Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
A Haggadah for the Digital Age
(Jane L. Levere, The New York Times)
365-year-old Hindu script Ramayana “reunited" and digitized by British Library and Mumbai Museum
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Abraham and Sodom: another take
(Sasha Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy via The Washington Post)
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
U.S. scrambles as prisoner release, Jewish state issue threaten to sink talks
(Ron Kampeas, JTA)
Weekly report on human rights violation in Iran
(Majzooban Noor)
Witness: The price of mass surveillance
(Amy Braunschweiger, Human Rights Watch)
Qaeda militants seek Syria base, U.S. officials say
(Eric Schmit, The New York Times)
Iran resumes monetary aid to Hamas
(Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor)
Lent: The annual Catechumenate
(George Weigel, First Things)
White House ‘disappointed’ by Saudi denial to Jerusalem Post scribe
(The Global Jewish News Source)
West Java, Islamists block construction of a Catholic church
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
Egypt adjourns second mass Brotherhood trial
(Al Jazeera)
Faith and theology help to heal communities facing HIV and AIDS
(World Council of Churches)
Tel Aviv allowing some stores to do business on Shabbat
(JTA)
Visiting Kiev’s wounded in Jerusalem
(Jeremy Borovitz, JTA Telegraph)
Seeking newcomers overseas, Winnipeg Jews don’t get what they expected
(Uriel Heilman, JTA)
The new tribalism and the decline of the nation-state
(Robert Reich, Eurasia Review)
Opinion: To which Charter do we owe our allegiance: Values or Rights?
(Zara Rubin, The Montreal Gazette)
New hope for Central African Republic?
(M. Zuhdi Jasser and Sam Gejdenson, World Affairs Journal)
UN rights chief blasts Israel over colony construction
(Reuters, Gulf News)
Syrian conflict takes center stage at Arab summit
(Ma'an News Agency)
700 Egypt Islamists in court after mass death sentences
(Ma'an News Agency)
Mrs. Smith goes to Ottawa: Ending sex trafficking in Canada
(John Stonestreet - Breakpoint, Christian Headlines)
A look at Mideast judicial systems
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Entrenching a ‘duty to do wrong’ in medicine: Canadian government is funding a project to suppress freedom of conscience and religion
(Sean Murphy, MercatorNet)
Commentary: What Pope Francis can teach President Obama this week
(Mary Ann Walsh, Religion News Service)
US lobbies Vatican for pope visit in 2015
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Opposing Morsi but defending democratic legitimacy
(Sreven Sotloff, World Affairs Journal)
What does Christianity suggest about human uniqueness
(William Hurlbut, Big Questions Online)
Uzbekistan: Detained for religious materials in electronic devices
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Ibn al-Haytham: The Muslim scientist who birthed the scientific method
(Ross Pomeroy, Real Clear Science)
Not just for Catholics: A reflection on Roman pilgrimage (review of Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches by George Weigel)
(Timothy George, First Things)
Monday, 24 March 2014
To my haredi brothers (on serving in the military)
(Robert Stark, The Jerusalem Post)
U.S. says glad 'noxious' U.N. rights envoy for Palestine leaving
(Louis Charbonneau)
Most Palestinians back extending talks if more prisoners freed
(JTA)
Canadian court orders seizure of Iranian assets for terror victims
(JTA)
Egypt’s miscarriage of justice
(The New York Times Op Ed)
A new crusade: Aid proposed to stop Christian persecution in the Middle East
(Meredith Somers, The Washington Times)
Anti-genocide group sounds warning about Myanmar
(Associated Press, The Big Story)
Kaduna villages’ death toll rises to 150, including pastor’s wife and three children
(World Watch Monitor)
Let’s give the pope’s abuse commission a chance
(Mark Silk, RNS Blog: Spiritual Politics)
Gunmen kill six in attack on Kenyan church
(Joseph Akwiri, Reuters)
A comparative analysis of laws pertaining to same-sex unions
(W. Cole Durham, Robert Theron Smith & William C. Duncan, SSRN)
Economic growth higher where governments do not regulate women's headscarves
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Confucianism, democratization, and human rights in Taiwan
(Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs)
UN envoy rules out new Syria talks 'for time being'
(The Daily Star (Lebanon))
Germany publishes guide aimed at Jewish tourists
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Why some Israeli settlers are willing to live in a Palestinian state
(Joshua Mitnick, The Christian Science Monitor)
Pope taps women, victims for sex abuse commission
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press, The Big Story)
Francis shows political instincts in naming antiabuse panel
(John L. Allen, Jr., The Boston Globe)
Vatican No. 3 finds blame within in abuse scandal
(Associated Press, The New York Times)
Iran’s oppressed Christians
(Liana Aghajanian, The New York Times)
Uzbekistan: Seven Muslims amnestied, but ailing Muslim prisoner waits for operation
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Xinjiang’s cycle of violence
(Ananth Krishnan, The Hindu)
Montreal Catholic school fighting for the right to teach ethics and religious culture in its own Jesuit style
(Joseph Brean, National Post)
Chechnya president inaugurates new $10 million mosque in Arab village in Israel
(US News and World Report)
More U.S. troops to aid Uganda search for Kony
(Helene Cooper, The New York Times)
Ugandan official: US cuts up to $6 million in aid over anti-gay law
(ABC News)
Countries divided on future of ancient Buddahs
(Rob Nordland, The New York Times)
Madhya Pradesh, two Pentecostal pastors arrested on false charges of forced conversions
(AsiaNews.it)
Egypt sentences 529 Morsi supporters to death
(Al Jazeera)
Sunday, 23 March 2014
Evangelicals still don't know what to do with the Big Bang
(Karl W. Giberson, The Daily Beast)
In rural Uganda, small Jewish community splits over conversion
(Ben Sales, JTA)
Preserving Jewish Calcutta
(The Jerusalem Post)
Israel, religion and the draft: Get into uniform
(N.P., The Economist [Pomegranate: The Middle East])
Religion rights and human rights: The meaning of freedom
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
"How to think about religious freedom" by Nick Spencer
((download link), Theos)
Jewish groups slam latest Khameini Holocaust denial
(JTA)
Nigerian Catholics risk violence, lives to attend Mass
(Catholic News Agency)
Manifestations of collective hatred do not ‘erupt’ like a volcano – UN expert on freedom of religion
(Heiner Bielefeldt, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
UN officials warn against misuse of Article 20 ICCPR to thwart free speech
(Freedom Rights Project)
Saturday, 22 March 2014
China will introduce school uniform guidelines to prevent racial and religious discrimination
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
French parents alone against Syria jihad recruiters
(Nicholas Vinocur and Pauline Mevel, Reuters)
Israeli diplomat strike looms over Pope's visit to Holy Land
(Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Reuters)
Lev Tahor children in Guatemala can stay with their parents for now, says judge
(Tim Alamenciak, The Star.com)
Msgr. Fan Zhongliang's funeral attended by 5,000 priests and faithful from the official and underground Churches
(Jian Mei, AsiaNews.it)
Nigeria's insurgency: How about some carrot?
(G.P., The Economist [Baobab: Africa])
Turkey's twitter ban unsuccessful
(Al Bawaba News)
UN report blasts Iran for persecution of Christians, other religious minorities
(Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News)
UN warns of anti-Muslim violence in Central African Republic
(Nick Cumming-Bruce, The New York Times)
Friday, 21 March 2014
Can science and religion coexist in equal compatability
(World Religion News)
China: Confused approach to minority issues
(Bhaskar Roy, South Asia Analysis Group)
Detailed Syria maps; activists honor revolution dead in Washington
(Matthew Barber, Syria Comment - Joshua Landis)
Syrian military captures Crusader castle from rebels
(Nabih Bulos and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: I Speak for Myself: Women and Religious Freedom
(Due 15 May 2014, I Speak for Myself Series (http://www.ispeakformyself.com/))
Discrimination in India: Christians are 6 per cent of the prison population
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Animism is alive and well in South-East Asia: What can we learn? - Analysis
(Murray Hunter, Eurasia Review)
Kenyan parliament passes polygamy law
(AFP, Al Jazeera)
Condolences on death of Patriarch Mor Ignatius Zakka Iwas
(World Council of Churches)
Sri Lanka: Freed Catholic activists “forbidden to speak to press or leave country"
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
Court refuses to permit interlocutory appeal in case challenging compliance with church plan exemption to ERISA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
NGO sues Religious Services Ministry over ‘illegal’ marriage registration charges
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
English judge dismisses private fraud prosecution against Mormon Church
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy via The Washington Post)
Ousted Bountiful bishop reported on child brides to RCMP
(Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun)
Nigeria: Jonathan meets Pope on Saturday
(Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, The Sun (Nigeria))
Turkmenistan: One-year prison term for latest conscientious objector
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Burmese journalist beseeches brethren: Stop with the Muslim hate speech
(Thin Lei Win, Reuters)
Obama and the churches of Saudi Arabia
(Nina Shea, The Wall Street Journal)
Meeting between Pope Francis and President Obama has promise, carries risk, advisers say
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Putin’s long game? Meet the Eurasian Union
(Leon Neyfakh, The Boston Globe)
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