EVENT, 24-25 October 2024: Praying for All the Persecuted: A Global Gathering (Dallas, TX, USA) (Institute for Global Engagement, Dallas Baptist University)

EVENT, 15 October 2024: 7th Annual Summit for Religious Freedom: Finding Common Ground for Religious Freedom (Dallas, TX, USA) (DFW Alliance for Religious Freedom and Human Dignity)

31st Annual International Law and Religion Symposium, 6-8 October 2024: Religious Freedom as a Tool for Peacemaking (Provo, Utah, USA) (International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS), Brigham Young University)

CALL FOR PAPERS, abstracts due 30 September 2024: 12th Annual Conference: Law, Religion and Work in Africa (Rabat, Morocco) (The African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies)

EVENT, 21 September 2024 (10AM CT): Building Bridges: Religious Freedom and Community Engagement for Everyday Disciples (Independence, MO, USA) (John Thomas, Independence Stake Center)

EVENT, 17 September 2024 (11:30AM ET): MeckMIN Faith Leader Lunch (Charlotte, NC, USA) (Mecklenburg Metropolitan Interfaith Network)

HYBRID EVENT, 17 September 2024 (11:30AM ET): Religious Freedom for All: Building Bridges & Breaking Bread Together (Orlando, FL, USA) (Valencia College West)

EVENT, 10 September 2024 (8AM GMT+2): Strengthening Partnerships and Human Rights (Brussels, Belgium) (Fearghas O’Beara and Vasileios Alexandros Papakonstantinou, European Union & International Affairs Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

EVENT, 6 September 2024 (9AM CT): Louisiana Religious Freedom Summit (Baton Rouge, LA, USA) (Louisiana Religious Freedom Alliance)

WEBINAR, 5 September 2024 (6PM in Jerusalem): Peace-Makers Illuminating Human Dignity (Shelagh Shalev, Praying Together in Jerusalem)

Pope opens Asia odyssey with stop in Indonesia to rally Catholics, hail religious freedom tradition (Nicole Winfield and Edna Tarigan, Associated Press)

Pope Francis arrives in Muslim-majority Indonesia for visit focusing on interreligious dialogue (Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Dominican Republic: A top court in the Dominican Republic deliberates anti-sodomy laws targeting police and military (Dánica Coto, Associated Press)

Praising the MWL's Islamic and humanitarian role across the globe: In countries of religious and ethnic diversity (Muslim World League)

The different options for administering Israel’s holiest sites (Nahshon Perez, Algemeiner)

Anti-Christian sentiment and persecution in the Holy Land (Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine)

Afghanistan: New morality law affirms Taliban’s regressive agenda, experts call for concerted action (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations)

Iran: UN experts alarmed by surge in executions, demand moratorium on death penalty (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations)

AFJN launches ‘Unity Through Diversity’ peace project in Eastern Congo (includes audio for new song “Tuishing Pamoja” (Let’s Live Together”) (Africa Faith and Justice Network)

Yemen: Remaining prisoners released: The Yemeni Bahá’í community’s unyielding pursuit of peace (Bahá’í World News Service)

Knowledge about religions is good—but cross-cultural religious literacy is better (Institute for Global Engagement)

Articles of interest - 2 September 2024 (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Kyrgyzstan proposes amendment to laws regulating religious sphere (The Times of Central Asia)

Bangladesh’s Hindu-Buddhist-Christian council pushes for secular state (Rishabh Jain, Religion News Service)

The sacred and the profane: The ethics of Hajj fund management in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Maldives (Edward Mariyani-Squire, Hafidz Lidinillah and Maria Bhatti, ABC News Australia)

Australia: The future of religious freedom in a secular world (Anthony Fisher, Quadrant)

Mexico: These will be the penalties for having an abortion after 6 weeks in Aguascalientes (Spanish) (Ale Huitron, Infobae)

Poland eases abortion access with new guidelines for doctors under a restrictive law (Associated Press)

Swiss rally for persecuted Christians: “This faith has endured in suffering, even in the darkest prison cell” (Evangelical Focus)

Parliament adopts law “On protection of constitutional order in the sphere of activity of religious organizations” (Institute for Religious Freedom, Ukraine)

A Pakistani religious leader is tried in his absence for allegedly threatening Geert Wilders (Mike Corder, Associated Press)

Government aims to support church schools like state-run educational institutions (HungaryToday)

Europe: From economic necessity to socio-religious crisis (Spanish) (Fishel Szlajen, Infobae)

Around the web - 3 September 2024 (Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)

RFI joins appellate brief defending World Vision’s right to uphold convictions on marriage (Religious Freedom Institute)

Teaching of evolution does not violate Establishment Clause (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

6th Circuit reverses dismissal of Muslim inmate's religious accommodation complaints (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Los Angeles churches could soon build homes on their parking lots (Giulia Carbonaro, Newsweek)

Defining religion and accommodating religious exercise (Justin Collings and Anna Bryner, Indiana Law Journal)

Antisemitism on campus: Understanding hostility to Jews and Israel (Graham Wright, Shahar Hecht, Sasha Volodarsky, and Leonard Saxe, Brandeis University)