Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 8 July 2013
Israeli Cabinet advances proposal to draft haredi Orthodox men
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Israel: Emunah sues Chief Rabbinate to allow female kosher supervisors
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Jewish access to Ma’arat HaMachpelah to be limited during Ramadan
(The Jewish Press)
Ahmadinejad calls his Holocaust denial major achievement
(The Jewish Press)
Hundreds of Chicago Muslims march for Morsi
(The Jewish Press)
Someone needs to hold Pakistan to account on religious freedom
(Nasir Saeed, Christian Today)
Card. Gracias: solidarity and support for Buddhists after the attack on the sacred tree
(AsiaNews.it)
Seoul, a "Rosary marathon" for the canonization of the Korean Martyrs
(AsiaNews.it)
For Catholic Church, "no coup d'état took place in Egypt"
(AsiaNews.it)
Islamisation gets a boost in Jakarta, as Supreme Court suspends the sale of alcoholic beverages
(AsiaNews.it)
For Hassan Rouhani, a strong government does not limit individual freedoms
(AsiaNews.it)
Saudi beheaded for murder: Ministry
(Ahram Online)
Egypt's lesson for political Islam: politics comes first
(Tom Heneghan, Reuters)
Global restrictions on religion increased following the Arab Spring
(Katie Reilly, Pew Research Center)
Freedom of religion means freedom to leave Islam
(Teoh El Sen, Astro Awani)
Educated Muslim women challenged to know their religion
(Ludovick Kazoka, All Africa)
Malaysia: Controversial religious child conversion bill to be withdrawn
(International Business Times)
MP Alex Greenwich to introduce bill prohibiting expulsion of students based on sexuality; religious schools oppose
(International Business Times)
Tweeting, Muslim, policy-wonk mayor wins over 'cow town' Calgary
(David Agren, The Christian Science Monitor)
Israeli cabinet approves ultra-Orthodox conscription law
(Voice of America News)
West Bank soldiers told to respect Ramadan
(The Jerusalem Post)
Thousands of haredi girls prevent Women of Wall from praying by Western Wall
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jewish Post)
Nigeria: Horror after school dorm set on fire
(Adamu Adamy, Scotsman.com)
Terror strikes Bodh Gaya, serial blasts rock Mahabodhi Temple
(Law Kumar Mishra & Abdul Qadir, The Times of India)
Death toll rises to 51 in Monday clashes between Egypt army and pro-Morsi protesters
(Ahram Online)
Egypt and the process of democracy
(Ta-nehisi Coates, The Atlantic)
An independence day for Egypt's secularists?
(Michael Hirsh, The Atlantic)
TIME Magazine highlights Myanmar's religious problem
(Nehginpao Kipgen, Huff Post World)
Religious dispute in Myanmar – The Time cover story
(Dr. Tint Swe, South Asia Analysis Group)
Sunday, 7 July 2013
Egypt: Coptic Christian priest shot dead
(Chris Irvine, The Telegraph)
29 boarding school students burned alive, shot dead by Islamist militants in Nigeria
(Adamu Adamu, Michelle Faul, Associated Press, NBC World News)
Political crisis in Egypt coincides with highest government restrictions on religion and high intolerance
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Service brings scorn to Israel’s ultra-Orthodox enlistees
(Isabel Kershner, International Herald Tribine)
Saturday, 6 July 2013
'Religion has not divided us'
(H. R. Bhardwaj, The New Indian Express)
Egypt’s revolution betrayed: Fuel for Al-Qaeda fires – OpEd
(Eirc Walberg, Eurasia Review)
Pakistan bankrolls terrorist group
(Mohshin Habib, Gatestone Institute)
Why Morsi is wrong for his people
(M.D. Nalapat, Gateway House)
Friday, 5 July 2013
Costa Rica 'accidentally' legalises gay marriage
(Tim Walker, The Independent)
Japan: Supreme Court throws out appeal against testimony of Aum Shinrikyo members
(Ida Torres, Japan Daily Press)
Religious freedom: The diplomatic dimension
(Opencanada.org)
Punjab CM assures religious freedom to Christians
(Jago Punjab [India])
Egypt: Religious channels shut down
(Basil El-Dabh, Daily News Egypt)
Egyptian Army and Islamists in deadly clashes
(JTA)
Top Egyptian Muslim and Christian leaders support army-sponsored transition
(Yasmine Saleh, Reuters)
What's next in Egypt?
(Jim Denison, Religion Today)
Egypt's Pope praises recovery of 'stolen revolution'
(Timothy C. Morgan, Christianity Today)
Vatican issues first text co-written by two popes
(Agence France-Press, France 24 International News)
Pakistan: One person killed in Islamic fundamentalist attack against a Peshawar Protestant church
(Jibran Khan, Asia News)
Justice Department wants Christian home-schoolers deported in name of tolerance
(Michael De Groote, Deseret News)
Pope Francis issues first 'joint' encyclical
(BBC News)
Israel: Proposal to establish religious police defeated
(Mohammed Al-Hassani, Yemen Times)
Religious tourism in mind, Goa set to promote Gurudwaras
(Punjab News)
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Arming Jihadis: Syrian Christians in the crosshairs
(Eric Metaxas, BreakPoint, Religion Today)
Egypt’s restrictions on religion coincide with lack of religious tolerance
(Neha Sahgal and Brian J. Grim, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
Two Syria shrine towns: Worlds apart yet united in battle
(Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times)
Iran ignores swimmer's record because of 'revealing' bathing suit
(MSN News)
USCIRF alarmed by Increasing Violence against Religious Communities in Pakistan
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Pakistan: Violence against minorities: the case of three Christian women stripped naked and humiliated shakes the nation
(Agenizia Fides)
Islamists slit Nigerian pastor's throat
(CBN News)
Palestinian authority ‘policeman’ tried to murder Jew in Samaria
(The Jewish Press)
South Korea: The National Intelligence Service systematically disseminated ideas of mass killings, hatred and discrimination over the internet
(Asian Human Rights Commission)
South Korea: Mattia Choe, "defender of the missionaries" whipped to death for refusing to betray Christ
(Joseph Yun Li-sun, AsiaNews.it)
Indonesia: Hundreds of Muslim extremists against the construction of a Catholic church in Bekasi
(AsiaNews.it)
Depth of discontent threatens Muslim Brotherhood and its leader
(David D. Kirkpatrick and Kareem Fahim, International Herald Tribune)
UN expert on religious freedom visits Sierra Leone
(Concord Times, Sierra Network Salone)
Kosovo tackles tough questions of religion and conflict
(Sean Coughlan, BBC News)
Malaysia: Calls for rational solution to religion
(The Star Online)
Unfair for only one parent to determine child's religion
(Wong Pek Mei, The Star Online)
Playing politics with religion
(Ussama Makdisi, The New York Times)
Sri Lanka bans issue of Time magazine over cover story on Buddhist-Muslim violence in Myanmar
(The Washington Post)
On the road to religious leadership, Orthodox women in Israel don’t stress over titles
(Michal Tikochinsky, Haaretz)
St. Andrew's Cross to be delivered to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus
(Interfax)
Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Abu Dhabi convicts 64 Islamists for organising a coup d'état
(AsiaNews.it)
People abuducted across ex-Soviet states
(Morning Star)
Catholic monk not beheaded by Syrian rebels, friar says
(Mohammed Jamjoom and Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog)
Syrian and American Christians: A horror that binds
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Copts under the gun: Religious freedom in Egypt
(Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online: The Corner)
Prayers for Mandela: Healing or a`peaceful end'?
(Jeffrey Weiss, CNN Belief Blog)
Pope Francis cleans house at the Vatican Bank
(Alessandro Speciale, The Washington Post)
Australia's first Muslim frontbencher abused for taking oath on Koran
(Rachael Olding, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Doesn't religion cause most of the conflict in the world?
(Rachel Woodlock, Antony Loewenstein, Jane Caro, Simon Smart, The Guardian)
Indian opposition hopes economy, not religion, will decide 2014 vote
(Udayan Namboodiri, Khabar South Asia)
Bhadkar village exhibits diverse nature of caste, religion practices
(The Times of India)
Rioters fire religious violence in Myanmar
(Global Times)
Monday, 1 July 2013
A Catholic priest killed. Bishop Hindo: he offered his martyrdom for peace
(The Vatican Today)
Catholic priest allegedly beheaded in Syria by Al-Qaeda-linked rebels as men and children take pictures and cheer
(Sharona Schwartz, The Blaze)
Freedom of expression related to religious issues: Blasphemy, defamation of a religion, insulting religious beliefs
(Edited by Willy Fautré, Mark Barwick, David Gonsalves & Alfiaz Vaiya)
Rethinking the "red line"
(Asma Uddin, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
The Vatican's woes: Exit Monsignor Cinquecento
(J.H., The Economist)
TEDx Talk leads the 10 most-shared Weekly Number blogs in mid-2013
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Syrian Jihadists behead Catholic priest
(Catholic Online)
Myanmar: As activist fears more violence, monks and ordinary Burmese take to the streets to defend Buddhism
(AsiaNews.it)
Kerry sees progress in effort to revive Mideast talks
(Jodi Rudoren and Michael R. Gordon, New York Times)
Worldly Buddhist monks rile Thailand’s faithful
(Vishal Arora, The Washington Post)
Pakistan Christian girl accused of blasphemy moves to Canada over security fears, says lawyer
(Fox News)
China unofficially allowing religious worship of Dalai Lama in Tibet
(Malcolm Moore, National Post)
Tibetans allowed to openly revere the Dalai Lama in two Chinese provinces
(Richard Finney, Radio Free Asia)
Iran’s war against its religious minorities
(Amir Sharifi, Rudaw)
Nigeria: In search of civility on matters religious
(Jibrin Ibrahim, The Premium Times)
Vietnamese police attack Christian couple for refusal to recant faith
(International Christian Concern)
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