Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 20 February 2015
Face-veils and citizenship oaths: Ishaq v Canada
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The two shall become one flesh: Reclaiming marriage
(Evangelicals and Catholics Together, First Things)
Why I wear the mantilla
(Luma Simms, First Things)
Thursday, 19 February 2015
For Indian Jesuit, Narendra Modi's bluff will be called sooner or later
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Faisalabad: For the past year, dozens of Christian families have been homeless, threatened by Muslims
(Shafique Khokhar, AsiaNews.it)
If Beijing does not grant religious freedom to the Church diplomatic relations are useless
(Peace, AsiaNews.it)
Former B.C. premier Ujjal Dosanjh calls for certification of places of worship
(Dylan Robertson, The Vancouver Sun)
Faiths unite to mourn the death of 21 Coptic Orthodox Christians
(Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.))
Jewish shrine desecrated in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)
The other side of the Kurdish victory in Kobani
(Goran Sadjadi, Your Middle East)
Set the Kurds free: The case for a new state in northern Iraq
(The Economist)
MPs are interested in Scientologists' work in Petersburg
(Interfax-Religion)
Buddhist organizations have important role in Russian public life - Putin
(Interfax-Religion)
Metropolitan tells Poroshenko that Orthodox churches are being seized illegally
(Interfax-Religion)
Islamism has many faces. We must learn to read them all
(HA Hellyer, The Guardian)
ISIL bans music in Syria
(Waleed Abu al-Khair, Al-Shorfa)
ISIS militants attack music in burning of 'un-Islamic' drums and other instruments in Libya
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
After ISIS slaughters Christians, an Egyptian village mourns its sons
(Ian Lee and Jethro Mullen, CNN)
Ukraine: The fire that did not cease
(The Economist)
How ISIS makes (and takes) money
(Ashley Fantz, CNN)
Obama calls for expansion of human rights to combat extremism
(Peter Baker, The New York Times)
Obama’s anti-extremism plan lacks human rights safeguards
(Steven W. Hawkins, Al Jazeera America)
Gay Catholic group gets VIP treatment at Vatican for first time
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
APC alerts Nigerians over fresh plot to use religion for election purposes
(Daily Post)
Return of the religious police worries reformers in Saudi Arabia
(Richard Spencer, The Telegraph)
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper vows to appeal face veil ruling
(Ron Csillag, Religion News Service)
Malaysia bans Christian pilgrimages to Israel: Gaza conflict and Islamic State (IS) serious concern
(Global Pulse)
Deadly attack hits Shia mosque in Islamabad
(Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)
Pakistan officials say Afghan Taliban has signaled peace talk readiness
(Al Jazeera America)
Colombia’s Supreme Court denies adoption to homosexual couples
(Luis R. Miranda, The Real Agenda News)
What the Kahane phenomenon can teach Israelis today
(Yuval Avivi, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Report: ISIL militants retreating from Kobani crossed into Turkey
(Today's Zaman)
Ankara calls on Libya to establish national unity gov’t after ISIL killings
(Today's Zaman)
Qatar recalls ambassador from Egypt in dispute over Libya strikes
(Ahmed Tolba, Reuters World News)
US military Islamic State hit with 15 air strikes by US-led coalition
(The Jerusalem Post)
Boko Haram militants kill three in attack on Niger village
(Niamey, Reuters World News)
Shooting of witness threatens trial of Coptic Christians' murderers
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Attempt to seed panic, hatred behind murders of Copts in Libya - Patriarch Kirill
(Interfax-Religion)
Muslims plan 'peace ring' around Oslo synagogue
(The Local (Norway))
Bahrain religious freedom hailed
(Bahrain News Agency)
Commission on international affairs addresses issues related to religion and violence
(World Council of Churches)
Jewish feminism, women in leadership, and why women are the world's agents for change
(Ruth Messinger, Elizabeth Tenety, Berkley Forum: Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Jordan ministry launches anti-extremism campaign
(Mohammad Ghazal, Al-Shorfa)
It is violent extremism, not Islamic extremism
(Junaid M. Afeef, Patheos Blog: Altmuslim)
Zunera Ishaq on why she fought to wear a niqab during citizenship ceremony: ‘A personal attack on me and Muslim women’
(Douglas Quan, National Post)
Rouhani accommodates Iran's Jewish students
(Meir Javedanfar, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Shiite faithful defy danger to visit shrines
(Ali Mamouri, trans. Pascale Menassa, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Uzbekistan: Prominent religious figure freed
(Human Rights Watch)
Israeli court allows Arab MP to run in Knesset polls
(Middle East Monitor)
How religion matters in the face of death
(David Briggs, Association of Religion Data Archives)
Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything, and cosmology
(Mary-Theresa Madders, OUPblog Religion)
CAQ's plan to limit freedom of expression could lead to church-synagogue closings, premier says
(Philip Authier, Montreal Gazette)
African apostasy: How it disenfranchises, disrupts family ties & endangers lives
(Sincere Kirabo, Patheos Blog: Notes from an Apostate)
Azeri Muslims in Azerbaijan face jail for praying
(OnIslam)
Rights commission: ISIL committed 4 million violations in Iraq
(Khalid al-Taie, Al-Shorfa)
Hundreds of Islamists referred to Egypt military tribunal
(Al Bawaba)
Bosnian police arrest alleged Daesh supporters
(Al Bawaba)
Extremists warn Pakistani press club, saying Christian journalists spread their faith
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Sino-Vatican agreement rumors fall wide of the mark
(Cardinal Joseph Zen, Catholic News Asia)
Dialogue between China and the Holy See: It looks like someone is trying to shout us down
(Card. Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, AsiaNews.it)
Myanmar's Buddhist terrorism problem
(Usaid Siddiqui, Al Jazeera)
Iran supreme leader: American Sniper made to 'harass and offend the Muslims'
(Ben Child, The Guardian)
Sectarian religious values threaten Israel
(Frances Raday, The Jerusalem Post)
Iraq civil war leader rallies Shi'ite fighters against Islamic State
(Ned Parker, Reuters)
Boko Haram threatens Nigerian elections after fresh violence
(Aminu Abubakar, Agence France-Presse)
11 killed at Nigeria election rally
(Al Arabiya News)
Europe court upholds religion ruling on Turkey schools
(Umut Uras, Al Jazeera)
Hindu-Americans welcome PM Modi's speech on religious freedom
(PTI, The Economic Times: India Times)
Freedom in Australia: A quiet death by a thousand cuts
(Tim Wilson, The Daily Telegraph)
JI-called APC for int'l law to protect religions
(Ifitkhar Alam, The Nation)
Islamic State may be getting closer to Christian refugee area in Iraq
(John Burger, Aleteia)
Egypt's belated response to plight of Coptic Christians
(Zahra Vieneuve, Aleteia)
Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood: a conditional return
(Muhammad Al-Sadiq, Middle East Monitor)
ECtHR refuses to review Church of Scientology claim against Russia
(RASPI)
Bulgaria: Woman ‘vindicated’ in religious freedom case after arrest for home worship
(The Global Dispatch)
ECtHR rejects Turkish appeal to ruling on compulsory religion classes
(Güven Özalp, Hürriyet Daily News)
Turkey’s atheists and religious minorities join forces to protest religious instruction in schools
(Onur Erem and Jacob Resneck, Religion News Service)
High Court in Islamabad: Nothing can justify the murder of Salman Taseer
(AsiaNews.it)
Turkmenistan: Two amnestied prisoners, conscientious objector in hospital, beaten "Wahhabis"
(Forum 18 News Service)
First Islamic bank in Russia could open in 2015
(AsiaNews.it)
Hard truths about the survival of Christianity in the Middle East
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Analysis: What we can learn from ISIS's magazine, Dabiq
(Charles Cameron, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)
Shiite militias attempt to split Yazidis
(Hemin Salih, BasNews)
Fears growing for two South Sudan pastors held by Sudan intelligence
(World Watch Monitor)
Italy fears ISIS invasion from Libya
(Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Daily Beast)
Modi vows to uphold freedom of faith, stand against hatred
(Hindustan Times)
EVENT, 18 February 2015: Panel: “Threat to Justice: Middle Eastern Christians and the ISIS Crisis”
(Stephanie Cipolla, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
Nepal: 1 million pilgrims expected at Pashupatinath Temple
(Missionary International Service News Agency)
IS ‘burns 45 people to death’ in al-Baghdadi, Anbar
(Luke Coleman, BasNews)
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
Kazakh leader warns against associating terrorism with traditional Islam
(Interfax-Religion)
The heart of Egypt moved and devastated
(Andre Azzam, AsiaNews.it)
Could Libya's IS suck Egypt into endless war?
(Mustafa Fetouri, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Concern in Iraq grows over unregulated Shiite forces
(Ali Mamouri, trans. Sahar Ghoussoub, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
What ISIS really wants
(Graeme Wood, The Atlantic)
Jewish gravestones desecrated in New Zealand
(JTA)
Church diplomacy: Greece, Russia and beyond - analysis
(Eirini Patsea, Eurasia Review)
Walking the streets as a Jew: 10 hours of fear and loathing in Paris
(Zvika Klein, NRG)
Readout of Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski and Ambassador David Saperstein's travel to Baghdad and Erbil, Iraq
(U.S. Department of State)
Controversial conversion case in school, act quickly and firmly: Mositun
(Daily Express (East Malaysia))
Misgovernment, not religion, has sunk the Middle East
(Rami G. Khouri, Al Jazeera America)
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