EVENT, 27 April 2024 (9AM - 6PM BST): New Perspectives on Revival & Renewal of the Muslim Civilization (Birkbeck, UK) (Islamic Courses)

EVENT, 23-25 April 2024: Oceania Perspectives on Human Dignity (Laie, Hawaii, USA) (Brigham Young University – Hawaii, The Human Dignity Initiative)

ONLINE COURSE, 25 April - 16 May 2024: Religions, Beliefs, and Human Rights: A Faith for Rights Approach (Instructor-Led) (The United States Institute of Peace)

EVENT, 18 April 2024 (1PM - 6PM PDT): Finding Common Ground: Protecting Freedom of Religion and Human Dignity (Las Vegas, NV, USA) (Las Vegas Alliance for Religious Freedom and Human Dignity)

EVENT, 18 April 2024 (6PM EDT): 3rd Annual Freedom of Religion Roundtable (Kennesaw, GA, USA) (Paul Murray, Hannah Clayson Smith, Barry Loudermilk, David Wilkerson, Alexandria Shuval-Weiner, Kemal Korucu, John H. Vaughn)

EVENT, 12 April 2024 (12PM PDT): 20th Annual Orange County Religion and the Law Symposium (Orange, CA, USA) (J. Reuben Clark Law Society)

EVENT SERIES, Spring 2024: Free Exercise Speaker Series (Yale Law School)

EVENT, 12 April 2024 (9AM MT): 2024 Religion, Culture & Diversity Symposium (Orem, Utah, USA) (Anthea Butler, Lauren Horn Griffin, Julie Ingersoll, Benjamin Park, Utah Valley University)

EVENT, 10 April 2024 (7:30AM - 5PM CDT): 11th Annual Iowa Religious Freedom Day: What Good is Religion in the 21st Century? (Des Moines, Iowa, USA)

EVENT, 8 April 2024 (8:30AM - 4:30PM MDT): War, Diplomacy, and the Human Rights Dialogue: New Approaches for Latter-day Saint Professionals (Provo, UT, USA) (Camille M Johnson, Paul Perrin, Brett Scharffs, Bill and April Bollard, Michael Frandsen, Lyn Burningham, Rachel Miner, Elizabeta Kitanovic, Medlir Mema, Shadman Bashir, Eric Jensen, James Patton, BYU Kennedy Center)

EVENT, 4 April 2024 (11AM ET): The 26th Annual Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion and Peace (Notre Dame, IN, USA) (Traci C. West, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies)

EVENT, 4 April 2024 (5PM ET): Claiming the Nation: Religion and Politics in the Philippines (Boston, MA, USA) (Jayeel Cornelio, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia)

VIRTUAL EVENT, 3 April 2024 (9:30AM ET): Harmony in Diversity | EP. 2 "Islam" with Prof. Husna Ahmad OBE PhD (European Union and United Nations Offices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

Vietnam: On the convictions of Vietnamese ethnic minority and religious freedom advocates (U.S. Department of State)

India: The intersection of Benedict Anderson’s “Imagined Communities” and Hindu Nationalism in India (Sahil, London School of Economics Religion and Global Society Blog)

India’s Muslims: An increasingly marginalized population (Lindsay Maizland, Council on Foreign Relations)

Cuba: 622 religious freedom violations recorded in 2023 (Evangelical Focus)

Cuba: LGBTQ-inclusive church in Cuba welcomes all in a country that once sent gay people to labor camps (Luis Andres Henao, Associated Press)

Articles of interest - 1 April 2024 (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Haiti: In crime-stricken Haiti, Catholic priests and nuns are targeted as kidnap victims (Eduardo Campos Lima, Religion News Service)

Peru bishops call for dialogue amid presidential scandal (Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

2024 Dialogue 360 Programme (KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

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

Iran: “The boot on my neck”: Iranian authorities’ crime of persecution against Baha’is in Iran (Human Rights Watch)

What is gender equality? (G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)

China: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly digest March 16-31 (Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Brazil: Congressman sues Public Ministry against MTST for religious intolerance (Portuguese) (Ana Carolina Curvello, Gazeta do Povo)

The Russian Orthodox Church and inner-Orthodox relations (Thomas Bremer, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

The Russian Orthodox Church and the Holy See: 70 years of political ecumenism (Pavlo Smytsnyuk, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

How the Russian Orthodox Church preserves international sympathies for Russia’s war against Ukraine (Regina Elsner, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

A moralist international under arms? Russia’s role in the global culture wars, prior to and during its war with Ukraine (Kristina Stoeckl, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Religious conservatism in war-time “culture wars”: Does the same stance on values represent an elective affinity with the geopolitical agenda of the Russian federation? (Alar Kilp, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Orthodox Churches in the Baltic States torn between Moscow and Constantinople (Sebastian Rimestad, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

The Russian Orthodox Church as a tool for Kremlin influence in the Balkans (Robert C. Blitt, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Calendars, prayerbooks, and chatgroups from the Russian-Ukrainian War (Nadieszda Kizenko, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Statement of religious leaders regarding Russian attacks on the Ukrainian power grid (Institute for Religious Freedom, Ukraine)

Russia: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly March 16-31 (Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

German military to get Islamic chaplaincy (Christoph Strack, Deutsche Welle)

Pope’s ‘white flag’ ironically sparks political civil war in Italy (John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Islamophobia in France: Boar head found near mosque (Jihane Rahhou, Morocco World News)

Boom in Muslim conversions to Christianity in France: How is the Church responding? (Solène Tadié, National Catholic Register)

Law and religion roundup – 31st March (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

What role do Churches have in modern society?: 'there is a way out of the darkness' (YouTube Video, GBNews)

JK Rowling in ‘arrest me’ challenge over hate crime law (James Cook and Paul Hastie, BBC News)

America can’t isolate the Taliban (Asfandyar Mir and Andrew Watkins, Foreign Affairs)

Around the web - 1 April 2024 (Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)

Statement from President Joe Biden on Easter (The White House)

New York’s governor is hiring her first Muslim Affairs director (Fiona André, Religion News Service)

Officials condemn antisemitic and anti-Israel vandalism at 2 Philadelphia-area synagogues (Andrew Lapin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Religious freedom, copyright royalties, and court review of agency determinations (Thomas Berg, Mirror of Justice Blog)

The politics of religion as Trump sells Bibles and Biden is criticized over Easter eggs (Zachary B. Wolf, CNN)