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)

VIRTUAL EVENT, 30 November 2024: From the Margins to Mainstream: Building a Mass Movement for FoRB (Global Youth Summit)

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, 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)

Conscientious objection to the military service: A right in progress (Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Conscientious objection to military service in Türkiye (Mine Yildirim, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Fairness or failure? The punitive nature of South Korea’s alternative service (Ihntaek Hwang, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Conscientious objection: Context and developments in Armenia (Nikolay Hovhannisyan, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Torah, war, politics, and the Supreme Court: The 2024 Military Service of Ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva Students Bill (Moshe Jaffe, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Conscientious objection to military service in Brazil (Paola Goulart de Souza Spikes, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

UN General Assembly takes a stand: New resolution addresses trafficking and forced religious conversions (The European Times)

Islamic Law in Context: A Primary Source Reader (Edited by Omar Anchassi and Robert Gleave, Cambridge University Press)

South Africa: FOR SA defended an evangelist’s free speech rights (YouTube Video, Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA))

Religious freedom challenges for Jehovah’s Witnesses (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Christians mobilize to pray for all the persecuted (Knox Thames, Religion News Service)

The Sikh kirpan as a spiritual, religious and moral sanction (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Masking religious freedom violations (Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

KAICIID at the 6th GNRC forum: Advancing child rights and interfaith collaboration (KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

As Brazil observes Black Awareness Day, churches speak up against all forms of racism (World Council of Churches)

Churches around the world lit up red in honor of persecuted Christians (Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency)

Bangladesh: Radicalization driving discrimination and attacks against Christians (Aid to the Church in Need)

Pakistan: Punjab govt fully protecting religious minorities, minister Arora informs British HC (Nation)

Pakistan: Fighting between armed sectarian groups in restive northwestern Pakistan kills at least 37 people (Riaz Khan, Associated Press)

Cuba: Religious leaders call for international attention to Cuba's targeting of religious groups (CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)

Ghana: Religious leaders engage in dialogue on human rights and sexual minority rights in Ghana (Joseph Kobla Wemakor, Modern Ghana)

Bahrain: Foreign Minister participates in UNHRC retreat in Morocco (Bahrain News Agency)

Mexico : Baptist Christians living in tents after government fails to uphold religious freedom agreement (Premier Christian News)

Belarus religious law targets social-media use (Jonathan Luxmoore, Church Times)

In time for #RedWednesday, new report details Christian persecution in Europe (Paul Marshall, Religion Unplugged)

Irish bishops call for voters to remember life issues ahead of elections (Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

A joint interfaith prayer for Ukraine held on the Day of Dignity and Freedom (Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Russia: Pentecostal pastor, Buddhist in pre-trial detention for anti-war remarks (Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)

Rising Islamophobia poses threat in UK amid ‘bleak and dystopian’ political climate, warns head of race equality think tank (Arab News)

The rise in Islamophobia has left Bristol Muslim community with ‘low morale’ (Yvonne Deeney, Bristol Live)

The strange afterlife of blasphemy (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

A celebration of kindness and peace at the Churches of Scientology for Europe (The European Times)

CEC governing board meets Vangelis Meimarakis MEP at the European Parliament (Conference of European Churches)

Spanish ombudsman urges church to compensate abuse victims (AFP, Barron's)

RFI’s Miles Windsor joins intercultural and interfaith dialogue in Prague (Religious Freedom Institute)

Trans family law in Strasbourg: The bittersweet flavour of Savinovskikh and others v Russia (Alice Margaria, Strasbourg Observers)

Catholics bring their bishop to justice… for blasphemy. Italian justice admits case (Zenit)

Western Apache group calls on court to block approval of copper mine on sacred site (Kalvis Golde, SCOTUSblog)

Texas State Board of Education adopts suggested curriculum that includes numerous Biblical references (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Court examines sincerity and religiosity of vaccine objections (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Trump can end religious discrimination (Nicole Stelle Garnett and John Meiser, The Wall Street Journal)

Beyond evangelicals, Trump and his allies courted smaller faith groups, from the Amish to Chabad (Peter Smith, Associated Press)

Politics in the pews: Analyzing congregational political engagement (Charissa Mikoski and Scott Thumma, Religion Unplugged)

Panel discussion introduces students to careers in religious liberty (Notre Dame Law School)