Category Archives: Global

Allain, Jean, Acculturation Through the Middle Ages: The Islamic Law of Nations and its Place in the History of International Law (October 10, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1941775

Al Jazeera English: Kuwait’s cabinet has resigned after protesters and opposition deputies demanded that the prime minister step down over allegations of corruption, state-run television has reported.

Religion Clause: The protesters, claiming that the United Nations is spreading anti-Islamic activities in the Maldives, objected to Pillay’s speech before Parliament in which she said that the flogging of women found to have had sex outside marriage is “inhuman and degrading.”

Religion Clause: The London Telegraph and London Mail yesterday both reported on a lawsuit brought by a saleswoman– a Lebanese born Christian– who worked at Britain’s Heathrow Airport World Duty Free shop. She was fired after Muslim co-workers filed a complaint against her.

Eagle Forum Blog: A lot of Asians are not marrying later. They are not marrying at all. Almost a third of Japanese women in their early 30s are unmarried; probably half of those will always be.

News from The Associated Press: The victory of an Islamist Party in Morocco’s parliamentary elections appears to be one more sign that religious-based parties are benefiting the most from the new freedoms brought by the Arab Spring.

News from The Associated Press: China’s sovereign wealth fund wants to invest in improving neglected U.S. and European roads and other infrastructure to spur global growth, the fund’s chairman said in comments published Monday.

Daily Mail: Joe Pressil, 36, says he was unaware his girlfriend had taken his sperm to a fertility clinic and is now suing. She had twins, he has to pay child support and he claims no one from the clinic ever contacted him

The Associated Press: European lawmakers narrowly rejected Ireland’s nominee to the European Court of Auditors on Wednesday after deeming him responsible for a €3.6 billion ($5 billion) error in calculating the Irish national debt.

World Congres of Families on the Christian Newswire: Spain’s Popular Party won a historic conservative victory in Sunday’s election and the ruling Socialists suffered their worst defeat in 30 years.

bdnews24.com: The Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) has imposed extra taxes on polygamous marriages.

C-Fam Friday Fax: An impressive list of dignitaries launched the San Jose Articles in the national legislature of Uruguay last week. Led by Congressman Geraldo Amarillo, the list included many members of the Uruguayan Congress, several former high-ranking Ministers, medical doctors, professors of constitutional law, and one famous soccer player.

Hugo Restall appears with Sophi Richardson on this video at the Wall Street Journal.

allAfrica.com: Majority of the girls interviewed by our correspondent, who visited the community recently, confirmed that ‘abortion is a common practice’, adding that it is set as a condition for marriage to ascertain if the girl can give birth.

France24.com: France’s infamous ‘polygamous Muslim butcher’ was back in the headlines Monday, this time because two of his supposed wives were caught wearing the niqab, or full Muslim veil, on the school run. The development is the latest twist in a surreal tale that we have yet to hear the last of.

Cambrian News: He told Cambrian News that he was informed by volunteers at the branch on Market Street that the shop refuses to sell the Bible due to the religiously neutral status of the organisation.

Medicine Hat News: Jesus may have walked on water but it’s likely He needed a bit of help to walk away from a Bow Island grocery store’s nativity scene late last week.

The Herald Sun carries this report: Preaching tolerance bayside. “ABOUT three years ago, Rob Buckingham, senior pastor of Melbourne’s vibrant Bayside Church, delivered a ground-breaking sermon that was to echo around the world.” In response to the report Bill Muehlenberg at Culture Watch has written this response, Are we selling out Christ.

Catholic Culture: The Dominican superior in Baghdad has told Aid to the Church in Need that the situation has worsened for Christians in recent weeks amid fears that extremists are infiltrating churches.

LifeSiteNews.com: A Canadian pro-life organization is running an award-winning media campaign on adoption this November, National Adoption Awareness Month

Religion Clause: . . . the Islamic affairs ministry, shut down the blog of Ismail Khilath “Hilath” Rasheed because it contained anti-Islamic material.

Catholic Culture: Police in largely Muslim Jammu and Kashmir, India’s northernmost state, arrested Protestant pastor C.M. Khanna on November 19 on charges of fomenting religious enmity and converting Muslims through financial allurements.

News from The Associated Press: Denmark’s government wants to allow same-sex couples to get married in formal church weddings, instead of the short blessing ceremonies that the state Lutheran Church currently offers.

News from The Associated Press: Newly found coins underneath Jerusalem’s Western Wall could change the accepted belief about the construction of one of the world’s most sacred sites two millennia ago, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday.

News from The Associated Press: Israel expects a “grave erosion” in its peace agreement with Egypt and is even preparing for the possibility of the historic deal collapsing altogether, a Cabinet minister said Wednesday, in the first official assessment of the unrest rocking Israel’s southern neighbor.

Josh Gerstein at Politico: When Romney steps on stage tonight for another debate, this one devoted to foreign policy, that kind of China-bashing is likely to be a favorite theme. With a moribund economy, and relatively little traction for other international issues, the threat posed by cheap Chinese imports and Chinese purchases of U.S. debt is an irresistible target.

Wendy Wright atTurtle Bay and Beyond: Now, before even being confirmed by the Senate, she has offended the people of El Salvador. Aponte published an op ed in an El Salvadoran newspaper brashly telling the citizens it is their duty to be advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.

European Commission: New approach to migration would establish agreements with EU neighbours and other countries to benefit the people and the countries concerned.

The Local: As Switzerland debates allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt, a leading politician has caused consternation by comparing homosexuality to drug use.

CBC.ca: The P.E.I. government needs to consider all the costs when making arguments about not providing abortion services in the province, says the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

News from The Associated Press: A Tibetan rights group has released graphic video of what it says is a Buddhist nun engulfed in flames on a city street in one of several apparent self-immolation protests against Chinese rule.

Fox News: Under the measure, couples who marry could face up to three years in jail, and witnesses or anyone who helps couples marry could be sentenced to five years behind bars.

News from The Associated Press: Once seen as a threat to this North African kingdom, Morocco’s Islamist party may now be key to the government’s credibility.

LifeSiteNews.com: A TV sports anchor who was fired in the spring after tweeting his support for true marriage says he hopes the case will inspire other Canadians to take up the marriage battle, which is experiencing a lull in Canada six years after Parliament legalized same-sex “marriage.”

Telegraph: A growing number of British couples are divorcing in their 60s, official figures show.

Eurasia Review: More than 250,000 residents out of a total population of one million in Brussels have Muslim roots, according to a study carried out by the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and published in the Belgian media Friday.

Telegraph: Parents are dressing up their children in provocative clothes and allowing them to wear make-up and high heels because they lack traditional values, according to a leading headmistress.

The Independent: rom now on advocates in cases heard at the Supreme Court in London will be able to “dispense with any or all of the elements of traditional court dress”.

Telegraph: One sad side effect of China’s economic miracle: 23 million children under the age of five now live apart from both their parents, who have left home to find work in the country’s cities, according to a newly released statistic.

American Family Association Rightly Concerned: Did you know that an average of 23 manufacturing facilities were shut down every single day in the United States last year?

The Washington Post: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) compiled a list of over 1,000 words, the majority in English, that they deem “pornographic or offensive to Islam,” Newsweek Pakistan reported.

NYTimes.com: THE images streaming from Cairo’s streets last month were not as horrifying as those of the capture and brutal death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, but they were savage all the same.

Daily Mail Online: A Muslim lawyer has launched an extraordinary rant against Christmas, branding the celebration ‘evil’.

EWTN News: The data shows 58 percent of charges referred to conduct which was derogatory towards Catholicism, 37 percent was derogatory towards Protestantism, 2.3 percent towards Judaism and 2.1 percent towards Islam. The religion of the perpetrator or victim was not recorded.

Catholic Culture: A gang of men attacked an unregistered Baptist prayer meeting near Hanoi on November 13, smashing a cross and beating the pastor to the point of unconsciousness. Collaboration between the gang and local police is suspected.

Religion Clause: In Bennett v. Attorney General for Canada, (Fed. Ct., Nov. 15, 2011), the Federal Court of Canada upheld a refusal by Canada’s Minister of Health to grant an exemption from Canada’s Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to a member of the Church of the Universe who believes that cannabis is the “tree of life.”

Religion Clause: Britain’s Guide Association– a half-million member organization similar to the Girl Scouts– is considering amending its “Promise” to eliminate religious references . . .

CSMonitor.com (includes video): Spaniards handed the conservative Popular Party a historic landslide victory and the incumbent Socialist Party its worst defeat in history in this weekend’s general elections, highlighting their overwhelming dissatisfaction with the status quo and a demand for new leadership that could help the country climb out of its worst economic crisis in decades.

Telegraph: Jim O’Neill, the head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, has predicted that China could overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy by 2027 and urged a fundamental rethink of the operation of the G7 which he believes is too dominated by the West.

BBC News: Gay couples in NI are denied the chance to adopt children because of outdated legislation, the High Court has heard.

LifeSiteNews.com: The report, titled ‘”Not to be Forgotten: Care of Vulnerable Canadians,’” calls for “quality end-of-life care for all Canadians.”

TimesofMalta.com: Existing European asylum procedures do not adequately provide for gender and sexual orientation-based persecution, European gender awareness experts have warned.

Herald Scotland : MORE than 70 of Scotland’s evangelical churches have joined forces to campaign against the introduction of same-sex marriage.

The Independent: The Archbishop of Westminster said today he was “disappointed” with Government plans to legalise same-sex marriages.

Paul.House.Gov: The public is increasingly unwilling to be bilked to make bankers whole. The riots and the violence in Greece should tell us something about the sustainability of this system. If we continue to bail out banks and bankers so they can continue to lose money, if we cavalierly put this burden on the taxpayer, it is all too predictable what will happen here.

ZDNet: Major pornography companies have filed a lawsuit against ICANN over adult TLD .XXX.

Church in Need: Mr. Bhatti said that Christians are marginalized and disadvantaged throughout Pakistani society, but the situation in prisons is “particularly precarious.”

Catholic Culture: The leader of Spain’s opposition party–who is favored to win general elections–may move to reverse the legal approval of same-sex marriage and the decriminalization of abortion.

LifeNews.com: A recent investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, revealed that the Obama administration has broken the law. The GAO’s report establishes that at least one Obama grantee openly lobbied to expand abortion in Kenya despite the longstanding law, known as the Siljander Amendment, that prohibits U.S. tax dollars from being used to lobby for or against abortion in other countries.

News from The Associated Press: Tens of thousands of Egyptians rallied Friday in Cairo’s Tahrir square with Islamists in the forefront to protest against what they say are attempts by the country’s military rulers to designate themselves as the guardians of a new Egypt.

Christian Concern: The number of single women using IVF treatment to have a baby has increased over the past two years

The Christian Institute: The Scottish Government has suggested it will categorise Roman Catholic postcard responses differently to other individual responses in its consultation on redefining marriage.

The Christian Institute: Australian MPs in the governing party will be free to vote according to their “values and beliefs” on the issue of redefining marriage, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has confirmed.

BBC News (includes image of naked hiker): Switzerland’s highest court has ruled that local authorities can impose fines on people hiking nude in the Alps.

Telegraph: Dozens of schoolchildren may be taken out of classes by parents concerned that plans for graphic sex education would sexualise pupils as young as four.

CSMonitor.com: Queen Elizabeth II attended a ceremony at London’s Westminster Abbey Wednesday to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, often considered the most influential book ever printed in the English language.

LifeNews.com: More than two-thirds of Irish people want to see the right to life of the unborn child protected in law, according to a new poll commissioned by the Pro Life Campaign

New Statesman: If you want to understand how half the countries that still criminalise homosexuality came to do so, look no further than the British Empire. The list of 84 jurisdictions across the world, compiled by the newly formed Human Dignity Trust (HDT), includes 42 Commonwealth countries, or 80 per cent of the Commonwealth community.

Toronto Star: A woman has been charged with the attempted murder of a newborn baby found in a Calgary dumpster last fall.

News from The Associated Press: Russia’s top gay rights activist on Thursday condemned a bill passed in the country’s second largest city that prohibits “propaganda of homosexuality” to minors, warning it could be used to ban gay protest rallies.

News from The Associated Press: A global vaccines group says it is working to buy shots to protect up to 2 million women and young girls in poor countries from cervical cancer.

News from The Associated Press: Attackers threw rocks and broken glass at a march by Coptic Christians in Cairo Thursday, injuring 10, in the latest outbreak of sectarian violence less than two weeks before the start of parliamentary elections.

News from The Associated Press: A frontrunner to be Tunisia’s next prime minister has caused a political storm by referring to the country’s future as a “Caliphate,” a historic form of Islamic government.

LifeNews.com: An investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), into the Obama Administration’s use of $18 million in taxpayer funds to provide funding for a group pushing legalized abortion in Kenya finds the administration broke the law.

Christian Today: The church member said that communication with Nadarkhani is limited, but that sources close to the imprisoned Christian indicated that he has undergone physical and psychological torture.