Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 5 January 2017
Kazakhstan: New controls on religious travel and literature
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Trump's spiritual adviser, Paula White, fires back at critics
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
How nostalgia for white Christian America drove so many Americans to vote for Trump
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post)
The 'unusual political clout' of the DRC’s Catholic Church
(Cristina Krippahl, Deutsche Welle)
Jakarta governor lambasts hardliner at blasphemy trial
(Malay Mail Online)
Secular citizens of Turkey have never felt so alone
(Ezgi Basaran, The Washington Post)
Why one Michigan Muslim is urging a more nuanced view of Trump’s base
(Michigan Radio)
When Mahars fought on home turf, and helped Britain win
(Shoumojit Banerjee, The Hindu)
Central African Republic Christians, Muslims unite to heal trauma
(Zack Baddorf, Reuters)
A Christian pastor in Turkey’s prisons
(Sohrab Ahmari, Wall Street Journal)
Swastika, ‘die Jew’ left on rock at door of Canadian couple
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Austria: Horror as Christian woman stabbed for reading the Bible in migration centre
(Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Church in Kerala state forms support group for transgender people
(Catholic News Service, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Jews and Muslims: Here from the founding
(Michael Peppard, Commonweal)
U.S. Army announces new religious accommodation rules
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Court rules denial of New Jersey mosque permit unlawful
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
4th Circuit upholds city policy requiring civil marriage certificate to get spousal health care
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
South Carolina Department of Public Safety evangelizes to grieving atheist
(Press Release, American Humanist Association)
State sends religious publication to families of auto accident victims
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Coming soon to the U.S. Army: Turbans, beards, hijabs, and dreadlocks
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Army grants greater dress and grooming accommodation for Sikhs and Muslims
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Finding our voice: Why the decline of congregational singing matters–and how to fix it
(Bob Smietana, Facts and Trends)
How psychedelics and other drugs are used in religious rituals
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
Why Christians are disproportionately powerful in Congress
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Video: ‘Moral issue,’ not politics, led Mormon Tabernacle Choir singer to leave group before Trump performance
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Vatican debunks fake pope quotes on Christian/Muslim merger
(Associated Press, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Vietnamese Mother Goddesses religion receives UN recognition
(Jenny Lý, Global Voices)
Sikh Federation requests UK files on 1984 Golden Temple assault
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Apocalypse later: Millennial Evangelicals, Israel-Palestine, and the kingdom of God
(Nick Shindo Street, Religion & Politics)
Catholic priest accused of organising orgies in rectory and pimping out 15 women
(Peter Walker, The Independent)
Cardinal calls it a ‘disgrace,’ but a McDonald’s opens near the Vatican
(Daniel Victor, The New York Times)
Myanmar vows action after video shows police beating Rohingya Muslims
(Reuters, Huffington Post)
6 alarming findings in House panel's Planned Parenthood probe
(Kelsey Dallas, The Daily Signal)
Wednesday, 4 January 2017
Study shows religious affiliation of new 115th Congress
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Pick $5.5M home — and Chabad synagogue in Washington
(Nathan Guttman, Forward)
Ivanka and Jared choose a synagogue
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Majlis podcast: A look at Uzbekistan under new leadership
(Bruce Pannier, RFE/RL)
Uzbek dissidents grasp at any sign of hope from new leader
(Pete Baumgartner and Sirojiddin Tolibov, RFE/RL)
Abdullayev is treated as sentenced to death
(Crimean News Agency)
Abdullayev: Criminal cases on Muslims in Crimea is act of violence
(Crimean News Agency)
UN to prepare a thematic report on situation in Crimea
(Crimean News Agency)
'Putin's new ghetto has no barbed-wire fence – just surveillance and harassment'
(Ayder Muzhdabaev, The Guardian)
Mock battle, evil spirits at pagan Christmas festival
(RFE/RL)
UOC (MP) clergy help release paratrooper Taras Kolodiy held by the pro-Russian militants for two years
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
The return of ancestral gods: modern Ukrainian paganism
(Mariya Lesiv, Radio 3 Fourteen, YouTube)
Reading of 11th-century poem could earn more time for imprisoned Tajik lawyer
(Farangis Najibullah, RFE/RL)
Siberia is the center of Russia’s Roman Catholic community
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
And then in Putin’s Russia, they came for the Jews …
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
Russia: Jehovah’s Witnesses in Mordovia threatened with abolition
(Human Rights Without Frontiers)
Caught on camera: Russian authorities’ blatant actions to fabricate evidence
(JW.org)
Islamic reformation in Northern Caucasus triggers scientists' debates
(Rustam Dzhalilov, Caucasian Knot)
Chechen mufti denies Kadyrov had to apologize to Saudis for Grozny fatwa
(Liz Fuller, RFE/RL)
Russian archdiocese publishes article saying dinosaurs walked the Earth with Jesus
(The Moscow Times)
Russian university students schooled on patriotism by orthodox priest
(The Moscow Times)
Modest but modish: Moscow’s first clothes store for Orthodox believers
(Anastasia Rubel, Russia Beyond the Headlines)
In Russian village bearing name of God, hell raised over condom factory
(Tom Balmforth, RFE/RL)
Patriarch Kirill successfully mediates release of Ukrainian soldier in DPR
(Interfax-Religion)
Russia ends 2016 with a civic religion lacking any foundation in faith, Soldatov says
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
Kremlin has handed control of religion back to Russian special services, Lunkin says
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
Vladimir Putin warns Russian artists against offending religious believers after Charlie Hebdo attack
(Serina Sandhu, iNews)
Moscow’s latest project for a ‘Muslim Patriarchate’ set to fail
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
Putin ally attacks Decembrists as ‘Masonic conspiracy’ against Russian State and people
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
Putin promoting xenophobia at home and abroad, Malashenko says
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
Jewish Museum poster defaced with swastikas in New York subway station
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Putin using all means against the West – including Islamist terrorism – Piontkovsky says
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
Campaign rhetoric and post-election hate crimes draw Jewish historians into the fray
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Evil and cruelty celebrated not condemned in Russia today, Russian poetess says
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
Israeli archaeologist scolded for Temple Mount reference at Jerusalem holy site
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Putin may launch a charm offensive by taking cosmetic steps to avoid real reform, Kashin says
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
Ukrainian marchers in Kiev chant ‘Jews out’
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Russia’s holocaust on ice
(Anna Nemtsova, The Daily Beast)
Israeli man arrested in Ukraine for desecrating cross
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
French candidate under fire for Holocaust comparison
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Political Islamists brace for Trump era
(Julian Pecquet, Al-Monitor: Congress Pulse)
Italian priest replaces Nativity scene after outcry over ‘burqa’
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
New video of kidnapped priest raises hopes, concerns
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
South Carolina church gunman tells jurors he is not mentally ill
(Harriet McLeod, Religion News Service)
Appealing mosque ruling could cost NJ town millions, expert says
(Kathleen O'Brien, Religion News Service)
A diplomat reflects on moderate Islam in 'Letters To A Young Muslim'
(NPR)
Israel divided over conviction of Hebron IDF shooter
(Ben Caspit trans. Danny Wool, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Criticism of Istanbul terror victim exposes Arab-Israeli generation gap
(Shlomi Eldar trans. Ruti Sinai, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Why Jordan thinks Baathists belong in Iraqi reconciliation
(Mustafa Saadoun trans. Pascale Menassa, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Is Iraqi Kurdistan heading toward civil war?
(Denise Natali, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Why are Yazidis being uprooted again?
(Mahmut Bozarslan trans. Timur Goskel, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Turkey rejects initial appeal to release jailed US pastor
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
Ancient shrines of Georgian Mtskheta obtain special UNESCO status
(Interfax-Religion)
TDI’s work meeting on restitution issues
(Tolerance and Diversity Institute)
TDI on the decision of Mokhe Commission
(Tolerance and Diversity Institute)
Inside the lives of Georgia’s child brides
(Melody Rowell, National Geographic)
Azerbaijan continues to deny destruction of religious, cultural heritage of Armenians
(Asbarez)
Deputy editor of the newspaper "Azadlig" questioned by the prosecutor’s office
(contact.az)
In Azerbaijan were registered 749 religious communities
(contact.az)
From E. Gahraman first demanded evidence of his links with F. Gulen
(contact.az)
A preparatory meeting in the case of the deputy chairman of the "Muslim unity" Movement
(contact.az)
Prosecutor in 'Nardaran trial' calls for life sentence for Azerbaijani theologian
(Liz Fuller, RFE/RL)
At Nardaran trial defendants not allowed into hall again
(contact.az)
Severe torture and unfair trials of members of the Nardaran community – OMCT
(contact.az)
Defendants in the "Nardaran case" go on a hunger strike
(contact.az)
Another scandal at the trial in the "Nardaran" process
(contact.az)
Case against Natig Kerimov Sent to Court
(contact.az)
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