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)

VIRTUAL EVENT, 23 November 2024: Launch Event of the Lusophone Alliance for Religious Freedom (Portuguese) (Aliança Lusófona pela Liberdade Religiosa)

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)

Canada: Liberals deny 'prayer ban' at Remembrance Day ceremonies, despite Conservative accusations (Rahim Mohamed, National Post)

Afghanistan: How the Taliban are seeking to reshape Afghanistan’s schools to push their ideology (Enayat Nasir, The Conversation)

Uganda: Church of Uganda launches focus month for children (Samalie Kisakye, Nile Post)

Malaysia allocates funds for upgrading Islamic educational institutions (International Quran News Agency (IQNA))

Indonesia: Defending freedom of religion: A collective responsibility (Emily A. Cole and Mercy C. Barends, The Jakarta Post)

Articles of interest - 11 November 2024 (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Australia: It’s not hard to see why Australian Muslims are growing suspicious of the government’s special envoy on Islamophobia (Zouhir Gabsi, ABC News Australia)

India's SC asks Delhi govt to decide on firecracker ban, says 'no religion encourages pollution' (WION)

Religious tolerance in Astana (Steven Aiello, Times of Israel)

Separating religion from climate communication leads to failure (Kristian Noll, London School of Economics Religion and Global Society Blog)

Brazil: Federal Supreme Court of Brazil upholds patient rights to choose medical treatment (Jehovah's Witnesses)

Brazil: STF rules on the presence of religious symbols in public spaces (Portuguese) (Caio Barcellos, Poder 360)

Brazil: Pernambucanas will pay R$30,000 to former employee for religious harassment (Portuguese) (Redação, Migalhas)

Building a religious educational vision in secularity (Spanish) (Fishel Szlajen, Infobae)

France condemns a spat between Israeli police and French consulate staff at a Jerusalem church (Associated Press)

Paris will deploy 4,000 police officers for France-Israel soccer match following Amsterdam violence (Associated Press)

Trial opens in France in the beheading of a teacher over prophet cartoons (Nicolas Vaux-Montagny and Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press)

How Ukraine is navigating Russia’s weaponization of religion (Catherine Wanner, The United States Institute of Peace)

Law and religion roundup – 10th November (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Churchyard regulations – “non-standard cases” (David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

'We will not allow sporting events to be hijacked': UK government responds to Israeli warning after Amsterdam violence (Henry Moore, LBC)

Exhibit honoring conscientious objectors opens at Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum in Germany (Jehovah’s Witnesses)

ATF Boston urges security measures at religious institutions after recent arson cases (Mike Pescaro, NBC Boston)

Anxious, grieving, elated: Clergy prepare to preach into the post-election whirlwind (Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Donald Trump under pressure from Catholic Church on mass deportation plan (Dan Gooding, Newsweek)

Exvangelicals, nones, secular Americans are undertapped in fight against Christian nationalism (Blake Chastain, Religion News Service)

Around the web - 11 November 2024 (Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)