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Thursday, 1 September 2016

Announcing the Religious Freedom Institute
(Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Wednesday, 31 August 2016

Kazakhstan: Pensioners fined as Parliament awaits new law
(Forum 18 News Service)

Pakistan: UN Committee insists on revocation of blasphemy laws
(Vatican Radio)

Indiana woman uses religious objections law in abuse defense
(The Associated Press)

Turkey’s president ratifies reconciliation deal with Israel
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Atlas labeling Jerusalem as Israel’s capital to be pulled from Czech schools
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Why is Turkey wasting its time arresting peace advocates?
(Pinar Tremblay, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Can election observers boost confidence among Palestinian voters?
(Ahmad Abu Amer trans. Joelle El-Khoury, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)

Iraqi parliament approves controversial amnesty law
(Sarah al-Qaher trans. Sami-Joe Abboud, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Accusations fly as Basra cafes hit by string of bombings
(Ali Taher trans. Cynthia Milan, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Texas Christian University offers class credits for internship at Planned Parenthood
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Four Christians on trial in Sudan for highlighting persecution of Christians
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)

Christian missionaries help in the face of terrible suffering in South Sudan
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)

Jokowi’s Islamist challenge: curbing terrorism and religious intolerance
(Melissa Crouch, The Guardian)

Burkinis and the stripping of religious liberty
(Ed Stetzer, Religion News Service)

Founder of Denmark’s first mosque for women: ‘I will not listen to naysayers’
(Heba Habib, The Washington Post)

Ban Ki-moon tells Myanmar world concerned about Rohingya
(The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Egypt's new law on churches angers Christian critics
(Maggie Michael, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Australian prime minister urges public vote on gay marriage
(Rob McGuirk, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Key ISIS deputy and spokesman killed in Aleppo, group says
(Merieme Arif, Ghazi Balkiz, Emanuella Grinberg, and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN)

Indian-Americans, 'Horsetown USA' clash over building plans
(Amy Taxin, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Judge dismisses $2 million religious rights lawsuit filed against Shawnee County Jail by convicted murderer
(Tim Hrenchir, The Topeka Capital-Journal)

Muslims can wear headscarves for Alabama IDs. A Christian woman sues so she can, too
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)

Two recruiters of Muslims into Syrian militants convicted in Rostov-on-Don
(Interfax Religion)

Indian court gives women entry to Mumbai mosque
(Nita Bhalla, Thomson Reuters Foundation)

Will police protect Women of the Wall from orthodox ‘bullies’?
(Naomi Zeveloff, Forward)

An appeal to Pope Francis in Sudanese pastors’ espionage case
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)

Police raid on convent described as ‘disproportionate’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Pope creates new super-department for human development
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Pope backs Colombia peace but declines role in new truth commission
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Egypt approves churches law despite angry Christian opposition
(Associated Press)

Egyptian parliament approves long-awaited church building law
(Ahmed Aboulenein and Mohamed Abdellah, Reuters)

Egypt passes church construction law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

ACLU suit: Religious freedom laws protect Christians too
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Christian woman must be allowed to wear religious headscarf for driver license photo, ACLU lawsuit says
(Press Release, American Civil Liberties Union)

Suit charges discriminatory application of driver's license photo accommodation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

FOIA suit seeks all State Department records on combating genocide
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Living in a multi-faith society is about more than human rights
(Hayley Chapman, RightsInfo)

Know your ECHR from your UNHR… These are the key documents which protect our human rights
(Karina Weller, RightsInfo)

On the marriage equality plebiscite, let’s not confuse free speech with a free-for-all
(Katharine Gelber, The Conversation)

Threats to Religious and Ethnic Minorities under the Islamic State: Keynote with David Saperstein
(YouTube Video, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

Who is Fethullah Gulen?
(Ra'fat Aldajani Drew Christiansen, National Catholic Register)

The ICC’s Al Mahdi case is (also) a political trial, and that’s fine!
(Marieke de Hoon, EJIL: Talk!)

France argues over burkinis as its presidential race kicks off
(The Economist)

Prosecutor demands ‘harshest punishment’ for pastors charged with highlighting Sudan Christians’ suffering
(World Watch Monitor)

Iran: Families fear for latest 5 Christians arrested
(World Watch Monitor)

Vladimir Putin and the Shiite axis
(Anna Borshchevskaya, Foreign Policy)

Christian woman told to remove headscarf for license: ACLU lawsuit
(Jonathan Stempel, Reuters)

Kazakhstan: Pensioners fined as Parliament awaits new Law
(Forum 18 News Service)

ICC ignores ideological motive in Timbuktu crimes
(Irfan Al-Alawi, Lapido Media: Centre for Religious Literacy in World Affairs)

Videos from Rimini 2016: Religious freedom today
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Will Egypt take step towards religious freedom with new law?
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)

As Gulen movement contracts in Africa, worry over who will fill the vacuum
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)

How the Christian ‘masculinity’ movement is ruining men
(Guest Post by Chandler Epp, RNS Blog: On Faith & Culture)

How one Tunisian party is separating Islam from politics
(Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor)

France’s choice of a non-Muslim to head French Islam foundation ruffles feathers
(Monique El-Faizy, France 24 International News)

Christianity at risk of dying out in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, Orthodox Church leader warns
(Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today)

Clemson University stops man from praying outside free speech zone on campus, group plans protest
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)

Investigation into case of student Karaulova accused of trying to join ISIL completed
(Interfax-Religion)

Two recruiters of Muslims into Syrian militants convicted in Rostov-on-Don
(Interfax-Religion)

Demining experts defuse bomb found in Ingushetia mosque
(Interfax-Religion)

Why Russian warplanes might return to Iran
(Ali Omidi, Al Monitor: Iran Pulse)

Russell Moore warns politics has become a religion for evangelicals
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)

“Undue spiritual influence” – where next?
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

French minister: enemy seeks to divide Muslims, non-Muslims
(Elaine Ganley, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Scholars ask why religious repression is rising despite international pressure
(Bettina Krause, Adventist Review)

Religious freedom is not an indulgence dole out by the state
(Mitchell Rocklin and Howard Slugh, National Review)

Campaign rhetoric against Muslims spurs mosques to get out the vote
(Manya Brachear Pashman, Chicago Tribune)

Once a Qaeda recruiter, now a voice against jihad
(Rukmini Callimachi, The New York Times)

Georgetown, a Jesuit university, is the first U.S. college with a Hindu priest as a chaplain
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)

How trigger warnings silence religious students
(Alan Levinowitz, The Atlantic)

Pakistan appoints a Catholic to increase interfaith harmony
(Vatican Radio)

Russia’s new anti-missionary law in context
(Elizabeth Clark, Religious Freedom Institute: Cornerstone Blog)

So far, 6 charged under Russia's new law limiting missionary activities
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

African expat nabbed by new anti-evangelism law: Pentecostal from Ghana fined for illegal evangelism in Tver
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)

Mormon leaders challenge reports about deported missionaries
(Portal-credo.ru, Russia Religion News)

Mormons mull legal challenge to U.S. volunteers' expulsion from Samara
(Interfax-Religion)

Media coverage of harassment of Jehovah's Witnesses
(Russia Religion News)

Are Catholics really trending Democratic?
(Mark Silk, RNS Blog: Spiritual Politics)

Will reforms require shrinking the size of Iraq's parliament?
(Mustafa Saadoun, trans. Joelle El-Khoury, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Demining experts defuse bomb found in Ingushetia mosque
(Interfax-Religion)

Uzbek president's failing health raises Islamist worries
(Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor)

Controversial Saudi school in Bonn to close
(Dagmar Breitenbach, Deutsche Welle)

Protestant pastor charged for delivering books to government personnel
(Russia Religion News)

How churches change the equation for life after prison
(Morgan Lee, Christianity Today)

Veteran haredi Orthodox teacher reportedly fired for obtaining driver’s license
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Turkey today: Understanding the religious dimensions of the failed coup and response
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

Turkish Islamism 2.0: Hegemonic, nationalist, and populist (Response to Turkey today: Understanding the religious dimensions of the failed coup and response)
(Ramazan Kilinc, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

U.S. Education Department addresses growing religious bullying problem
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Appeal seeks more relief for transgender North Carolinians
(Jonathan Drew, Associated Press)

N.C. transgender ruling 'narrow' but a 'step back'
(David Roach, Baptist Press)

Court issues narrow preliminary injunction against North Carolina's transgender bathroom access law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Islamic State attack on army recruits in Yemen kills 54
(Ali al-Mujahed and Pael Schemm, The Washington Post)

Indonesian church attacker 'obsessed with IS leader'
(Agence France-Presse)

IS buried thousands in 72 mass graves, AP finds
(Lori Hinnant and Desmond Butler, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Appeals Court refuses to dismiss suit over entitlement to mosque property
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Vicar warns Church of England could split over homosexuality
(Jamie Grierson, The Guardian)

Evangelical about evangelicalism?
(IDEA for Leaders, Evangelical Alliance UK)

Loss, lament and prophetic modernities
(M. Christian Green, Contending Minorities)

Are euthanasia advocates now attacking our religious freedom
(Press Release: Right To Life New Zealand Inc, Scoop Pollitics)

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