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)

CALL FOR INPUTS, deadline 7 September 2024: The Special Rapporteur's visit to Hungary; issues related to freedom of religion or belief (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations)

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

Pope and imam of Southeast Asia’s largest mosque make joint call to fight violence, protect planet (Nicole Winfield and Edna Tarigan, Associated Press)

Evaluating Indonesian Muslims’ engagement with China – analysis (Xue Song, Eurasia Review)

China’s World Buddhist Forum aimed at boosting soft power: experts (Dickey Kundol and Tenzin Dickyi, Radio Free Asia)

China: Religious issues and persecution – Bimonthly Digest August 16-31 (Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

How China’s boarding schools in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) are erasing a people’s identity: A Uyghur view (Abdulhakim Idris, Bitter Winter)

WCC meets with Churches' Commission for Migrants to strengthen collaboration (World Council of Churches)

Kenya: Religious leaders call for community inclusion in development (Kenya News Agency)

Global institute convenes leaders in Kenya to reimagine a just economy (World Council of Churches)

At Quaker World Plenary, Americans are seen as key to building peace (Bridget Moix, Religion News Service)

Welcoming the Stranger: Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications (Edited by Ori Z Soltes and Rachel Stern, Fordham University Press)

Iraqi women fear rise in child marriages as lawmakers consider giving conservative clerics more say (Stella Martany and Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press)

Rwanda: Members of shuttered Rwandan churches gather in homes as leaders quietly protest (Tonny Onyulo, Religion News Service)

Venezuela: Maduro declares Christmas in October amid Venezuela’s post-election strife (Tom Phillips, The Guardian)

India: Right to food: is eating what the state says a religious freedom issue? (AJ Philip, Religion Unplugged)

Indonesian Muslims differ over airing call-to-prayer during papal Mass (Union of Catholic Asian News)

Sri Lanka approves burial and cremation rights bill (Devdiscourse)

Archbishop Ieronymos and Greek Culture Minister discuss church-state relations and monument preservation (Greek City Times)

Polish church defends religious teaching against new government curbs (Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic Review)

Taking religion out of schools “removes inalienable part of Polishness”, warns president (Notes from Poland)

British charity warns against “regressive” assisted suicide law as Dame Esther Rantzen calls for new vote (Anglican Ink)

Starmer urged to reconvene cross-government group as united front in tackling Jew-hate (Lee Harpin, Jewish News)

Balancing free speech and religious sensitivities: Sokolovskiy (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Kyrgyzstan: Public discussion of latest repressive draft religion law (Felix Corley and Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

Parliament shoots down Arnhem mayor’s ban on Quran desecration (NL Times)

End game nears for Hungarian church at odds with Orban (Alexander Faludy, Balkan Insight)

Places still available: Only training programme in Germany in “Journalism on Religion” (University of Münster)

Maine law thwarts impact of school choice decision, lawsuit says (David Sharp, Associated Press)

11th Circuit: Barring use of PA system for pre-game prayers does not violate 1st Amendment (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Rutgers task force report urges university to add caste discrimination ban (Richa Karmarkar, Religion News Service)

U.S. secures deal with Nicaragua to release jailed Christians, political activists (James Lynch, National Review)

Teaching the Ten Commandments and Bible in public schools is about race and history, not just the First Amendment (Leslie Ribovich, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Apache Stronghold heads to Supreme Court to save Oak Flat (Becket Law)

Introducing: The Black Religious Liberty Curriculum (Columbia Law School)

Black Visions of the Holy Land: African American Christian Engagement with Israel and Palestine (Roger Baumann, Columbia University Press)

International religious freedom should be a priority for next president (Max Primorac, Newsweek)