Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Tanzania too: Christians threatened with Islamist violence on Easter
(Nina Shea, The Christian Post)
Shiites in Pakistan vow to continue protests of rising attacks by Sunni extremists
(Shaiq Hussain, Washington Post)
Pakistani clerics to boycott peace conference denouncing violence to protest Taliban bashing
(Associated Press)
Persecution rises in China as plan begins to end house churches
(Morning Star News)
Foreign 'Christian missionaries' arrested in Libya, charge with publishing biblical texts, which carries death penalty
(Jessica Elgot, Huffington Post)
Muslims attack Coptic Christians, church in Egypt
(Cheryl K. Chumley, The Washington Times)
Judge denies request to turn down Durham church music
(Jim Wise, Durham News and Observer)
President Morsi approves new Grand Mufti
(Ahram Online)
Four 'Christian missionaries' arrested in Libya
(RT)
Monday, 18 February 2013
Iran confiscates Buddha statues; Symbols of 'cultural invasion'
(Nasser Karimi, Huffington Post)
Iraq bombs kill 28 as sectarian tensions simmer ahead of nationwide vote
(Al Bawaba News)
Kenya: Kibaki, Raila attend burial of Kiambu church leader
(Njenga Gicheha, All Africa)
Kenya: Lobbies warn Muslims against backing politicians
(Wesonga Ochieng and Elias Yaa, All Africa)
Pope appoints new director of scandal-scarred Vatican Bank
(Alessandro Speciale, Religion News Service)
Pope immunity: Vatican will protect Benedict from sexual abuse prosecution
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
Red line limits for Sunni and Shia sectarian violence
(Brett Daniel Shehadey, Eurasia Review)
Swaziland: Police say prayers were 'political'
(All Africa)
Swaziland: Raid on prayers unconstitutional
(All Africa)
Tanzania: Three held for murder of priest in Zanzibar
(All Africa)
Ten Commandments Party established in Russia
(interfax Religion)
Turkmenistan: Four new conscientious objector prisoners of conscience
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Saturday, 16 February 2013
Burma: Arakan officials instructed to restrict Muslims’ travel
(Democratic Voice of Burma)
Freedom of expression? Not for Palestinians
(Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute of International Public Policy)
Laos: police arrest three pastors on charges of spreading the Christian religion
(Christian Solidarity Worldwide)
Muslim world faces fertility crisis – OpEd
(Alsir Sidahmed, Arab News, Eurasia Review)
Nepal: State sovereignty vs. human rights
(Dr. Gyan Basnet, Eurasia Review)
Pope Benedict XVI: A godly man in an ungodly age – OpEd
(Patrick Buchanan, Eurasia Review)
Violence against Christians spreading in India
(Morning Star News, The Christian Post)
Friday, 15 February 2013
Algeria upholds conviction of Christian convert from Islam; prison sentence rescinded, fine increased
(Morning Star News, Christian Post)
Ethiopia airs jihadi film amid sensitive Muslim protest trial
(William Davison, Christian Science Monitor)
Indonesia Valentine's protest: 'Sex Holiday' decried by Muslim officials
(Huffington Post)
Pope Benedict addresses priests of Rome
(Laura Smith-Spark and Hada Messia, CNN)
Self-immolation milestone: Tibetan becomes 101st protester to set himself ablaze since 2009
(Binaj Gurubacharya, Associated Press)
Why Syria's Islamists are gaining
(J. Malcolm Garcia, New York Times)
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Religious conservatives aaround the world object to Valentine's Day
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Tibetan sets himself on fire in front of shrine in Nepal
(Manesh Shrestha, CNN Belief Blog)
Why the next pope should be African
(Stan Chu Ilo, CNN Belief Blog)
Pew Forum Weekly Religion News Update
Turkmenistan: Raid, two-day detentions, torture, rape threat, fines
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Thursday Religion News Roundup
(Religion News Service)
For orthodox religion, a tradition-modernity clash
(Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post Writer's Group, Oregon Live)
Indonesia: Religious intolerance still at red-alert level, group says
(Ismira Lutfia, Khabar South Asia)
Massive protest movement emerges against Islamists in Bangladesh
(Joseph Zeitlyn, Christian Science Monitor)
First ever Hebrew conference held in South Asia
(The Algemeiner)
Proposed bill in Indonesia threatens freedom of religion and association – UN experts
(UN News Centre)
Court dismisses 6-Year-old challenge to ten commandments monument; ACLU to pay costs
(Liberty Counsel)
Taking terrorism and the Arab Spring seriously
(Morgan Lorraine Roach, The Foundry)
Muslims, mosques, registration and dubious goings-on in Azerbaijan
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
An American pope? Eyes turn to New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Egypt: El-Tayyeb - Religious difference not obstacle before social peace
(All Africa)
Evangelicals embrace a like-minded pope
(Daniel Burke, Religion News Service)
Ghana: Mahama death prophesy is false - Agyin Asare
(All Africa)
Pope resigns: Sunni authority al-Azhar eyes better ties
(Ahmed Maher, BBC)
Tanzania: Geita violence saddens Kikwete
(Pius Rugonzibwa, All Africa)
Uganda: Politicians told to emulate pope
(Aloysious Kasoma, All Africa)
UN warns of reprisal attacks in Mali
(Al Jazeera)
With Pope resignation, gay rights advocates hope for change
(Lila Shapiro, Huffington Post)
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Bringing ultra-Orthodox traditions to Israel’s parliament, olive branch in hand
(Jodi Rudoren, New York Times)
EVENT Feburary 12, 2013: Pastor Rick Warren to Speak at Georgetown
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
India Pitcher Festival stampede: Death toll climbs to 36 (Video)
(Rajesh Kumar Singh, Huffington Post)
Nigeria: Hajj 2013 - Civil society wants unified registration of pilgrims
(Abdulkadir Badsha Mukhtar, All Africa)
Pope expected to live out a quiet retirement in Vatican monastery
(Alessandro Speciale, Religion News Service)
Tanzania: Tag pastor beheaded in religious skirmishes
(Meddy Mulisa, All Africa)
Successor to Benedict will lead a church at a crossroads
(Rachel Donadio and Elisabetta Povledo, The New York Times)
Gambia bids to host OIC Summit in 2019
(All Africa)
Announcing a new blog on global religion: Belief
(Charles M. Sennott & Kevin Douglas Grant, Global Post)
Mali: Christian or Muslim - 'We are all victims of those terrorists'
(Marc-Andre Boisvert, All Africa)
Sarah Silverman's sister says Western Wall 'hijacked' by Orthodox Jews
(Yair Ettinger, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Azerbaijan Mosque loses eight-year struggle for religious freedom
(Becket Fund for Liberty)
Papal resignation and canon law
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Arrests of 10 women praying at Western Wall add to tensions over a holy site
(Jodi Rudoren, The New York Times)
10 women arrested at Kotel for wearing tallitot
(Melanie Lidman, The Jerusalem Post)
Interfaith couple in Lebanon relaunches civil marriage debate
(Nada Akl, Common Ground News Service)
Muslim clerics from Al-Azhar, Egypt’s premier religious institution, elect top Islamic jurist
(AP via Washington Post)
Nigerian imam equips Muslims to address extremism
(Maggie Siddiqi, Common Ground News Service)
Being a Muslim and being a feminist are not mutually exclusive
(Fatemeh Fakhraie, Common Ground News Service)
Monday, 11 February 2013
Pope Benedict XVI resigns owing to age and declining health
(Lizzy Davies and John Hooper in Rome; Kate Connolly in Berlin, The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk))
India: Jairam Ramesh: keep religion off politics
(The Hindu)
Shas’s attacks on the Jewish home and religious equality
(Jameel@Muqata, Jewish Press)
Funding stopped for anti-gay religious group pending investigation
(Lina Dib and Fannie Olivier, Associated Press via Global News)
Pope is frail, not ill, faced no pressure to resign: Vatican
(Reuters)
Pope's sudden resignation sends shockwaves through Church
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)
Pope Benedict XVI says he will resign
(Elisabetta Povoledo and Alan Cowell, The New York Times)
Kazakhstan’s new religion law hurting Christians
(International Christian Concern)
Bangladesh: 20,000-strong mob attacks, torches Ahmadi festival site
(Ahmadiyya Times)
De-linking female genital mutilation from religion
(Ambassador Ufuk Gokcen, Huff Post Religion)
Papua New Guinea must act after woman burned alive for 'sorcery'
(Amnesty International)
Egypt court bans YouTube for a month
(Ahram Online)
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Chokri Belaid's murder, a turning point for the country, says Church official in Tunis
(AsiaNews.it)
Egypt: A Muslim cleric issues fatwa on the necessity of killing in the name of religion
(All Africa)
Indonesia still struggling with violence, religious intolerance
(Daniella White & Eileen McInnes, Jakarta Globe)
Indonesia: Corruption and Islamists shaping next year's elections
(Mathias Hariyadi, AsiaNews.it)
Nigeria: Religious tension mounts in Oyo community
(Ola Ajayi, All Africa)
Rwanda: First Lady attends U.S. prayer breakfast
(Maria Kaitesi, All Africa)
Sri Lanka: In Jaffna, an effort to bridge the religious divide
(Pradeep Seneviratne, Khabar South Asia)
Tibetan man sentenced to 13 years for 'inciting' self-immolation of monk
(Tom Lasseter, Christian Science Monitor)
Uganda: Use religion as instrument of peace - Mubajje
(Gloria Nakajubi, All Africa)
Friday, 8 February 2013
Vatican backtracks on support for gay couples
(Alessandro Speciale, Religion News Service)
Mecca redevelopment sparks heritage concerns
(Tim Hume and Samya Ayish, CNN Belief Blog)
China detains 70 in crackdown on Tibetan self-immolations
(Cheryl K. Chumley, The Washington Times)
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