Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Author of Azazel faces charges of insulting religion
(Edited translation from MENA, Egypt Independent)
Human Rights Council opens twenty-second session and starts high-level segment
(Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Opening Statement by Ms. Navi Pillay United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council
(Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Kyrgyzstan: Will international law protect Uzbek imam from extradition?
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Religious intolerance is growing in Indonesia
(Deutsche Welle)
Indonesia: U.N. experts criticize bill on organizations
(Global Legal Monitor, Law Library of Congress)
Freedom of religion at stake in Malaysia
(Wan Hilmi (loyarburok.com), The Malaysian Insider)
Founded in Christianity, can Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom be fair to all?
(Douglas Todd, The Vancouver Sun)
Comment: An Ambassador of Freedom FROM religion?
(Andre Carrel, The Rossland Telegraph)
Give religious freedom ambassador Bennett a chance
(Michael den Tandt, The Vancouver Sun)
Call to help Tibetans puts pressure on Canada’s new religion envoy
(Campbell Clark, The Globe and Mail)
Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom should tread carefully in Tibet
(The Globe and Mail)
Tunisia: 4 suspects from radical group held in politician’s murder, killer still at large
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Liberia: Bishop ties Liberia's 'Wahala' to 'crabs mentality politics'
(The Informer via All Africa)
With Chavez still sick, supporters turn to religion
(Agence France-Presse via Global Post)
Monday, 25 February 2013
For a church leader in Mali, relief and anxiety
(World Watch Monitor)
New Office of Religious Freedom opens Pandora’s Box
(Douglas Todd, The Vancouver Sun)
Sri Lanka: President stresses need to foster religious and ethnic harmony
(Chaminda Perera, Daily News)
Freedom of religion and belief in Pakistan
(Rehman Anwer, Daily Times)
Atheists face extensive discrimination, UN rights council told
(The Guardian)
India: People who destabilise country have no religion, says high court
(Mohan K. Korappath, HindustanTimes)
Lebanon's Orthodox law: locals turn to Judaism for answers
(Albawaba)
Syria Catholic patriarch demands seat for sect
(The Daily Star)
Return of sectarian threats in Iraq raises alarm
(Adam Schreck and Quassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press)
Turkmenistan: Government changes Islamic leadership again
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Strike Canada's blasphemy law as a sign of good faith
(Douglas J. Johnston, Winnipeg Free Press)
Pope Benedict XVI amends Roman Catholic conclave law
(BBC)
Catholic teaching and the law concerning the new reproductive technologies
(Helen M. Alvare, Fordham Urban Law Journal)
Kenya: Drive for peaceful poll
(Reuben Olita, The Star via AllAfrica)
Kenya: Muslim clerics rally behind Ralia
(Justus Ochieng, The Star via AllAfrica)
Australia: Appeal denied on religion classes
(Jewel Topsfield, The Age)
Canada: Faith-based schools worry anti-bullying legislation contradicts their values
(CTV News)
Haredi power on the brink
(Moran Stern, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Saudi Arabia: religious insults to Shura women,'prostitutes'
(Ansa Med)
Burma: Controversial monk handed ‘freedom of religion’ award
(Democratic Voice of Burma)
Sunday, 24 February 2013
The Holy See: Secretary of State communiqué on Conclave
Haredi power on the brink: Did the Israeli elections signal end of ultra-Orthodox politics?
(Moran Stern, Jewish Daily Forward)
Egyptian author questioned for contempt of religion
(Reuters, Al Arabiya News)
Algerian Imams criticize remarks by Religion Minister
(Khaled Boudieh Translated from El-Khabar, Al-Monitor)
Indonesia’s bill on mass organizations raises concerns
(Mong Palatino, The Diplomat)
Canada: Religious-freedom ambassador will face challenges from his own department
(Steven Chase, The Globe and Mail)
Canada’s new religious freedom ambassador says he’ll give a louder voice to homegrown values in a ‘noisy world’
(Joseph Brean, National Post)
Academics split on Canada's religious freedom ambassador
(Louise Elliott, CBC News)
Activists laud Canada's office of religious freedom
(New Tang Dynasty Television)
India: attack on revival meeting sends Christians underground
(ASSIST News Service, Christian Today)
Scholar Andrew Bennett to lead Canada's Office of Religious Freedom
(CTV News)
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Canada: Proposed law could erode religious freedoms: Christian school
(Joyanne Pursaga, Winnipeg Sun)
Religious conflict in Beit Shemesh yields to fragile peace amid coexistence efforts
(Ben Sales, JTA)
Saudi Arabia arrests 53 Ethiopian Christians for prayer meeting
(Benjamin Weinthal, Awramba Times)
Are Muslim democracies a new kind of political system?
(Jocelyne Cesari, Washington Post via Berkley Center)
The Papal Succession
(Resource of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Going undercover, the evangelists taking Jesus to Tibet
(Jonathan Kaiman, The Guardian)
Global efforts failing to stamp out terror: Zardari
(APP, DAWN Media Group)
Lebanon: Christian voters back Orthodox law
(Van Meguerditchian, The Daily Star Lebanon)
Australia: Parents lose appeal over ruling rejecting religious instruction discrimination in schools
(Wes Hosking, Herald Sun)
Egypt moves to ban alcohol, belly dancing
(The Daily Star Lebanon)
Friday, 22 February 2013
The Pope’s great overture to China, held in check by the Vatican and Beijing
(Card. Joseph Zen, Asia News)
Pope Benedict XVI resigned partly because of powerful Vatican gay lobby, Italian paper claims
(Meredith Bennett-Smith, Huffington Post)
Sherry Rehman, Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., to be investigated for blasphemy
(Hunter Stuart, Huffington Post)
How Islamists are gaining ground in Syria
(Ivan Watson, Kareem Khadder, and Saad Abedine, CNN)
Singing on “Idol,” and facing the wrath of religious traditionalists
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Priests should be allowed to marry, says Britain's top Catholic
(Jerome Taylor, The Independent)
Police stormed temple mount, violence in Judea & Samaria
(Yori Yanover, Jewish Press)
The odds that next Pope is non-European
(David Gibson, Huffington Post)
Brotherhood expansion in Egypt security system: Court allows policemen to grow beards
(Middle East Online)
Thoughts on the resignation of Benedict XVI
(Roberto de Mattei, Talpa brusseliensis christiana)
Report says Islamic finance taxed unfairly in MENA region
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Cross border taxation of Islamic finance in the MENA region
(83-page Report, Qatar Financial Centre Authority)
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Harper names Christian college dean as ambassador for religious freedom office
(Brandon Chow, Vancouver Observer)
Rabat Plan of Action on the prohibition of advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence
(Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Tibetan teens reportedly self-immolate to protest Chinese rule
(Agence France Presse, Huffington Post)
Marco Rubio and Benjamin Netanyahu toast Israel ties -- with water bottles
(Reuters)
An Indonesian extremist trades rifle for spatula
(Anthony Kuhn, National Public Radio)
UN chief deplores latest terrorist attack against Pakistan’s Shia community
(UN News Centre)
Pew Forum Weekly Religion News Update
Kazakhstan: Bookshop censorship, ban on all non-Hanafi Sunni Muslim literature
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Sri Lanka Muslims try to defuse halal meat row
(Saudi Gazette)
Afghanistan: Karzai looks for religious support to end suicide attacks
(Monish Gulati, eurasiareview)
The Afghan battle over a law to protect women
(Sean Carberry, National Public Radio)
Australia: Religion to lose protected status
(Annabel Hepworth & Milanda Rout, The Australian)
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Indonesia: Church leaders thank SBY for ‘religious liberty’
(Bagus BT Saragih, The Jakarta Post)
Nigeria: Sultan congratulates Nigerian Christians on Lent
(All Africa)
Somalia: Somali Sheikhs vow to combat extremism after cleric assassinated while praying
(Hassan Muse Hussein, All Africa)
Tanzania forms inter-faith committee to review slaughtering rules
(Deodatus Balile, All Africa)
Tanzania: Demonstrators renounce Sheikh Ponda
(Faustine Kapama, All Africa)
Liberia: Catholic schools shut down
(A. Wehdoe Sloh, All Africa)
Nigeria: Mark warns against abuse of religion
(Chibuzo Ukaibe and Bidon Mibzar, All Africa)
Jamaica: Church ready to pay taxes
(Paul Henry, Jamaica Observer)
Separate politics from religion, Kufuor, Atiku, Mark tell politicians
(Emma Ujah, Vanguard)
PM announces the establishment of the Office of Religious Freedom
(Northumberland View)
New Supreme Mufti of Kazakhstan appointed
(Tengri News)
Buddhist party for ban on halal food
(Qadijah Irshad, Khaleej Times)
Canada to champion religious liberty globally with new religious freedom office
(Daniel Proussalidis, CNews)
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Britain's Equality Commission issues new guidance on workplace religious accommodation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Tanzania: Foreign experts to fortify probe on priest murder
(Issa Yussuf, All Africa)
Egyptian Churches' Council detaches itself from politics
(All Africa)
World's fastest-growing Lutheran group severs ties with U.S, Swedish partners
(Jeremy Weber, Christianity Today)
United Russia deputies want expert's offer to reform Russian Church probed for extremism
(Interfax)
Protesters call Dutch MP Geert Wilders a racist as he calls for end to mass migration from Islamic countries
(John Masanauskas, Adelaide Now)
7 Egypt Copts get death sentence over anti-Islam film
(Middle East Online)
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