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

CALL FOR PAPERS, deadline 31 January 2025: Religious Freedom in Africa (International Journal for Religious Freedom)

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, 25 November 2024 (17:00 GMT +1): Religion and Belief Discrimination: Where Next? (Cambridge, UK) (Sarah Fraser Butlin, Woolf Institute)

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

EVENT, 21 November 2024 (12:30PM ET): Towards Universal Human Dignity: Challenging the Undeclared War (Notre Dame, IN, USA) (Rosette Muzigo-Morrison, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, abstracts due 30 October 2024: Symposium on Enhancing Compliance with Human Rights from Below in Times of Crisis (Hasselt University, Belgium)

Understanding religious freedom: Why does it matter? (Nicholas Aroney, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Mexico: CSW calls for protection for religious leaders (CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)

Mexico: Catholic bishops call for authorities to step up against violence in southern Mexico (Associated Press)

Indonesia's 'Beneficial Religion' fights extremism, radicals: official (ANTARA)

Afghan women cannot pray loudly or recite in front of other women, says Taliban minister (Associated Press)

India: The fragile fabric of secularism: India’s political shift and its consequences – OpEd (Sehr Rushmeen, Eurasia Review)

Holy See: Agreement with China should promote rights (Human Rights Watch)

Message for the feast of Deepavali 2024 (The Holy See)

Iraq: Christians and other minorities in the Kurdistan legislative elections (Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Australia: Queensland bishops congratulate new government on election win (Joe Higgins, The Catholic Leader)

South Korea: Over one million Korean Christians gather to affirm family and pray for their nation (Evangelical Focus)

Taiwan: Preserving religious freedom in Taiwan, the Holy See’s way (Matthew Santucci, Acton Institute)

Malaysia: Mufti bill infringes on freedoms protected by the constitution (Free Malaysia Today)

Egyptian government legalizes 293 churches, reinforcing religious inclusivity (The Jerusalem Post)

South Africa: Minister of Home Affairs celebrates first formally-recognised Muslim marriages in South African history (Minister of Home Affairs)

Kenya: Ruto vows to consider request to make Diwali a public holiday in Kenya (Golden Moses, ODRi Media News)

Ukraine: About 300 criminal cases against conscientious objectors, 89 cases in court (Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Ukraine: New law raises religious freedom concerns (Human Rights Watch)

Ukraine and Russia: The causes of the conflict, diplomacy, and possibilities for peace (JoAnne Wadsworth, G20 Interfaith Forum)

Church in Ukraine has lost half of its parishes in areas occupied by Russia, bishop says (Eduardo Berdejo, Catholic News Agency)

Bishops in Lords urge government to act on religious freedom (Ed Thornton, Church Times)

Law and religion roundup – 27th October (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Chechnya’s mufti slams ban on hijabs in schools (The Moscow Times)

CEC contributes to Rome conference on “just war” and European values (Conference of European Churches)

Religion in the workplace is tricky – but employers and employees both lose when it becomes a total taboo (Christopher P. Scheitle, Denise Daniels, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, The Conversation)

Religious accommodations: Where do we stand? (Christi R.B. Stover, HR Daily Advisor)

Church near Pennsylvania Capitol becomes peace hub hoping to protect democracy in divisive election (Luis Andres Henao, Associated Press)

Volunteer prison minister's challenge to requirements for addressing LGBTQ inmates is rejected (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

9th Circuit: California IDEA rules violate free exercise clause (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Center One and Capital Management Services to pay $60,000 in EEOC religious accommodation suit (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)

Recent religious-liberty victories at the Supreme Court are bearing fruit (Natan Ehrenreich, National Review)

Faith and Freedom Index 2024 (Napa Legal)