EVENT, 6 February 2025: Religious Freedom in America (Washington, DC, USA) (National Council for Religious Freedom)

EVENT, 6 February 2025: National Prayer Breakfast (Washington, DC, USA)

EVENT, 4-5 February 2025: IRF Summit 2025 (Washington, DC, USA)

EVENT, 3 February 2025: Global Faith Forum: Together for Peace in a Time of Outrage (Washington, DC, USA) (Multi-Faith Neighbors Network)

EVENT, 3 February 2025: IRF Summit University Partnership Program 2025 (Washington, DC, USA) (IRF Summit)

CALL FOR PAPERS, deadline 31 January 2025: Religious Freedom in Africa (International Journal for Religious Freedom)

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS, deadline for submission 31 January 2025: Young Scholars Fellowship at Oxford (International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS), Brigham Young University)

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)

WEBINAR, 12 December 2024 (12PM ET): The Geopolitics of Religion and Culture in Asia (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

HYBRID EVENT, 10 December 2024 (10AM in Rio de Janeiro): Autonomia constitucional do Direito Religioso (Portuguese) (Instituto dos Advogados Brasileiros)

Australian leader blames antisemitism for arson that extensively damaged a Melbourne synagogue (Rod McGuirk, Associated Press)

Australia: Protest outside places of worship could be banned in NSW after Great Synagogue incident (Max Maddison, Sydney Morning Herald)

Understanding and upholding freedom of religion or belief (YouTube Video, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU))

The Role of Religious Actors in Population Dynamics: Insights from the African Dialogues on Faith and Demography (Berlin Institute for Population and Development)

Sri Lanka: Letter to President Dissanayake regarding human rights recommendations for the new Sri Lankan government (Human Rights Watch)

Thailand: Phuket Islamic Ethics Training Center opens (Phuket News)

WCC advocates faith-based solutions for land restoration at the Desertification COP16 (World Council of Churches)

In Zambia, correct information about HIV is crucial—and churches can help (World Council of Churches)

Religious people need to be heard more, defended Lutheran leader (Portuguese) (Instituto Humanitas Unisinos)

India: Waqf bill: Why Indian Muslims worry about Modi plan for $14bn endowments (Al Jazeera)

India: SC forms special bench to hear challenges to Places of Worship Act (Jamiat UlamaiHind, Inkl)

India: Hindu governing body shuts out Muslim vendors from world's largest religious festival (Priyadarshini Sen, Religion News Service)

Canada: Quebec premier says he wants to stop people from praying in public (Matthew Lapierre and Verity Stevenson, CBC News)

Trump and Prince William headline guest list at Notre-Dame reopening (Ségolène Le Stradic, The New York Times)

An archbishop's knock formally restores Notre Dame to life as winds howl and heads of state look on (Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Associated Press)

The cost of heritage: Notre Dame rises from the ashes, but will it remain free for all? (Chloe Preece, The Conversation)

Faith in Chains: Analysis of the Religious and Political Situation in Belarus (Sergey Rakhuba, Mission Eurasia)

Belarus: Concern and secrecy surround compulsory re-registration process (Olga Glace, Forum 18 News Service)

Religious minorities facing attacks in Belarus, charity says (Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Russia: Religious issues and persecution – Bimonthly Digest November 16-30 (Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

State assisting renovation of Hilandar Monastery (The Government of the Republic of Serbia)

Religious freedom experts call for better protection of religious freedom in Europe (Evangelical Focus)

Faith@Work Across the UK: Wales, Scotland & England (Brian Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

Lord Alton elected Chair of Joint Committee on Human Rights (UK Parliament)

Obama makes plea for pluralism, citing interfaith partnerships, megachurches (Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics (Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson, InterVarsity Press)

Senate approves move to add American Jewish history museum to Smithsonian (Fiona André, Religion News Service)

Why Christians should care about Oak Flat (Robert P. George, First Things)

Religious parents & schools head to court to protect faith-based education (Becket)

Public school to allow bible club after accusations of religious discrimination (Ryan Mills, National Review)

Two North Jersey churches win round in religious discrimination suit over historic grants (Deena Yellin, North Jersey)

Texas Supreme Court to consider religious freedom question in Brackenridge Park restoration plans (Jack Morgan, Texas Public Radio)

Ministerial exception is affirmative defense, not jurisdictional bar (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)