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, deadline 15 December 2024: Eighth Annual Conference: Religion and Socio-Cultural Transformation: European Perspectives and Beyond (Vienna, Austria) (The European Academy of Religion)

WEBINAR, 26 November 2024 (12PM ET): The New Governance of Religious Diversity (Tariq Modood and Thomas Sealy, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

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

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)

Iran: Religious issues and persecution – Monthly Digest October (Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Burma country update (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

"Why don’t they just come here legally?" (Anna Lee Stangl, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)

Conference examines opportunities, tensions in debates on religion and human rights (Aminah Koshul, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

India: Use of smoke-emitting firecrackers renews air pollution debate in India’s capital ahead of Diwali (Verda Subzwari, Associated Press)

India court calls for regulation of Christian properties to end legal squabbles (Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Sichuan province: Authorities confine young monks in ‘prison-like’ conditions in government-run schools (Radio Free Asia)

Canada: Montreal City Hall removing welcome sign with hijab sends wrong message: Muslim group (Sidhartha Banerjee, The Toronto Star)

Canada: Quebec municipality challenged for violating freedom of religion (Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms)

Zimbabwe: Scripture Union ban in Zimbabwe’s schools: A conflict of faith and politics (Calvin Manika, Religion Unplugged)

Zambia: Catholic Church in Lusaka protests “systemic state intimidation” against worship rights in Zambia (Lusaka Times)

Mali: Jihadists demand crippling religious tax from Christians (Aid to the Church in Need)

Argentina: The message from Garcia Cuerva in Lujan: An urgent call to build unity that involves everyone (Spanish) (Mariano de Vedia, La Nacion)

International and national responses to the Russian Orthodox Church’s support of Putin’s war in Ukraine (Dmytro Vovk, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

How Moscow uses the Russian Orthodox Church as a tool to suppress religious freedom (Elena Davlikanova and Dan White, Wilson Center)

Gender, Russian Orthodoxy, and the invention of “traditional” values (Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

The Head of the UGCC: Militarization of religion undermines trust in Christianity (Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Safe access zones and silent prayer at abortion clinics (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Syros court silences church bell, issues €200 fine per ring (Anthee Carassava, iefimerida)

Politics of identity and exclusion: Italy’s Matteo Salvini and the rise of pan-European Christian nationalism (Thomas Jared Farmer, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Armenian churches urge the world to pray for hostages, and pursue truth and justice (World Council of Churches)

EU Military Ordinariates gather at COMECE to discuss security challenges and promotion of peace (The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))

Third party intervention to the ECtHR in F.D. and I.M. and three others (les Hijabeuses) v. France (Cathérine Van de Graaf, Eva Brems and Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez, Strasbourg Observers)

French politicians propose law to make modern antisemitism punishable (Mathilda Heller, The Jerusalem Post)

Liberty University sued by former IT staffer fired after disclosing she’s a transgender woman (David Crary, Associated Press)

Resistance to Christian Nationalism in all 50 states: a PRRI-Meanings of Democracy Lab Report (PRRI)

Washington man sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for trafficking eagles, hawks killed on the Flathead Indian Reservation and sold on black market (U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana, U.S. Department of Justice)

2nd Circuit: FBI agents had qualified immunity from RFRA damages when Muslim plaintiffs' religious objections were undisclosed (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Remarks by President Biden at a reception in celebration of Diwali (The White House)

Two books opposed by religious parents removed from Montgomery County’s mandatory “inclusive” reading list for elementary schools (s free, Religious Freedom Institute)

Kentucky Attorney General stands up for church’s right to practice faith at Supreme Court (Kentucky.gov)

California City won’t allow church to use purchased property for religious services (Jorge Gomez, First Liberty)

Worthington City Schools is the latest central Ohio district looking at religious release policy (Allie Vugrincic, WOSU Public Media)