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)

Canada: “Practitioners of Peace”: Ontario youth conference strengthens movement for social progress (Bahá’í World News Service)

Canada: Justin Trudeau condemns antisemitism after Montreal pro-Palestinian protest where Netanyahu is burned in effigy (Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Canada: Uniting against hate: Jewish-Hindu coalition confronts university extremism (Devdiscourse)

Canada: Activism on foot: When Indigenous activists walk the land to honor their past and reshape their future (Meaghan Weatherdon, The Conversation)

In religion-averse Japan, a religion-backed party remains pivotal (Levi McLaughlin, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Unification Church ad Jehovah's Witnesses: Why is Japan not accepting a UN visit? (Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter: A magazine on religious liberty and human rights)

G20 leaders make historic commitment to combat human trafficking following faith-based advocacy (G20 Interfaith Forum, EIN Presswire)

Situating the impact of Hindutva in Nepal (Mohammed Sinan Siyech, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Hinduism, soft power, and the remaking of global Indian public culture under Narendra Modi (Rohit Chopra, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Lebanon’s Shiite Muslims pay high price in war between Israel and Hezbollah (Bassem Mroue and Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press)

India: 4 killed after a survey of a mosque sparks clashes in a northern Indian city (Biswajeet Banerjee, Associated Press)

Articles of interest - 25 November 2024 (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

UAE: Chabad rabbi killed in United Arab Emirates; Israel denounces ‘despicable antisemitic act’ (Philissa Cramer, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Clean record: Ethics or political persecution (Spanish) (Fishel Szlajen, Infobae)

Legal Journal Number 2 (20): November (Spanish) (Observatorio de Libertad Religiosa de América Latina y El Caribe)

Faith leaders join to oppose Bill to legalise assisted suicide (The Church of England)

The assisted dying bill: safeguards are essential to prevent suicide (The Guardian)

Assisted dying: how to understand the increasingly angry debate between MPs over this controversial bill (Daniel Gover, The Conversation)

Father allowed to proceed with embryo surrogate treatment after death of mother: Court of Protection (Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)

Law and religion roundup – 24th November (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Austria's commitment to freedom of religion and belief: from Red Wednesday to international alliances (Vindobona)

Austria – Red Wednesday: Raising awareness for religious freedom in church and state (Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)

Denmark’s uprooting of settled residents from ‘ghettos’ forms part of aggressive plan to assimilate nonwhite inhabitants (Selma Hedlund, The Conversation)

Evangelical Church calls for preservation of asylum rights (German) (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland)

US House passes measure that could punish nonprofits Treasury Department decides are ‘terrorist’ (Beth Gazley, The Conversation)

With House passage of "Stop Terror-Financing Bill,' charities fear being targeted (Alex Daniels, The Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Nonprofit leaders lament House passage of ‘unconstitutional’ bill (Jeff Brumley, Baptist News Global)

House passes resolutions to combat Jew-hatred, strip funding from terror-linked nonprofits (Andrew Bernard, Jewish News Syndicate)

Around the web - 25 November 2024 (Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)

Food ministry can move ahead with RLUIPA and Free Exercise claims against city (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Americans use the Book of Revelation to talk about immigration – and always have (Yii-Jan Lin, The Conversation)

Ninth Circuit slaps down California’s denial of special ed funds for religious schools (William C. Duncan, Sutherland Institute)