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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)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 24 July 2024 (10:30AM ET): USCIRF Hearing - Deteriorating Religious Freedom Conditions in Nicaragua
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
EVENT, 17 July 2024 (9:30AM ET): Bridging Divides and Building Peace - Youth, FoRB and the SDGs (New York, NY, USA)
(The Joint Initiative for Strategic Religious Action (JISRA))
International Headlines
Afghanistan: Taliban’s restrictions on Muharram processions continue across Afghanistan
(KabulNow)
Global Interfaith Monitor No. 25
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Taiwan: A Taiwan-based Buddhist charity attempts to take the founding nun’s message of compassion global
(Huizhong Wu and Deepa Bharath, Associated Press)
Articles of interest - 15 July 2024
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
India: Church leaders meet Indian PM, raise concerns over 'attacks'
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
China: Religious issues and persecution – Bimonthly Digest July 01-15
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
China to impose ‘strict governance’ on Protestant churches
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Israel: At least 22 killed in strike on makeshift mosque in Gaza City camp, hospital official says
(Abeer Salman, Lauren Kent and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN)
Canada: Members of other faiths show solidarity at Muslim prayers, after threats
(Michael John Lo, Times Colonist)
Gambia upholds its ban on female genital cutting. Reversing it would have been a global first
(Ramatoulie Jawo and Monika Pronczuk, Associated Press)
Many adults in East and Southeast Asia support free speech, are open to societal change
(Manolo Corichi, Pew Research Center)
Ghana: NPP gov’t to incentivize faith-based orgs driving national development - Napo reveals
(Modern Ghana)
Mozambique: President asks CPLP constitutional courts to defend dignity
(Club of Mozambique)
Legal Journal Number 9 (19): July (Spanish)
(Observatorio de Libertad Religiosa de América Latina y El Caribe)
Europe Headlines
United States Headlines
Around the web - 15 July
(Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
Judge rejects effort by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson to get records from Catholic church
(Gene Johnson, Associated Press)
Alabama agrees to forgo autopsy of Muslim inmate scheduled to be executed next week
(Kim Chandler, Associated Press)
2nd Circuit rules for photographer challenging NY laws compelling speech
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
Church ceremony without marriage license was enough to create a civil marriage in New York
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religious exemptions to Title IX on trial again in appeals case against US Dept of Ed
(Chloë-Arizona Fodor, Religion News Service)
Five faith facts about Trump’s VP pick, JD Vance
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Faith leaders, politicians invoke God’s protection for Trump in wake of shooting
(Paul O'Donnell, Religion News Service)
‘God-given immune system’
(Courthouse News Service)
Activists wave Hezbollah flag, call for intifada outside Queens synagogue
(Michael Starr, The Jerusalem Post)
The "Nonministerial" Exception
(Athanasius Sirilla, SSRN)
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