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Wednesday, 21 January 2015

'Exodus' film sparks Morocco free speech debate
(Siham Ali, Magharebia)

Yo, Washington Post editors: Do faith issues matter to the Islamic State death crews? Maybe they do ...
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

11 wounded by Palestinian in Israeli bus attack in Tel Aviv
(Tia Goldenberg, AP: The Big Story)

Malaysia's Federal Court dismisses Catholic case for the use of the word Allah
(AsiaNews.it)

Malaysia court dismisses Catholic appeal to use Allah
(Reuters)

Top court rules that Malaysian Catholics can’t use ‘Allah’ in publications
(Manirajan Ramasamy, Chong Pooi Koon, and Andrea Tan, Bloomberg)

Pope says meeting with Dalai Lama in the pipeline as he sends telegram to Xi Jinping
(Kristine Kwok, South China Morning Post)

Human rights watch groups fear Chinese anti-terrorism laws will infringe on human rights [Simplified Chinese]
(Deutsche Welle)

China exclusive: North China province purges superstition
(China News)

Tibetan Religious Association Standing Committee calls for legal protection for "sky burials" [Simplified Chinese]
(China News)

Tibetan religious leaders adopt view towards modernization [Simplified Chinese]
(China News)

Chinese group: China lawfully responds to religious extremism and terrorist activities with heavy hand [Simplified Chinese]
(Xinhua Net)

Tibetan Religious Association Standing Committee proposes using law to protect religious culture [Simplified Chinese]
(China News)

Christian Persecution Worldwide
(2014 World Watch List, Open Doors USA)

Census 2011's religion data to be made public next week
(Bharti Jain, The Times of India)

Interactive: A look at last 5 years Census data on religion
(The Indian Express)

A national anti-conversion law to "save" India's Hindus
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)

... on blasphemy laws
(Report, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Responsa: Part two, with more on French Jews, the real meaning of 'radical,' and the politics of the supermarket
(David Mikics and Mark Greif, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Suis-je Charlie?
(Andrew Sorokowski, Religious Information Service of Ukraine)

Silencing debate on Islam?
(Kristine Kalanges, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice - Daniel Philpott)

Japanese hostage held by Islamic State is a Christian journalist
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)

Hostage crisis challenges pacifist Japanese public
(Martin Fackler and Alan Cowell, The New York Times)

Islamic State releases 200 Yazidis from captivity
(Nice Daswani, Christian Today)

Beards, prisons and religious freedom
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Top Adventist leaders build a church in the Dominican Republic
(Libna Stevens, Adventist News Network)

Sri Lanka, Tamil: Pope among war victims, a blessing for all
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)

Same sex marriage - Comparing the US and Australia
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Muslims: The first victims of terrorism
(Mark Barwick, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Why we don't know jack about terrorists
(Susan E. Wills, Aleteia)

EVENT, 20 January 2015: Regulation of Blogger’s Activity in Uzbekistan: Implications for Freedom of Religion and Belief
(Mirakmal Niyazmatov, Central Asia Program, The George Washington University)

Shiite rebels shell Yemen president's home, take over palace
(Ahmed Al-Haj and Maggie Michael, Associated Press: The Big Story)

Christianity and free speech: Mothers, punches and turning cheeks
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Islamic terror – The Pope speaks, but more must be said
(Douglas Kmiec, Huff Post Politics - Opinion)

Counter-terrorism: Going dark
(The Economist)

China's draft counterterrorism law is a recipe for abuses, says HRW
(Eurasia Review)

Churches in Niger and other former French colonies torched over Charlie Hebdo cartoons
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)

70+ churches destroyed as ‘anti-Charlie’ protests spread in Niger
(World Watch Monitor)

Houthis seize Yemen presidential palace after deadly clashes with Army
(AFP, Reuters, Al-Akhbar, Al-Akhbar English)

ISIS threatens to kill 2 Japanese hostages unless Tokyo pays $200 million
(Jethro Mullen and Greg Botelho, CNN)

Rohingya political prisoner released. Dozens of activists still in jail
(AsiaNews.it)

What Charlie Hebdo meant for Lebanon
(Nicolas Hindi, The Daily Star)

Boycott of French products suggested
(Ibrahim Naffee, Arab News)

Gaza jihadist supporters rally against France, praise Islamic State
(Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters)

Noam Chomsky: Obama's drone program 'the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times'
(Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams: Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community)

More on the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris & aftermath

Monday, 19 January 2015

Radical Islamists try to storm French center in Gaza
(Al Bawaba News)

Anti-blasphemy laws? Anti-hate speech laws? Some things to consider before you vote
(Denyse O'Leary, MercatorNet)

Evangelicals, Muslims, and indigenous Filipinos, grateful for the pope's visit
(AsiaNews.it)

Myanmar: US rights rep cautions MPs over religion bills
(Ei Ei Toe Lwin, Myanmar Times)

Interview: Women unequal under Lebanon’s law
(Lama Fakih, Amy Braunschweiger, Human Rights Watch)

Lebanon's religious courts are failing women, HRW says
(Liisa Tuhkanen, Reuters)

Muslim mobs burn down churches, pastors' homes in Niger for Charlie Hebdo's Prophet Muhammad cartoons; 10 people dead in protests
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Saudi Arabia publicly beheads woman in holy Mecca as blogger lashings are postponed
(Ben Tufft, The Independent)

World Religion Day 2015
(Alex Guyver, OUPblog Religion)

Regina residents celebrate World Religion Day with prayers for peace
(Steve Silva, Global News)

Martin Luther King, Jr., "The quest for peace and justice"
(The Nobel Peace Prize 1964, Lecture, paragraph 18-19, Nobelprize.org)

Freedom to discuss religious beliefs at work tied to job satisfaction, finds new study
(the Weekly Number)

They drew first: the balancing exercise between freedom of speech and religious sensitivities
(Saad Rasool, The Nation (Pakistan))

Scholar links global crises to radical speech
(interview of Agnès Callamard by Hassan Benmehdi, Magharebia)

Merkel vows EU financial support for military response against Boko Haram
(Sputnik News)

Religious Freedom and Nigeria’s 2015 Elections
(Factsheet, United States Commission for International Religious Freedom)

PIL against ‘PK’ dismissed, Delhi HC wants religious ‘intolerance’ to be ‘nipped in the bud’
(The Press Trust of India, The Indian Express)

Pope Francis’ mis-interpreters: Who’s punch-drunk now?
(David Gibson, RNS Blog: Sacred and Profane)

Could Charlie Hebdo learn from emperor Ashoka?
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom (EIFRF))

After Charlie Hebdo, France and the West have to implement a "positive secularism"
(Fady Noun, AsiaNews.it)

Lebanon: Religion-based personal status laws discriminate against women
(Human Rights Watch)

Oppressed by China, Uighurs drawn to Salafist ideas
(Metin Gurcan, Al-Monitor)

Egypt bans 'Exodus' movie
(Ahmed Fouad, trans. Cynthia Milan, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

Egypt’s Sisi urges new Muslim religious discourse to fight ‘terrorism’
(Al Arabiya)

Thailand to have ‘third gender’ in new constitution
(Xavier Symons, BioEdge)

No religious or personal birthday celebrations allowed
(Arab News)

4 killed as Hindu, Muslim villagers clash in India
(Arab News)

Abbas: Freedom of expression does not mean attacking religious symbols
(Middle East Monitor)

Sri Lanka elections: Light at end of tunnel?
(Dr. Sridhar Krishnaswami, South Asia Monitor)

IPCS forecast: Nepal in 2015
(Pramod Jaiswal, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies)

Freedom for Yazidis, after months of torment
(Kareem Fahim, The New York Times)

New Charlie Hebdo editor: Our cartoons defend freedom of religion
(Ian Tuttle, National Review Online)

For Jakarta's Wahid Institute, the state is behind sectarian violence
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)

Henan, "thugs" destroy a small local company. Police fail to intervene
(AsiaNews.it)

ISIS’s unpredictable revolution
(Charles Kurzman, OUPblog Religion)

Sunday, 18 January 2015

Welcome to Law and Religion Australia
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Kashmir: A radical hope - OpEd
(Adfar Shah, Eurasia Review)

Sirisena pledges to develop Sri Lanka with national and religious reconciliation
(Eurasia Review)

Saturday, 17 January 2015

Anti-'Charlie Hebdo' violence spreads; death toll at 10 in Niger
(VOA News)

Newest Charlie Hebdo cover generates demonstrations-- some violent
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Baseless indictment of Yemeni Baha'i after 14 months of harsh imprisonment
(Baha'i World News Service)

Are military courts the best way to fight terror?
(Phelim Kine, Human Rights Watch)

Sikhs’ turban banned because "threat" for basketball
(AsiaNews.it)

Pakistan, injuries in protests against Charlie Hebdo. Paul Bhatti: Risk of violent drift
(AsiaNews.it)

How to save Islam from the Islamists
(Qanta Ahmed, The Spectator)

'Religion of peace' is not a harmless platitude
(Douglas Murray, The Spectator)

Channeling religious passion into positive directions
(Rafi Ruerstein, The Jerusalem Post)

Religious holidays 2015: An interfaith calendar (Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and more)
(Huff Post Religion)

Our common religion: Jews, Muslims, Parsis, Christians have thrived in India because of a liberal Hinduism
(Pavan K Varma, Times of India - Blog)

Paris attacks: Jonathan Swift had a point about religion. Did Charlie Hebdo?
(Richard Harries, The Independent)

The attacks in Paris were acts of terrorism, not acts of censorship
(Alexander Mercouris, Sputnik News)

Namibia: Terrorism has no religion and is criminally satanic
(Dr Armas Abdul Malik Shikongo, New Era)

Melbournian ISIS fighter calls for a ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attack in Australia
(Athena Yenko, International Business Times)

3 Palestinians sorry for torching German synagogue
(JTA, The Jewish Daily Forward)

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