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RELIGION September 27, 2017

Owners of poached elephants in Sri Lanka may escape sanction

A group of wealthy businessmen, a Buddhist priest and other social higher-ups on trial in Sri Lanka for allegedly keeping illegally captured elephants may get their animals back — legally.

Persecutions September 27, 2017

Turkey confiscates some 50 religious properties from Christian minority

Tensions are high among Turkey’s oldest indigenous community over fears that a recent land grab from the government could lead to their cultural extinction.

RELIGION September 27, 2017

IS claims attack in Egypt's Sinai that killed 23 soldiers

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for attacking a remote Egyptian army outpost in the Sinai Peninsula with a suicide car bomb and heavy machine gun fire.

RELIGION September 27, 2017

Israeli list of unrecognized US rabbis points to rift

Israel's rabbinical authorities have compiled a blacklist of overseas rabbis whose authority they refuse to recognize when it comes to certifying the Jewishness of someone who wants to get married in Israel.

RELIGION September 27, 2017

Jordan, Kuwait carriers lift laptop ban on US flights

Jordan's national airline has joined other Middle Eastern countries in lifting a ban on laptops in airplane cabins after complying with U.S. security guidelines.

Middle East September 27, 2017

Turkey's Assyrians fear annihilation after government seizes church properties

The ongoing legal conflict surrounding the Turkish government’s seizure of dozens of properties from the Syriac Orthodox Church has left the religious minority fearing for their survival in the land where it all began.

RELIGION September 27, 2017

Vatican Cardinal returns to Australia to face sexual assault charges

The most senior Vatican cleric to ever be charged in the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal returned to Australia on Monday to stand trial in his home state on charges alleging he sexually assaulted multiple people years ago.

RELIGION September 27, 2017

Turkey detains academics for alleged links to cleric Gulen

Turkey's official news agency says police have detained 42 people, including academics, for alleged links to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric less than a week before the anniversary of the failed coup.

RELIGION September 27, 2017

Canadian landlord fined $12G for not taking shoes off in Muslim tenant's home

A Canadian landlord who was fined $12,000 for not wearing shoes in a Muslim tenant's home said he felt "humiliated" by the harsh penalty levied by a national human rights tribunal.

RELIGION September 27, 2017

US envoy urges Myanmar to give visas to UN rights mission

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley is urging the international community "to stand together" and call on Myanmar's government to cooperate with a U.N. mission charged with probing alleged abuses by military and security forces, including against the minority Rohingya Muslim community.