Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
Russia's vaguest laws and their unexpected consequences
(Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, The Moscow Times)
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox women make uphill battle for parliament
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
“The Changing Nature of Religious Rights Under International Law” (Evans et al., eds.)
(John Boersma, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
Tajikistan's Islamic Renaissance Party on life support
(Farangis Najibullah, Radio Free Europe)
‘Beat the Jews, save Russia’ – an ugly old slogan returns in Putin’s Russia
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
Group of female Hizb ut-Tahrir followers caught in Bishkek
(Interfax-Religion)
US-lead coalition strikes 14 Islamic State sites
(The Jerusalem Post)
Haniyeh: Hamas in touch with Egypt over 'terror' label
(Middle East Monitor)
No lull for India's Christians from Hindu extremists despite Modi's reassurance
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Women's roles in Hamas slowly evolve
(Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Iraqi forces try to seal off Islamic State around Tikrit
(Ahmed Rasheed and Dominic Evans, Reuters)
Nigeria's Boko Haram releases beheading video echoing Islamic State
(Julia Payne, Reuters)
New video shows 19 Tajiks killed fighting alongside IS in Syria, Iraq
(Joanna Paraszczuk, Radio Free Europe)
Indian state bans beef and brings in five-year jail terms for possession
(The Guardian)
Nigeria: Religion and ethnicity will play major role in election
(Clement Ejiofor, Naij.com)
Myanmar: Scrap ‘race and religion laws’ that could fuel discrimination and violence
(Amnesty International)
Muntaka fires GNAT, GES over discrimination against Muslim student
(Ghana Web)
UN, EU organizations must act jointly to protect Christians - Lavrov
(Interfax-Religion)
Russia: Prosecutions for public evangelism and public meetings for worship
(Forum 18 News Service)
Monday, 2 March 2015
Anti-Semitism * Anti-sex * Anti-women: February’s Religious Freedom Recap
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Buddhist monks’ cremation ceremonies break the bank in impoverished Myanmar
(Myint Naing, Religion News Service)
Saudi Award goes to Muslim televangelist who harshly criticizes U.S.
(Ben Hubbard, The New York Times)
UN rights' report speaks of troops from Russia infiltrating Ukraine
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Women’s shelters are one of the most provocative legacies of the Western presence in Afghanistan
(Alissa J. Rubin, The New York Times)
Islamic State releases 19 Christians, more than 200 still captive: monitor
(Reuters)
Ghana: Dep. Minister calls for tolerance among Christians, Muslims
(Ghana Web)
Iraq's National Museum reopens earlier in response to outrage over Mosul
(Deutsche Welle)
How to prevail against a poisonous ideology
(Mansour Al-Nogaidan, Foreign Policy Research Institute)
Mecca conference mulls ways to tackle terrorism
(Sultan al-Barei, Al-Shorfa)
Top Muslim cleric urges education reform to curb extremism
(Al Arabiya)
Al- Hadi Mosque open house dispels myths about Muslim faith
(CBC News)
Misquoting Muhammad (excerpt)
(Dr Jonathan Brown, One World Publications)
ISIS may not be global threat, but neither is it a problem with a ready solution – OpEd
(Paul Woodward - War in Context, Eurasia Review)
ISIS' apocalyptic endgame: They want to defeat Christian crusaders — Americans — in a massive battle in a town in northern Syria
(Gabriel Said Reynolds, The New York Daily News)
Peshmerga and coalition jets kill 800 IS militants in February around Mosul
(BasNews)
Iraq launches Tikrit operation against Islamic state militants
(Radio Free Europe)
Iraq forces battle to recapture Tikrit from 'Islamic State'
(Video, Deutsche Welle)
The problem with Iraq's offensive against the Islamic State
(IRIN)
Monk Em Phoeung testified against Khmer Rouge genocide
(Krista R. Burdine, World Religion News)
Canadian pastor missing after aid trip to North Korea
(Andrea Hopkins, Reuters)
Creating a constructive cultural narrative for science
(Tom McLeish, OUPblog Religion)
Terror has no religion, says BJP; slams PDP MLAs' demand for return of Afzal Guru's remains
(Toufiq Rashid, Hindustan Times)
Tajik Islamic Revival Party doesn't recognize election outcome
(Interfax-Religion)
Turkey’s foreign policy after the Arab Spring: An identity-based approach
(Hossein Mofidi Ahmadi, Ph.D., Iran Review)
Turkey detains ten suspected Daesh militants: reports
(Al Bawaba)
Hero of the Middle East: King Abdullah II of Jordan
(Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute)
Two women convicted for religious, extremist Internet propaganda in Uzbekistan
(Interfax-Religion)
Mormons targeted by social hostility in Russia
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
A Muslim community was shut down in Tyumen region for unlawfully banned literature
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Lavrov to raise issue of Christians' protection with UNHRC in Geneva
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Church hopes that Nemtsov murder will not be used for political games
(Interfax-Religion)
Ukrainian nationalists attack Moscow Patriarchate's church in Sumy
(Interfax-Religion)
Hitchin MP urged to confront Kazakh clients on human rights
(Michael Havis, Hertfordshire Mercury)
5 key findings about global restrictions on religion
(Peter Henne, Pew Research Center FactTank)
Witch hunts increase in Tanzania as albino deaths jump
(Tonny Onyulo, Religion News Service)
Tanzania albinos decry politicians as police halt protest over killings
(Kizito Makoye, Reuters)
Study released on religious restrictions and hostilities
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Saudi women react to new king
(Caryle Murphy, Al-Monitor: Gulf Pulse)
Islamophobia sells in Canada
(Davide Mastracci, Al Jazeera America)
Bangladeshis protest after atheist writer Avijit Roy hacked to death
(Saad Hammadi and Mark Tran, The Guardian)
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi could be retried and beheaded, say his family
(Kevin Rawlinson, The Guardian)
Saudi grand mufti says clerics should steer away from murky politics
(Al Arabiya)
Pope to Christians captured by ISIS: You have not been forgotten
(Diane Montagna, Aleteia)
Secularist blogger hacked to death by Islamists in Bangladesh
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sunday, 1 March 2015
A plea for unity - GG and Baptist president call for an end to divisiveness in the Christian community and the political arena
(Jamaica Gleaner)
Saturday, 28 February 2015
Egyptians in Libya - to flee or to stay?
(Tom Westcott, IRIN)
Fertile ground for militancy in hometown of Jihadi John
(Katrin Bennhold, The New York Times)
In Algeria, women ‘imams’ battle Islamist radicalization
(Amal Belalloufi, Al Arabiya)
Chinese State Administration of Religious Affairs: Absolutely resist efforts of foreign entities exercising control through Christian groups [Simplified Chinese]
(China Morning Post)
China, first ever Holocaust commemoration for the Shanghai Ghetto
(AsiaNews.it)
China inadvertently promotes Islamic extremism
(Jeff Kingston, The Japan Times)
Young Tibetan monks are being forced to disrobe by China
(Harold Mandel, examiner.com)
Allah versus KFC: How an unlikely American ideologue is inspiring Egypt’s new generation of Islamic militants.
(Mokhtar Awad, Samuel Tadros, Foreign Policy)
Pentagon: Syrian rebels to begin training to fight Islamic State as soon as March
(Maggie Ybarra – The Washington Times, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)
After the collapse of IS in Ayn al- Arab “Kobani” it also callapses and retreats from the town of Tal Hamis
(Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)
Analysis: Why does Islamic State target Christians?
(Charles Cameron, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
The Occasional Pilgrim: Sinan Pasha Mosque (Photos)
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Islamic State refugees grow disgruntled: ‘We loved them so much’
(Michael Kaplan, Religion News Service)
Catholic social teaching and the global future of development
(Project Leaders Thomas Banchoff, Drew Christiansen, Global Futures Initiative: Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
February 2015 Media Survey: Freedom of Religion or Belief in Former Soviet States
(Catherine Cosman, Senior Policy Analyst, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
The law and children
(Helen Alvaré, American: The National Catholic Review)
Why we should read Dante as well as Shakespeare
(Peter Hainsworth, OUPblog Religion)
Dominicans keep hope alive among Iraqi Christian community
(ICAN)
EVENT, 23-28 February 2015: International Conference, "Towards Religious Freedom in Africa"
(An initiative of the Centre for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos in collaboration with the Nigerian Bar Association (Lagos and Ikeja Branches); The African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (South Africa), and the Internationa)
Jews and Muslims in Europe find themselves in the same rocky boat
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Europe without Jews?
(Guy Millière, Gatestone Institute)
Turkish President Erdoğan slams Austria's controversial Islam law
(Hürriyet Daily News)
Friday, 27 February 2015
Egyptians of all faiths pray for Copts killed by ISIL
(Waleed Abu al-Khair, Al Shorfa)
Morocco’s religious diplomacy in Africa
(Ghita Tadlaoui, FRIDE)
USCIRF condemns abduction of more than 200 Assyrian Christians and urges their immediate release
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
USCIRF deeply concerned by reports of Saudi death sentence for apostasy
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Vatican: Italy step up security over threat posed by Islamic militants
(ICAN)
King Salman calls for repelling religious extremism, intolerance
(Al Arabiya News)
Montagnard Christians continue to flee to Cambodia, but are running out of food and supplies
(AsiaNews.it)
Do-it-yourself Islam? Views on the religious credibility of the Islamic State
(Erwin van Veen & Iba Abdo, The International Relations and Security Network)
The lure of Islamic State for Central Asians
(Qishloq Ovozi, Radio Free Europe | Radio Liberty)
Arson attack against Greek Orthodox seminary in Jerusalem
(AsiaNews.it)
The human right to offend: Self-censorship in the face of intimidation has another name: cowardice.
(Ronald Bailey, Reason.com Blog)
Smart ID cards trigger privacy concerns in Turkey
(The Journal of Turkish Weekly)
Exceptionalism: The divine purposes of America and Russia
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
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