Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 30 June 2014
Islam and apostasy: The right to renounce
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and Public Policy])
ISIS in Iraq: Sectarian tsunami or regional rivalry?
(Rajeev Agarwal, Geopolitical Monitor)
Pakistan attacks signal return of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
(Jacqueline Côté, Geopolitical Monitor)
Iraq militants announce new Islamic state
(Oren Dorell, Religion News Service)
ISIS militants declare Islamist ‘caliphate’
(Karl Vick, Time)
Militants making headway in Iraq and Syria declare creation of formal Islamic state
(Liz Sly and Loveday Morris, The Washington Post)
Vatican financial watchdog signs accord with U.S. Treasury Department
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Islamic Reconnaissance Party of Tajikistan asks authorities to allow children going to mosques
(Interfax)
Not all Muslims are jihadists – and it's a shame such reassurances are needed
(Sharif Nashashibi, The Guardian)
Isis announces Islamic caliphate in area straddling Iraq and Syria
(Mark Tran and Matthew Weaver, The Guardian)
Israel's top court says mother need not have son circumcised
(reporting by Ari Rabinovitch; editing by Jeffrey Heller and Louise Ireland, Reuters)
Record turnout for Singapore gay rally amid religious protests
(reporting by Rachel Armstrong; editing by Tom Heneghan, Reuters)
Egypt moves to restrict Ramadan sermons
(Mariam Rizk, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Gunmen attack Nigerian churches, killing at least 30
(Patrick McGroarty, The Wall Street Journal)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: I Speak for Myself: Women and Religious Freedom [LINK REPAIRED]
(Deadline Extended to 5 July 2014, I Speak for Myself Series (http://www.ispeakformyself.com/))
Saturday, 28 June 2014
The Catholic Church will not be changing its views on sex. It cannot and it should not
(Tim Stanley, The Telegraph)
Friday, 27 June 2014
Canonical trial of ex Nuncio Jozef Wesolowski
(News.VA)
China jails 25 members in latest sentencing of illegal cult
(Sui-Lee Wee, Reuters)
Egyptian law seeks to control political speech at mosques
(Ahmed Fouad, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)
First time in 1600 years no Mass said in Mosul, Iraq, says Chaldean Archbishop
(World Watch Monitor)
Op-Ed: The Presbyterians’ Judaism problem
(Gary M. Bretton-Granatoor, JTA)
Philippines assures Muslim rebels of autonomy by January
(Manuel Mogato, Reuters)
Skepticism about international religious freedom: types 1 and 2
(Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)
Statement by the President on the occasion of Ramadan
(Office of the Press Secretary, The White House)
Vatican fires archbishop accused of sexual abuse
(AP, Al Jazeera America)
Meriam Ibrahim: arrested, released, re-arrested, re-released
(Faith McDonnell, Juicy Ecumenism)
Francis and South Korea
(John Paul Shimek, Catholic World Report)
Sudanese woman Meriam Ibrahim 'safe and well' in US embassy
(David Smith, The Guardian)
Meriam Ibrahim and the persecution of Christians
(Charlotte Allen, The Wall Street Journal)
"I am a Christian, and I will remain a Christian": What we can learn from Meriam Ibrahim
(Gabriel Said Reynolds, First Things)
Vatican's ex-ambassador to Dominican Republic defrocked
(Lizzy Davies, The Guardian)
Open Doors sends vital help to thousands of Christian families fleeing Iraq violence
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Vatican: many Catholics ignore teachings on sex
(Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Redrawn lines seen as no cure in Iraq conflict
(Robert F. Worth, The New York Times)
Iraq's Christian minority feels militant threat
(Maria Abi-Habib, The Wall Street Journal)
World Vision, recovering from gay policy shift, tries to shore up its evangelical base
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Turkish court: headscarved lawyer’s rights violated
(Daily Sabah)
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Changing the equation for Orthodox women studying math and science
(Jon Emont, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
Uighur scholar kept in chains in China, lawyer says
(Michael Martina and Ben Blanchard, Reuters)
Jordanian court acquits radical cleric Abu Qatada of conspiracy
(Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Reuters)
Sudan releases Christian convert but insists she stay in the country
(Maaz Alnugomi, Reuters)
Commentary: Muslims don’t own the term ‘Allah’ in Malaysia or anywhere else
(Salaam Bhatti, Religion News Service)
Billy the Kid’s nun * Hoochie Cooch Tattoos * Latin lutefisk : Thursday’s Religion Roundup
(Kevin Eckstrom, Religion News Service)
Vatican confronts shifting landscape on family issues
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Vatican says believers are shunning Catholic lifestyle after scandals
(Lizzy Davies, The Guardian)
Meriam Ibrahim freed from police station after being accused of forging travel documents
(Morgan Lee, The Christian Post)
Stop saying “moderate Muslims.” You're only empowering Islamophobes.
(Nathan Lean, The New Republic)
Buffeted by tumult, Jewish population in Tunisia dwindles
(Carlotta Gall, The New York Times)
Thousands of Indian Muslims sign up to defend Iraq's shrines
(Sruthi Gottipati, Reuters)
Explosion at Nigerian mall kills at least 21
(Patrick McGroarty, The Wall Street Journal)
Shiite violence traps Baghdad’s Sunnis, haunted by a grim past
(Alissa J. Rubin and Rod Nordland, The New York Times)
U.S. launches bid to wrest Sunni tribes from militants
(Jay Solomon, The Wall Street Journal)
Jihadists step up recruitment drive
(Maria Abi-Habib, The Wall Street Journal)
Sudanese Christian woman freed again
(Mohamed Osman, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Are people killing each other today over an election dispute in Arabia more than a thousand years ago?
(Peter Berger, The American Interest)
Cornerstone: A Conversation on Religious Freedom and Its Social Implications
(A New Blog Discussion, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs - Cornerstone)
Violent extremism and religious freedom
(Cornerstone Blog Discussion, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs - Cornerstone)
Meriam Yehya Ibrahim and the First World problem of “religious persecution”
(Benjamin L. Corey, Patheos Blog: Formerly Fundie)
Victory for Meriam
(Faith McDonnell, Juicy Ecumenism)
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Meriam Ibrahim: Sudanese woman freed from apostasy death sentence is re-arrested at airport... and then released again
(Mohamed Osman, The Independent)
Sudan summons U.S., South Sudan envoys in row over Christian convert
(Maaz Alnugomi, Reuters)
Anti-Muslim violence in Sri Lanka: Need to curb hardline Buddhists - analysis
(Archana Arul, Eurasia Review)
Savannakhet: Village chief denies Christian funeral and burial to new convert
(AsiaNews.it)
Nepal appeals to religious leaders to freed 60,000 nationals trapped in Iraq
(Christopher Sharma, AsiaNews.it)
Hong Kong's referendum "is a cry for freedom by the people that Beijing cannot ignore"
(AsiaNews.it)
Pope's mafia "excommunication" a call to conversion, priests explain
(Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency)
Chaldean priest says little hope for Christians in Iraq
(Kate Veik, Catholic News Agency)
Sudanese woman sentenced to death re-arrested
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Why the Arab world is lost in an emotional Nakba, and how we keep it there
(Richard Landes, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
Provincial Canadian court orders Google to block sites worldwide, in trade dispute
(Denyse O'Leary, Connecting)
The fall of Mosul
(Phillip Jenkins, Aleteia)
What’s the track record when atheists wield political power?
(Richard Ostling, Patheos Blog: Religion Q&A)
The pope's divisions
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and Public Policy])
Russian-Chinese cultural center could open around oldest Orthodox church in China
(Interfax-Religion)
Bombing at Nigerian college, Boko Haram suspected
(Brownie Marie, Christian Today)
Even atheists oppose school labeling transexual kids 'xe,' 'xem and 'xyr'
(Charisma News)
North Korea deserves unrelenting attention for unrelenting atrocities
(Rikki Elizabeth Stinnette, WORLD News Service)
Bishop: government corruption a factor in Boko Haram violence
(Carl Bunderson and Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Nigerian man 'beaten to a pulp, choked,' then committed to psychiatric ward for Atheism
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
The Economist accuses Pope Francis of ‘following Lenin’
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Detained on charges of forgery, Meriam Ibrahim is not yet free
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Christian father commits suicide after ISIS members rape wife and daughter in front of him because he couldn't pay poll tax
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Malaysia refuses Church right to appeal ban on use of ‘Allah’
(Matt George, World Watch Monitor)
India's holy men to advise on Modi's Ganges river cleanup
(Krishna N Das, Reuters)
Web preaches jihad to China's Muslim Uighurs
(Jeremy Page and Ned Levin, The Wall Street Journal)
Influential cleric calls for Sunni-Shi'ite dialogue in Iraq
(Amena Bakr, Reuters)
Tuesday, 24 June 2014
'Maybe we live, maybe we die': Syrian children used as suicide bombers
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin believes confrontation of civilizations inevitable
(Interfax-Religion)
Catholic priest, Father Brian Lucas, kept no record of abuse talks, royal commission hears
(Dan Box, The Australian)
China opens 24 police stations in monasteries in Labrang
(AsiaNews.it)
Egyptian Christian jailed for contempt of religion
(Haggag Salama, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
For Indian bishop, a uniform civil code should not be used to impose Hinduism on minorities
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Hillary's evenhandedness means blaming Israel for failed peace talks
(Noah Pollak, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
Israel debates assisted suicide
(Michael Cook, BioEdge)
Malaysian court to Christians: You can't say 'Allah'
(Sophie Brown, CNN World)
Meriam is free, but countless Christian women are not
(Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet)
Preacher challenges Pakistani leaders
(Salman Masood, The New York Times)
Putin backs Iraq govt's efforts to counter Islamists in talks with Obama
(Interfax-Religion)
Religious freedom associated with stronger global competitiveness
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Sri Lanka to Muslim countries: We'll protect our Islamic community
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
Email Subscription
The International Center for Law and Religion Studies maintains a Law and Religion Headlines service covering news about freedom of religion or belief internationally. All interested may subscribe to this service, free of charge, using the link below.
Subscribe