Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 28 December 2012
Our fear of criticizing the Brotherhood – OpEd
(Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, MENAFN - Arab News via Duhur)
Politicized religion in Egypt 2012 – for Egypt 2013?
(H.A. Hellyer, Al Arabiya News)
Pope praises Arab Spring and says religion has been misused in war
(James Bone, The Times Europe)
Russia’s new required religion class for 4th graders
(Matthew Brunwasser, PRI's The World)
Syrian Christians pray for peace on Christmas Eve (PHOTOS)
(RT)
Why are Sri Lanka’s policy makers not using Buddhism as a soft-power tool? – OpEd
(Shenali Waduge, Eurasia Review)
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Myanmar or Burma? Debate over nation's name persists
(Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times)
When prayer really counts in air travel
(Rick Gladstone, The New York Times)
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
The Mid-east reminds the world that this is where Christmas was invented
(Al Bawaba News)
Tuesday, 25 December 2012
Iran: Pastor Nadarkhani jailed again
(Dan Wooding, ASSIST News Service)
Monday, 24 December 2012
Fire and brimstone: the year in politics for a region in flux, part 1
(Al Bawaba News)
Pakistan mob burns man accused of desecrating Koran alive
(Hamid Sheikh, Reuters)
The Islamization of Germany in 2012
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute of International Public Policy)
Sunday, 23 December 2012
Egyptians approve first post-uprising constitution
(Al Bawaba News)
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Malaysia lifts curbs on Christian travel to Israel
(Al Arabiya News)
Patriarch Delly resigns: The good and bad news about the Chaldeans’ future
(Vatican Insider)
Sri Lanka: Radical Buddhists lash out on churches
(Vatican Insider)
Sudan: Coptic priests arrested after 'baptism' in Khartoum
(Radio Dabanga (Hilversum), All Africa)
Saturday, 22 December 2012
A time for Christians to engage with the world
(Pope Benedict XVI, Financial Times Opinion)
Buried Christian empire casts new light on early Islam
(Matthias Schulz, Der Spiegel)
Indonesia’s Muslim schools draw Christians
(Izza Rohman, Common Ground News Service)
Friday, 21 December 2012
Canadian Supreme Court rules women can wear religious veil while testifying in court
(Associated Press)
Cuban Jewish leaders bring jailed American Alan Gross latkes, prayers to celebrate Hanukkah
(Associated Press)
Did you know...? (USCIRF religious freedom reports)
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Egypt: Islamists and opposition fight in Alexandria
(Robert Tait, Telegraph)
Fiji: Calls to maintain impartiality on religion
(Nanise Loanakadavu, Fiji Times Online)
India: BJP asks SP how could it demand Muslim quota in govt jobs
(Deccan Herald)
Indonesia: Mothers cry over widespread bigotry
(The Jakarta Post)
Indonesia: Politicians fuel raging hatred and intolerance
(Margareth S. Aritonang, The Jakarta Post)
Irish government plans to legalize abortions in life-threatening cases, including suicide risk
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)
Obama must remind Vladimir Putin of human rights, religious freedom concerns
(Katrina Lantos Swett, The Christian Science Monitor)
Pope signals inter-faith alliance against gay marriage
(Phillip Pullella, Reuters)
Religion: Rabbis oppose Israeli plan in disputed area
(Laurie Goodstein, New York Times)
Security Council urges implementation of UN strategy against Lord’s Resistance Army
(UN News Centre)
Tunisian imam sued for call to ‘sterilize the wombs of Jewish women’
(Michael Bassin, The Times of Israel)
UN Security Council authorizes African-led intervention force in Mali
(UN News Centre)
US in contact with family claiming Iranian-American pastor held in Tehran
(Associated Press)
Which Islamists?: Religion and the Syrian Civil War
(Haroon Moghul, Religion Dispatches)
Thursday, 20 December 2012
Witness may be required to remove niqab while testifying: top court
(Kirk Makin, The Globe and Mail)
Almost 1,000 doomsday cult members arrested in China
(BBC News China)
Burma: Arakan, displaced
(Francis Wade, The Revealer)
Canada's Supreme Court, in split decision, sets out balancing test on right of witness to wear niqab
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
December 21: the 'Arab Spring of the spiritual movement', looms
(Reuters, The National)
Does anyone still practice the Mayan Religion?
(Brian Palmer, Slate)
International forum on religion and state starts in Baku
(News.Az)
Pew Forum Weekly Religion News Update
Potential consequences of Egypt’s constitutional referendum – Analysis
(Richard Rousseau, Eurasia Review)
Uganda: President pledges more govt assistance to churches
(Ronald Musoke, All Africa)
Uzbekistan: Muslim prisoners of consciences' appeals rejected, Christians warned against sharing beliefs and international contacts
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
More on the 'Mayan apocalypse' on Worldwide Religious News
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
‘Hinduism third largest religion of world; India home to most religions’
(First Post)
China makes 500 doomsday cult arrests
(BBC News China)
Chinese leaders still suspicious of religion, party document shows
(William Wan, Washington Post)
Egypt's Christians: Caught in the middle
(Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone Institute of International Public Policy)
Freedom of religion or belief in the UN human rights system: gaps and perspectives
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers)
Health workers killed trying to deliver polio vaccine in Pakistan
(Dashiell Bennett, Atlantic Wire)
India: Priest fired over trafficking charges
(UCANews)
Iraq ‘drowning’ in terrorist attacks, say counterterrorists
(Jim Kouri, Eurasia Review)
Is the spring of religious charities coming to China?
(John Graz, Adventist News Network)
Kyrgyzstan: Religion Law changes being done "democratically"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Madhav Khosla: Recognising caste and religion entrenches these further
(The Times of India)
Morocco’s exceptionality in North Africa – OpEd
(Said Temsamani, Eurasia Review)
Nigeria’s blood cries out: Persecuted Nigerian Christians seek protection against Islamist terror
(Andrew E. Harrod, PhD, JD, Esq., Christian Post Guest Blog)
Pakistan: Christmas is no time for playing politics
(Silent Thinker, Lahore, UCANews)
Pakistan: Minority Rights Day—year 2012 proved to be a nightmare for the religious minorities
(Asian Human Rights Commission)
Pakistan: PML to promote dialogue among followers of various faiths: Shujaat
(Online International News Network)
Philippines: Creation of new Muslim region moves forward
(UCANews)
Philippines: RH war far from over, bishops say
(UCANews)
Turkey’s last Armenian schools
(Aziz Oguz, Le Monde)
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
"No religion" third world group after Christians, Muslims
(Tom Heneghan, Reuters)
French march for gay marriage, but fewer than those opposing the law
(Tom Heneghan, Reuters)
Indonesia: Religious intolerance is alive and kicking
(Margareth S. Aritonang, The Jakarta Post)
No compulsion in religion revisited
(Dr Wan Azhar Wan Ahmad, The Star Online (Malaysia))
TONIGHT!: ‘First Freedom: The Fight for Religious Liberty’
(New York Daily News)
Turkey university entrance exams to test religion
(The Times of India)
Monday, 17 December 2012
Egypt draft ‘narrowly’ supported
(Agence France-Presse, Arab News)
Counter-Radicalisation in Indonesia: Fighting a Mutating Organism – Analysis
(Adhi Priamarizki, RSIS Commentaries)
Ethiopia drops one charge in Muslim case
(Marthe Van Der Wolf, Voice of America)
Indonesia: Violation is the rule, protection the exception
(The State of Human Rights in Indonesia in 2012, Asian Human Rights Commission)
Myanmar: Chin minority denied religious liberty
(Saw Yan Naing, The Media Project)
Narrating Amarnath Yatra: A sociological walk – Analysis
(Adfar Shah, Eurasia Review)
Opposition in Egypt has won even if it loses
(Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, Arab News via Yahoo! News)
Palestinians: The third intifada has begun
(Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute of International Public Policy)
Petition submitted to UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion: Stop government intolerance of Islam in Ethiopia
(Alemayehu F. Weldemariam, Jawar Mohammed, Abadir M. Ibrahim, Awol K. Allo, Dr. Meqdes Mesfin, Mesfin Tekle, Derese G. Kassa, Badr Ethiopia (International Ethiopian Muslims Organization))
Phillippine legislators approve divisive contraceptives bill despite church's objections
(Teresa Cerojano and Jim Gomez, Associated Press)
PHOTOS: Egyptians turn out for referendum vote
(The New York Times)
Ramdev: Their religion is religion and mine is business?
(Pradeep Thakur, The Times of India)
Secretary-General concerned about continuing political deadlock in Nepal
(UN News Centre)
Spain threatens to deport filmmaker for anti-Islam documentary
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
The call for freedom of religion in conflict-prone countries
(Canada Free Press)
Uzbekistan: Singing and reading Bibles on holiday prosecuted
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
WCC blasts U.S. for blocking ecumenical meeting in Cuba
(Peter Kenny, Religion News Service)
Sunday, 16 December 2012
Hungary's Jews face down new extremism
(Marton Dunai, Reuters)
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Afghanistan Elections: Will the Taliban contest?
(J Jeganaathan, Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies)
China cracks down on "slay red dragon" doomsday cult
(Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee, Additional reporting by Huang Yan, Editing by Jonathan Standing and Elaine Lies, Reuters)
Egypt Islamists expect approval of constitution
(David D. Kirkpatrick and Kareen Fahim, The New York Times)
Egyptians vote on controversial constitution
(Ben Brumfield and Amir Ahmed, CNN)
Europe and the Arab Spring that never sprung
(Anis Bajrektarevic, Geopolitical Monitor)
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