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, 22 October 2024 (10AM GMT +1): East of England regional meeting of inter faith groups (Cambridge, England) (University of Cambridge)

CALL FOR INPUT, deadline 18 October 2024: Report on religion or belief and torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (United Nations)

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)

Canada: Trudeau condemns violent attack on women wearing hijabs (Barron's)

Iraq: Religious freedom challenges in Iraq 10 years after ISIS’s genocide (United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Mexico: Displaced Mexican Baptists allowed to return home (Ken Camp, Baptist Press)

Prophetic libraries and books in ancient Israel (Nathan Mastnjak, OUPblog: Religion)

South African archbishop Makgoba lashes government for education 'funding crisis' (Ecumenical News)

Podcast explores the BIC’s contributions to the discourse on global governance (Bahá’í World News Service)

Essay series: Human rights and social ethics: Catholic and secular approaches (Kristin E. Heyer, Thomas Massaro, and William O'Neill, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Center for Women, Faith & Leadership welcomes 5th Distance Learning cohort to the global multifaith fellowship (Institute for Global Engagement)

Recent articles of interest - 30 September 2024 (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Afghanistan: groundbreaking move: Challenging gender persecution in Afghanistan at the ICJ (Kyra Wigard, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

Afghanistan: How the Taliban’s new ‘vice and virtue’ law erases women by justifying violence against them (Dyan Mazurana and Sima Samar, The Conversation)

Israel: In a sacred time on the Jewish calendar, Israeli clerics ponder theology of Oct. 7 attack (Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)

India: Catholic groups in India support law weakening power of Islamic charity (Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Philippines urged to remove the word ‘divorce’ from marriage dissolution bill to enable passage (Raissa Robles, South China Morning Post)

Indonesia launches Halal International Trust Organization in Japan (ANTARA)

Iran: Religious issues and persecution – Monthly digest September (Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Cuba: Independent religious leaders meet with European Union Delegation (CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)

Australia: Hezbollah flag-carriers investigated by police, as government appoints envoy to combat Islamophobia (Michelle Grattan, The Conversation)

Pakistani religion ministry formulating new regulations to oversee Umrah operations (Saima Shabbir, Arab News)

All migrants and refugees must be treated with humanity and dignity: UK statement at the UN Security Council (GOV.UK)

Baroness Warsi quits Conservatives in the Lords (Joshua Nevett, BBC)

Law and religion roundup – 29th September (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Limits on anonymity (David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Germany: CEC advances ecumenical cooperation in Hamburg (Conference of European Churches)

Inside Albania's planned Muslim microstate (Abby Wilson, The Week)

Archons travel to Warsaw for conference of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) (Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate)

The Constitutional Court has opened proceedings regarding the constitutionality of part one of Article 1 of the Law of Ukraine on Alternative (non-military) service (Institute for Religious Freedom, Ukraine)

Former California man sentenced to 35 years in prison for attempting to murder two Jewish men leaving Los Angeles synagogues last year (U.S. Department of Justice)

Religion and foreign policy webinar: Muslim-American perspectives on U.S. foreign policy (Council on Foreign Relations)

10 business skills that reinforce human rights (Brian Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

Proselytizing the unhoused: Grants Pass v. Johnson and church-state separation (Alex Santiago, Americans United for Separation of Church and State)

West Virginia ban on churches incorporating violates 1st Amendment (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

In new lawsuit, religious nonprofit targets Johnson Amendment in order to endorse political candidates without losing tax-exempt status (Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Women building global bridges across faith divides (Hanna Seariac, Deseret News)

Supreme Court flooded with prayers for relief from groups eager to promote religion (John Fritze, CNN)

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill banning ‘captive audience,’ anti-union work meetings (East Bay Times)

How Americans can engage religious diversity in their communities (Interfaith America)