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

CALL FOR PROPOSALS, new deadline 29 December 2024: Eighth Annual Conference: Religion and Socio-Cultural Transformation: European Perspectives and Beyond (Vienna, Austria) (The European Academy of Religion)

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

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)

WEBINAR, 29 October 2024 (10AM ET): Education Programs That Build Social Cohesion and Religious Literacy (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown 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, 25 October 2024 (1PM ET): Freedom of religion or belief as a tool for the promotion of peace (New York, NY, USA) (EU Delegation to the UN,)

Australia: UNGA79 Third Committee: General Discussion on Human Rights: Joint statement on the human rights situation in Xinjiang and Tibet (Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations)

Australia: Is religious freedom without a prayer in Australia? (Margaret Chambers, The Catholic Weekly)

Canada: Quebec opens investigation on another religious incident in a public school (Philip Authier, Montreal Gazette)

Mozambique: Bishops in Mozambique say post-election violence intends to silence democracy (Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Bangladesh arrest over alleged Quran defamation sparks outcry (Emran Hossain, Union of Catholic Asian News)

Resilience and revitalization: unveiling the impace of colonization on indigenous peoples of the Americas (JoAnne Wadsworth, Viewpoints, a blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum Association)

CEC contributes to ecumenical workshop on healing wounded memories in the Middle East (Conference of European Churches)

UIN Jakarta hosts public lecture: Exploring diplomatic relations and religious phenomena in France (UIN Jakarta)

India: Supreme Court informed: Government considering draft of Uniform Civil Code (Law Trend)

India: ‘Where will I go?’: Hindu man dead, Muslims in India’s Bahraich face attack (Arbab Ali, Al Jazeera)

How North Koreans practice religion in the atheistic state (podcast) (Roman Husarski, NK News)

Malaysia: The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light AROPL community in Malaysia facing escalating persecution and discrimination/ (CAP Liberté de Conscience)

Presentation to the Organization of American States (Knox Thames)

Taiwan hopes Vatican-Beijing deal extension promotes religious freedom (Focus Taiwan)

Human Dignity and the Bioethics of Artificial Intelligence (Universidad Pontificia Comillas)

Vatican and Czech Republic Accord to ensure religious freedom (Kielce Gussie, Vatican News)

Minister: A church in Estonia must not be connected with an organization that supports war (Eesti Rahvusringhääling)

Constitutional Intolerance: The Fashioning of the Other in Europe's Constitutional Repertoires (Mariëtta D. C. van der Tol, Cambridge University Press)

Special Envoy For Freedom of Religion and Belief could become legal requirement (Premier Christian News)

“Safe access zones” at abortion clinics: legislation (David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Muslims in Europe face ever more racism and discrimination (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights)

Facing forces of death and destruction, churches need “theologies of life, justice, and peace” (World Council of Churches)

WCC highlights legal action for climate justice at multi-faith conference (World Council of Churches)

Belarus: Conscientious objectors and deserters: Facing repression and resistance (Olga Karatch, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

20 states, diverse faith groups, & legal scholars support goat-herding nuns at Supreme Court (Becket)

The ever-rising importance of hospital chaplains (Robert Klitzman, Religion News Service)

In the U.S. presidential election, religious groups are more divided than we think (Frederic Castel, The Conversation)

Religious discrimination claims related to ex-employee's objecting to participating in "LGBTQ+" events can go forward (Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

US changes to religious worker visas could affect priests ministering in Arkansas, other dioceses (OSV News, Angelus)