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)

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)

WEBINAR, 19 November 2024 (12PM ET): Exiting Violence: The Role of Religion (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

EVENT, 19 November 2024 (6PM ET): Sharing Sacred Space in the Holy Lands: Is Conflict Inevitable? (Washington, DC, USA) (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Our first freedom: How firm a foundation (Katrina Lantos Swett, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Religious diplomacy in the Organization of American States: Challenges for the promotion of religious freedom in the Americas (Marcela A. Bordón Lugo, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Australia: Bishop not vicariously liable for abuse by clergy (Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Burma: Religious freedom faces even more peril in Burma (Jeff Brumley, Baptist News Global)

Kazakhstan: Religious Affairs Department "fighting against a quote from the Koran?" (Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Kazakhstan: Court bailiffs burn book seized at border, owner fined (Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Nicaragua: Dictatorship in Nicaragua expels president of country’s bishops’ conference (Walter Sánchez Silva, Catholic News Agency)

Uniting faith and science for climate action advocacy: KAICIID’s commitment to sacred ecology and the Baku Declaration (KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

Bangladesh’s impending descent into Islamist republic – OpEd (Subir Bhaumik, Eurasia Review)

Namibia: WCC conducts training on HIV, mental health, and human rights in Namibia (World Council of Churches)

Kenya: President Ruto responds to Catholic Bishops after criticism (Kenyans)

Rwanda plans church tax to stop 'rogue' pastors (Chrispin Mwakideu, Deutsche Welle)

Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe Report 2024 (Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)

Resignation of Archbishop of Church of England will affect support of Ukraine in UK (Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

This happens in an EU country: School blocks Messiah because of Christian content (Joe-Lize Kruijsse-Brugge, Christian Network Europe)

Pindo Mulla v. Spain – Blood transfusions to Jehovah’s Witnesses: is protecting personal autonomy through procedural justice enough? (Thibaut Lesseliers, Strasbourg Observers)

WEA reports freedom of religion issues in Sweden to the UN Human Rights Council (Evangelical Focus)

Lord Khan delivers speech at the Midlands Interfaith Conference (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government)

Poll finds over half of Swiss residents don’t believe in God (Swiss Info)

Oklahoma schools superintendent mandates students watch announcement of new religious department (Associated Press)

Voters soundly reject school voucher initiatives in multiple states (Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

In Mike Huckabee, Israel will have a longtime friend and true believer as ambassador (Bob Smietana, Yonat Shimron, and Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)

Is it morally right to deport millions of people? (Mark Tooley, World)

We stand in firm solidarity with our immigrant brothers and sisters (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)

Baptist church claims religious discrimination after border town shuts down food ministry (Joe Duhownik, Courthouse News Service)

Harvard University must face narrowed lawsuit over antisemitism (Jonathan Stempel, Reuters)

Campuses are ground zero in debates about antisemitism − but that’s been true for 100 years (Jonathan Krasner, The Conversation)