Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Allies, adversaries and the right to self-defense
(Ali Salim, Gatestone Institute)
North Korean Christians pray for 'free' Christians to 'realize God is all you need'
(Angela Lu, World News Service, Religion Today)
Why study an ancient religion?
(Benjamin Barer, Huff Post Religion)
Uzbekistan: Prisoner of conscience exposed to TB
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Vatican issues global questionnaire on modern families
(AFP, Google News)
Rabbi from Dagestan conducts prayer at congress of Hasidic Jews in New York
(Interfax)
Faisalabad: Muslims and Christians together to exonerate a woman accused of blasphemy
(Shafique Khokhar, AsiaNews.it)
Thousands of Filipino migrants treated "like animals" by Saudi authorities
(AsiaNews.it)
Sectarian fighting resumes in north Yemen
(Ahram Online)
Tunisia crisis deepens after failure to pick new PM
(Ahram Online)
Egypt's youth group stages clown protest outside judicial body
(Ahram Online)
Monday, 4 November 2013
Australia's Hillsong Church has astonishingly powerful global influence
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Catholic women resistant to call for new theology
(Megan Fincher Colleen Dunne, National Catholic Reporter)
China replaces top general in Xinjiang after Beijing attack
(Joanahtan Kaiman, The Guardian)
Committee sends conversion reform bill to the Knesset
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Jewish Press)
EBay apologizes over sale of Holocaust items
(RIA Novosti)
Iran: Christians whipped: judgment accomplished for Eucharistic wine drinkers
(Agenzia Fides)
Pakistan: An entire Ahmadi family was targeted in sectarian killings
(Asian Human Rights Commission)
What is the religion of the Japanese?
(Hiragana Times)
What the luminous mind of the Buddha shows us
(Michael McGhee, The Guardian: How to believe)
Women cardinals rumor shot down by Vatican
(Huff Post Religion)
'Respect other religions to build healthy society'
(The Times of India)
Tribe, religion instrument of peace not war - Abubakar
(Hassan Ibrahim, Nigerian Tribune)
The Buddha, science, and religion
(Mack Paul, Huff Post Religion)
Religions and nation building
(Enizahura Abdul Aziz, The Star (Malaysia))
Religious freedom essential for world security: Tony Blair
(Deborah Gyapong, The B.C. Catholic)
“Will Israel exist in another 90 years?”
(Uri Avnery, Eurasia Review)
Fire in the pews: Pentecostal-Catholic competition reviving religion in Latin America
(David Briggs, The ARDA)
Pope Francis: Is the people's pontiff a revolutionary? (+video)
(Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor)
Bayit Yehudi: We must vet all legislation on religious matters
(David Lev, Arutz Sheva 7)
Exemption from religion classes is a right
(Veronica, Canadian Atheist)
Christians, Muslims and prayer: Does worship divide or unite?
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Muhammad Morsi on trial: From president to prisoner
(M.R., The Economist [Pomegranate: The Middle East])
Security in Xinjiang: Tightening the screws
(J.M., The Economist [Analects: China])
India throws rings of protection around divisive candidate Modi
(Sanjeev Miglani, Reuters)
Central African Republic: Religious tinderbox
(BBC News Africa)
Fuming Arab MKs storm out of debate on Temple Mount
(Ilan Ben Zion, The Times of Israel)
Hagel: Israel’s pressure pushed Iran to negotiations
(Lazar Berman, The Times of Israel)
In battle for the skies, Turkey beats Israel 112:0
(Raphael Ahren, The Times of Israel)
To shape young Palestinians, Hamas creates its own textbooks
(Fares Akram and Jodi Rudoren, International New York Times)
Kazakhstan: "He was told not to sell religious literature"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Chief Rabbinate: Coordinating religion and state
(Arutz Sheva 7)
Terrorism escalates in Libya as election approaches
(Fathia al-Majbri, Magharebia)
Freedom of Religion and Belief in Turkey, 2013
(Jeroen Temperman, Özgür H. Çınar, Rossella Bottoni, Mine Yıldırım, Hasan Sayim Vural, Pasquale Annicchino, Francesco Rizzi, Zachary Calo on Marc O. DeGirolami, Religion & Human Rights, Volume 8)
Assembly elects new WCC presidents
(World Council of Churches)
The Library of Essays on Law and Religion
(Silvio Ferrari and Rinaldo Cristofori, Ashgate)
Hundreds gather at peaceful Women of the Wall service marking 25th anniversary
(JTA)
On my libertarian Catholicity – OpEd
(Robert Higgs, Eurasia Review)
New law to let parents adopt children from a different religion
(Edna Adato, Israel Hayom)
Vatican asks for parish-level input on synod document
(Joshua J. McElwee, National Catholic Reporter)
Disputed area of Abyei votes to join South Sudan
(Rebecca Tinsley, World Watch Monitor)
Muhyiddin calls on Muslims to defend sanctity of religion
(Bernama, The Malay Mail Online)
‘Blasphemous’ tweets * God graveyard * Zombie panda?!: Religious Freedom Recap: Oct. 28 – Nov. 4
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
Saudis in America
(Abdulateef Al-Mulhim, Arab News)
Kuwaiti woman arrested for driving sick father to hospital
(Al Bawaba)
Security Council, UNESCO strongly condemn killing of French journalists in Mali
(UN News Centre)
Religion, opium of Nigerian government?
(Charles Ike-Okoh, Zebulon Agomuo, and Tony Ailemen, Business Day)
Iran FM: Military solution spreads extremism to world states
(Iran Review)
The man behind the trial: Mohamed Morsi, his Brotherhood and mistakes
(Al Bawaba)
Morsi's Cairo trial adjourned till January after disruptions
(http://www.rferl.org/content/egypt-morsi-trial/25157029.html, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Egypt's former President Morsi stands trial in country with highest government restrictions on religion
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Sunday, 3 November 2013
In China’s Xinjiang, poverty and exclusion are a greater threat than Islam
(Michael Martina, URUMQI, Reuters UK)
Indian Mujahideen: The enemy as an enigma – Analysis
(Dr. Bibhu Prasad Routray, Eurasia Review)
Tensions high as Egypt's Morsi goes on trial
(Kathyn Stapley / Sonia DRIDI, France 24 International News)
Suit In Australia invokes racial discrimination act against boycott of Israeli academics
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Objections to .halal and .islam top level domains rejected
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Saturday, 2 November 2013
Belmokhtar desperate for al-Qaeda approval
(Mawassi Lahcen, Magharebia)
China says it will stamp out the Dalai Lama’s voice in Tibet
(Ben Blanchard, Reuters)
Punjab, Christians hunted for blasphemy: fireworks wrapped in Koran pages
(Jibran Khan, Asianews.it)
Vatican surveys Church on family issues including gay marriage
(Steve Scherer, Reuters)
Nigeria: Disquiet threatens Kwara's religious harmony
(This Day Live)
Kenya Muslim leader: I could be killed next
(Jason Straziuso, Associated Press)
Myanmar 'God's Army' twins re-unite, seek comrades
(Thanyarat Doksone and Grant Peck, Associated Press)
Study theology, even if you don't believe in God
(Tara Isabella Burton, The Atlantic)
Want to know how 84% of the world sees iself: Study theology
(Alana Massey, Religion Dispatches: (A)theologies)
Unity of religions? "G-d is not one!"
(Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, Huff Post Religion)
Friday, 1 November 2013
Adventist officers release statement regarding a local conference’s recent election of president
Arab readers digest: 18 must-read books on the Middle East
(Al Bawaba)
Christians buried in mass graves, city destroyed in 'biggest Christian massacre' in Syrian civil war
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post World)
East Turkestan Islamic Movement behind Tiananmen suicide attack - China Communist Party member
(Interfax)
Iran-Saudi geopolitical rivalry and future security equations in Middle East
(Mahsa Mah-Pishanian, Iran Review)
Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki urges greater U.S. support
(Thomas Omestad, United States Institute of Peace)
Islam's invented Golden Age
(Asad Q. Ahmed, Open Democracy)
Sexual radicalism: Imperial project, global Goliath
(Robert Oscar Lopez, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
What is religion in China? A brief history
(Wei Zhu, The Immanent Frame: Secularism, religion, and the public sphere)
Age of intolerance: the war on religion
(Barney Zwartz, The Age)
Religion meets politics as new Chief Rabbinate Council sworn in
(Ari Yashar, Arutz Sheva 7)
Racism lawsuit filed against Australian BDS supporter
(JTA)
Asia shares aspirations for justice and peace at the WCC assembly
(World Council of Churches)
Global justice and the clergy: Judges, earthly and divine
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Shariah Law and Hudud: Understanding Its Objectives and Spirit
(Mohamed Bin Ali, RSIS)
Muslim women can be forced to show faces under new West Australian law
(Australian Associated Press, The Guardian)
Kenyan pastors ask for guns amid Christian-Muslim violence
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Kenyan crackdown on militant Islamists fuels Muslim resentment
(Drazen Jorgic, Reuters)
Sikh groups working on anti-bullying plans in Lower Mainland, touring Surrey schools
(Larissa Cahute, Vancouver Desi)
A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia, by Madawi Al-Rasheed
(Pernille Arenfeldt, Times Higher Education)
Attempts being made to divide society on basis of religion: PM
(PTI, Firstpost.India)
Arabs in the Andes? Chile, the unlikely long-term home of a large Palestinian community
(Palash Ghosh, International Business Times)
Thousands of Ethiopian Jews gather in Jerusalem to celebrate return to Israel on Sig’d holiday
(Daniel K. Eisenbud, The Jerusalem Post)
Vietnamese Catholics jailed despite protests
(World Watch Monitor)
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