Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 26 August 2013
Bangladesh: Minority repression has no ties to religion: Mozena
(BD News)
On a scale of 1 to horror: Ranking atrocities in the Middle East
(Amira Hass, Haaretz)
Quebec, religious symbols and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Canada: Ban on religious symbols a step closer in Quebec
(Brian Daly, CNews)
Charter of Quebec Values — with controversial ban on religious garb — will unite province, Pauline Marois says
(Canadian Press)
Quebec: Freedom of religion reigns supreme
(The Spec)
Secularism charter slammed by Quebec politicians
(CBC News)
Quebec’s Charter plan is not about symbols – it threatens religion itself
(Robert Joustra, The Globe and Mail)
Banning religious headwear is a bad idea: Trudeau
(Sounak Mukhopadhyay, The Financial Times)
Letter: Banning the wearing of religious apparel violates human rights
(The Montreal Gazette)
Change in baptismal rite emphasizes church's identity
(Catholic News Agency)
Battling superstition, Narendra Dabholkar paid with his life
(Ellen Barry, The New York Times)
Dabholkar murder: Maharashtra first state to ban black magic
(Hindustan Times)
India: What the anti-superstition bill is about
(Meena Karnik, DNA)
Religion and Peacemaking: Supporting Religious Communities in the Work of Peacemaking
(United States Institute of Peace)
Viral photo shows Muslims protecting church in Egypt as congregants attend mass amid threat of attack
(Katherine Weber, The Christian Post World)
Sunday, 25 August 2013
Faith-based charity to airlift persecuted Christians out of Sudan
(By Perry Chiaramonte, Fox News)
5 advances in understanding religion and religious freedom
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Jim Wallis virtual course on faith, social justice, and public life
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Burma: Implications of Religious and Ethnic Violence
(Policy Brief, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Egypt widens crackdown and meaning of ‘Islamist’
(David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times)
Ayodhya chief priest accuses VHP of going against Hindu traditions, says original 84-Kosi yatra is completed
(India Today)
Saturday, 24 August 2013
More bombs in Lebanon, as Mideast chaos spreads over borders
(Dashiell Bennett, The Atlantic Wire)
Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim says traditional Shtreimel fur hats desecrate God's name due to animal cruelty
(Yasmine Hafiz, Huff Post Religion)
25 years in making, Hindu encyclopedia is complete
(Susanne M. Schafer, Associated Press, ABC News)
Do Policy Prescriptions Work? Studying Effect of Race & Religion on People's Behaviour
(S.P. Harish, RSIS Commentaries)
Quebec Muslims slam proposed ban on religious headwear
(Massoud Hayoun, Al Jazeera America)
The Madrassa myth: in Pakistan, public schools may be the problem
(Beenish Ahmed, PRI's The World)
Law guarantees religious freedom
(Nasik Swami, The Fiji Times)
Friday, 23 August 2013
Why should scientists care about religion?
(Nidhal Guessoum, The Big Questions)
Nile Union Academy volunteers evacuated ahead of protest marches; local Muslims lock hands to protect church property
(Adventist News Network)
Egypt frees Mubarak as crackdown on Islamists continues
(Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times)
Atheism in India: He’s not the son of God
(A.R., The Economist)
Miss World cancelled? Indonesian clerics protest beauty pageant on religious grounds
(Ninniek Karmini, Huff Post Religion)
Faithfuls mourn loss of Unification Church founder
(Global Post)
Assaults on Christians continue in Egypt, Islamists call for 'Friday of Martyrs' protests
(International Christian Concern, International Christian Concern)
On Egypt’s class-struggle: Rabias of the world unite – OpEd
(Ramzy Baroud, Eurasia Review)
Pressure rises on Hamas as patrons’ support fades
(Jodi Rudoren, New York Times)
Canada: The state cannot decide what is a religious symbol
(Ian H. Henderson, The Globe and Mail)
Egyptians bewildered over support for Muslim Brotherhood
(Michael Armanious, Gatestone Institute)
Price for religious services on the rise
(The Jerusalem Post)
Threat to religious liberty? Canadian Ministry opens jobs to non-Christian applicants
(Tyler O'Neil, Christian Post)
Quebec ponders religious headwear ban
(Huffington Post Live)
Ethiopia: Inter-religious council to hold conference
(Zeryhun Kassa, Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency)
State-religion relations in spotlight in Sumgayit
(Nazrin Gadimova, Azer News)
Beit Jimal monastery in Israel hit by suspected ultranationalist Jewish vandals
(Ori Lewis, Reuters)
Thursday, 22 August 2013
Anti-Islamist old order ‘remnants’ flex their muscles in Tunisian politics
(Tarek Amara and Tom Heneghan, Reuters)
Egypt post Morsi: Why there is no reason to hope for a real democratic transition
(Jocelyne Cesari, Huffington Post, Reprint, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
European Council conclusions on Egypt – Statement
(Council of the European Union, Eurasia Review)
More than 73 churches attacked in Egypt
(Religion Today)
Proposed amendments to Egypt's Constitution given to president
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause blog)
Quebec ponders turban, kippa, hijab restrictions
(Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press, Huff Post Politics Canada)
Released Palestinian prisoner: 'I have changed completely'
(Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor)
Rockets fired from Lebanon do damage in northern Israel
(News Brief, JTA)
Haredi leader: Wearing a shtreimel Is chilul hashem
(The Jewish Press)
Maharashtra government banning black magic
(AsiaNews.it)
Obama must demand Christian protection in exchange for foreign aid to Egypt, petition urges
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post)
Kazakhstan: Nationwide fines and raids on meetings continue
(Forum 18 News Service)
Jakarta stops Islamists, Christian woman to stay as chief of predominantly Muslim sub-district
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
Where Muslims can speak freely in the Middle East
(Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute)
Authorities again stop Catholics from using the word Allah
(AsiaNews.it)
Benedict XVI: ‘God told me’ to resign
(Alessandro Speciale, Religion News Service)
Buddhists expelled from Malaysia for praying in Muslim hall
(Richard S. Ehrlich, Religion News Service)
Between fake tolerance and pseudo-freedom of religion
(Achmad Munjid, The Jakarta Post)
Quebec religious symbols ban touches nerve across Canada
(Jennifer Dunning, CBC News)
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood appears at risk of falling apart
(Liz Sly and Mary Beth Sheridan, The Washington Post)
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Jordan’s king warns of sectarian ‘destruction’
(Jamal Halaby, Times of Israel)
Ravaged churches reveal sectarian split feeding Egypt’s violence
(Abigail Hauslohner, The Washington Post)
Legal action ‘launched’ to force church gay wedding
(The Christian Institute)
India: police arrest brother of Asia's richest Evangelizer
(Eurasia Review)
Egyptian patriarch calls recent violence 'war' on terrorism
(Estefania Aguirre and Carl Bunderson, Catholic News Agency)
Political Islam on the defensive across the Middle East
(Oren Dorell, USA Today)
USCIRF warns about religious violence in Nigeria
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religious freedom thrives in Israel
(The Columbus Dispatch)
PQ legislation would ban religious symbols from government offices, schools, hospitals, paper says
(Allan Woods, thestar.com)
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Egypt in tumult as court orders Mubarak freed
(David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times)
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood: Reform or relapse?
(Mohamed Yousry and Michael Gasper,, Foreign Policy in Focus)
Polish photographer uses Jewish cemetery for naked photo shoot
(The Jewish Press)
India, Catholic missionaries attacked. Jesuit: I forgive them, they were fomented by fundamentalists
(Nirmala Carvalho, Asianews.it)
Saudi beheads two nationals for murder, armed robbery
(Ahram Online)
Russian muftis urge Egyptian Muslims to protect Christians
(Interfax)
Malaysia punishes Singaporean in prayer room row
(Las Vegas Sun)
Is it true that if a Muslim leaves or denounces his faith in Islam he will be killed?
(Speaking Tree)
Egypt’s new charter may ban religious political parties
(Al Arabiya)
Egypt: Coptic church cancels Sunday mass for 1st time in 1,600 years
(Michal Shmulovich, The Times of Israel)
Churches across Egypt attacked
(World Watch Monitor)
Monday, 19 August 2013
Could the chaos in Egypt and Syria help the peace process?
(Ben Sales, JTA)
Inscribed pottery shard found from First Temple
(News Brief, JTA)
Vigilantes emerge as menacing force in Egypt as mosque siege ends
(Jeffrey Fleishman and Raja Abdulrahim, Los Angeles Times)
Italian priest missing in Syria may be alive: monitoring group
(Reuters)
Islamists killed while in custody, Egypt confirms
(Rod Norland, The New York Times)
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a war of religion, not territory
(Aryeh Eldad, Haaretz)
Rajasthan: Hindu extremists attack Christian family, tell them to convert or be killed
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Muslim Brotherhood violence against Christians and opponents
(AsiaNews.it)
24 Egyptian police killed in latest violence
(Nigerian Tribune)
Boko Haram: Traditional worshippers offer to help FG tackle terrorism
(Oluwole Ige, Nigerian Tribune)
You're dead! Hani Salama receives death threats for Preacher role
(Al Bawaba Entertainment)
Prayers for 'Egyptian martyrs' in Bosnia's mosques
(Tengri News)
Egypt seen as graveyard of Islamist ambitions for power
(Samia Nakhoul, Reuters)
In Egypt, complicated religious politics threatens a nation
(Ibrahim Negm, The Washington Post)
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