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Thursday, 29 August 2013

Iran commander: U.S. strike on Syria would bring Israel's destruction
(Reuters)

Israel in partial army reserve call-up over Syria
(AFP, France 24 International News)

In Israel, Orthodox men demand beard-friendly gas masks
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)

Amid chaos, Israelis take a stoic view
(Jodi Rudoren, The New York Times)

Commentary: Keep doomsday religion out of the Syrian conflict
(Faheem Younus, Religion News Service)

Arab Spring: Death to humanity
(Abdulateef Al-Mulhim, Arab News)

There never was an "Arab Spring"
(Gerard M. Gallucci, TransConflict)

'Moving moment': Israel ends Ethiopian repatriation program
(SYD, Spiegel Online International)

Egypt's Islamist alliance urges protest to support Morsi's reinstatement
(Xinhuanet)

Leading Muslim Brotherhood figure arrested in Egypt
(PanArmenian.net)

Opinion: To eliminate religious symbols is to live in dishonesty
(Gregory Davidson, The Montreal Gazette)

Botswana: Is BNF an Islamic party?
(John Mazabathi Mokandla, The Botswana Gazette)

Physicians group blames government for Myanmar religious strife
(Richard S. Ehrlich, Religion News Service)

Burma: Muslim affairs group seeks justice in Htan Gone
(Aye Nai, DVB News)

Religion continues its free ride without our blessing
(Chris Fotinopoulos)

Muslim astronomer weighs in on the religion-science debate
(John Farrell, Forbes)

Impunity said to abet persecution of Christians in Nigeria
(Morning Star News, Religion Today)

Moral obscenities in Syria
(David Wildman and Phyllis Bennis, Foreign Policy in Focus)

Concern: Some Iranian Jews improperly circumcised (video)
(The Jewish Press)

Al-Qaida-affiliated terror group says it’s resuming holy war against Jews
(News Brief, JTA)

Vancouver Jewish losing fight to stop anti-Israel bus ads
(The Jewish Press)

What's the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims
(S.B., The Economist explains)

Egypt: Minya: schools, churches and orphanages burnt to erase all traces of a Christian presence
(AsiaNews.it)

India: Gujarat government to rebuild mosques destroyed during 2002 anti-Islamic pogrom
(Asianews.it)

Egypt: "We live in fear of more violence," says Indian Jesuit
(AsiaNews.it)

Israeli military, civilians readying for possible Syria reprisals
(News Brief, JTA)

Tunisian government turns on former Salafist allies, calling them terrorists
(Asianews.it)

Aussie Jewish lawmaker rapped for pandering to Orthodox
(News Brief, JTA)

Syria disfigured – options for the West
(Matthew Parish, TransConflict)

Syria – to intervene or not to intervene?
(Kirthi Jayakumar, TransConflict)

Saudi Arabia: Imams exploiting politics in sermons face the sack
(Arab News)

Al-Qaeda suspects kill 'gay' man in Yemen: Security sources
(Ahram Online)

Quebec plan to force through euthanasia legislation in direct conflict with its own national law
(Eurasia Review)

Religious harmony in Indonesia: The need for new approaches
(Jennifer Yang Hui, RSIS Commentaries)

Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Syria and the limits of comparison
(Robert D. Kaplan, Stratfor: Global Intelligence)

Catholic cardinal warns of possible violence in Hong Kong over democracy protest
(Greg Torode and James Pomfret, Reuters)

Arab League stance muddies U.S. case
(David D. Kirkpatrick and Mark Landler, The New York Times)

Lessons for Sri Lanka fom the Libyan Experience – OpEd
(Shenali Waduge, Eurasia Review)

Court rules against B.C. polygamous leader, issues $150,000 in tax penalties
(Canadian Press, Vancouver Sun)

Bombs kill 86 in Baghdad as sectarian violence spreads
(Kareem Raheem, Reuters)

U.S. Bishops press for religious freedom and more economic aid to Egypt [VIDEO]
(Rome Reports)

Conference on religious tolerance kicks off in Ethiopian capital
(Sudan Tribune)

Author booked for hurting religious sentiments
(The New Indian Express)

Iran, Korea scholars confer on religious values
(Iran Book News Agency)

Bike helmet law exemption allowed in Queensland for religious beliefs despite safety warnings
(Allison Sandy, The Courier-Mail)

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Chemical warfare in Syria: Who and why?
(Abdallah Schleifer, Foreign Policy Research Center)

Kazakh Baptists fined for worship meetings
(Baptist Press)

Islamic Law: Getting Beyond the Bombast
(Viola Gienger, The Olive Branch, United States Institute of Peace)

Atheist Parolee * YU Shame * The March: Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Indian state outlaws profiting on miracles, summoning 'ghosts'
(Shivam Vij, The Christian Science Monitor)

Singapore: Prosecutors allege Kong Hee's City Harvest Church controlled production company that managed Sun Ho's music career
(Nicola Menzie, The Christian Post Asia)

Bloodied and bruised, Egypt's Brotherhood searches for strategy
(Al Jazeera America)

For Israel, U.S. response on Syria may be harbinger on Iran
(Ben Sales, JTA)

Hungry Ghost Festival 2013 begins in China as spirits descend on homes, wander streets
(Associated Press, Huff Post Religion)

Blasts in the night, a smell, and a flood of Syrian victims
(Ben Hubbard, Mark Mazetti and Mark Landler, The New York Times)

Kerry cites clear evidence of chemical weapon use in Syria
(Michael R. Gordon and Mark Landler, The New York Times)

Syria: Obama's bluff
(George Friedman, Stratfor: Global Intelligence)

Islamic extremists in Somalia abduct Christian mother of two young children
(Morning Star News)

The end of the world is starting in Damascus
(Ari Shavit, Haaretz)

Muslim mob injures church leaders, choir members in Nigeria
(Morning Star News)

Patriarch Sako calls on Christians not to flee Iraq
(AsiaNews.it)

Malaysia: 'Handle religious issues with care'
(Ivan Loh, The Star Online)

Who should clean up the mess?
(Ali Salim, Gatestone Institute)

Foreigners find a home in India's religious capital
(Australia Network News)

Monday, 26 August 2013

Analysis: Gulf Islamists irked as monarchs back Egypt's generals
(Angus McDowall; additional reporting by Sylvia Westall in Baghdad, Ahmed Hagagy in Kuwait and Shahed Qamhiya in Dubai; editing by Will Waterman, Reuters)

Another federal leader cautions Quebec on secular charter
(Jennifer Ditchburn, Global Post)

Rural Andean churches plagued by sacred art theft
(Paola Flores and Frank Bajak, Associated Press, MyFoxPhoenix.com)

Prayer plaza in Jerusalem for both sexes ignites uproar
(Jodi Rudoren, The New York Times)

Egyptian government under pressure from Islamists, liberals
(Jeffery Fleishman, Los Angeles Times)

Sri Lanka monks protest UN rights chief's visit
(The Sun Daily)

WCC invokes prayers for peace in Egypt
(World Council of Churches)

EP church promises to promote peace, unity in Ghana
(Samuel Agbewode, The Chronicle)

Rwanda: Can women be priests?
(Joseph Oindo, Sunday Times)

Tanzania: Unkown assailants throw petrol bombs at Dar es Salaam church
(Sabahi)

Copts reject Western statements
(Egypt State Information Service)

Remembering the Holocaust: Bearing witness ever more
(The Economist)

Journal of Law and Religion moves from Hamline to Emory
(The National Jurist)

Tunisian Islamists accept union plan to resolve crisis
(Tarek Amara and Tom Heneghan, Reuters)

Does religious freedom have a future in Pakistan?
(Knox Thames, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs)

Order restored after fresh Myanmar religious unrest
(reporting by Min Zayer Oo in Yangon and Soe Zeya Tun, writing by Jared Ferrie, editing by Jason Szep and Robert Birsel, Reuters)

A day of national mourning for Tripoli mosque attacks
(Paul Dakiki, AsiaNews.it)

Leaked videos show Egypt's army enlisting religion to aid crackdown
(David Kirkpatrick, The Age)

Muslim missionaries make Kyrgyz inroads through Bangladeshi Madrasah
(Ron Synovitz, Venera Djumataeva and Gulaiym Ashakeeva, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)

Ahead of High Holidays, Bennett unveils new platform for egalitarian prayer
(Ben Sales, JTA)

Xinjiang, more violence: 15 Uyghurs killed by police for "terrorism"
(AsiaNews.it)

Destroying Islam's holiest shrine for Assad?
(Irfan Al-Alawi, Gatestone Institute)

Is Boko Haram Islamic?
(Abdulrasheed Ibrahim, Nigerian Tribune)

Religion and war in Syria: A sonorous appeal
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

The ruler of Hindu hearts?
(Krishan Partap Singh, The New York Times)

Canada giving $1.2M for religious freedom in Nigeria, Central Asia
(Laura Payton, CBC News)

The 'almost unremarked' tragedy of Christians persecuted in the Middle East
(Edward Malnick, The Telegraph)

Hundreds of Hindu nationalists detained for defying ban on pilgrimage to holy site in India
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)

Court case hangs over Indonesian pastor
(World Watch Monitor, Christian Today World)

Australia: Human Rights Watch opens Sydney office
(Eurasia Review)

China banks on Buddhism
(Ilaria Maria Sala, The Wall Street Journal)

Nigeria to include religion, ethnicity in 2016 census
(World Bulletin)

Egypt military enlists religion to quell ranks
(David D. Kirkpatrick and Mayy El Sheikh, The New York Times)

Islamist preacher, Salafist activist detained over December clashes
(Aswat Masriya)

Pope urges world to help find solution to war in Syria
(Agence France-Press, Hürriyet Daily News)

What is Judaism, the Jewish religion?
(Haaretz)

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