Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 5 February 2014
The Vatican before the UN: address by Archbishop Tomasi
(Catholic Voices Comment)
Four-year-old asks Belgian king to block euthanasia of children
(Catholic News Agency)
U.S. condemns sectarian violence in the Central African Republic
(Jen Psaki, United States Department of State)
Nigeria: Pupils wear religious regalia to school in Osun … sing different religious songs in assembly
(Femi Makinde, Punch)
Hatina, “Martyrdom in Modern Islam: Piety, Power, and Politics”
(Andrew Rosati, CLR Forum - St. John's University)
Kazakhstan Religions Agency: Grace is outside framework
(Tengri News)
Iraq's insurgency shows staying power
(Anna Kordunsky, Security Watch)
Thailand looks to arrest Buddhist monk for insurrection
(Vishal Arora, Religion News Service)
Jihadist return is said to drive attacks in Egypt
(David D. Kirkpatrick and Eric Schmitt, International New York Times)
Young Saudis warned: Beware of false jihadis
(Abdullah Al-Bargi, Arab News)
The troubled future of Egypt's Copts
(Samuel Tadros, Real Clear Religion)
Buddha statues get bigger on mainland China in bid to lure tourists
(He Huifeng, South China Morning Post)
Christians must wait one year to file for divorce, Karnataka high court rules
(The Times of India)
Israel to cut Orthodox seminary funding over lack of military enlistment
(Maayan Lubell, Huff Post Religion)
Kazakhstan: "We're liquidating the [mosque] community"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Ayatollah tortured, near death, in Iran for criticizing political Islam
(Shadi Paveh, Gatestone Institute)
Iran: Letter from Hussein Boroujerdi, political prisoner in Evin Prison – Excerpts
(Hussein Boroujerdi, Gatestone Institute)
The dagger that tears at ill-fated Iranians year after year
(Seyyed Hossein Kazemeini-Boroujerdi, BamAzadi)
Sudan's continuing war on religious freedom
(Leonard A. Leo, Felice D. Gaer and Tiffany Lynch, World Affairs)
Russia: An expanding net of intolerance
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Algerian Christian refused burial in public cemetery / Two Algerians jailed for failure to observe Muslim fast
(World Watch Monitor)
On the topic of religion in Vietnam: So you really think we are atheists?
(Pham Hoang Mien, Mien's Blog)
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Al-Qaida's bloody gamble
(Robert Collins, Center for a New American Security)
The 'shiksa' scandal that wasn't
(Ruthie Blum, The Jerusalem Post)
Orthodox feminists’ group objecting to egalitarian section at Western Wall
(JTA)
Why the Brotherhood failed
(Barak Barfi, World Affairs)
Islamic rights group: investigate Bangladesh
(Associated Press: Julhas Alam in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Maamoun Youssef in Cairo contributed to this story, KSL.com - World)
US official says Rohingya repatriation not yet possible
(UCAN)
Egyptian priest claims church attack was Muslim Brotherhood ‘revenge’
(World Watch Monitor)
Judge orders Lev Tahor kids to foster care
(Allison Jones, The Canadian Press, Brampton Guardian)
Canada: CAIR-CAN, the NCCM and "The Islamic victimhood narrative"
(Raheel Raza, Gatestone Institute)
The truth about missionaries
(John Stonestreet, BreakPoint)
New foundation promotes religious freedom as good for business
(Matthew Brown, Deseret News National Edition)
New Zealanders losing religion
(Sean Martin, 3 News)
Coke * Mennonites * Religioussippi : Tuesday’s Roundup
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Monday, 3 February 2014
Al Qaeda breaks link with Syrian militant group ISIL
(Oliver Holmes, Reuters)
Bangla court establishes BNP-Jamaat fountainhead of terrorism
(Bhaskar Roy, South Asia Analysis Group)
Kidnapping sparks Benghazi bloodshed
(Fathia al-Majbari, Asma Elourfi and Ali al-Gattani, Magharebia)
Malaysian court jails man who raped, then married minor
(AFP, Gulf News)
Taliban talks and the Four Horsemen: Between peace and apocalypse
(D Suba Chandran, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies)
Where is Egypt going?
(K.P Favian, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Religious restrictions and hostilities hurt business: Pakistan and Egypt
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Commentary: Blasphemy charges pervert Islam’s teachings
(Qasim Rashid, Religion News Service)
Sunni-Shiite violence soars in Pakistan
(Naveed Ahmad, Religion News Service)
Sri Lanka rejects US allegations over religion, democracy and rights records
(Asian Tribune)
Is this what religion has become in Kenya?
(James Mwangi and Tony Malesi, Standard Digital Media)
Saudi Arabia criminalizes ‘terrorists’ defaming state’s reputation, disturbing order
(RT)
Egypt’s draft anti-terrorism law sparks concern about censorship
(Alistair Sloan, X index: the voice of free expression)
UAE summons Qatari ambassador over Muslim cleric's criticism
(reporting by Sami Aboudi, Amena Bakr and Yara Bayoumy; editing by Mark Heinrich, Reuters)
Al-Qaeda disavows any ties with radical Islamist ISIS group in Syria, Iraq
(Liz Sly, The Washington Post)
In Iran, opposition leader goes home
(Jason Resaian, The Washington Post)
Mission creep — defending religious tolerance and free speech
(Rachael Jolley, X index: the voice of free expression)
Why the Palestinians refuse to recognize Israel as a Jewish state
(Ali Salim, Gatestone Institute)
Faisalabad: hundreds of 'white flags' march for peace against terrorism
(Shafique Khokhar, AsiaNews.it)
Clashes in C.Africa town kill at least 75: Priest
(Ahram Online)
China: Suppression of religious freedoms in Xinjiang continues
(Ahmed W Khan, X index: the voice of free expression)
Sunday, 2 February 2014
Human Rights Without Frontiers is 25 years old
Scholars meet to promote Buddhism
(Ashis Senapti, The Times of India)
Two killed in clash at terror-linked Kenyan mosque
(Associated Press)
Saturday, 1 February 2014
Al-Qaeda brings suffering, hardship to Syrians and Iraqis: activists
(Mohammed al-Qaisi in al-Anbar and Waleed Abu al-Khair in Cairo, Al-Shorfa)
Arab Spring bears fruit as Tunisia passes democratic constitution, plans elections
(Associated Press, South China Morning Post)
Atheist sentenced under blasphemy law released
(The Jakarta Post)
Australia: The new silence which is destroying our kids
(Jeremy Sammut, MercatorNet)
Christians flee attacks in Nigeria’s northeast
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Jordanian Islamist prisoners stage hunger strike
(Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Reuters)
New hope for Central African Republic
(M. Zuhdi Jasser and Sam Gejdenson, World Affairs)
Peace talks on S. Sudan, Syria: Where are the women?
(Chloe Schwenke, The Christian Science Monitor)
Professor Grayson's crusade (religious rights v. secular rights)
(Paul Allen, First Things: Religion and Public Life)
Religious actions to be given the same status as rallies [article from January 2014]
(Russian Press Review, TASS: Russian News Agency)
Tokyo court rules in favor of Unificationist held captive
(Press Release, Family Federation for World Peace and Unification)
Tunisia: Man jailed for Facebook post to be released
(Afef Abrougui, X index)
IDF allows first peek into secret Golan Heights field hospital: Israelis treat Syrian wounded
(Yifa Yaakov, The Times of Israel)
New Saudi writers offer form of Islamic liberation theology
(Madawi Al-Rasheed, Al-Monitor)
Tribals in Jharkhand: Religion and identity politics
(Anant Kumar, Economic & Political Weekly)
Friday, 31 January 2014
Colombian priest who ran far-right militia nabbed
(Associated Press, The Big Story)
Egypt tries to reassure journalists from abroad
(David D. Kirkpatrick, International New York Times)
Egypt's revolutionary confusion – OpEd
(Neville Teller, Eurasia Review)
Joint Working Group with Roman Catholic Church
(World Council of Churches)
Kazakh pastor’s trial halts amid heated arguments
(World Watch Monitor)
Lebanese sheikh charged over spate of attacks
(The Daily Star (Lebanon))
Pakistan poised to make death penalty compulsory for 'blasphemy'
(Patrick Goodenough, CNS News)
Pope replaces cardinal at head of Vatican financial authority
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
Syria crisis: Geneva peace talks end in recriminations
(BBC News)
The British Government's responsibility for northern Nigeria
(Alan Craig, Gatestone Institute)
The specter of mass killings in Burma: Religious intolerance is threatening the country’s tenuous transition to democracy.
(Larry Diamond, The Atlantic)
Unthinkable: Which ‘golden rule’ of ethics is best, the Christian or Confucian?
(Joe Humphreys, The Irish Times)
Ontology vs. phenomenology in the gay Christian debate
(Ron Belgau, First Things: Religion and Public Life)
Banning circumcision in Scandinavia
(Mark Movsesian, First Things: Religion and Public Life)
Spain rethinks universal jurisdiction
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
Thursday, 30 January 2014
York professor at centre of religious rights furor: Rights Code is the issue
(Paul Grayson, The Globe and Mail)
A response to the statement by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York of 29th January 2014
(The Most Rev’d Dr Eliud Wabukala, GAFCON)
Dispatches: Central African Republic – “We will take our revenge”
(Peter Bouckaert, Human Rights Watch)
Law societies promising public consultation on whether to accept TWU degrees
(Lauren Strapagiel, Postmedia News, The Vancouver Sun)
Anti-gay pledge could result in Trinity Western’s law degrees being worthless
(Daphne Bramham, The Vancouver Sun)
Haifa Chief Rabbi set to be indicted
(David Lev, Arutz Sheva 7)
Bahraini court dissolves Islamic Scholars Council
(Al-Monitor)
Najib touches base with Muslim NGOs as tensions rise over ‘Allah’
(Pathma Subramaniam, The Malay Online)
Pressure mounts on law societies to reject faith-based school’s graduates
(James Bradshaw, Globe and Mail)
Canadian Muslim hipsters defy stereotypes
(Aalia Adam, Global News)
Hamas and Hezbollah agree to disagree on Syria
(Giorgio Cafiero and Peter Certo, The Atlantic Council)
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