Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Why is the Muslim charity Interpal being blacklisted as a terrorist organisation?
(Alex Delmar-Morgan & Peter Oborne, Middle East Monitor)
A synagogue and a hateful governor
(Mustafa Akyol, Hürriyet Daily News)
The rise of religion in politics
(Murat Yetkin, Hürriyet Daily News)
Pregnant Christian women forced to parade naked for “not working well”
(AsiaNews.it)
Turkish Christians, migrants and refugees waiting for Pope Francis
(AsiaNews.it)
Pak: Top activist hopeful for blasphemy changes
(ICAN)
Christians in Pakistan fear advance of Islamic State
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)
Prohibiting interfaith marriage violates rights: Indonesian bishops
(Ryan Dagur, UCA News)
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
For Indonesian Bishops, the state should register mixed marriages as a matter of religious freedom
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
Latest on Hindutva hate agenda
(ICAN)
Islamic State destroys historic church in Mosul
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)
Mosul: Video shows Islamic state blowing about Sacred Heart convent
(AsiaNews.it)
China announces net results of Xinjiang ‘strike hard’ campaign
(UCA News)
Gambia passes draconian anti-LGBTI Law
(Freedom House)
The silence over Islamic State's abuse of women
(Letta Tayler, Human Rights Watch)
130 Cameroon schools closed due to Boko Haram fears
(Christian Today)
Bahraini police raid house of top Shiite cleric
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Two Jewish students stabbed by Arab attackers in Jerusalem
(Nicholas Casey, The Wall Street Journal)
Peace prize awarded to Central African Republic top clerics
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)
Minister arrested for offense to Islam
(Missionary International Service News Agency)
Nepal prevents Indian Prime Minister Modi from speaking at a temple, says no Hindu propaganda
(Christopher Sharma, AsiaNews.it)
Christ the King among tribal Mundari, witness of faith and peaceful coexistence
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Two Protestant clergymen on trial in Bangladesh for alleged "forced conversions"
(AsiaNews.it)
Jewish-nation bill frays Israel's delicate social fabric
(Maayan Lubell, Reuters)
Sri Lanka's Catholic Church urges government not to use pope's visit to help election campaign
(Ranga Sirilal and Shihar Aneez, Reuters)
Persecution may be "tip of the iceberg" - Peshawar Christians
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Baghdadi vs. Zawahri: battle for global jihad
(Bruce Riedel, Al-Monitor)
Egyptian play tackles taboo of religion
(Asmaa al-Ghoul, Al-Monitor)
Indonesian women’s rights under siege
(Andreas Harsono, Al Jazeera)
Bolivia elimina el matrimonio religioso del nuevo Código de las Familias
(EJU)
Monday, 24 November 2014
Presidential vote, call to not use Pope for political aims
(Missionary International Service News Agency)
Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy files appeal
(Agence France-Presse)
Asia Bibi pins hopes for life on Supreme Court
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)
Stop the carnage in Syria, doctors plead: "The situation of civilians under siege by the Assad regime in Syria is even worse than under ISIS"
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
Pope Francis and the extraordinary global marriage conference
(Sheila Liaugminas, MercatorNet)
"Kidnapping," forced conversion and collective punishment haunt Egypt's Copts
(Lauren Gunias, World Watch Monitor)
The factions of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab)
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
Margallo habla de libertad de expresión y transición en conferencia de prensa en Cuba
(Martí Noticias)
Hopes of anti-FGM campaigners dashed in Egypt
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
ISIL recruits, exploits children 'in systematic and organized manner'
(Hurriyet Daily News)
Kenya kills 100 Islamist militants who claimed responsibility for bus attack
(George Obulutsa, Christian Today)
Could Israel’s policies pave way for an intifada?
(Daoud Kuttab, Al-Monitor)
Understanding the attraction of Salafi and Wahhabi movements
(Saneya Arif, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies)
Karnataka, Hindu radicals attack a Pentecostal church: eight injured, two serious
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Hindu leaders against Christian missionaries: "They corrupt Indian culture"
(AsiaNews.it)
Suicide bomber kills 50 at Afghan volleyball match
(Christian Today)
Iraqi forces claim liberation of 2 towns from Islamic State control
(Saif Hameed, Christian Today)
Facing Boko Haram, Nigerians 'storm the heavens with prayers'
(Catholic News Agency)
Rights groups blame Indonesia's blasphemy law for failing state of minorities
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Relationship between Israel and Jordan grows warier amid tensions in Jerusalem
(William Booth and Taylor Luck, The Washington Post)
Israeli cabinet approves legislation defining nation-state of Jewish people
(Peter Beaumont, The Guardian)
Muslim clerics meet in Iran to counter extremists
(Ali Akbar Dareini, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Catholic Church: religious freedom trumps civil rights
(Jay Michaelson, The Daily Beast)
Religious freedom is a component driving peace, finds new study
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Understanding radicalisation: Expert interview with Dr Mark Sedgwick
(On Religion)
Understanding radicalisation: Expert interview with Dr Matthew Francis
(On Religion)
Opinion: Multiculturalism should not be misused to justify divisions
(Farid Rohani, Montreal Gazette)
ISIS continues its state-building project unabated
(Dr. Theodore Karasik, Al Arabiya)
'Jewish State' law passes Cabinet vote
(Hezki Ezra, Arutz Sheva 7)
Jamaat Jund al-Qawqaz: A Caucasus Emirate Group in Latakia
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
Sunday, 23 November 2014
Cabinet approves 'Jewish state bill'
(Lahav Harkov and Herb Keinon, The Jerusalem Post)
Egyptian court acquits first doctor charged with female genital mutilation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Israel's Cabinet approves proposed basic law declaring Israel as a Jewish state
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Saturday, 22 November 2014
Recognizing Palestine: Anomalies and ambiguities – OpEd
(Neville Teller, Eurasia Review)
In Pakistan, Christians and Muslims stage protest demanding blasphemy laws be stopped
(Team Aleteia, Aleteia)
Somali Islamists execute 28 non-Muslims on Kenyan bus
(George Obulutsa, Reuters)
Representations of purgatory and limbo in popular culture
(Diana Walsh Pasulka, OUPblog Religion)
No place for extremists ‘masked as intellectuals’
(Arab News)
Bahrain's first post-Arab Spring vote boycotted by Shia majority
(AsiaNews.it)
UN rights chief condemns Gambia for anti-gay legislation
(Julie Deisher-Edwards, JURIST)
Syrian Christians: 'Help us to stay - stop arming terrorists'
(Ruth Sherlock, The Telegraph)
Is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dissolving into a religious war?
(Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor)
Status Quo? 'Jews prayed on the Temple Mount for centuries' (part 1)
(Hillel Fendel, Arutz Sheva 7)
There is no 'Status Quo' on the Temple Mount (part 2)
(Hillel Fendel, Arutz Sheva 7)
Status Quo? The Dome of the Rock was built for Jews (part 3)
(Hillel Fendel, Arutz Sheva 7)
Friday, 21 November 2014
Three Muslim youth innocent, discharged by court in 2006 Guj railway station blast
(ICAN)
Family of slain Christians in Pakistan fear for safety
(ICAN)
Christian forces clash with UN in Central African Republic
(Crispin Dembassa-Kette, Christian Today)
Egypt: Doctor and father acquitted after girl, 13, 'died from FGM'
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
45 killed after Boko Haram gunmen storm village
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
The Factions of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab)
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
Rome’s extraordinary ecumenical event
(Maggie Gallagher, National Review Online)
USCIRF statement on the killing of Jewish worshipers in Jerusalem synagogue
(USCIRF)
Murders in Jerusalem: Keep God out of it
(The Economist)
Yemen culture minister to give her anti-extremism award to country's Jews
(Haaretz)
Goa: Millions arriving for Francis Xavier
(Missionary International Service News Agency)
Grand mufti: Steer clear of anti-Islamic websites
(Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, Arab News)
Church in Myanmar, five centuries of missionary history (a profile)
(AsiaNews.it)
Religious freedom under attack
(Geoffrey Johnston, The Whig)
Jerusalem: calm returns to the Esplanade of the Mosques
(AsiaNews.it)
For Global Times, Beijing open on Vatican choosing bishops, closed on Patriotic Association
(Bernardo Cervellera, AsiaNews.it)
Bahraini moral clarity and the ‘Al-Aqsa in danger’ myth
(Evelyn Gordon, Commentary)
Making Israel’s Jewish status the law: Does it matter?
(Ben Sales, JTA)
Hamas denies knowledge of Liberman plot, but says leaders of 'occupation' are legitimate targets
(Yohan Jeremy Bob, Reuters, The Jerusalem Post)
PA chief warns against resorting to 'religious war'
(The Jerusalem Post)
High-level al-Qaeda leaders reportedly killed in US drone strike in Pakistan
(Khaama Press, World Affairs Journal)
Is a new law enough to protect religious minorities in Indonesia?
(Irsyad Rafsadi, The Conversation)
Hashtags and Holy War: Islamic State tweets its way to success
(Interview conducted with Ali Soufan by Britta Sandberg, Spiegel Online International)
Muslim, Christian leaders for end to misuse of blasphemy law
(The News International)
Pope Francis: ‘We have paid too little heed to those who are hungry’
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
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