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Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Looming US Attack: Syria's Christians caught in the crossfire
(Raniah Salloum, Speigel Online International)

Q&A with United Nations religious freedom czar Heiner Bielefeldt
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)

Countering violent extremism: A peacebuilding perspective
(Georiga Holmer, United States Institute of Peace)

Polish Beef * Miss World * Banned Rockers: Religious Freedom Roundup: Sept. 2 – Sept. 9
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)

Sudan woman risks flogging to protest 'Taliban'-like law
(Ian Timberlake, The Daily Star)

Quebec debates civil servant ban on religious garb
(Clément Sabourin, AFP)

Egyptian crackdown on Sinai continues
(Al Bawaba News)

4 Bangladeshi bloggers indicted for blasphemy
(Daily Times)

Christian woman raped and murdered in Madhya Pradesh
(World Watch Monitor)

Patriarch Kirill calls for open dialogue on Transdniestria
(Interfax)

Haifa to coordinate Yom Kippur and Feast of the Cross
(JNS Service, The Jewish Press)

Miss World 2013: Indonesia’s religious intolerance and bikinis
(Jonathan DeHart, The Diplomat)

Dhammadeepa Council to nurture religious amity
(Daily Mirror)

Violent guards and violent Haredi extremists duel in Beit Shemesh
(Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, The Jewish Press)

Egypt: No electoral system can exclude Islamists: Wafd Party
(Ahram Online)

Faisalabad: Pakistan's (anti-Christian) Romeo and Juliet story
(Shafique Khokhar, Asianews.it)

Bangladesh, four 'anti-Islam' bloggers sentenced
(Sumon Corraya, AsiaNews.it)

Bolivia imposes Animist worldview on Christian Churches
(Morning Star News, Christianity Today)

Monday, 9 September 2013

On Piety: Egypt, Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood
(Maurice Chammah, The Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion & Media (NYU))

Moroccan Christian jailed for evangelising
(Christian Today World)

Nigeria attacks kill 13 vigilantes, 5 sect members
(Ahram Online)

Bill seeks to end discrimination vs Muslims in media reports
(ABS-CBN News)

Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr banned with 3 other channels
(Ahram Online)

Politics looms large in India religious riots that kill 31
(Sharat Pradhan, Reuters)

Anglican Archbishop kidnapped in Nigeria
(George Condor, Anglican Ink)

Israel wants Christians to fund non-Jewish ‘birthright’ program
(JNS News Service, The Jewish Press)

Abbas gives $6K to dancers named after terrorist who killed 37
(JNS News Service, Jewish Press)

French city closes street to traffic through Yom Kippur
(JTA, The Jewish Press)

Vinh: Church against government media for slandering and manipulating the facts
(J.B. An Dang, AsiaNews.it)

Saudi diplomat kidnapped in Yemen makes new video plea
(Ahram Online)

Syria: Maaloula: rebels break into the village homes, kill three young Christians
(AsiaNews.it)

Jihadist group claims bomb targeting Egypt minister
(Ahram Online)

Indonesia: West Aceh, Protestant pastor and four Christians arrested for proselytizing
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)

Iranian ministers open pages on banned Facebook
(Ahram Online)

Saturday, 7 September 2013

Hindus express concern at trivialization of goddesses in ad campaign
(Eurasia Review)

Sri Lanka: Tamil priest who met UN High Commissioner detained by police
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)

Afghanistan, noted Indian writer killed: she denounced the horrors of the Taliban
(AsiaNews.it)

Maaloula: Christians flee village where people still speak the language of Jesus
(AsiaNews.it)

Islamist radical rebels say they killed Syria's Hama governor
(Ahram Online)

Shebab claim twin blasts in Somali capital that kill 18
(Ahram Online)

Islamist takeover of town in Egypt leaves Christians in fear
(Associated Press, Fox News)

Friday, 6 September 2013

Francophone Muslims seek unity against extremism
(Jemal Oumar in Nouakchott, Magharebia)

Letter: Marois can learn from federal government’s religious accommodation
(The Montreal Gazette)

Pope Francis’ peace appeal for Syria marks Vatican’s return to global stage
(Alessandro Speciale, Religion News Service)

Quebec Liberals would enshrine religious neutrality of the state in charter
(Macleans)

Religious leaders mad at media for aligning them to political parties
(Ghana Lately)

SRI LANKA: The debate on multiculturalism, uniculturalism and monoculturalism
(Dr Leonard Pinto, Asian Human Rights Commission)

Why isn’t the West getting any better at handling religious conflict? Or are we?
(Bill McKenzie, Dallas News: Texas Faith blog)

Thursday, 5 September 2013

Kabul: Taliban militants raid Shia mosque. Three wounded
(AsiaNews.it)

Nghe An: police crack down hard on Catholics protest
(Asianews.it)

Oman's government sues newspaper over story about gays
(Reuters)

Mother Teresa quotes on the anniversary of her death
(Huff Post Religion)

Shana tova * Evangelical opposition * Whites only: Thursday’s Religion News Roundup
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Commentary: Don’t surrender Islam to the Islamists
(Qanta Ahmed, Religion News Service)

WEA Secretary General urges religious liberty for Arab Christians at conference in Jordan
(Timothy K. Goropevsek, World Evangelical Alliance, CrossMap)

Brutality of Syrian rebels posing dilemma in West
(C.J. Chivers, The New York Times)

New from RFIA: “Religious Freedom Research in East and Southeast Asia”
(Stephen Bailey and Jiexia Zhai Autry, eds., The Review of Faith & International Affairs)

IGE to lead a delegation to Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar
(Institute for Global Engagement)

Afghan president decrees reserved parliamentary seat for Hindus, Sikhs
(Associated Press, Star Tribune)

Al-Qaeda-linked rebels attack Christian village in Syria
(RT)

End-of-life care and assisted suicide in Canada: recent developments
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Which bad Syria option do you prefer?
(Greg Myre, NPR Parallels)

Rosh Hashanah 2013: The Jewish New Year explained
(Huff Post Religion)

‘Don’t be afraid’ - funeral told of Seamus Heaney ’s last words
(Eoin Burke-Kennedy, The Irish Times)

Duma to consider bill depriving gay parents of parental rights
(Interfax)

Saudi Arabia must choose freedom
(Robert P. George and Katrina Lantos Swett, The Hill)

Israel orders school textbook publishers to remove sex education material
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)

'We are next': Greek Jews fear rise of far-right party
(Joanna Kakissis, NPR Parallels)

Religious leaders call for peace in Syria
(Anya Sostek, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Saudi religious police face opposition to hire women
(Emirates 24/7)

Teachers’ union opposes Quebec's headwear ‘witch hunt’
(Ingrid Peritz, The Globe and Mail)

Majority of Israelis support freedom of religion, marriage
(Adiv Sterman, The Times of Israel)

Religion News in Brief
(Associated Press, The Washington Post – On Faith)

Iranian president's surprising message to Jews
(Daniel Burke and Mitra Mobasherat, CNN Belief Blog)

Kazakh activist released from pretrial detention
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)

Pope Colbert? * Banning Yoga * Hot Hasid: Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Sinai's St. Catherine's starves, monastery shuts down
(Mohannad Sabry for Al-Monitor, Almonitor)

Canada: Keeping religion (and atheism) out of public schools
(Chris Selley, National Post)

61% of Israelis: Separate state, religion
(Rabbi Levi Brackman, Jewish World)

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne criticizes Quebec’s plan to restrict religious symbols — without directly naming province
(Canadian Press, National Post)

Coptic Christians killed for ransom in Egypt
(Raymond Ibrahim, The Christian Post Opinion)

Kazakhstan: Atheist freed, but criminal case continues; Pastor transferred from psychiatric hospital
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Netanyahu in New Year’s message spotlights Jewish unity, Israeli democracy
(News Brief, JTA)

Dozens of ‘noisy’ churches silenced in Cameroon
(World Watch Monitor)

The Islamic world: Religion, Philosophy, Politics and History
(Abdallah Zbir, Morocco World News)

Mubarak to Morsi, Assad to Sisi: To rebel or not rebel? – OpEd
(Reza Pankhurst, New Civilisation)

India: New anti-Christian violence in Karnataka, but religious freedom non-negotiable for Sajan George
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)

Tongren, Guizhong: Religious affairs bureau interrupts house church gathering, detains preachers, requires church to join Three-Self Patriotic Movement
(China Aid)

10 years after Gene Robinson, African Anglicans to take stock
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)

Tel Aviv eyeing way to let businesses open on Sabbath
(News Brief, JTA)

Ambiguous religion policy backfires on Tunisia's ruling Islamists
(Tom Heneghan, Reuters)

Jordan slams new Western Wall Plaza area for egalitarian prayer
(News Brief, JTA)

Legitimizing Israel's destruction
(Samuel Westrop, Gatestone Institute)

Adventists stage anti-abuse campaigns throughout South America
(Adventist News Network)

The changing face of Egyptian Constituent: 5 women and 20 Christians
(AsiaNews.it)

Gunmen kill 16 members of Shi'ite family in Iraq
(Kareem Raheem, Reuters)

Jordan calls ‘Women of the Wall’ prayer site an ‘attack on Islam’
(Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu, The Jewish Press)

Arabs stone Temple Mount visitors, try to block Jewish entry
(Tazpit News Agency, The Jewish Press)

Five Saudi 'Qaeda' members go on trial in Yemen
(Ahram Online)

Iranian regime intensifies crackdown on Christians
(International Christian Concern, Religion Today)

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