EVENT, 4-5 February 2025: IRF Summit 2025 (Washington, DC, USA)

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)

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)

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, 25 October 2024 (12PM ET): Reflecting on Israel-Gaza at One Year: Perspectives from the three Abrahamic Faiths (Washington, DC, USA) (Andrew Hanauer, Faith & Law)

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)

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, 15 October 2024 (10AM ET): To End the Scourge of Human Trafficking (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Jan Figel’s call for dignity and religious freedom at the Faith and Freedom Summit IV (INFO-TODAY.EU)

Australian archbishop urges rejection of ‘Equality Bill’ in New South Wales (Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

From Japan to Africa: Women leading the struggle for religious freedom (Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)

Religion Watch, ‘Volume 39 No. 11’ (France, Somalia, Australia, and more) (Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)

Global Interfaith Monitor No. 28 (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Articles of interest - 14 October 2024 (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Summit of the Future: Charting a path toward peace grounded in a shared identity (Bahá’í World News Service)

A Sri Lankan paradox: The COVID-19 pandemic and political change (Katherine Marshall and Vinya Ariyaratne, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Bangladesh: Hindus in Bangladesh celebrate their largest festival under tight security following attacks (Julhas Alam and Al Emrun Garjon, Associated Press)

Interview with Eric Roux, new elected Chair of the United Religions Initiative (URI) (Juan Sanchez Gil, The European Times)

India: Muslims in India face discrimination after restaurants forced to display workers’ names (Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan, The Guardian)

India: Religious nationalism or communalism in India? (Muhammad Ahmad Khan and Saniya Khan, London School of Economics Religion and Global Society Blog)

Church leaders ask for immediate ceasefire in Lebanon (World Council of Churches)

Holy See and Burkina Faso sign Second Additional Protocol strengthening legal status of the Catholic Church (Wesley Omondi, Catholic Information Service for Africa)

Sudan: Christians arrested after fleeing conflict, others report being pressured to convert (CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)

Senegal lifts ban on religious symbols in schools as new academic year begins (Shia Waves)

Afghanistan: Radical jihadism and its security consequences for Afghanistan (Besmillah Taban, Hasht-e Subh Daily)

North Koreans pray to Buddha statues for good luck (Son Hye Min, RFA Korean)

The ethics of conflict as a political tool (Spanish) (Fishel Szlajen, Infobae)

UN expert to visit Hungary to assess freedom of religion or belief (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations)

UK lawmakers to consider law to legalize assisted dying for terminally ill that carries warning from church leaders (Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Man jailed over Facebook posts that called for the burning of mosques and murder of worshippers (Tell MAMA)

New resources launched to support prayer and action on religious persecution (The Church of England)

Scottish Government U-turn on bus passes for asylum seekers welcomed (The Church of Scotland)

Irish bishops call for more welcoming policy for immigrants (Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Historic Prague synagogue used on Yom Kippur for the first time since the Holocaust (Shira Li Bartov, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Pope Francis met with Volodymyr Zelensky (Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Right-wing populism and religion – The case of Brothers of Italy (Luca Ozzano, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

The law and politics of creation of the micro religious Bektashi state in Albania (Kushtrim Istrefi and Luca Pasquet, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

Remarks by President Biden during a call with Jewish faith leaders for High Holidays (The White House)

"Our democracy is only as strong as it is inclusive": RPL Webinar discusses media, religion, and the nation (Religion and Public Life, Harvard Divinity School)

Attack on Catholics or TikTok trend? Democratic governor’s video sparks faith-based backlash (Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)

New Jersey man pleads guilty to federal hate crime for breaking into Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University and destroying property (U.S. Department of Justice)

Lawsuit settlement paves way for Mosque to be allowed in Washtenaw County township (M Live)

Definitions of ‘church’ and ‘association of churches’ must be updated to prevent abuse of special legal protections, study argues (Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, University of Notre Dame)

Religious diversity in the workplace could foster more inclusion, experts argue in new book (Rice University)