Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 2 May 2014
Vatican to debate teachings on divorce, birth control, gay unions
(Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times)
Ministry looking to allow Jewish prayer on Temple Mount
(Spencer Ho, The Times of Israel)
Netanyahu pushing Basic Law defining Israel as Jewish state
(Barak Ravid, Jonathan Lis, and Jack Khoury, Haaretz News)
Eleven Muslims killed in sectarian attacks in India's Assam
(Biswajyoti Das, Reuters)
Sri Lanka: Cautious welcome for police unit for religious disputes
(ACNS Staff, Episcopal News Service)
Extremists crucify Syrians as method of execution
(Carrie Dedrick, Christian Headlines)
The relentless assault of an increasingly pornographic culture
(Russell Shaw, The Catholic World Report)
Nirvanaless: Asian Buddhism’s growing fundamentalist streak
(Anuradha Sharma and Vishal Arora, Religion News Service)
Lack of health care deadly for Myanmar’s Rohingya
(The Associated Press, Mint Press News)
Women raise their voices on the walls of Afghanistan
(Pina Sadar, Mint Press News)
Hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian school girls reportedly sold as brides to militants for $12, relatives say
(Terrence McCoy, The Washington Post)
Uzbekistan: Another 5 year prison term for sermons in mobile
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Thursday, 1 May 2014
China destroys statues as 'anti-Christian' campaign widens
(Tom Phillips, Shanghai, The Telegraph)
India's new Hinduism is about order, not wonder
(Amit Chaudhuri, The Guardian)
Iran: A number of Christian converts arrested at Easter Service
(Mohabat News)
Naming and shaming: 8 countries egregiously violating religious freedom
(Brian Pellot, Index on Censorship)
Sectarianism overshadows Iraq's elections; the winner will be Iran
(Ranj Alaaldin, The Guardian)
Islamic extremists now crucifying people in Syria—and Tweeting out the pictures
(Jacob Siegel, The Daily Beast)
A new vision for Middle East peace?
(Alan Johnson, World Affairs: Idealism Without Illusion)
Former Muslim Alom Shaha: Why atheists should care about anti-Muslim prejudice
(Chris Stedman, RNS Blog: Faitheist)
Survey: When science and faith collide, faith usually wins
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
The many faces of Islam
(John L. Esposito, The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA))
Workers unite! * Crucifixions redux * Guns banned: Thursday’s Roundup
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Saudi Arabia takes swipe at Norway's human rights record
(Ludovica Iaccino, International Business Times)
How the new pope-saints embody the principles of Vatican II
(Fr Dwight Longenecker, Aleteia)
For Bangui's last Muslims, to stray outside the safe haven is to court death
(Chris Stein, Global Post)
Kenyan bishops protest against pay-to-preach law
(Julius Mbaluto, World Watch Monitor)
Islamist group condemns Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood death sentences
(Sami Aboudi, Reuters)
What's really stalling the Israel-Palestinian peace process
(Christopher J. Fettweis, Los Angeles Times)
Egyptian Synod delays action on women's ordination
(Chris Meehan, Christian Reformed Church)
Syria jihadists execute seven, two by crucifixion
(Gulf News)
China denies church demolition is persecution of Christians
(Zoe Li, CNN On China)
China blames religious extremists for station bombing
(Michael Martina, Reuters)
Bombing in Xinjiang: Holes in the iron wall
(J.M., The Economist: Analects China)
Egypt's Jewish problem
(Michael J. Totten, World Affairs: Dispatches)
Kenya’s new polygamy law bad for families, Christian leaders say
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
PM to push basic law that will define Israel as 'Jewish state'
(Herb Keinon, The Jerusalem Post)
The Fatah-Hamas agreement
(Richard Kemp, Gatestone Institute)
Women raise their voices on the walls of Afghanistan
(Pina Sadar, Mint Press News)
Mistranslation and the Holocaust
(Paul Liben, The Jerusalem Post)
Vatican pendulum swings from theater to substance
(John L. Allen Jr., The Boston Globe)
Jewish tourism in Tunisia: Causing a fuss
(E.B., The Economist [Pomegranate: The Middle East])
Why the death of western Catholicism is great for the Church
(David Carlin, Aleteia)
Guatemala: suppressing dissent at home and abroad
(Patricia Davis, Foreign Policy in Focus)
British tourist arrested and about to be deported from Sri Lanka because of her Buddha tattoo
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Sultan of Brunei unveils strict sharia penal code
(Agence France-Presse, The Guardian)
Brunei adopts sharia law amid international outcry
(Arshiya Khullar, CNN)
What Sharia law may bring for non-Muslims in Brunei
(World Watch Monitor)
Brunei’s new Shariah penal code is awful—and about to get even worse
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Nigerians demand government do more to bring home kidnapped girls
(Faith Karimi and Vladimir Duthiers, CNN)
Ecumenical delegation to visit South Sudan amidst conflict
(World Council of Churches, Anglican Communion News Service)
A fundamental fight: Fatwa on Salman Rushdie
(Paul Elie, Vanity Fair)
EVENT, 7 May 2014: Marriages, Civil-Unions, Partnerships and Religions in South-Africa after 1996
(Professor Pieter Coertzen, KU Leuven)
Maliki is ‘certain’ his political bloc will win
(With Associated Press and AFP, Al Arabiya News)
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Fears for China's churches as Christianity rises
(Tom Phillips, The Telegraph)
A look at major players in Iraq national elections
(Associated Press, Aleteia)
Vicious attack at women's prison in Iran
(Shadi Paveh, Gatestone Institute)
Newspaper wars, Israel-style
(Ben Sales, JTA Telegraph)
Is a secular state the best option for Christians in Iraq?
(Aid to the Church in Need, Aleteia)
Abbas pumps new life into Hamas
(Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute)
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: Annual Report 2014
Annual report on the world’s worst religious freedom abusers comes with a new twist
(Knox Thames and Elizabeth Cassidy, On Faith)
Shrinking religious freedom in South Asia
(Knox Thames, Sahar Chaudry, Foreign Policy)
REPORT: State Department should double list of worst religious freedom offenders
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
Schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria married off to their abductors - report
(Maria Caspani, Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Chibok abductions: Nigeria girls' taken abroad'
(BBC News Africa)
Women politicians in South Asia face violence, threats, abuse-report
(NIta Bhalla, Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Amid widespread discrimination, he ministers to Nairobi’s gays and lesbians
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Allah=God? * Jedi Revelations * Jesus’ Divorce: Wednesday’s Roundup
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Islam, scripted: Egypt reins in Friday sermons at mosque
(Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor)
Assad's reelection campaign matters—really
(Andrew Tabler, The Atlantic)
President Uhuru Kenyatta signs Kenya polygamy law
(BBC News Africa)
Hindus say minority rights ignored in Kenya’s new polygamy law
(Updated News)
Review of Annabel Brett's "Changes of State: Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law"
(Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Forum)
Afghanistan: Unspoken realities of candidates and the presidential election - analysis
(Hamed A. Aziz, Eurasia Review)
Some Nepalis to be asked to "reconsider their faith" to get their ID papers
(Christopher Sharma, AsiaNews.it)
Indian Jesuit: General Election, amid a political vacuum and emergence of Narendra Modi
(Cedric Prakash sj, AsiaNews.it)
Iraq, 22 million people vote in first election since the withdrawal of U.S. troops
(N/A, AsiaNews.it)
Xi Jinping visits Xinjiang, the "front line against Islamic terrorism"
(AsiaNews.it)
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
An interview with Philip Jenkins on The Great and Holy War
(Thomas Kidd, Patheos Blog: The Anxious Bench)
Australia: Christian Youth Camp liable for declining booking from homosexual support group
(Neil J Foster, From the Selected Works of Neil J Foster)
C. African Republic: Militants decapitate Muslim
(Associated Press, The Big Story)
Iran: "Blood money" saved 358 people from the gallows
(AsiaNews.it)
Iraq elections: Sectarian strife threatens to upend gains
(Jamie Tarabay, Al Jazeera America)
Israel honors history with Holocaust remembrance day
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Mosque in Israeli-Arab town vandalized in ‘price tag’ attack
(JTA)
Pahang: Ignore letter to remove Bibles from hotel rooms, Malaysian lawyers tell hoteliers
(AsiaNews.it)
Religions freedom and conflict: A review of the evidence
(Roger Finke and Robert R. Martin, The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA))
Wenzhou: authorities begin to tear down Sanjiang Church
(AsiaNews.it)
Why Saudi is sending this Scandinavian country a harsh message
(Al Bawaba News)
Narendra Modi trying to divide Bengalis on the lines of religion
(Mamata Banerjee)
WCC general secretary speaks on themes of justice and peace in DRC
(World Council of Churches)
Monday, 28 April 2014
As Pakistani Catholics pray against sexual violence against children, more rapes reported in Punjab
(Jibran Khan, AsiaNews.it)
For Palestinians, empathy with Jewish suffering in Holocaust is complicated (+video)
(Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor)
Gunmen ambush Muslim convoy in Central African Republic, two killed
(Siegfried Modola, Reuters)
Nigeria: surging bloodshed strains 'marriage of irreconcilables'
(Issac Abrak, Time Cocks and Pascal Fletcher, Reuters)
The Church in Brazil is dying. This young woman is desperately trying to save it
(Mychelle Oliveira Coelho, Aleteia)
Why fear Boko Haram
(Eliza Griswold, Slate)
Yad Vashem rite launches Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration in Israel
(JTA)
Nation comes to standstill as sirens wail for 6 million lost
(The Times of Israel)
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