Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Nigeria: We remain indivisible, says CAN
(Yemi Akinsuyi, AllAfrica)
Burundi: Central market in Bujumbura destroyed by fire
(AllAfrica)
Nigeria: Caught in the web of politics
(AllAfrica)
Mexico breaks up alleged border sex-slavery cult
(Mark Stevenson, Associated Press)
Russian anti-gay bill sets off furor
(Kathy Lally, The Washington Post)
Catholics mobilize to defeat Philippine politicians who backed reproductive law
(Floyd Whaley, New York Times)
Nigeria: Presidential pilgrimage committee wants BASA with Israel
(Francis Okeke, AllAfrica)
Thailand pushes back 200 Rohingya boat people: Navy
(The Hindu Business Line)
Visalia Mall sued after threatening arrest for religious Speech
(Pacific Justice Institute)
Hare Krishna priest gets 3-year term in visa fraud case
(India West)
FFRF sues florist in Rhode Island
(Freedom from Religion Foundation)
Orthodox Rabbis vow to resist consent forms for controversial circumcision rite
(Seth Berkman, The Jewish Daily Forward)
Egypt is warned of 'collapse'
(Matt Bradley, Bill Spindle, Jay Solomon, The Wall Street Journal)
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Jewish MP to put religion before politics
(Jonathan Swan, The Age)
Russian government asks parliament to rework bill on offending religion
(Staff, Reuters)
Tibetans mourn as self-immolations near 100
(Calum MacLeod, Religion News Service)
France's Education Minister: We'll fight anti-Semitism
(Israel National News)
Lebanon Muslim head issues fatwa against civil marriage
(France 24)
New limitations: Saudi Arabia clips religious police’s wings
(Middle East Online)
Yemen's forgotten Christians
(Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone Institute)
Jerusalem, capital of Israel: An Islamic prophecy
(Ali Salim, Gatestone Institute)
Russia to rework bill on offending religion
(Steve Gutterman, Reuters)
Gambia: Is the attempt to make Friday a non working day in favour of Islam or not?
(Ousman Njie, AllAfrica)
Tanzania: Seek redress in court, victims of police brutality urged
(Issa Yussuf, AllAfrica)
Nigeria: Islamic cleric shot dead in Ogun during masquerade festival
(Sheriff Balogun, AllAfrica)
Court decision on anti-Semitic tweets emboldens European activists
(Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA)
Philippines church protester sentenced to jail
(BBC)
Tax breaks proposed for religious businesses
(David Lee, Courthouse News Service)
Prince George’s Co. school lets Muslim students out of class to pray
(Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post)
Monday, 28 January 2013
Religious freedom advocates, often ignored, find a friend in UN representative Heiner Bielefeldt
(Emily Belz, World News Service)
Jihadists and secular activists clash in Syria
(Hania Mourtada and Anne Barnard, New York Times)
Kyrgyzstan: Extradition "would violate our international human rights obligations"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Nigeria: Tambuwal tasks religious leaders on peaceful co-existence
(allAfrica.com)
Mali town recalls Islamist invaders as both terrifying and gentle
(Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times)
RH activist convicted of religious offense
(RH activist convicted of religious offense, Philippine Star)
U.S. condemns sentencing of American pastor in Iran
(Arshad Mohammed and Sarah N. Lynch, Reuters via. Chicago Tribune)
Saturday, 26 January 2013
Global Faiths: Buddhism, a religion of enlightenment
(Marlin Jeschke, Goshen News)
Sat: Mishra should focus on goods and services, not religion (Row over Hinduism)
(Julien Neaves, Trinidad Express)
The Gambia: Letter from B’ham: On feeble politicians and religious leaders
(P.K. Jarju, Jollofnews)
Islam and science: The road to renewal
(The Economist)
Catholic Church's new envoy to Malaysia wants closer ties with Muslims
(Jason Ng and Celine Fernandez, Wall Street Journal)
Nigerian church leader suggest gay marriage could wipe out human race
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post)
Egypt: Christian leaders call for prayer on 2nd anniv. of Mubarak's ousting
(Alex Murashko, Christian Post)
Friday, 25 January 2013
State Duma passes bill banning propaganda of homosexuality among children in first reading
(Interfax-Religion)
UC Riverside: Lecture to explore religion in China
(Bettye Miller, UCR Today)
For atheist China, religion is no longer a poison
(Saibal Dasgupta, The Times of India)
Syria: Attacks on religious sites raise tensions
(Human Rights Watch)
Pope Benedict on social networking: The virtual is real
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press via WWRN)
Hindu religious leader jailed in US for visa fraud
(Times of India)
Iran’s religious crackdown
(Paul Marshall, National Review)
EgyptAir reviews in-flight movies after Islamist complaint
(Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Sophie Hares, Reuters)
Lutherans warn Vatican against simpler conversions
(Alessandro Speciale, Religion News Service via Washington Post)
Clashes Erupt across Egypt
(allafrica.com)
Kazakhstan: "Protect us from officials' lawlessness"
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18)
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Antisemitism: Obsession or Logic?
(Alex Joffe, Jewish Ideas Daily)
NATO push on women’s roles calls for treading onto delicate turf: Islam
(Viola Gienger, United States Institute of Peace)
Pew Forum Weekly Religion News Update
Nigeria: Is religion usurping the political space?
(Codewit World News)
Catholic University devoted to bridging Korea, world
(The Korea Herald)
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
19th Knesset to see right, left virtually tied
(Y-Net)
Call to burn Bibles heightens Malaysian election tensions
(Siva Sithraputhran, Reuters)
Canada's first Christian law school opposed over gay lifestyle ban
(Melissa Steffan, Christianity Today)
Don’t use Mali as a blueprint for future European missions
(Jan Techau, Strategic Europe)
Iranian media's claim American Christian pastor to be freed on bail denounced as 'lie,' attorney says
(Perry Chiaramonte, Fox News)
Israel: Bennett calls for new paradigm on religion and state
(Arutz Sheva 7)
Lauder urges Venezuela to combat anti-Semitism and to re-establish ties with Israel
(World Jewish Congress)
Syrian rebels destroy Shi'ite site, loot churches: HRW
(Alexander Dziadosz, Reuters)
Tepid vote for Netanyahu in Israel is seen as rebuke
(Jodi Rudoren, The New York Times)
U.S., Africa say Mali action counters growing Islamist threat
(Joe Penney and Richard Valdmanis, Reuters)
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Common misconceptions about religion
(Huff Post Religion)
Chinese bloggers, seeing Obama’s Bible, ask if religion is the secret to democracy
(Lily Kuo, Quartz)
First religious liberty symposium in Guadeloupe spurs civic engagement
(Adventist News Network)
Saeed’s bail rejected – Will Iran uphold religious liberty?
(Jordan Sekulow, ACLJ, The Moral Liberal)
Lutherans bristle at suggestion of joining Catholic Church
(Tom Heneghan, Reuters)
In Egypt, coalition of groups opposed to Islamists is fracturing
(Abigail Hauslohner, The Washington Post)
Activists of extremist religious organization Nurjular to stand trial in Novosibirsk
(Interfax-religion)
Traditional religious parties scramble to win over 'new Haredim'
(Yair Ettinger, Haaretz)
Israel considers ban for far-right candidate over gaffe on blowing up shrine
(Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Reuters FaithWorld)
Islamic cleric sentenced to death for Bangladesh war crimes
(Serajul Quadir, Reuters)
South Koreans face lonely deaths as Confucian traditions fade
(Christine Kim, Reuters)
UN team set to arrive in Mali to assist Government resolve ongoing crisis
(UN News Centre)
Kazakhstan: Seven large fines for "illegal missionary activity" – so far
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Monday, 21 January 2013
ECOWAS seeks Maghreb support for Mali action
(Jemal Oumar, Magharebia)
Five years after the Orissa pogroms, Christians still live in appalling conditions
(Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Right to rites: Russia may ban unsanctioned public prayer
(RT)
Tibet rights reach ‘new low’
(Radio Free Asia)
World Religion Day fosters community in Ottawa
(Fiona Buchanan, Ottawa Citizen)
Freedom of Religion or Belief in Tunisia and Egypt: Beyond the Arab Spring Revolutions
(Riccardo Benvenuti & Mark Barwick, Report: Human Rights Without Frontiers)
Iran says American tried to turn children against Islam
(Compass Direct News)
The Cost of Faith: Persecution of Christian Protestants and Converts in Iran
(Report, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran)
Pakistan Supreme Court confirms decision to drop blasphemy case
(World Watch Monitor, Compass Direct News)
Religion and people
(Rasul Bakhsh Rais, The International Herald Tribune)
We observe World Religion Day
(Manilla Bulletin Publishing Corporation)
Christians killed in North Korea
(Christian Today)
Northern Nigeria - The conflict within
(Zainab Sandah, All Africa)
Why the anti-Muslim ads in New York City were not hate speech
(Abira Ashfaq, The Express Tribune: The Big Picture Blog)
America must protect religious freedom abroad
(M. Zuhdi Jasser, Fox News)
Friday, 18 January 2013
‘No varsity based on religion’
(Express News Service, The New Indian Express)
Apology to Pussy Riot might be reason for shutting priest out of church
(Yulia Ponomareva, Russia Beyond the Headlines)
Pakistan's envoy to US faces potentially deadly blasphemy accusation
(Fakkar Rehman and F. Brinley Bruton, NBC News)
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