Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 27 February 2015
Study: China most restrictive of religious freedom
(Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart News)
Four charged over albino murder in Tanzania amid growing calls for action
(Kizito Makoye, Reuters)
Only women and married priests can halt decline (Opinion)
(Malachi O'Doherty, Belfast Telegraph)
Married priests would be the wrong solution (Opinion)
(Tina Beattie, The Tablet: The International Catholic News Weekly (Blogs))
With closed borders, Gazans unable to make Muslim pilgrimage
(Fares Akram, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Teacher denies radicalizing Canadian teens headed to Syria
(Andrew Soong and Jake Bleiberg, Reuters)
Iranian pastor released from prison but others arrested same day remain
(Lauren Gunias, World Watch Monitor)
Niger: Boko Haram is not a feminist problem - a Nigerian woman's perspective
(Yoknyam Dabale, allAfrica)
Mossad's 'moderate Muslim' scorecard
(Clayton Swisher, Al Jazeera)
Over 25,000 Egyptians returned from Libya this week
(Middle East Monitor)
Female genital mutilation persists in rural Egypt
(Walaa Hussein, Al Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Adultery is no longer an affair of the state in South Korea
(Choe Sang-Hun, The New York Times)
South Korea's Constitutional Court invalidates criminal adultery law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
ISIS destroys ancient museum and library collections in Iraq to purge non-Islamic content
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Morocco arrests 3 seeking to join ISIS in Libya
(Al Arabiya News)
At least 30 dead in Boko Haram raids near Chibok, Nigeria: residents
(Al Arabiya News)
Report: Quebec judge denies woman hearing until hijab removed
(The Jerusalem Post)
WCC condemns attacks against a mosque in West Bank and Christian centre in Jerusalem
(World Council of Churches)
PA holds Israel responsible for torching of mosque and church
(Middle East Monitor)
Assad regime executes four Palestinian refugees in Homs
(Middle East Monitor)
South African student body wants plight of Palestinians taught in schools
(Middle East Monitor)
Tackling intolerance beyond religion
(Gde Dwitya Arief Metera, The Jakarta Post)
Chart: The sad state of religious freedom around the world
(Adam Taylor, The Washington Post)
Thursday, 26 February 2015
Hindu radicals: We will convert Christians and Muslims until the government stops us
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Defending the Faith: Even in science, faith isn't optional
(Daniel Peterson, Deseret News)
ISIL defectors face group's ire: experts
(Waleed Abu al-Khair, Al-Shorfa)
Blasphemy iceberg bigger than Hebdo
(Terry Mattingly, Morris Daily Herald)
American atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh
(Agence France-Presse)
The Indian Muslim student beaten for posing with his female classmates
(BBC News)
Nigerian police search for kidnapped American missionary
(Tamara Audi and Gbenga Akingbule, The Wall Street Journal)
Air strikes hit Islamic State in Syria after Christians abducted
(Oliver Holmes and Tom Perry, Reuters)
Latest Trends in Religious Restrictions and Hostilities
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life Project)
Q/A: How Pew Research measures global restrictions on religion
(David Masci, Pew Research Center)
Pew study on religion finds increased harassment of Jews
(Tom Gjelten, National Public Radio)
India has highest level of social hostility involving religion: Pew Research
(Sujeet Rajan, The American Bazaar)
U.N. Security Council discusses Syria humanitarian crisis
(Al Arabiya News)
Podcast on Mideast Christians and ISIS
(Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
Activists: Number of Christians abducted by Islamic State rises to 220
(Zeina Karam, Crux)
Senior ISIS commanders killed in air strikes in Iraq, fate of leader Baghdadi unknown
(The Jerusalem Post)
Inside ISIS: a Time special report
(Time Magazine)
IS executioner 'Jihadi John' named by media
(Your Middle East)
New ISIL video shows militants smashing ancient Iraq artifacts
(Today's Zaman)
ISIS burns 8000 rare books and manuscripts in Mosul
(VIDEO, YouTube)
Islamic State fighters destroy antiquities in Iraq
(The Jerusalem Post)
Syrian sources say ISIS executed 15 Christians - with more killing to come
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Brother of two martyred Coptic Christians thanks ISIS on live TV: His brothers are "pride of Christianity"
(Zoe Romanowsky, Aleteia)
Putin congratulates Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia on its 15th anniversary
(Interfax-Religion)
China's fertile ground for Islamic State
(Adam Minter, BloombergView)
Australia warns women IS no 'romantic adventure'
(Your Middle East)
"Many argue that Da’esh is not present in the Gaza Strip. However, the reality is different."
(Abdalhadi Alijla, Your Middle East)
Novosibirsk theatre defends artistic freedom following accusations of “offending religious feeling”
(Vsevolod Mititello, The Calvert Journal)
Arson damages Christian seminary in Jerusalem in suspected hate crime
(Ari Rabinovitch, Reuters)
Separated by violence, Muslims and Buddhists seek to be reunited in Myanmar
(Pai Soe, Religion News Service)
India's parliament disrupted over Mother Teresa remarks
(Krista Mahr, Rupam Jain Nair, and Sujoy Dhar, Reuters)
Hindu leader implies Mother Teresa did charity work to convert poor to Christianity
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Turkey’s 'Rocker Imam' inspires Turks
(Mustafa Akyol, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
No justice for Turkish women who kill in self-defense
(Sibel Hurtas, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Turkish border closed as Christian hostages in Syria spike to 250
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Turkey: Top court overturns compensation ruling for Kutlular
(Today's Zaman)
UN rights chief warns of widespread abuse in Myanmar
(Jacqueline Jones, Jurist)
Hindu radicals: We will convert Christians and Muslims until the government stops us
(Nirmala Carvalho, Religion News Today)
Swastika attack in Montreal considered hate crime
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Canada’s Parliament unanimously condemns rise of anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Habayit Hayehudi: ‘We’ve never had a leadership so attentive to the rabbis’
(Chaim Levinson, Haaretz)
Sporadic violence builds tension in CAR, many Christians victims
(Illia Djadi)
Among the FARC, a growing Christian presence
(Deann Alford, World Watch Monitor)
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Can Yoga fix the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
(Batya Ungar-Sargon, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Security tightened at New Delhi churches after attacks
(Rupam Jain Nair, Reuters)
In Holy City, Iran's Rouhani seeks clergy's backing for nuclear talks
(Babak Dehghanpisheh, Reuters)
Intergroup calls on the European Union to focus on protecting religious or belief minorities in the MENA region as ISIS attacks Christian villages in Syria
(European Parliament Intergroup on FoRB & RT)
The funeral of the reposed Primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church to be in Ternopil
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Patriarch Filaret called on UAOC clergy to unite
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Russia bans activities of Ukrainian churches in Crimea since March
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Why the world needs interfaith groups
(Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions)
Syrian Kurds cut IS supply line near Iraq; fears for Christians mount
(Tom Perry and Sulieman Al-Khalidi, Reuters)
World Christianity by the numbers
(George Weigel, Denver Catholic)
72 Assyrian Christian families captured, 50 besieged by IS after Syria attack
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
ISIS’ Christian hostage toll in Syria rises to 150
(Al Arabiya)
ISIS is holding 150 Assyrian Christians, will threaten to kill them in video message Wednesday: activist
(Tobias Salinger, New York Daily News)
Army of Assyrian Christians aims to fight Islamic State
(Therese Apel, USA Today)
Hundreds protest Austrian Islam bill in Vienna
(APA)
Indian authorities dismantle temple built in honor of Prime Minister
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Kazakhstan: "A general unwillingness to properly protect human rights"
(Forum 18 News Service)
Bethlehem, Israeli extremists torch and profane mosque
(AsiaNews.it)
Torching of West Bank mosque called nationalistic attack
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Tajik seized in Moscow on suspicion of online ISIL propaganda
(Interfax-Religion)
Israel: Conservative Movement seeks to bring religion and state center stage in election
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
The Chinese Church mourns Fr. Ye Yaomin, who died aged 105. He spent 25 years doing hard labor
(AsiaNews.it)
'Tireless' missionary kidnapped in Nigeria: Police say Boko Haram not the suspect
(World Watch Monitor)
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
Anglican bishop: Religious diversity, a gift for people of Sri Lanka
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
India: Christians furious over Hindu leader's blessed Teresa remarks
(Ritu Sharma, UCAN)
Radical Hindus against Mother Teresa, but India rises up: "She is a Saint”.
(Santosh Digal, AsiaNews.it)
What Tayeb and Sisi said is big step towards a revolution in Islam
(Samir Khalil Samir, AsiaNews.it)
Radical love, business: key to countering radicalization?
(Interview with Brian J. Grim, Vatican Radio)
Islamic State uses social media to groom British Muslim girls: think tank
(Kieran Guilbert, Reuters)
Islamic State 'abducts dozens of Christians in Syria'
(BBC News)
Sri Lanka: President pledges to ensure religious freedom in the country
(Ministry of Defence)
Kenya's president pledges support for Adventist education
(Adventist News Network)
Australia to take actions against religious preachers inciting hatred to encourage terrorism
(Sounak Mukhopadhyay, International Business Times)
Muslim group facing Australia ban says being scapegoated
(Al Bawaba)
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