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

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)

ESSAY COMPETITION, deadline 6 January 2025: William Kessler Essay Prize (UK Undergraduate and Graduate students) (Woolf Institute)

Indonesia inaugurates tunnel linking two iconic places of worship (Shia News Association)

Canada: After religious symbols law, Quebec eyes ban on public prayer: Where the province is headed on secularism (Antoni Nerestant, CBC News)

Canada: Policy brief: The risks of advance requests for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) (Rebecca Vachon and Andreae Seenyah, Cardus)

The religious rhetoric of COP29 (Kristian Noll, London School of Economics Religion and Global Society Blog)

Syria: Hoping for religious harmony, Christians in a Syrian town attend Mass (Umit Bektas and Tuvan Gumrukcu, Reuters)

Syria: What will the fall of al-Assad mean for Syria’s ancient Christian community? (Kevin Clarke, America)

Syria: Christians in Syria mark country’s transformation with tears as UN envoy urges an end to sanctions (Abby Sewell, Associated Press)

COP28: Reverent politics key to climate action (Lynet Otieno, The Standard)

Articles of interest - 16 December 2024 (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Iran pauses controversial new dress code law (BBC)

Iran releases songstress after brief arrest over concert without hijab (Iran International)

Epic in politics: benefits and detriments (Spanish) (Fishel Szlajen, Infobae)

Technology, AI and social media - The three horsemen of contemporary atrocity crimes (Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)

Fact Check: Sweden tightened laws on religious schools in 2022, did not ban them (Reuters)

Israel to shutter Ireland embassy, citing ‘antisemitic rhetoric of the Irish government’ (Philissa Cramer, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Hungary secures exemption of Patriarch Kirill from 15th EU sanctions package (Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Appointment of CNC Chair for Canterbury (David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Law and religion roundup – 15th December (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Churches seek pathways to just peace in times of war (Conference of European Churches)

Faith and fury: Rising anti-blasphemy extremism in Europe and its legal implications (Merlina Herbach and Niki Siampakou, International Centre for Counter-Terrorism)

Spanish Interfaith Dialogue Commission opposed repeal of law protecting religious sentiments (Orthodox Times)

‘They said we were American spies’: Priests describe Russia’s crackdown on Evangelicals in occupied Ukraine (Ivana Kottasová, Olga Voitovych and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN)

U.S. must insist on religious freedom in Syria (Deseret News)

Faith, education, and the challenge facing America (Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor)

Ohio could mandate public schools to allow third-party religious ed during school day (Kathryn Post, Religion News Service)

Outrage as Minnesota Satanists given holiday display at State Capitol (Andrew Stanton, Newsweek)

SNAP work requirement did not violate free exercise rights of plaintiff's adult children (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)