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Events Headlines
EVENT, 22-23 November 2024: Cache Valley Interfaith Open House (Logan, UT, USA)
(Cache Community Connections)
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, 26 September 2024 (11:45AM ET): Freedom From or For Religion? (Toledo, OH, USA)
(Vincent Phillip Muñoz, The University of Toledo’s Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership)
HYBRID EVENT, 25 September 2024 (3PM ET): Erasing Ukrainian Identity and Culture
(Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, House Committee on Foreign Affairs)
International Headlines
China: Sinicization of religion: China’s coercive religious policy
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Sacred sites promoting pluralism
(Knox Thames and Emily K. Scolaro, The Haifa Labratory for Religious Studies)
Saudi Arabia: The shifting sands of child custody rights in Saudi Arabia
(Beata Polok and Zubair Abbasi, London School of Economics Religion and Global Society Blog)
Articles of interest - 23 September 2024
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Uzbekistan: Former prisoner of conscience rearrested, another given 10 more years jail
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Cuba: A legal framework that restricts the right to religious freedom
(Teresa I. Flores, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Top Vietnamese leader meets with Vatican Secretary of State in New York
(Vietnam Plus)
No peace without real justice: The pillar of sustainable social harmony
(Willy Fautré, Bitter Winter)
Yemeni Christians pressured to conform to Islamic law: ‘We were forced to wear the hijab’
(Catholic News Agency)
Egypt, soccer, and Olympics: How Copts are discriminated in sport
(Walid Tamtam, Bitter Winter)
5 facts about Confucianism
(Yunping Tong, Pew Research Center)
Kenya: Why church leaders want Bill seeking to regulate religion dropped
(Allan Kisia, The Star)
India: Ecumenical bishops’ meeting advocates rights for India’s Christian minorities
(Vatican News)
Religious symbols in the public sphere (Spanish)
(Fishel Szlajen, Infobae)
The cost of ideology: Reversed priorities (Spanish)
(Fishel Szlajen, Infobae)
Brazil: Religious freedom in the academic environment (Portuguese)
(Sandro Bobrzyk and Guilherme Schoeninger, PUC RS)
Brazil: More than words, it is action that transforms: what religious freedom is like in Brazil (Portuguese)
(Pai Paulo de Oxalá, Extra)
Europe Headlines
Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech at the International Meeting for Peace
(The Archbishop of Canterbury)
WCC shares during peace meeting hosted by St Egidio community in Paris
(World Council of Churches)
Church Reporter, Vol. 9, 30 June 2024
(Church Law Society Prague – Brno – Olomouc – Stříbro – České Budějovice)
Premier says Albania will grant sovereignty to Bektashi Muslims in Tirana, similar to the Vatican
(Llazar Semini, Associated Press)
Church leaders hold 'constructive' social care sector talks with Scottish Government
(The Church of Scotland)
Law and religion roundup – 22nd September
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
After anti-immigrant riots, what do British Muslims need to feel safe?
(Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor)
Alain Berset: The 15th Secretary General of the Council of Europe – A new impetus for human rights in Europe?
(Andrew Forde, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
COMECE submits contribution to EU consultation on European Education Area
(The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))
EU-China: Europeans cannot afford to ignore the plight of the Falun Gong
(Aaron Rhodes and Marco Respinti, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
After centuries, Ukraine cuts religious ties with Russia
(Alexey Kovalev, Foreign Policy)
Islamist party leader says will never ally with Erdoğan again
(Turkish Minute)
Pope highlights human dignity in address to Academy of Sciences
(Christopher Wells, Vatican News)
United States Headlines
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