie Gordon, Reuters)
The top four Jewish worries about Christian Zionism
(Jeffrey Salkin, Religion News Service)
Identity politics, corruption, insecurity: Brave new world (Arab Spring protests, Islamic State – extremists feed off narratives of injustice, elites punish reformers)
(John Githongo, YaleGlobal Online)
Interview: Ali Hashem uncovers the truth about ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
(Sean Nevins, Mint Press News)
Turkmenistan: "Who can forbid us from praying?" Yet raids, fines continue
(Forum 18 News Service)
Saudi interior minister warns states sponsoring terror to target KSA
(Arab News)
United Nations warns Japan on religious freedom
(International Coalition for Religious Freedom)
Reports of 'blanket' release of Assyrians dashed
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
How Iranian women are using Sharia to their benefit
(Leila Alikarami, Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East)
Religious minorities in Pakistan are persecuted by govt and majority: US expert
(Firstpost)
Religion cannot interfere with law, says religious affairs minister
(Anita Rachman, Indonesia Real Time)
PDP using religion to divide Nigeria - Buhari
(allAfrica)
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
World Council of Churches head tells UN body, faiths united on climate change call
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Ukrainian Orthodox Church to continue running Crimean Diocese
(Interfax-Religion)
Many Russians fight alongside terrorists, could bring ISIS-style terror back home - Patrushev
(Interfax-Religion)
ISIS releases video of child executing ‘Israeli spy’
(RT)
The battle for Turkey's education system
(Caleb Lauer, Equal Times)
Terror without borders: Boko Haram’s pledge to ISIS
(Scott N. Romaniuk & Marinko Bobić, Geopolitical Monitor)
Nigeria: No evidence Daesh is here
(Al Bawaba News)
Online radicalisation and the specter of extremist violence in India – Analysis
(Dr Shanthie Mariet D Souza, Eurasia Review)
Turkey's official Islamic body extends influence abroad
(Kadri Gursel, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Islamic State group inflicts heavy damage to 10th century monastery
(John Burger, Aleteia)
Iran - There has to be a better way
(Guest blog by Lorraine Cavanagh, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
6 Christians murdered in Nigeria's Kaduna state
(Mark Yapching, Christian Today)
Cuban pastor imprisoned without charge, wife says for holding church services
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)
Thai temple’s gospel of wealth draws protests
(James Hookway, The Wall Street Journal)
Unusual alliance provides hope in fight against Islamic State in Iraq
(Eric Cunningham, The Washington Post)
China says Muslim Uighurs have joined Islamic State group
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
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