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Events Headlines
EVENT, 23-25 April 2024: Oceania Perspectives on Human Dignity (Laie, Hawaii, USA)
(Brigham Young University – Hawaii, The Human Dignity Initiative)
CALL FOR PAPERS, abstracts due 15 March 2024: Islamophobia, antisemitism and philosemitism after October 7
(Cambridge Interfaith Programme)
EVENT, 5 March 2024 (5PM GMT): Palace of Westminster: Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) and Business (London, UK)
(All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
EVENT, 4 March 2024 (3PM CET): Inspire Inclusion: Empowering women's freedom of religion or belief, European Parliament (Brussels, Belgium)
(Ms. Anga Haga MEP (EPP, Netherlands), European Union & International Affairs Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
HYBRID EVENT, 2-3 March 2024: Fall of the Ottomans to the OIC - Reflections, Dreams & Aspirations of Power
(Islamic Courses, a project of Islamic Circles)
HYBRID EVENT, 29 February 2024 (10AM GMT+1): Assessing China’s Governance and Human Rights Landscape (Brussels, Belgium)
(Benedict Rogers, Geoffrey Nice, Roy Chun Lee, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
WEBINAR, 27 February 2024 (4PM CET): Strengthening Families: A Cornerstone of Sustainable Societies. Episode 1: Families: The foundation of economic prosperity
(Michał A. Michalski, Bradford Wilcox, Vincenzo Bassi, and Aimee Winder Newton, European Union & International Affairs Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
HYBRID EVENT, 27 February 2024 (6:30PM ET): "Faith Under Fire", a panel and discussion on Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela (Miami, Florida, USA)
(Outreach Aid to the Americas)
International Headlines
Canadian, Ukrainian religious leaders call for justice, peace in Ukraine as war enters third year
(Gina Christian, OSV News)
Canada: Judge rules killer of London, Ont., Muslim family committed terrorism, calling it a 'textbook example'
(Kate Dubinski, CBC News)
Canada: Muslim groups say MPs won't be welcome in mosques until they call for Gaza ceasefire
(Yasmine Hassan and Raffy Boudjikanian, CBC News)
Lebanon: Podcast Episode 026 | National report on freedom of religion or belief
(Fadi Hachem, Religious Freedom Institute)
Argentina’s Jewish umbrella group condemns Milei’s decision to shutter country’s anti-discrimination office
(Juan Melamed, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Tajikistan: Criminal cases against human rights defenders, relatives threatened
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Empowering dialogue for peace: Insights from KAICIID's 2024 fellows programme in Costa Rica
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
China: Mosque in China remodeled with pagodas, communist slogans
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
China arrests at least 100 Tibetans over dam project protests
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Religious persecution in Latin America today
(Rick Plasterer, Juicy Ecumenism, Institute on Religion and Democracy)
Al-Azhar University president urges interfaith dialogue to promote peace
(International Quran News Agency (IQNA))
Nigeria: Subsidising religious pilgrimage, irresponsible
(Punch)
Malaysia’s court system struggles with the rise of state-level theocracy
(Aizat Shamsuddin, The Diplomat)
Pakistan: Ashrafi stresses religious diversity as key to Pakistan’s harmony
(Associated Press of Pakistan)
Australia: Voluntary assisted dying is different to suicide. But federal laws conflate them and restrict access to telehealth
(Michaela Estell Okninski, Marc Trabsky, and Neera Bhatia, The Conversation)
New Zealand: Christchurch terrorist discussed attacks online a year before carrying them out, new research reveals
(Chris Wilson, Ethan Renner, Jack Smylie, and Michal Dziwulski, The Conversation)
Europe Headlines
Mosque in Sweden's capital again targeted by Islamophobes with threatening graffiti
(Alexandra Enberg, Anadolu Agency)
Macron broods over assisted dying law at dinner with faith leaders
(Tom Heneghan, The Tablet)
Denmark records highest number of antisemitic incidents since WWII, part of a grim European trend
(Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press)
European diplomats have condemned the closed-door trial of a Catholic activist in Belarus
(Yuras Karmanau, Associated Press)
Belarus cracks down on clergy who supported protests of its authoritarian leader
(Yuras Karmanau, Associated Press)
A call for Christian leaders to denounce the Russian Orthodox Church
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Germany's Catholic Church speaks out against far right
(Christoph Strack, Deutsche Welle)
Bridging faiths: Uniting through dialogue in Porto – KAICIID’s Network for Dialogue supported initiative
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
“Economy should serve humanity and promote the dignity of every person”, says COMECE at EP conference on Social Market Economy
(The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))
Austrian Bishop Zsifkovics visits Brussels for a series of meetings with EU representatives
(The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))
The construction of a right to birth registration in European human rights law: the case of G.T.B. v Spain
(Sarah Trotter, Strasbourg Observers)
Beyond Opuz v. Turkey: the CJEU’s judgment in WS and the refugee law consequences of the state’s failure to protect victims of domestic violence
(Türkan Ertuna Lagrand, Strasbourg Observers)
Interfaith charity to close after government funding pulled
(Aleem Maqbool, BBC News)
Government criticised for shutting down Inter Faith Network after nearly 40 years
(Lee Harpin, Jewish News)
Banning ‘conversion therapy’ is a threat to religious freedom
(Jacob Williams, Spiked)
Church of England mulls asylum seeker change amid conversion row
(Muvija M, Reuters)
United States Headlines
Texas AG seeks to liquidate Catholic agency providing services to migrants
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
El Paso bishop defends migrant shelter under attack by Texas attorney general
(John Lavenburg, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Dressed to express: How dress codes discriminate against Texas students and must be changed
(ACLU Texas)
Georgia bill aims to protect religious liberty. Opponents say it’s a license to discriminate
(Jeff Amy, Associated Press)
Gay rights advocates in Kentucky say expansion to religious freedom law would hurt LGBTQ+ safeguards
(Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press)
Trump promises a revival of Christian power in speech to National Religious Broadcasters
(Bob Smietana, Religion News Service)
Which states are advancing bills to help protect religious freedom?
(Jorge Gomez, First Liberty)
Race and LGBTQ issues in K-12 schools
(Luona Lin, Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Kiley Hurst and Dana Braga, Pew Research Center)
Contractual Commitments and the Right to Change Religions
(Michael A. Helfand, SSRN)
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