EVENT, 22-23 November 2024: Cache Valley Interfaith Open House (Logan, UT, USA) (Cache Community Connections)

EVENT, 5-6 November 2024: Reimagining the Role of Religion in Building Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies: East Africa and Beyond (Nairobi, Kenya) (University of Groningen)

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)

Vietnam: State-controlled religion and religious freedom in Vietnam (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Position Paper in support of UN General Assembly Resolution on Child, Early and Forced Marriage (International Religious Freedom Roundtable)

Islamic Contract Law (Ilias Bantekas, Jonathan G. Ercanbrack, Umar A. Oseni, and Ikram Ullah, Oxford University Press)

"Islamophobia is unjustifed fear of Muslims, Muslimness," explains Prof Ahmed Shaheed (YouTube Video, Maktoob)

Ethiopia: Thousands gather in Ethiopia’s capital to celebrate a religious festival. Many are thinking of peace (Samuel Getachew, Associated Press)

Kazakhstan: Showman Nurtas Adambay fined for quoting Quran verses on social media (Kazinform)

Australia’s Labor government has turned its back on people of faith again (Michelle Pearse, Mercator)

Japan and the Unification Church: The Duval Report. 1. Organized Tort Cases (Patricia Duval, Bitter Winter)

Islamic scholars return from China, hail religious freedom in Xinjiang (The News International)

During UN Climate Week, Hindu environmentalist Gopal Patel wants to look to the future (Richa Karmarkar, Religion News Service)

DRC: Cardinal calls for a new narrative to end Democratic Republic of Congo’s decades-long wars (Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Normative development of religious freedom in Latin America: Counter-transfer of religious policies (Camila A. Sánchez Sandoval, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Bangladesh turmoil proving a nightmare for Ahmadiyya Muslims (Emran Hossain, Union of Catholic Asian News)

Senegal: Church leaders and laity ‘outraged’ by PM Sonko’s remarks on headscarf ban (Wesley Omondi, Catholic Information Service for Africa)

Iran: Christian convert denied parole after ‘refusing forced confession’ (Article 18)

Kyrgyzstan: Authorities seek expanded powers to regulate religious affairs (Ayzirek Imanaliyeva, Eurasianet)

The Argentine Rabbi and academic, Fishel Szlajen, inaugurated the XI Palliative Care Congress (Spanish) (Infobae)

Chile: Rethinking secularity (opinion) (Spanish) (Yanira Zúñiga, La Tercera)

Pope Francis tells wealthy Luxembourg to help developing countries (Joshua McElwee and Marine Strauss, Reuters)

Pope travels to the heart of Europe to appeal for peace and to boost his dwindling flock (Nicole Winfield and Raf Casert, Associated Press)

NIO minister Fleur Anderson praises community resilience after visiting arson attack Church (Northern Ireland Office and Fleur Anderson MP, GOV.UK)

Georgia’s anti-LGBTQ+ measures raise fears of hate crimes in the conservative South Caucasus nation (Sophiko Megrelidze and Dasha Litvinova, Associated Press)

Minority wing of Moldovan Orthodox church accuses priests of lobbying against Europe vote (Alexander Tanas, Reuters)

Kyiv Metropolitanate of the UOC-MP loses court case against the State Service for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience (Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Amata gives House speech on protecting religious freedoms worldwide (Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, U.S. House of Representatives)

Winning battles, losing the war? The conflation of religion and speech in American law (Ismail Royer, Religious Freedom Institute)

Judge allows portion of religious discrimination lawsuit against NC Symphony to proceed (The Carolina Journal)

How the US government can stop ‘churches’ from getting treated like real churches by the IRS (Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, The Conversation)