CALL FOR PAPERS, deadline 24 November 2024: Faith in a world of 'unprecedented' challenges (Woolf Institute)

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

CALL FOR PROPOSALS, deadline 7 November 2024: Arab Region Dialogue Initiatives (KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

WEBINAR, 29 October 2024 (11AM ET): Ukraine’s Law Banning Russian Orthodox Church and Affiliated Organizations: Legal and Juridical Aspects (International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS), Brigham Young University)

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

EVENT, 21-22 October 2024: Religion and Human Rights from the UDHR to Dignitatis Humanae (Washington, DC, USA) (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

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)

EVENT, 15 October 2024 (5PM GMT+1): Diversity in the Spotlight: Challenges and Opportunities for a New Government Era (Cambridge, UK) (Woolf Institute)

WEBINAR, 11 October 2024 (19.00 WIB): Istiqlal Declaration: Interfaith Collaboration for Humanity (Indonesian) (Institut Leimena)

EVENT, 10 October 2024: International Ministerial Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief (Berlin, Germany) (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance)

EVENT, 10 October 2024 (3:30PM MT): Can War Be Just? Religious and Ethical Responses to the Wars in Gaza and Ukraine (Tempe, Arizona) (Arizona State University)

EVENT, 9 October 2024 (4PM CEST): Ministerial side event: FoRB and Tolerance for Tradition: The Challenge for the Pluralistic West (Berlin, Germany) (Religious Freedom Institute, Embassy of Hungary)

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)

How the world is marking Oct. 7 attack on Israel, start of Gaza war (Reuters)

Antisemitism and Islamophobia in the workplace, new study (Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

Taiwan calls out China's systematic 'religious suppression' following USCIRF findings (ANI)

Japan: UNHRC – Geneva: New report – Religious persecution in Japan (Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)

Australia: The price of free speech skyrockets in Queensland, Australia (Amy Lewis, World)

Archbishop: We must speak out and defend our persecuted brothers and sisters (Amy Balog, Independent Catholic News)

Articles of interest - 7 October 2024 (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

An urgent call for climate action (Mary Robinson, G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)

Argentina-France: Religious minorities in the eye of media cyclones: From BAYS to MISA (Willy Fautré, Bitter Winter)

Kenya: Religious leaders urge unity and dialogue as deputy president’s impeachment reaches public participation stage amid presidential feud (Wesley Omondi, Catholic Information Service for Africa)

Brazil: Jurist claims Christians have suffered institutional persecution (Portuguese) (Michelli de Souza, Comunhão)

Religious freedom vs. medical deontology: bioethical solution (Spanish) (Fishel Szlajen, Infobae)

Statement by President von der Leyen on the one-year anniversary of the 7 October 2023 acts of terror against Israel (European Commission)

Belief, Dialogue and Security — Fostering dialogue and joint action across religious and belief boundaries (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)

£7 million to tackle antisemitism in education confirmed (Department for Education and The Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP, GOV.UK)

Defaced mural of Oct. 7 survivor another example of rising antisemitism in Italy (Associated Press)

A faith is on the edge of vanishing in Georgia after being exiled from Russia centuries ago (Kostya Manenkov, Associated Press)

Lithuania: Conscientious objection to military service (Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Six years in prison instead of a suspended sentence: Appeal in Crimea changes the 'too lenient' sentence for two Jehovah's Witnesses (Jehovah's Witnesses)

European Court of Justice: Gender and nationality sufficient to grant Afghan women asylum (Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)

Statement from President Joe Biden marking one year since the October 7th attack (The White House)

Warsaw Human Dimension Conference I Plenary Session 7: Fundamental Freedoms II (Michael G. Kozak, U.S. Mission to the OSCE)

What American history can teach us about religious freedom and democracy (Corey D. B. Walker, Religion Unplugged)

Around the web - 7 October 2024 (Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)

Supreme Court asked to consider Oklahoma religious charter school’s case (Zach Schonfeld and Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill)