Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
Kenya’s religious leaders demand government response to deadly terror attack
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
India's prime minister takes strong stance against recent violence towards women and girls
(Matti Stevenson, Christian News Wire)
Islamic militants kill 21 in attacks in Iraq, invade country's biggest oil refinery
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Obama thinks Iran can rescue American interests in the Middle East: he's wrong
(Lee Smith, Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life)
Pakistan police clash with supporters of Canada-based cleric
(Qasim Nauman, The Wall Street Journal)
Iraq crisis: ISIS militants threaten UK, says Cameron
(BBC News)
Cuba's Catholic Church may restrict rare forum for open debate
(Marc Frank, Reuters)
Kenya attacks: Al-Shabab not involved - Kenyatta
(BBC News)
Shiite militias decamping from Syria to fight in Iraq
(Maria Abi-Habib, The Wall Street Journal)
Christian nomads
(John Burger, Aleteia)
China's clampdown on 'evil cults'
(Murong Xuecun, The New York Times)
The war on Christians
(Paul Marshall, The Weekly Standard)
Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew to meet Sunday in Jerusalem
(Ryan Hunter, Juicy Ecumenism)
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
South Sudan’s transitional Government to aid crisis
(World Watch Monitor)
550 Christian girls kidnapped and forced to convert in Egypt since 2011
(Cath Martin, Christian Today)
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's victory celebrated by Egypt's religious minorities
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
US sending nearly 300 troops into Iraq to protect embassy from Islamic jihadist threat
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
'My husband told them we were Christians and they shot him in the head and chest;' 48 Kenyans killed in terrorist attacks
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews cry foul over Jerusalem’s new artificial beach
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
Kazakhstan: Teacher and bookseller fined, imam's fine overturned
(Felix Corley, Forum 18)
Iraqi forces hold off Isis rebels north of Baghdad as Obama waits
(Martin Chulov, Dan Roberts, and Patrick Wintour, The Guardian)
Pakistan: Eight die as Lahore police clash with Qadri supporters
(BBC News)
Yemeni forces seek to wrest Sanaa mosque from ousted president
(Khaled Abdullah, Reuters)
Jordan releases Zarqawi's spiritual mentor from prison
(Ben Kesling and Suha Ma'ayeh, The Wall Street Journal)
Israel ramps up pressure on Hamas in hunt for missing teens
(Ali Sawafta, Reuters)
Buddhist-Muslim unrest boils over in Sri Lanka
(Dharisha Bastians and Gardiner Harris, The New York Times)
44 Sunni prisoners killed as Iraqi violence spreads
(Alissa J. Rubin and Suadad Al-Salhy, The New York Times)
Baptized via Skype
(Paul Harp, The Christian Chronicle)
ISIS invades Iraq: this is a war of religion
(Damian Thompson, Telegraph)
The failure of Western secular values in Iraq
(Laura Keynes, MercatorNet)
Cleaning up the Vatican
(Paul Vallely, The New York Times)
Monday, 16 June 2014
"Dangerous" Facebook: Detention and trouble for Narendra Modi's critics
(Asianews.it)
Egypt jails Christian teacher for insulting Islam
(Arutz Sheva)
'Forgotten Girls' provides critical insight into recent Boko Haram kidnapping, other global abuses
(Matti Stevenson, Christian News Wire)
Christian university fights for law school in Canada
(Charlie Butts, One News Now)
Russian Church to open a center for studying Orthodox culture in Shanghai
(Interfax-Religion)
This is not a test: Israeli harassment of Palestinian TV stations
(Patrick O. Strickland, Mint Press News)
Competing halal standards leave food industry with indigestion
(Stuart Grudings and Trinna Leong, Reuters)
Sri Lanka Muslims killed in Aluthgama clashes with Buddhists
(BBC News)
Iraqi Christians flee homes amid militant push
(Diaa Hadid, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Public schools in Indonesia feel Islamic pressure
(Yenni Kwok, The New York Times)
US willing to work with Iran to halt advance of extremists in Iraq – Kerry
(Paul Lewis, The Guardian)
Gunmen singled out non-Muslims in Kenya attack
(Tom Odula and Jason Straziuso, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
The future of ISIS and the sectarian Response: ISIS has picked a fight it cannot win
(Joshua Landis, Syria Comment)
Sunday, 15 June 2014
Illegal to be faithful: One-quarter of the world has blasphemy laws
(Elise Hilton, Acton Institute PowerBlog)
Saturday, 14 June 2014
Martyrdom and terrorism: a Q&A
(Dominic Janes and Alex Houen, OUPblog Religion)
Iraq, Syria and the Middle East – An essay by Tony Blair
(The Office of Tony Blair)
Supreme Court likely to decide Trinity Western’s fate
(Sunny Dhillon, The Globe and Mail)
U.S. deploys 80-man drone force to help find Nigerian girls
(Jim Miklaszewski, Courtney Kube and Erin McClam, NBC News)
Modi’s eerie silence over Pune murder
(Nilofar Suhrawardy, Arab News)
Friday, 13 June 2014
Muslim convert sues Tulsa church after being tortured for beliefs
(Nathan Altadonna, KTUL.com)
Muslim who converted to Christianity sues Tulsa church after torture in Syria
(Richard Clark, NewsOn6.com)
Sudanese woman appeals against death sentence for apostasy
(K. O. Peppeh, East Africa News)
Iraq’s Sunni divide may be too great
(Harith Hasan, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)
Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Syria
(Fabrice Balanche, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
Gay Muslims come out in Toronto photo exhibit
(Omar Sacirbey, Religion News Service)
Arab refugees grateful for sanctuary offered by Kurds in Kirkuk – for now
(Fazel Hawramy, The Guardian)
Some abducted schoolgirls may never return: Nigerian ex-president
(Andrew Heavens, Reuters)
Why Christians are under pressure to exit Iraq
(World Watch Monitor)
UN urges action on Papua New Guinea sorcery attacks
(BBC News Asia)
100,000 Party at Israel gay parade, area's biggest
(Ian Deitch, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Somalia's al-Shabab militants impose dress code
(BBC News Africa)
Iraq crisis: Shia volunteers confront Sunni insurgents in Samarra
(Martin Chulov and Peter Walker, The Guardian)
Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric issues call to fight jihadist rebels
(Raheem Salman and Isra Al-Rubei'i, Reuters)
Thousands of Iraqis volunteer to battle militants
(Ammar Karim, The Daily Star (Lebanon))
ISIS rampages, the Middle East shakes
(Daniel Pipes, National Review Online)
Iraq’s top Shiite cleric issues call to stop ISIL juggernaut
(Raheem Salman & Isra Al-Rubei'i, Arab News)
Iraqi Church: A word from Pope Francis, an "important" step for peace in the country
(AsiaNews.it)
Blasphemy and atheist rituals: An interview with S. Brent Plate
(Chris Stedman, RNS Blog: Faitheist)
Modi: Will spare no effort for release of fr. Kumar, abducted in Afghanistan
(AsiaNews.it)
Archbishop of Mosul: anarchy in the city; Muslims defend churches from assaults and raids
(AsiaNews.it)
Malaysian Christian leader: With return of our Bibles it's time for forgiveness
(AsiaNews.it)
Police clash with 200 Christians in Wenzhou as they defend their churches’ cross (video)
(AsiaNews.it)
Salafi-Jihadists: "A persistent threat" to Europe and America
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
Thursday, 12 June 2014
Bloody Toll: Boko Haram behind deadliest killing spree since 9/11
(Robert Windrem, NBC News)
Ted Cruz joins demonstrators in front of White House; calls on Obama to help imprisoned Sudanese Christian woman
(Michael Gryboski, Christian Post)
U.S. condemns Sudanese conviction and continued imprisonment of Meriam Ishag
(John Kerry, U.S. Department of State)
Iraq: ISIS advance threatens civilians
(Human Rights Watch)
Participation of Sunnis key to Iraqi reconciliation
(Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Al Monitor - The Pulse of the Middle East)
Brazil's churches in the spotlight as World Cup begins
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News National Edition)
Bhubaneswar, the government demolishes 30 Christian homes and a church
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Advocacy groups woo US lawmakers amid fervor over prayer at Temple Mount
(Sarah Posner, Al Jazeera America)
U.S. agency urges Myanmar to scrap proposed religion laws
(Muhammad Iqbal, Business Recorder)
Rouhani says Iran ready to 'fight and combat' terrorists in Iraq
(Ali Hashem, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
The capture of Mosul: Terror’s new headquarters
(The Economist)
In Iran, headlines blame foreigners for ISIS advances
(Arash Karami, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Argentine neo-Nazi group approved as political party
(JTA)
Iranian agency bans cartoons, Disney designs
(Mehrnaz Samimi, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Chile to abandon consistent pro-life stance at UN
(Catholic News Agency)
Mosul Christians tell of ISIS forces' Iraqi takeover
(Barbara Baker, World Watch Monitor)
Meriam Ibrahim conviction is based on contradictory claims, say lawyers
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Campaign to crack down on fringe sects in China worries mainstream churches
(Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times)
Mali PM warns of Islamist threat within Tuareg rebels
(Joe Penney, Reuters)
Thousands raid South Korea church in futile search for ferry family boss
(Ju-Min Park, Reuters)
Iraq militants, pushing south, aim at capital
(Suadad Al-Salhy and Tim Arango, The New York Times)
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
A Call to protect the life of a converted Ahmadi and his family under constant threat from religious extremists in Pakistan
(Asian Human Rights Commission)
Apostolic administrator of Yujiang arrested as China attempts to "eradicate" underground Church
(Bernardo Cervellera, AsiaNews.it)
B.C. lawyers vote against religious school
(James Keller, The Canadian Press)
President Obama’s spiritual advisor raises Pastor Saeed Abedini’s case in Iran, asks for clemency
(Jordan Sekulow, ACLJ)
Sunni radicals seize Turkey's Mosul consulate
(Tulin Daloglu, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
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