Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Pope Francis acknowledges existence of ‘gay lobby’ jnside Vatican
(BBC News)
Thai Muslims debate their future as peace talks raise hope
(Amy Sawitta Lefevre, Reuters)
Tunisia jails three Europeans for topless feminist protest
(Reuters)
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Pope Francis and Archbishop of Canterbury to meet for the first time
(Allasandro Speciale, Religion News Service)
Kenya: Adventist soldier sues KDF over Saturdays
(Jillo Kadida, The Star)
Egypt's worrying rise in criminal blasphemy cases
(Amnesty International)
As a result of forced sterilisations, 4.6 million women can no longer have children in India
(AsianNews.it)
Saudi Arabia smashes 'sinful' horse statues on cleric's orders
(Ahram Online)
Timbuktu artifacts destroyed in Northern Mali fighting
(Huffington Post Religion)
Lay preacher turned union boss wages South African class war
(Reuters)
UN says 8,000 flee Nigeria’s crackdown on Islamists in Northeast
(Maram Mazen, Bloomberg)
Orthodox Yeshiva set to ordain three women, just don’t call them ‘Rabbi.’
(Batya Ungar-Sargon, Tablet)
7% of Israeli Jews are reform or conservative
(Yair Ettinger, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Pope Francis: Vatican scrutiny should not worry religious orders
(Alessandro Speciale, Huffington Post Religion)
Players oppose temple at city’s SAI regional centre
(Shruti Tomar, Hindustan Times)
Myanmar monks to meet over deadly religious unrest
(Australia Network News)
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Duma passes bill criminalizing insults to religious believer's feelings
(Interfax)
Egypt breaks faith on religious freedom
(Katrina Lantos Swett and Mary Ann Glendon, Al-Monitor)
Killing of Syrian youth for 'blasphemy' fuels tension in Aleppo
(Raja Abdulrahim, Los Angeles Times)
Religious freedom worth defending
(Deborah Gyapong, The B.C. Catholic)
Evangelical Christians gain political clout in traditionally Catholic Brazil
(Anthony Boadle, Reuters)
Russian lawmakers back jail terms for insulting religion
(RIA Novosti)
Coptic Pope says Christians not migrating from Egypt
(Aswat Masriya)
Ghana yet to attract Islamic Banks
(Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, The Chronicle)
Nigeria: Anambra 2014 - Group asks electorate to shun politics of religion
(Vincent Ujumadi, Vanguard)
Nigeria: Muslim Council wants pilgrims enlightened on Saudi immigration laws
(Ismail Mudashir, Daily Trust)
For Aleppo bishop, boy's brutal killing shows jihadist danger
(AsiaNews.it)
Egypt teacher fined LE100,000 for insulting Islam
(Ahram Online)
Iranians’ views mixed on political role for religious figures (but they overwhelmingly back Islamic law)
(Poll, The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life)
Pope admits 'gay lobby' in Vatican administration: report
(AFP via Google News)
Head of Muslim Union of Kazakhstan released after seven days
(Interfax)
OIC to continue working on legitimization of Palestinian state
(Interfax)
RN names religion unit head
(Sally Jackson, The Australian)
Nigerians urged to shun religious bigotry
(Abdullateef Aliyu, All Africa)
Israel: Women to get more say in appointing religious judges
(Gavriel Fiske, The Times of Israel)
Kazakhstan: "Double punishment" of fines and exit bans
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
WCC chief calls for 'critical understanding' of religion on the global stage
(Ekklesia)
Monday, 10 June 2013
Religion poisons everything? Greater acceptance of homosexuality in more secular countries
(James Bloodworth, Left Foot Forward)
Dinajpur, Bangladesh: dozens of extremists raid seminary, attacking rector and some students
(AsiaNews.it)
Evangelical Christians gain political clout in Catholic Brazil
(Anthony Boadle, Reuters)
China: Rash of church closures evidence of plan to end unregistered congregations, CAA says
(Morning Star News)
Vietnam: Christian speaker allowed to tour despite tight regulations
(Christian Society Worldwide)
South Sudan: Two Presbyterian pastors illegally detained since May 19
(Agenzia Fides)
Sri Lanka, tabernacle desecrated in attack on Catholic church
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)
Orissa: after the pogroms, Christians get a fraction of the damages
(AsiaNews.it)
Kuwaiti court gives woman 11 years in jail for 'insulting' emir
(AhramOnline)
Ghana religious sect leader blames fires at markets on gay sex
(Andrew Potts, Gay Star News)
Al-Qusair churches show the signs of the war against Assad and of the religious hatred of the rebels
(AsiaNews.it)
16% of the world's people are religiously unaffiliated - most do not live in the West. So who are they?
(Brian J. Grim, the Weekly Number)
Globe and Mail: New religious-freedom watchdog faces uphill battle
(Steven Chase, The Globe and Mail)
OAS assembly adopts convention against racism and all forms of intolerance
(Merco Press)
Women of the Wall, 1; Haredi protests, 0: Is Israel's religion-state status quo facing upheaval?
(Yair Ettinger, Haaretz)
Quebec fixed election date clashes with Jewish holiday
(Giuseppe Valiante, Sun News Network)
Work is worship; religious difference doesn't count
(News Track India)
Covert Islamic group leader convicted in Uzbekistan
(Interfax)
Sunday, 9 June 2013
Dire Strait: Religion vs secularism
(Glen Johnson, The New Zealand Herald)
HRW calls for action to improve conditions for Dalit women
(Eurasia Review)
Saturday, 8 June 2013
Terror train plot: Chiheb Esseghaier's Qur'an demand reveals law/religion collision
(Wendy Gillis, Toronto Star)
Ankara displeased with Pope’s statement on Armenian Genocide
(PanArmenian.net)
India: Keeping religion out of local government
(Swadesh Roy, Dhaka Tribune)
Conflict in the Middle East is about more than just religion
(Peter Beaumont, The Guardian)
8 Iranian pilgrims killed, 25 injured in Baghdad bomb attack
(PanArmenian.net)
Suspicion and hate: Racist attacks on Arabs increase in Israel
(Julia Amalia Heyer, Der Spiegel)
Global capitalism bends religion
(Winnipeg Free Press)
In Istanbul’s heart, leader’s obsession, perhaps Achilles’ heel
(Michael Kimmelman, The International Herald Tribune)
Friday, 7 June 2013
Haredim called on to protest Women of the Wall Torah reading
(JTA)
Lailat Al Miraj: The basics
(Huff Post Religion)
CALL FOR PAPERS abstract due 20 June 2013: Islam, Law and the State in Myanmar Workshop 2014
(Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore)
Islam, Law and the State in Myanmar Conference 2014, Abstract Submission Form
((Download), Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore)
Think spirituality is easy? Think again…
(Roger S. Gottlieb, OUP Blog)
El Salvador abortion woman has C-section
(BBC News)
IGE holds conference on Religion, Security and Citizenship in Kazakhstan
(Institute for Global Engagement)
Christians in Andhra Pradesh targeted by Hindu extremists
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Intellectuals protest against the Islamization of Egyptian culture
(AsiaNews.it)
Thousands celebrate gay pride in Tel Aviv
(AhramOnline)
Slavery didn't end in the 19th century with Wilberforce
(Brian C. Stiller, The Christian Post Opinion)
Respect, inclusion and tolerance at the Wall
(Los Angeles Rabbis, Jewish Journal)
Are human rights "Christian"? – a reflection
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Indonesia axes bikinis for 2013 Miss World Pageant
(Niniek Karmini, Associated Press, ABC News)
Rising religious intolerance in Indonesia
(Doug Bandow, Cato Institute: Cato at Liberty blog)
End repression of religious freedom in Iran | commentary
(Felice Gaer and Marra Guttenplan, Roll Call)
Francis gets personal: 'I didn't want to be pope'
(ABC News)
Pope forgoes summer holidays
(Lizzy Davies, The Guardian)
India: 20 Baptist pastors attacked in Andhra Pradesh
(Eurasia Review)
Religious leaders fined for campaigning
(bdnews24.com)
A little more on faiths, groups and places: Nostalgia, too, can bind or split
(B.C., The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Serving as a voice at the UN for my imprisoned husband Saeed Abedini
(Naghmeh Abedini, Fox News)
Sri Lanka Christians facing more persecution
(Baptist Press)
Pakistan: Extremists who burned the Christian area have been released; the man accused of blasphemy on trial
(Agenzia Fides)
Christian widow in Somalia killed four months after husband slain
(BarnabasAid)
The rise of Islamic extremism in Central Asia and the Caucasus
(World Watch Monitor)
European court asks France not to deport Egyptian Copt
(Expatica.com)
New movie examines extremism in Morocco
(Hassan Benmehdi, Maghrebia)
Pakistan: Ahmadis are once again persecuted even as the new government is formed
(Asian Human Rights Commission)
Pakistan minorities will be unsafe if blasphemy laws are amended
(Nasir Saeed, Christian Post)
Pakistan: Christians watchful as Sharif returns to power
(World Watch Monitor)
Tripura: Christian man beheaded for not converting to Hinduism
(AsiaNews.it)
Cairo, thousands of judges protest against Islamization of society
(AsiaNews.it)
Bangladesh lifts ban on YouTube, blocked after anti-Islam film
(Reuters)
Hate crimes toward Coptic Christians in Egypt continue
(Mary Henkin, International Coalition for Religious Freedom)
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