Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 28 October 2013
Terrorist attacks and deaths hit record high, report shows
(Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog)
Why Muslims should love secularism
(Hussein Ibish, Daily News Egypt)
African liberation a vehicle for westernization
(Morris DC Komakech, The Independent)
A mixed month for Scientology: The contours of freedom
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Can you have religion without God? Ronald Dworkin and a religious worldview for secularists
(Moshe Halbertal, The New Republic)
Debate: Sudan’s national salvation government has reached a dead end
(Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi, Asharq Al-Awsat)
Debate: Sudan’s national salvation government will survive
(Rabie Abdelati Obeid, Asharq Al-Awsat)
Sunday, 27 October 2013
Five Jews violently attacked in Sydney
(JTA)
Saturday, 26 October 2013
Egypt: Constitutional committee source says Islamic articles disputed
(Waleed Abdul Rahman, Asharq Al-Awsat)
Our Papi * Dangerous Communion * New RNS Editor : Friday’s Religion News Roundup
(Kevin Eckstrom, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 30 October - 8 November 2013: 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches
(Busan, Republic of Korea)
Baptists in Uzbekistan lose camp
(Bob Allen, ABP News)
Francis pledges to further Jewish-Catholic dialogue
(JTA)
Drone reports * Hajj assault * Confronting Boko Haram
(Omar Sacirbey, RNS Blog: Moozweek)
Leaders push for free Jewish preschool in US, Canada
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
The Edict of Milan: A declaration of tolerance
(Mike Aquilina, Mercator Net)
Iran gives Christians 80 lashes for communion wine as UN blasts human rights record
(Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News)
Women drive gets punctured
(Abdullah Al-Bargi & Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Arab News)
Taxi firms fear losing revenue if women drive
(Ibrahim Naffee, Arab News)
Friday, 25 October 2013
Action needed as kidnapping of Syrian archbishops reaches 180 days
(Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, Huff Post Religion)
Anti-Christian terror is everyone’s concern
(Steven G. Nasatir, The Washington Post – On Faith)
Israel's duel on the sun
(Shmuel Rosner, The New York Times Opinion Pages)
Muslim Brotherhood denies links to church attacks
(Basil El-Dabh, Daily News Egypt)
HRW calls for Saudi Arabia to end driving ban for women
(Eurasia Review)
Govt pressure puts brakes on women driving campaign
(Rob L. Wagner and Ali Fayyaz, Arab News)
Saudi Arabia warns online backers of planned women-driving protest they could face arrest
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
New Zealand: Fined for ordering woman to remove burqa
(Otago Daily Times)
Rex Ahdar and Andrew Geddis: Fine for burqa remarks questioned
(Shawn McAvinue, Otago Daily Times)
Thursday, 24 October 2013
China and the Vatican: Singing from the same hymnal
(T.P., The Economist [Analects: China])
One third of Syrian Christians have gone, cleric says
(World Watch Monitor, Religion Today)
Pope Francis breathes new life into Cardinal Bernardin’s contested legacy
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
El Salvador declares Oct. 28 National Day of Evangelical Churches
(Jessica Martinez, The Christian Post)
Women of Wall deeply split over Anat Hoffman's acceptance of prayer deal
(Nathan Jeffay)
Malaysia’s curbs on use of the term ‘Allah’ hurting its moderate Muslim image
(Stuart Grudgings, Reuters)
Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara dead: Thai Buddhism's Supreme Patriarch dies at 100
(AFP, Yahoo! News)
Uzbekistan: Baptist camp ordered seized, Protestant pressured to inform
(Mushfig Bayram and Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Two pastors killed in Kenya's Coastal Area
(Morning Star News)
High court rejects appeal by S. Koreans over Yasukuni enshrinement
(Kyodo News International, Global Post)
Islamists may lose power in Tunisia after Egypt - Russian senator
(Interfax-Religion)
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Holy Cross lecture to explore Afro-Catholic tradition in Brazil
(Danielle Kane, Holy Cross)
Kazakh security services deny that 150 members of one family fighting in Syria
(Interfax)
New Shariah penal code coming into effect in Brunei
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
The Sultanate of Brunei to introduce Sharia-based rules
(AsiaNews.it)
Brunei sultan announces Islamic laws that could include stoning and amputation
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Al-Shabaab’s savage coming of age (and how to respond)
(Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Foreign Policy in Focus)
Russians transporting religious books in Arabic held in Kazakhstan
(Interfax)
10 facts about the transforming global religious landscape
(Yasmine Hafiz, Huff Post Religion)
Saudi clerics protest women driving, blaming U.S. for anti-ban campaign
(Associated Press, Huff Post Religion)
Northern Iraq no longer safe for Christians
(World Watch Monitor)
Clerics call on UN military force to secure Central African Republic
(World Watch Monitor)
Is a common fear of Iran driving Israel and Saudi Arabia together?
(Ron Kampeas, JTA)
Egypt gunmen open fire on Coptic Christian wedding in Cairo
(BBC News Middle East)
Anglican Bishop’s refusal to consider gay man for ordination upheld by New Zealand Human Rights Review Tribunal
(Frank Cranmer (Mark Hill QC guest columnist), Law & Religion UK)
Israel, Israeli swimmers face discrimination at events in Arab countries
(JTA)
Christian activists pray and fast to protest nuclear dangers in Busan and beyond
(World Council of Churches)
World Council of Churches stands by as Christians perish, churches wither
(Malcolm Lowe, Gatestone Institute)
Restructuring America's approach to international religious freedom
(Joseph K. Grieboski, The Hill)
Monday, 21 October 2013
Sacre secularism! * Blasphemous prayer * State circumcisions?: Religious Freedom Recap: Oct. 14 – 21
(Brian Pellot, RNS Blog: On Freedom)
NJ Nuptials * Baby Francesco * Bush’s socks: Monday’s religion news roundup
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Op-Ed: How to stop killing in the name of God
(Avi Weiss, JTA)
Struggle over religion fuels Tuesday’s Jerusalem mayoral election
(Joel Greenberg, Miami Herald)
Leading Indonesia beyond religion
(Salim Osman, The Straits Times, The Nation)
Ethiopian immigrants create an Israeli tradition out of Africa
(Roy (Chicky) Arad, Haaretz)
Quebec euthanasia bill would destroy religious freedom
(Wesley J. Smith, LifeSiteNews)
Quebecois Jewish community: We are not alone
(Sam Sokol, The Jerusalem Post)
Family of Egyptian righteous gentile rejects honor
(JTA)
Al-Warraq church attack: From wedding to funeral
(Ahram Online)
Egyptian writer may face jail for accusations of defaming religion
(Ahram Online)
Confucianism and Liberal Education for a Global Era
(Tu Weiming, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Saudi Arabia: Abuses in international spotlight
(Human Rights Watch)
Al-Qaeda inspired group claims responsibility for deadly Ismailiya attack
(Al Bawaba)
The Veil Illuminated: Photographer Drew Tal reimagines the niqab in new exhibit – OpEd
(Angel Millar, Eurasia Review)
‘Global persecution of Christians is the unreported catastrophe of our time’ – persecution in Burma
(Lucy Olofinjana, Evangelical Alliance UK)
Christian persecution has increased in 20 countries
(Aid to the Church in Need International, UCAN)
Will Radical Islam be defeated?
(Allotey, Henry Kpakpo, Ghana Web)
Knesset panel advances bill requiring two-thirds majority to negotiate Jerusalem
(JTA)
Sunday, 20 October 2013
Bomber tied to Al Qaeda kills dozens in Syrian City
(Ben Hubbard, The New York Times)
Fight for religious freedom is 'central battle' in the Middle East: British PM
(Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press, CTV News)
Islamism and politics in Zanzibar: Religious hatred in paradise
(Danja Bergmann, Qantara.de)
Challenges for religion in contemporary society
(Ecumenism.net)
New Zealand: Anglicans in clear over gay-man case
(Morgan Tait, The New Zealand Herald)
India: Allahabad gets new bishop
(UCAN India)
Saudi government's rejection of stint on UN Security Council ‘represents Muslim world view’
(Abdullah al-Bargi, Arab News)
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Ramayana an embodiment of culture and religion says Himchal Pradesh Chief Minister
(Vijyender Sharma, India Education Diary)
'Islam no longer a religion of the male'
(M N Krassery, The Times of India)
Historic opportunity for Iran to make a fresh start
(Aijaz Zaka Syed, Arab News)
Sam Harris slurs Malala: Famed atheist wrongly co-opts teenager’s views
(Murtaza Hussain, Salon)
Why Malala did not get the Nobel
(Vikram Sood, Mid Day)
Hindus want entire Dibrani Roma family back in France
(Eurasia Review)
Businessman gets leave for judicial review over son’s religious status
(Suraini Andokong, Borneo Post Online)
Vietnam: Buddhists and Christians denounce Hanoi for using law to control religions
(AsiaNews.it)
Attacks on churches leave Egypt’s Coptic Christians feeling more persecuted, vulnerable
(Associated Press, Worldwide Religious News)
Indian Christians sentenced to life terms will appeal
(World Watch Monitor)
India: 1200 Hindu extremists arrested over plans for illegal demonstration in Ayodhya
(AsiaNews.it)
Islamist rebels claim responsibility for Somalia suicide bombing
(Ahram Online)
Whole families from Kazakhstan travelling to Syria for jihad
(AsiaNews.it)
Case demanding that Google be banned in Egypt postponed
(Ahram Online)
Brazil: proposal would allow churches to decline same-sex marriages
(Catholic World News)
Pakistan, school textbooks teach its okay to kill Christians
(AsiaNews.it)
Friday, 18 October 2013
Egyptians embark on a journey of peace
(Randa Ghazy, Common Ground News Service)
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