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)

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

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)

VIRTUAL EVENT, 19 November 2024 (10AM ET): Addressing Entities of Particular Concern: Non-State Actors and Egregious Violations of Religious Freedom (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

EVENT, 11 November 2024 (9AM EST): Caring for the Other: Refugees and Displaced Persons (RSVP required. Washington, D.C.) (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Libya reinstates morality police to enforce 'society's traditions' (Middle East Eye)

Morocco limits preaching about war in the Middle East that invokes jihad (Sam Metz, Associated Press)

Eritrea: Persecution of Eritrean Jehovah’s Witnesses condemned by human rights experts (Kathryn Post, Religion News Service)

Iran: USCIRF abhors recent spate of egregious religious freedom violations in Iran (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Mali: New Mali law disastrous for LGBT people (Larissa Kojoué, Human Rights Watch)

Chile: The Temple of Satan gains ground in Chile as faith in traditional religions wanes (Nayara Batschke, Associated Press)

Kazakhstan: Constitutional challenge to sharing faith ban (Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

India's Hindus bathe in holy river defiled by pollution (AFP News, Barron's)

Role of faith communities in ending violence against children discussed in ministerial conference (World Council of Churches)

Mozambique: Country rocked by post-election protests as Catholic bishops denounce violence (Paschal Norbert, Catholic Information Service for Africa)

Tajikistan: 15th EU-Tajikistan Human Rights Dialogue: HRWF recommendations on freedom of religion (Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Philippines: Stop mining, says Borongan bishop on 11th anniversary of Yolanda (Paterno R. Esmaquel II, Rappler)

Vietnam: Religious communities contribute to strengthening and promoting national unity (Viet Nam News)

Bangladesh: Miller: US wants Dhaka to respect religious freedom (Dhaka Tribune)

Russian State Duma representative in Berdiansk gave advice on dealing with “sectarians” (Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Amsterdam bans protests after 'antisemitic squads' attack Israeli soccer fans (Anthony Deutsch and Bart H. Meijer, Reuters)

Constitutional Court in Spain forces Catholic brotherhood to admit woman (Nicolás de Cárdenas, Catholic News Agency)

When gender and nationality are enough for asylum: Commentary on the AH & FN Judgment of the EU Court of Justice (Francisca Pérez-Madrid, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Bishop of Norwich calls on UK Government to tax polluters to fund climate aid (The Church of England)

Pope thanks Italian soldiers for aiding in humanitarian emergencies (Lisa Zengarini, Vatican News)

What a Trump presidency means for religious freedom (Jorge Gomez, First Liberty)

New Apostolic Reformation evangelicals see Trump as God’s warrior in their battle to win America from satanic forces and Christianize it (Art Jipson, The Conversation)

Faith groups resolve to protect migrants, refugees after Trump win (Aleja Hertzler-McCain, Religion News Service)

White Christians made Donald Trump president — again (Bob Smietana, Religion News Service)

Religion can help take the venom out of political disagreement (William C. Duncan, Sutherland Institute)

10 states had abortion measures on the ballot – where they passed, where they failed, and what it all means (Katherine Drabiak, The Conversation)

Appeals court orders new trial for man on Texas’ death row over judge’s antisemitic bias (Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press)

Governor Stitt launches the Oklahoma Office of Faith Based Initiatives (Office of the Governor)

What Buddhism can teach in this moment of deep divisions: No person is ‘evil,’ only ‘mistaken’ (Jeremy David Engels, The Conversation)

Apache Stronghold urges Supreme Court to protect Oak Flat (Becket)

Restorative justice: reclaiming the Klamath River for indigenous peoples (JoAnne Wadsworth, Viewpoints, a blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum Association)