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Events Headlines
EVENT, 20 June 2024: Religious Freedom Annual Review: Becoming Peacemakers Through Supporting Religious Freedom and Pluralism (Provo, UT, USA)
(International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS), Brigham Young University)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 18 June 2024 (9AM ET): Religious freedom and integral human development: a new global platform
(Atlantic Council)
CALL FOR PAPERS, abstracts due 15 June 2024: The Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: Perspectives from the Global South
(Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalization, University of Groningen)
EVENT, 12 June 2024 (6PM ET): RFI Open House: Launch of the 2023 Impact Report (Washington, DC, USA)
(Religious Freedom Institute)
HYBRID EVENT, 12 June 2024 (9AM GMT+2): Promoting Religious Freedom and Tolerance: A Discussion on the Danish Initiative in Indonesia (Copenhagen, Denmark)
(Ministry of Religious Affairs Indonesia, Center for Church-Based Development (CKU), Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI/CCI), International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD))
International Headlines
South Africa: Saffron in the rainbow nation: Hindu nationalism’s presence in South Africa
(Nikhil Mandalaparthy, Religion Unplugged)
S. African bishops urge politicians - 'work together' - after governing party loses 30-year long majority
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Vol 3 No 1 (2024): January-June, 2024
(The Contemporary Issues on Interfaith Law and Society)
Canada: Muslim advocacy group blasts Quebec secularism law in front of Commons committee
(Raffy Boudjikanian, CBC News)
Saudi Arabia condemns storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli officials, and extremist settlers
(Arab News)
Statement on storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque
(X, Muslim World League)
Pakistan: USCIRF troubled by violence against Christians in Pakistan
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Canada: Proposals to Strengthen MAiD Safeguards and Oversight
(Cardus)
India: Anti-conversion acts and the criminalisation of interfaith marriages
(Acharaj Kaur Tuteja, London School of Economics Religion and Global Society Blog)
Religiophobia or Islamophobia? Deciphering India’s inconsistency
(Muhammad Ahmad Khan and Shafaq Zernab, London School of Economics Religion and Global Society Blog)
Myanmar: Forging genuine unity amidst deep conflict in Myanmar: Prospects and challenges
(Naw Dii, Institute for Global Engagement)
Uzbekistan: No religious freedom for Jehovah’s Witnesses, Protestants & Muslims denied registration
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Mozambique: Locals tell stories of Christians killed for their faith: “They are our martyrs”
(João Vissesse, ACI Africa)
Articles of interest
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
UN: Uzbek atrocity apologist elected to UN Human Rights Committee
(Aaron Rhodes, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Australia: Archbishop warns of religious freedom erosion in Australia, calls for ‘saints for our time’
(AC Wimmer, Catholic News Agency)
Cuba: PCC prohibits Corpus Christi procession in Nueva Paz, Mayabeque (Spanish)
(Kike Perdomo, Cuba Trendings)
Cuba: Priest banned from ringing bells in protest over Cuban crisis (Spanish)
(Eduardo Berdejo, ACI Prensa)
Indonesia: Leimena Institute participates in Raimuna V BPK Penabur (Indonesian)
(Institut Leimena News)
Indonesia promotes cross-cultural religious literacy at the Indonesian Embassy in The Hague (Indonesian)
(Institut Leimena News)
Europe Headlines
United States Headlines
Essay series: Obama’s Cairo speech at 15
(Katherine Marshall, Rob Lalka, Afeefa Syeed, Mustafa Akyol, Judd Birdsall, and H. A. Hellyer, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Ombudsman warns jails to protect inmates’ religious rights
(Jack O'Connor, Iowa Capital Dispatch)
Airline lawyers spared religious liberty training in case about flight attendant’s abortion views
(Kevin McGill, Associated Press)
Judge dismisses Native American challenge to $10B SunZia energy transmission project in Arizona
(Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press)
Catholic parish stands up for its religious mission in court
(Becket)
Notre Dame Religious Liberty Clinic represents coalition of faiths in support of rights of prisoners before U.S. Supreme Court
(University of Notre Dame Law School)
Los Angeles County gives fire captain partial religious exemption in gay pride flag dispute
(Daniel Payne, Catholic News Agency)
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