Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 13 October 2014
When tragedy strikes, should theists expect to know why?
(Justin P. McBrayer and Trent Dougherty, OUPblog Religion)
How should Muslims respond to the threat of extremism within Islam?
(Room for Debate, The New York Times Opinion Pages)
Rabbinic group: Women permitted to dance with Torah scroll
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Islamic State officially admits to enslaving Yazidi women
(Matthew Barber, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
Sheer "barbarism" against the Middle East families must end
(Catholic News Agency)
U.S., Canada's RCMP team up with Islamists
(Christine Williams, Gatestone Institute)
China: Death sentence for 'Christian' cult members who murdered a mother in McDonald's
(Mark Woods, Christian Today World)
Sunday, 12 October 2014
China issues death terms for 2 in sect
(Michael Forsythe, The New York Times)
Temple Mount closed to non-Muslims as 80,000 Jews gather at Western Wall
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Iraq: Forced marriage, conversion for Yezidis
(Human Rights Watch)
Who leads the fight against gay discrimination in Nigeria? The Catholic Church
(Ann Schneible, Catholic News Agency)
Can death be beautiful? A response to Brittany Maynard
(Mary Rezac, Catholic News Agency)
Saturday, 11 October 2014
The (in)human dimension of Ghana’s prayer camps
(Shantha Rau Barriga, Open Democracy | Open Global Rights)
Ethnic dimension of Iraqi Assyrians often ignored
(Maxim Edwards, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Palestinian Christian village cancels Oktoberfest
(Daoud Kuttab, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Malaysian Christians lash government after supremacist evades prosecution
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
The Second Vatican Council and John Henry Newman
(Ian Ker, OUPblog Religion)
The man working to bring down China's one-child policy
(Mark Stricherz, Aleteia)
The difference between religions and cults from five perspectives [Simplified Chinese]
(Sina News)
Emerging and developing economies much more optimistic than rich countries about the future
(Pew Research Global Attitudes Project)
Catholic bishops debate: Where does doctrine end and pastoral practice begin?
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
What the Church can do (communion for the divorced and remarried)
(Ross Douthat, The New York Times Opinion Pages)
A surprising tie that binds Hong Kong's protest leaders: Faith
(Frank Lanfitt, NPR Parallels)
The study of law as a spiritual act: Finding truth and meaning in the Talmud
(Adam Kirsch, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
Friday, 10 October 2014
Iraqi women targeted for execution by IS
(Pascale el Khoury, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Instant view: It's Kristallnacht; execute the terrorists
(The Commentator)
Judaism's sexual revolution: Why Judaism rejected homosexuality
(Chuck Colson, BreakPoint)
Vatican debate on gays provokes strong reaction from all corners
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Kidnapped Redeemed Christian Church of God pastor escapes from Boko Haram
(Cath Martin, Christian Today)
Greens want to counter extremism among youth using outreach body
(Daniel Hurst, The Guardian)
Australia: Pastor puts 'Muslims welcome here' sign outside his church
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
Taliban shooting victim Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights activist share Nobel
(Griff Witte and Brian Murphy, The Washington Post)
The Nobel Peace Price for 2014: Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay
(Nobelprize.org)
For Pakistani Christians and Muslims, Nobel Prize to Malala helps fight for human rights in the country
(AsiaNews.it)
In Pakistani’s Swat Valley, Malala’s peace prize seen as slap at Taliban
(Haq Nawaz Khan, The Washington Post)
Jihadists seize Kurdish HQ in Syria's Kobane, massacre feared
(Fulya Ozerkan with Sara Hussein in Beirut, AFP via Yahoo!News)
Kazakhstan: Ten days' imprisonment for "extremist" book
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Religion and politics mingle as Supreme Court, Vatican put focus on just who defines a modern family
(Anne-Gerard Flynn, Mass Live)
Ultra-orthadox Jewish men "stand up" for "religious freedom" ... on a plane
(Kara Loewentheil, USC Annenberg: Religious Dispatches)
Australia's terrorism laws 'could criminalise preaching from Qur'an'
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)
China’s one-child policy: Pro-choice and pro-life must work together to end forced abortion and gendercide
(Reggie Littlejohn, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
Turkey condemns Israeli security forces for storming Al-Aqsa Mosque
(Middle East Monitor)
Tunisia's Islamists ready for a coalition with old regime officials
(Tarek Amara, Reuters)
Leading Vatican cardinal says Catholic Church will never bless gay marriage
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
The woman’s place in the synagogue
(Barry Davis, The Jerusalem Post)
Israel Police restrict Muslim worshippers on Temple Mount following riots
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Human rights: The gay divide
(The Economist)
Christians urge India's prime minister to halt torment in Madhya Pradesh
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Muslim women attacked in Australian communities after anti-terror raids
(Henri Rose Cimatu, Ecumenical News)
Thursday, 9 October 2014
“What’s at stake in Kobani: Islamic State and Kobani calculations”
(Carl Drott, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
Bahraini activist faces trial over tweets
(Al Bawaba News)
Egypt's army: Between victory and defeat
(Dr. Amira Abo el-Fetouh, Middle East Monitor)
Franciscan priest, four Christians freed by Islamist militants in Syria
(Miko Morelos, Ecumenical News)
Islamic State fighters are threatening to overrun Iraq’s Anbar province
(Erin Cunningham, The Washington Post)
Monastic silence and a visual dialogue
(Abbie Reese, OUPblog Religion)
Seven witchcraft suspects burned to death in Tanzania
(AFP, Yahoo! News)
The Battle for Kobani
(Alan Taylor, In Focus, The Atlantic)
Why the Gaza war looked different on Israeli TV than it did on CNN
(Yonit Levi and Udi Segal, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
What's at stake in Kobani: Islamic State and Kobani calculations
(Carl Drott, Syria Comment)
Dispatches: A shocking display of homophobia by Kyrgyz Parliament
(Mihra Rittmann, Human Rights Watch)
Religious pluralism is a fact (not a belief system)
(Fred Clark, Patheos Blog: Slacktivist)
Synod14: Summary of 7th General Congregation: On the Indissolubility of Marriage, Communion, Cohabitation and Responsible Parenthood
(Zenit: The world seen from Rome)
Trinity Western grad 'attacked' for being Christian in job rejection
(Natalie Clancy, CBC News | British Columbia)
As UN targeted by Islamists in Mali, Bishops urge renewed peace efforts
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)
Is it fair to judge a religion by their extremists?
(JJ Feinauer, Deseret National News)
Nepal: Institutionalizing human rights - OpEd
(Dr. Gyan Basnet, Eurasia Review)
Dashain and Deepawali could "bankrupt" Nepal
(Christopher Sharma, AsiaNews.it)
Vietnamese Catholic intellectual treated like "a slave" in prison
(AsiaNews.it)
Top Vatican cardinal wants streamlined annulments
(Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Madhya Pradesh: anti-Christian violence "unacceptable"
(AsiaNews.it)
North Cotabato: Grenade attack on Protestant church, two dead and three wounded
(AsiaNews.it)
Whirlwind ascent of Houthi rebels in Yemen brings relief and trepidation
(Shuaib Almosawa and Kareem Fahim, The New York Times)
Machinegun, heavy weapons fire rock Central African Republic capital
(Reuters)
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Holy See's Statement to the U.N. in Geneva at the General Debate of the 65th Session of the Executive Committee of UNHCR
(Zenit: The world seen from Rome)
Indian Hindu nationalists say 'no' to alliance with radical Sri Lankan Buddhists
(UCA News)
Nepal: Constitution drafting getting delayed: Update no. 31
(Dr. S. Chandrasekharan, South Asia Analysis Group)
To defeat ISIS we need to stop shooting in the dark and understand political Islam
(Nasim Ahmed, Middle East Monitor)
You’re so vain — I bet you think this Hajj is about you!
(Al Bawaba News)
Supreme Court on marriage; Synod on family
(Sheila Liaugminas, MercatorNet)
Muslim youth summit told female genital mutilation is not part of Islam
(Alexandra Topping, The Guardian)
Iraq has done "absolutely nothing" for displaced Christians
(Catholic News Agency)
ISIS captures three districts of Syrian border town, continues advance
(Lucinda Borkett-Jones, Christian Today)
Kazakhstan: Fourteenth known 2014 short-term prison term
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Madhya Pradesh, the government cancels a Christian gathering for disturbing the peace
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Fourth Plenum to save Communist Party of China from its contradictions
(Bernardo Cervellera, AsiaNews.it)
Bangladeshi cabinet minister fired over anti-hajj remarks
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Oman sets up central sharia board in move to boost Islamic finance
(Bernardo Vizcaino, Reuters)
Morocco releases British tourist jailed for ‘homosexual acts’
(Patrick Strudwick, The Guardian)
Myanmar blockades Rohingya, tries to erase name
(Robin McDowell, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Australian PM seeks to block visas for 'hate preachers'
(BBC News)
Tuesday, 7 October 2014
Sri Lanka: UN Commission emphasizes empty rights promises
(Missionary International Service News Agency)
Saudi Arabia and Qatar: The biters bit - OpEd
(Neville Teller, Eurasia Review)
Morocco to host next world forum on human rights - OpEd
(Said Temsamani, Eurasia Review)
In Hong Kong and elsewhere, Democracy's messy process challenged in the street
(Humphrey Hawksley, Yale Global Online)
Dashain Festival, a moment of solidarity and harmony for all the religions of Nepal
(Christopher Sharma, AsiaNews.it)
Islamic State take Kobane, thousands flee to Turkish border
(AsiaNews.it)
Bangladeshi minister sacked after anti-hajj remarks
(Arafat Kabir Upol, International Policy Digest)
Gardeners discover bag of ISIS flags in northern Israel
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Measured escalation shows Israel can't afford to ignore Hezbollah
(Amos Harel, Haaretz)
The community of expulsion
(Roger Cohen, The New York Times)
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