Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 12 August 2013
Ethiopia: Where’s the religious freedom movement headed? – OpEd
(Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, Eurasia Review)
Syria: Vows of ‘occupation until martyrdom’ – OpEd
(Franklin Lamb, Eurasia Review)
Sri Lanka: Government shuts mosque after Buddhist monk violence
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
Korea: Health of Christian missionary held in Pyongyang labour camp deteriorates
(AsiaNews.it)
Anti-Catholic Facebook pages worry Latino communities
(Catholic News Agency)
Embassies open, but Yemen stays on terror watch
(Eric Schmitt, The New York Times)
5 facts about religion-related terror, as two U.S. outposts remain closed
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
India: Omar trying to divide people on religion: PDP
(The Hindustan Times)
Bangladesh activist who posted news about Islamist massacre arrested
(Sumon Corraya, AsiaNews.it)
Pakistani Christians ensure police arrest key murder suspect
(World Watch Monitor)
Religious freedom? Mostly not.
(Robert Hunt, Patheos)
Israel staying mum on airstrike near Egyptian border
(JTA)
Buddhist-majority countries just as complicated as Muslim-majority
(Haroon Moghul, Religion Dispatches)
Israel tennis team fined $13K for Yom Kippur boycott
(The Jewish Daily Forward)
Jerusalem’s Temple Mount reopens to Jews post-Ramadan, but freedom of worships remains elusive at holy site
(The Algemeiner)
Ministry of Interior Affairs hearing on Temple Mount Prayer
(Kochava Rozenbaum, Israel National News)
Vatican religious prefect: Gender inequality exists in church
(Joshua J. McElwee, National Catholic Reporter)
“Burka Avenger”: Pakistan’s middle class gets a feminist cartoon
(M. Sophia Newman, Religion Dispatches)
Sunday, 11 August 2013
Buddhists attack Sri Lankan mosque, 12 Injured
(Ranga Sirilal & Shihar Aneez, Reuters)
Egypt's affluent uneasy with mix of politics, Islam
(Amro Hassan, Los Angeles Times)
India: Religious wars rattle Karnataka Congress
(The Sunday Standard)
Islam is religion for all –
(Malawi News Agency, Nyasa Times)
UFO religion the Raelians want to rehabilitate the swastika
(The Guardian: ShortCutsBlog)
Saturday, 10 August 2013
Can UN shoot at unarmed civilians inside a Haiti church and get away with it? – OpEd
(Shenali Waduge, Eurasia Review)
Churches feel vulnerable after Mugabe reelected in Zimbabwe
(Robert Marquand, The Christian Science Monitor)
Gnostic sunset: Strife in Syria and Iraq driving out Mandaeans, the last surviving followers of John the Baptist
(Stephen Starr, National Post)
Lawless Sinai shows risks tising in fractured Egypt
(Robert F. Worth, The New York Times)
Marx’s lesson for the Muslim Brothers
(Sheri Berman, The New York Times)
Muslim protests raise slender hopes of change in Ethiopia
(Deutsche Welle)
Top pastor’s arrest adds to Christians’ concerns in Central African Republic
(World Watch Monitor)
With lure of religious classes, Iran seeks to recruit Latin Americans
(Joby Warrick, The Washington Post)
Archaeologists restore massive 11th century St. John Order Hospital in Jerusalem
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post World)
Friday, 9 August 2013
As foreign fighters flood Syria, fears of a new extremist haven
(Anne Barnard and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times)
Sri Lanka: Soldiers storm Catholic church, protesters killed
(MISNA, Eurasia Review)
Religious festivals and violence: When celebration runs amok
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Uzbekistan: State tries to take one children's summer camp, raids another
(Forum 18 News Service)
Muslims celebrate the end of fasting month of Ramadan, but violence casts dark shadow
(The Washington Post)
Vatican religious prefect: 'New attitude' needed with nuns
(Joshua J. McElwee, National Catholic Reporter)
Seeking to close tax gap, Seoul finds religion
(Kwanwoo Jun, The Wall Street Journal)
Turkey welcomes start of Eid-al Fitr holidays
(Hürriyet Daily News)
Governor Jang urges Muslim faithfuls to imbibe the lessons of Ramadan
(Daily Post)
Thursday, 8 August 2013
U.S. embassy issues first visas to same-sex Israeli couples
(JTA)
Muslims around the world mark end of Ramadan fast
(News Wires, France 24 International News)
How Al Qaeda made its comeback
(Ali Soufan, The Wall Street Journal)
Religion should not bind us, it should set us free
(Swami Sukhabodhananda, The New Indian Express)
As Al-Qaida grows, leaders remain a global threat
(Lara Lakes, Associated Press, Greenwich Time)
Jesuits and the bomb: A deadly transfiguration
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Temple hopping: A trendy escape for Chinese youth
(Zoey Zhang, The Diplomat)
Iranians under the Islamic regime: more or less religious?
(David ET, Al Jazeera English, Iranian)
Egypt Christians on the defensive as Islamists wage hate campaign in south
(Associated Press, CBS News)
Why new Israeli women's group opposes feminist activists at the Western Wall (+video)
(Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor)
What is religious freedom?
(Robert P. George, Catholic Exchange)
Pope steps up financial controls at Vatican
(Agence France-Press, Hürriyet Daily News)
Jihad unleashed on Egypt's Christians
(Raymond Ibrahim, Human Events)
Uzbekistan: Religious freedom survey, August 2013
(Forum 18 News Service)
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
As peace talks kick off, right wing intensifies efforts to influence outcomeE
(Rom Kampeas, JTA)
Women of the Wall, shielded by police, raises Torah scroll and blows shofar
(JTA)
India: For the first time, Catholic to be vice president of the Maharashtra State Minority Commission
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Bomb kills 11 in Karachi, including children, Islamabad bishop expresses solidarity
(Jibran Kahn, AsiaNews.it)
Islam's `Night of Power' and the terror alert
(Hussein Rashid, CNN Belief Blog)
Francis and Benedict on gay priests
(Aaron Taylor, First Things)
U.S. senators urge release of Islamists in Egypt
(Aya Batrawy and Maggie Michael, Associated Press, CTV News)
Pope Francis is unsettling – and dividing – the Catholic right
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Saudi Arabia: Shoura eyes new system to regulate Zakat distribution
(Arab News)
28-day Ramadan? Saudi Supreme Court to meet over moon sightings to determine date of Eid 2013
(Yasmine Hafiz, Huffington Post Religion)
Analysis: Pope Francis, the improbable pop culture icon
(Jeffrey Weiss, The Washington Post)
Religious leaders urge gov't efforts for Kaesong park resumption
(Yonhap News Agency)
Bridging religious divide for Eid
(Anisha Anand, The Times of India)
Cleric advocates Christian-Muslim relations
(Ghana Web)
Geopolitics trump religion in Iran-Azerbaijan relations
(Caroline Farris, The Diplomat)
Tuesday, 6 August 2013
Argentina's 'slum priests' focus on helping over converting
(Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times)
Islam's 'Night of Power' and the terror alert
(Hussain Rashid, CNN Belief Blog)
Nigeria attacks by Boko Haram could be crimes against humanity, says ICC Prosecutor
(United Nations News Centre)
Philippines: Will RH limit freedom of religion?
(Garrick Bercero, Filipino Freethinkers)
Nigeria and the girl child bride: Culture, constitution and religion
(Mary Ajoke Akangbe, Africa on the Blog)
Syria conflict destroys churches & mosques, desecrates icons (PHOTOS)
(Yasmine Hafiz, Huff Post Religion)
The new article of faith for Canadian law schools: Same-sex marriage
(Bradley Miller, Public Discourse)
Full transcript of Pope's in-flight press remarks released
(Catholic News Agency)
Boko Haram likely guilty of crimes against humanity, murdering Christians, ICC says
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post World)
Not an Arab Spring, nor an Islamic Winter
(Ramzy Baroud, Al Arabiya)
Tashkent, Christians and Muslims increasingly targeted by authorities
(AsiaNews.it)
Police ask haredim, Women of the Wall to ‘avoid confrontation’ over Ramadan concerns
(News Brief, JTA)
Over 50% support same-sex marriage in Taiwan: poll
(Focus Taiwan)
Madhya Pradesh, Hindu's holy book now mandatory in all schools
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Algerians stage picnics in protest against ‘forced’ fasting
(World Watch Monitor)
A short overview of the status quo of Christian minorities in Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Lebanon
(M.K. Tozman, World Watch Monitor)
Orthodox and progressive women unite to save Israel from fundamentalism
(Yasmine Hafiz, Huffington Post Religion)
No State patronage on basis of religion
(The New Indian Express)
Iranians under the Islamic regime: more or less religious?
(Ali Reza Eshraghi, Aljazeera)
Don't denigrate minority faiths - Attafuah
(GNA, Ghana Web)
Monday, 5 August 2013
Forget secularism or communalism: Atheists to be in majority by 2041
(Daily Bhaskar)
Is secularism unprincipled?
(Ian Pollock, Rationally Speaking (blog))
LDS Church begins using new temple film
(Joseph Walker, Deseret News)
Egypt's Brotherhood rejects appeal to 'swallow reality'
(Yasmine Saleh and Angus MacSwan, Reuters)
Tunisia's Ennahda chief offers poll to end political crisis
(Tarek Amara & Erika Solomon, Reuters, Al Arabiya)
Blogger Geller testifying before Toronto police board over nixed shul talk
(News Brief, JTA)
Across forbidden border, doctors in Israel quietly tend to Syria’s wounded
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)
Two Arabs caught vandalizing tomb of the patriarchs
(The Jewish Press)
Virtues of the Prophet Mohammed, which Muslims must emulate
(Alhassan Abubakar Sadik, Ghana Web)
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