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EVENT, 24-25 July 2024: The Impact of Emergency Rules on Religious Freedom, With Special Regard to Religious Minorities (Messina, Italy)
(Università degli Studi di Messina, ICLRS, ICLARS, DiReSoM, ADEC, and more)
EVENT, 7-10 July 2024: 11th Summer School on Human Rights: Security, Financial, Political and Legal Protection of Worship Places and Cultural Heritage (Malaga, Spain)
(Conference of European Churches)
International Headlines
China: Uyghurs in China: The most heavily jailed group in the world
(Ruth Ingram, Bitter Winter: A magazine on religious liberty and human rights)
China : Religious issues and persecution – Bimonthly digest June 16-30
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
China: Court of Rome: Church of Almighty God members deserve the “highest form of protection” as refugees
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter: A magazine on religious liberty and human rights)
Iraq - Ten years after the ISIS occupation: less than 50 Christian families have returned to Mosul
(Gianni Valente, Agenzia Fides)
Iraq: UNESCO finds Islamic State group-era bombs in Mosul mosque walls, years after the defeat of IS
(Abdulrahman Zeyad, Associated Press)
Brazilian Christian groups oppose bill punishing abortion similarly to homicide
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Religion News Service)
Brazil congressman censures archbishop for defending indigenous land claims
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
CAR: Bishops in Central African Republic say country will rise from ‘scars of history’
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Iran: Religious issues and persecution – Monthly digest June
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Iran must end harassment of Narges Mohammadi and release all women human rights defenders: Independent experts
(United Nations)
Rituals honoring deceased ancestors vary widely in East and Southeast Asia
(Kelsey Jo Starr, Pew Research Center)
Same-sex marriage around the world
(Pew Research Center)
Cuba: Declaration of the Alliance of Christians of Cuba June 2024
(CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Japan: Religious freedom under siege
(FOREF Europe)
Egypt: Christians in Egypt say ebbing persecution enables them to build churches again
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Thailand: President of the WFB met the permanent observer of the Holy See and President of UNESCO African Committee of Memory of World
(The World Fellowship of Buddhists)
Thailand: Mr. Phallop Thaiaree, president of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (The WFB) along with WFB executives, met with H.E. Sarun Charoensuwan, Thai Ambassador to France, at the Thai Embassy in Paris.
(The World Fellowship of Buddhists)
Europe Headlines
United States Headlines
Thousands of faith leaders, union members, activists rally for poor
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
More than 10% of US Jews say they were frequently mistreated due to their religion, poll finds
(Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Religious freedom: New report paints a grim global picture
(Diana Chandler, Religion Unplugged)
Rising anti-semitism in the Anglosphere
(Melissa Langsam Braunstein, First Things)
‘Wake up’: Israel’s new consul general warns of ‘radical Muslim occupation’
(Jon Levine, New York Post)
Reports of hate and bias incidents increase in Oregon
(Oregon Department of Justice)
BYU Religious Freedom Annual Review focuses on peacemaking
(Ethan Pack, The Daily Universe - BYU)
Civil religion as a gateway to Christian Nationalism
(Beau Underwood and Brian Kaylor, Sightings, The University of Chicago Divinity School)
New threats to sacred sites and religious property
(Patrick E Reidy, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion)
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