EVENT, 22 March 2025: A Religious Freedom Symposium (Columbia, SC, USA) (Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate)

EVENT, 21-23 February 2025: Freedom to Do, to Be, and to Become: Enhancing Individuals' Opportunities to Believe and Live as They Choose Within the Framework of the Law (Auckland, New Zealand) (ICLRS, University of Waikato Te Piringa – Faculty of Law, Religious Freedom and Human Dignity Initiative at BYU-H, J. Reuben Clark Law Society)

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)

EVENT, 28 January 2025 (8AM GMT+1): Freedom of Religion or Belief in 2025: The European Union and the Year Ahead (Brussels, Belgium) (European Union & International Affairs Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

India: Muslim homes burned down after Hindu-Muslim elopement (CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)

India: Hindu persecution against Christians increases and reaches 800 cases. They also seek to apply a new anti-Christian law India: Hindu persecution against Christians increases and reaches 800 cases. They also seek to apply a new anti-Christian law (Zenit)

Pope welcomes Cuba’s prisoner release following talks with Vatican as part of long-standing dialogue (Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)

Pope praises Buddhist revival in post-Soviet Mongolia (Joseph Tulloch, Vatican News)

Human Freedom Index 2024 (Cato Institute and the Fraser Institute)

In Conversation: Podcast explores BIC’s contributions to the discourse on societal harmony (Bahá’í World News Service)

Articles of interest - 20 January 2025 (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Religious persecution in Burma is becoming a regional crisis (Dr. Sasa and Sam Brownback, Newsweek)

Uzbekistan: Eight Muslim prisoners of conscience tortured, handed long jail sentences (Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

Secularity, dignity, and human rights: A review of Human Rights in a Divided World by David Hollenbach, S.J. (David Little, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Building values-based communities: A shared responsibility (KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

Indonesia: Church leaders slam Indonesian forces' denial of Papua refugees (Union of Catholic Asian News)

2025/4 “The Impact and Complexity of Saudi Funding on the Dissemination of Wahhabism and Salafism in Indonesia” (A’an Suryana, Yusof Ishak Institute)

Iranians punished with longer prison sentences for practicing Christianity (Clemente Lisi, Religion Unplugged)

Newly released WCC video addresses freedom of worship in Jerusalem (World Council of Churches)

Egypt: MRG urges action on minority and indigenous rights (Minority Rights Group)

Brazil: Religious intolerance in Brazil (Portuguese) (Ivanir dos Santos, ICL Noticias)

Brazil: Law that authorizes the emission of noise levels above the limit in religious temples is unconstitutional, decides OE (Portuguese) (Comunicação Social, TJSP)

Brazil: Combating religious intolerance and midwives are highlighted (Portuguese) (Rilton Pimentel, Agencia Brasil)

Psychedelics and religion: A complex relationship (Alberto Cavallarin and Hans Van Eyghen, London School of Economics Religion and Global Society Blog)

Parliamentary committee supports legislative initiative to establish National Day of Prayer (Institute for Religious Freedom, Ukraine)

Law and religion roundup – 19th January (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Mandatory Reporting Bill [HL], Second Reading (David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Russia: Religious issues and persecution: Bimonthly Digest January 01-15 (Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

X and Facebook toughen EU pledge to combat hate speech (AFP, Barron's)

Poland halves number of weekly religion classes in schools (Notes from Poland)

Around the web - 20 January 2025 (Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)

U.S. bishops’ latest religious liberty concern: the government threatening their work with migrants (Connor Hartigan, America: The Jesuit Review)

Idaho Army National Guard sued for “No Christians in Command” policy (Liberty Counsel)

These religious leaders played starring roles in Trump’s second inauguration (Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)

At inauguration, Trump says he was 'saved by God to make America great again' (Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)

Texas could join Louisiana with a law to require the Ten Commandments in classrooms (Andrew Schneider, NPR)

Texas has a perverse idea of religious freedom (The New York Times)

Justices take up Maryland parents’ challenge to LGBTQ books in schools (Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)

Atheist legal group sues city over church rental property tax exemption (Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)