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Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Libya/Egypt: civilian toll in Derna air strikes
(Human Rights Watch)

How serious is the ISIS threat to South Asia?
(Michael Kugelman, World News Report)

CHP-run municipalities to pay expenses of churches and synagogues
(Today's Zaman)

Algeria rejects proposal for Arab force for Libya
(Middle East Monitor)

Saudi court gives death penalty to man who renounced his Muslim faith
(Angus McDowall, Reuters)

A law was drafted in Stavropol regarding missionary work
(English trans., Irina Loutfoullina (HRWF) at http://hrwf.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Russia-2015.pdf, SOVA Center for Information and Analysis [in Russian])

New Zealand to join anti-ISIS mission
(Al Arabiya News)

ISIS abducts at least 90 Syrian Christians
(Al Arabiya News)

Monitors: ISIL abducts 90 Assyrian Christians in Syria
(Al Jazeera)

Silencing ‘hostile’ media? Crimean News Agency refused licence
(Human Rights in Ukraine)

Russia seeks to create Puppet Crimean Tatar self-governing bodies
(Human Rights in Ukraine)

Tunisia arrests about 100 militant suspects, signs of Islamic State influence
(The Jerusalem Post)

Saudi court jails al-Qaida recruiters, bin Laden associate
(The Jerusalem Post)

Nigeria bus bomb kills more than a dozen in Potiskum
(Religion News Today)

Ghana Constitution mandates religious freedom - Sheihk Bonsu
(Ghana Web)

Muslims, Christians at Atebubu smoke peace-pipe
(Ghana Web)

Saudi Arabia court gives death penalty to man who renounced his Muslim faith
(The Telegraph)

Mass surveillance: wrong in practice as well as principle
(Peiter Omtzigt and Günter Shirmer, Open Security: Conflict and Peacebuilding)

CONFERENCE CALL, 24 February 2015: The Meriam Ibrahim Case and International Religious Liberty
(The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies)

Monday, 23 February 2015

Australia ramps up terror threat response
(Al Arabiya News)

Italy and Vatican on guard after threat from Islamic State
(Eric J. Lyman, Crux)

Martyred Copts witnessed their faith, and courage
(Interview of Samuel Tadros by Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online)

Religious liberty in China: the key to a stable, peaceful, and harmonious order
(Doug Bandow, CHINA US Focus)

Syria Kurds retake territory in anti-ISIL offensive
(Al-Shorfa)

Bengaluru: Indian United Christian Forum welcomes PM Modi’s statement
(ICAN)

Palestinian groups must pay U.S. terrorism victims over $218 million
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

A threat to Europe: The Islamic State's dangerous gains in Libya
(Mirco Keilberth and Christoph Reuter, Spiegel Online)

Turkey criticizes UK over missing schoolgirls
(Al Arabiya News)

Ukrainian Catholic leader urges pope to be tougher on Russia
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Covering all things Catholic)

Sri Lankan President pledges to ensure religious freedom in the country
(Colombo Page)

King: Zero tolerance for terror
(Arab News)

Grand mufti: Fighting terror is Islamic duty
(Arab News)

For head of Al-Azhar, religious education reform is needed to stop Islamic extremism
(AsiaNews.it)

India secures release of Jesuit priest Fr Alexis Prem Kumar from captivity in Afghanistan
(Karthick S, The Times of India)

Cardinal Zen demands truth over fate of Chinese bishop
(ICAN)

UK Jewish charity says claims it is interfering in Israeli elections are false
(Jerry Lewis, The Jerusalem Post)

Bomb damages Bahrain mosque as police detain "terrorist cell"
(The Jerusalem Post)

Use religion to campaign, pay N1m fine, INEC tells Bauchi politicians
(Saliu Gbadamosi, The Nigerian Tribune)

Racial and religious politics has crept into Sabah’s political system, says Leiking
(Kota Kinabalu, The Rakyat Post)

Zionism debate at heart of bitter Israeli vote
(Dan Perry, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Moderate Sunni Islam leader blames Zionism and 'new colonialism' for Middle East collapse
(Richard Spencer, The Telegraph)

Pope, Merkel discuss Ukraine and fight against poverty
(Daniela Petroff, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Lebanon may try TV figure over 'insulting Islam' on Twitter
(Daily Star: Lebanon)

Lebanese satirist under criminal investigation for allegedly blasphemous anti-Islamic State image
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Azerbaijan’s religious leaders address international community and ECHR regarding Khojaly genocide
(Mubariz Aslanov, APA)

Azerbaijan: Latest secret police prisoners – two female Jehovah's Witnesses
(Forum 18 News Service)

Australian court says polyamory is not "sexual orientation" under sex discrimination act
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Catholic church sacks woman for being too 'polyamorous'
(Marianna Papadakis, Financial Review)

Can returned extremist fighters be rehabilitated?
(Barbara Slavin, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)

Islamic State pull out of strategic town of Tel Afar
(Karzan Sabah Hawrami, BasNews)

Islamic State creates brigade for children
(BasNews)

'A Message Signed with Blood to the Nation of the Cross'
(Mark Durie, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)

Saudi Artist sues watch company for appropriating his hajj etching
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

First monument to the martyrs of anti-Christian pogroms erected in Odisha
(Santosh Digal, AsiaNews.it)

Afghanistan, Indian Jesuit freed after eight months in captivity
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)

Tibet, thousands of Buddhists celebrate the Dalai Lama’s birthday in public
(AsiaNews.it)

Freedom to proselytize associated with lower religious hostilities, finds new analysis
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)

Islamic State militants kidnap 13 women in Mosul
(Hazhar Mamuzini, BasNews)

Sunday, 22 February 2015

Modi’s secular pitch can give BJP a new face
(ICAN)

New ISIS video shows Peshmerga soldiers in cages
(Yousuf Basil, Holly Yan, Word News Report)

Girl suicide bomber kills five in Nigeria: witnesses
(Al Arabiya News)

Damascus livid after Turkey sends tanks into Syrian territory
(Macedonia International News Agency)

Saturday, 21 February 2015

After ‘Charlie’: latest incident of Pakistani Christians targeted by Muslim anger
(Asif Aqeel, World Watch Monitor)

Road blocks in international HR mechanisms: Review of "The Twilight of Human Rights Law" by Eric Posner
(Kumar David, Sunday Island)

NZ: Bible lessons lead to court
(Laura Walters, Stuff.co.nz)

Grand Mosque imam: Promote values through new media
(Arab News)

Coptic Christian bishop in UK: I forgive ISIS
(Daniel Burke, CNN)

Muslims around the world give something up for Lent in solidarity with Christians
(Zoe Romanowsky, Aleteia)

Saudi scholars decry religious extremism
(Arab News)

Coptic Catholics consecrate first church in Sinai, against backdrop of martyrdom
(Oliver Maksan, Catholic News Agency)

Against backdrop of ISIS beheadings, Egypt's Coptic Catholics consecrate first church in Sinai
(Oliver Maksan, Aleteia)

Sexual orientation and sexual behaviour: can they be distinguished?
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

ISIS is not a terrorist group: Why counterterrorism won’t stop the latest jihadist threat
(Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs)

Op-Ed: Islamic State's horrible healing power in Egypt
(Nina Shea, Los Angeles Times)

Islamic State spurs increased jihadist activity in Australia
(Andrew Zammit, The Jamestown Foundation)

Daesh burns 50 civilians to death in Iraq's al-Anbar province
(Al Bawaba News)

At least 25 dead in triple bombing in east Libya: medics
(Agence France-Press, Your Middle East)

More than 400 Turkmens in Iraq abducted by Daesh
(Al Bawaba)

Islamist rebels launch deadly attack in Somali hotel
(The Telegraph)

Some signs of tension emerge among Islamic State militants
(Zena Karam, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Disillusioned by ISIL: Saudi preacher reveals group's takfiri approach
(Sultan al-Barei in Riyadh, Al-Shorfa)

Kyrgyz joining IS not illiterate, religious, or disadvantaged
(Joanna Paraszczuk, Radio Free Europe)

Real battle to dislodge Boko Haram begins in March
(This Day Live)

What they get wrong about ISIS
(Rob Schwarzwalder, Real Clear Religion)

Friday, 20 February 2015

Constantinople is ready to help establish a unified local Church in Ukraine
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)

Memorial service for Heaven’s Hundred Heroes performed at Ukrainian churches
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)

World Evangelical Alliance inaugurates new head in Honduras
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Nigeria: 158 freed Boko Haram abductees reunited with their families
(Michael Olugbode, This Day Live)

Girls who escaped Boko Haram defy kdnappers, go back to school
(This Day Live)

Nigeria elections 2015 Muslims and Christians: Religion being used to divide voters, opposition party says
(Elizabeth Whitman, International Business Times)

Romanian court completely acquits the 21 people from MISA yoga school accused of human trafficking
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom)

Kazakhstan jails two radical Islamists for terrorism
(Radio Free Europe)

Is Twitter giving in to Turkish censorship?
(Sibel Utku Bila, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

'Exponential rise' in Syria war crimes: UN probe
(Your Middle East)

Parliament member requests inspection of Russian Scientology Church
(RAPSI)

US wants Mosul offensive on IS in April-May
(Your Middle East)

New Delhi police arrest Christian protesters
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)

Belarus: Slander and obstruction to keep foreigners out
(Forum 18 News Service)

'Let your daughters fly,' says a young Pakistani Christian writer
(Shafique Khokhar, AsiaNews.it)

Maidan violence investigations
(International Advisory Panel, Council of Europe)

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