EVENT, 10 April 2025: 11th Annual Iowa Religious Freedom Day Celebration, "The Role of Religion in Peacemaking" (Des Moines, IA, USA) (Iowareligiousfreedomday.org)

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, 12 December 2024: Intro to Interfaith Engagement (United Religions Initiative)

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

Brazilian Supreme Court unanimously rejects attempt to ban religious symbols from public buildings (ADF International)

Brazil: STF forms majority to allow religious symbols in public buildings (Portuguese) (Agencia o Globo)

There is intolerance and discrimination in religious practices in Portuguese-speaking countries (Portuguese) (Notícias Em Direto)

Compassion beyond borders: Faith communities addressing the refugee crisis (Aminah Koshul, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Vietnam's jailing of Khmer monks violated religious freedom, rights group says (Reuters)

Bangladeshi court denies bail to Hindu leader who led rallies for minority protection (Julhas Alam, Associated Press)

Northern African Bishops warn against using the Bible to legitimize violence (Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Nicaragua: Radical changes to Nicaraguan Constitution are a blow to Catholic Church (Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Uzbekistan: Religious communities blocked from using own buildings, registering (Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

KAICIID making a difference in the global call to eliminate violence against women and girls (KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

ACN report: North Koreans in contact with Christians are sent to prison (Catholic News Agency)

South Africa: The battle in South Africa over religion and animal sacrifice (Vicky Abraham, Religion Unplugged)

The role of Ethiopian Orthodox priests in promoting vaccines (Calvin Manika, Religion Unplugged)

Iran: Religious issues and persecution – Monthly Digest November (Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Pakistan: Christian man wins right to correct religion on ID card after being victim of falsified conversion to Islam (The Christian Post)

India: Rajasthan set to implement stringent anti-conversion law (Devdiscourse)

India: Why Muslims in India are opposing changes to a property law (Meryl Sebastian & Neyaz Farooquee, BBC)

India: Christians banned from eight villages in Chhattisgarh State (CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)

Pope: Lack of respect for religious values leads to intolerance (Edoardo Giribaldi, Vatican News)

The younger generations’ fight for religious freedom (Hanna Seariac, Deseret News)

Religious freedom in Ukraine: Can we move on from misleading election narratives? (Dmytro Vovk and Elizabeth A. Clark, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

PM holds urgent meeting with communal leaders to discuss ‘abhorrent rise of antisemitism’ (Lee Harpin, Jewish News)

Balancing consent, religious beliefs, and human rights in posthumous embryo use: EF (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Religious voices must not be excluded from UK’s assisted suicide debate (Jerry Li, Religious Freedom Institute)

Irish Church objects to temporary closure of Catholic chapel in Dublin (Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

CEC contributed to European Parliament discussion on combating hate speech (Conference of European Churches)

35 years after the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the best interests of the child remain a contentious issue: A case study on the repatriation of children from ISIS (Andreas Sauermoser, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

Dániel Karsai v. Hungary: Further clarification of state obligations in the context of assisted dying (Stevie Martin, Strasbourg Observers)

CNE’s podcast: Abortion in the German election campaign; polarisation between Jews and Muslims in Denmark; and an EU ban on conversion therapy (Christian Network Europe)

The world’s red zones for Christians just got worse (Portuguese) (Antonio Rodrigues, Publico)

Border Patrol trains more chaplains as the job and polarizing immigration debate rattle agents (Giovanna Dell'Orto, Associated Press)

Congress passes resolution supporting minorities in Iraq after 10 years of ISIS (YouTube Video, EWTN)

Texas AG sues church-run homeless center alleging it has become a public nuisance (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Denial of historic preservation grants to churches violates 1st Amendment (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Oregon youth ministry fights for funding in federal appeals court (Liz Lykins, World)

Cultural revitalization and indigenization (JoAnne Wadsworth, G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)

After Vatican visit, Blinken praises Pope Francis's work on LGBTQ rights (Reuters)

Court rejects "Jewish, Zionist" teachers' and parents' lawsuit over allegedly anti-capitalist and anti-Zionist school curriculum (Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Christopher Brown sentenced in thwarted attack on Jewish community (Manhattan District Attorney's Office)

Jewish-American perspectives on U.S. foreign policy (Council on Foreign Relations)