VIRTUAL EVENT, 5 May 2026 (9AM EDT): 12th Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-Bassed Organizations in International Affairs (New York, NY, USA) (International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation)

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS, deadline 8 May 2026: Clinical Program 2026/2027 (Kraków) (Centre for Law and Religious Freedom, Jagiellonian University)

EVENT, 12 May 2026: Brussels Family Policy Exchange & 2026 European Family Values Award (European Union & International Affairs Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Sutherland Institute)

EVENT, 20 May 2026: Strengthening Religious Freedom Through Civil Dialogue (Chattanooga, TN, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council) (Bessie Smith Cultural Center and Chattanooga African American Museum, Chattanooga Faith Forum)

HYBRID EVENT, 29 May 2026: 12th Annual Law and Religious Freedom Conference (Kansas City, MO, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council) (University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law)

EVENT, 16 June 2026: Religious Freedom Annual Review: The USA at 250: Life, Religious Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Provo, Utah, USA) (International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS), Brigham Young University)

Combating religious hatred and violence against faith groups (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations)

Democracy and Religion in What State? State Projects, Sanitizing Politics, and Fracturing the Demos (Tobias Müller, Cambridge University Press)

Articles of interest - 4 May 2026 (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Humanity must end the arms race before the arms race ends humanity (Religions for Peace)

Asia

Sri Lankan Tamils demand return of ancestral land from military custody (Union of Catholic Asian News)

Tokyo cardinal calls faithful to defend human dignity, peace amid global tensions (Herald Malaysia Online)

FoRB conditions in Uzbekistan continue to backslide (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Won-Buddhism vows to expand suicide prevention programs nationwide (Lee Jae-yong, Seoul Economic Daily)

Malaysian man arrested for attacking Singapore churchgoers (Union of Catholic Asian News)

In Philippines, popular piety meets global conflict in 15-mi Walk for Peace (Paterno R. Esmaquel II, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Middle East

Israel acknowledges shelling of Greek Catholic monastery in Lebanon (Union of Orthodox Journalists)

Qatar accused of ‘eradicating’ Bahá’í minority (Akhtar Makoii, The Telegraph)

Africa

Government must guarantee family rights following Cassation Court ruling against Baha’i marriage recognition (Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights)

The talibé issue in Senegal: A call for urgent, collective action (Katherine Marshall and Jean Marc Tiendrebeogo, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Nigeria faces stricter US aid terms over ‘religious persecution’ (Gift Habib, Punch NG)

The Americas

Articulating a Christian ethic of disability in the context of MAiD (Heidi Janz, Cardus)

Jewish library and Chabad near Buenos Aires attacked, Argentine Jewish advocates say (Jackie Hajdenberg, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Australia

Australia begins hearings into Bondi Beach attack and rising antisemitism (Christine Chen, Reuters)

Ukraine imprisons five more brothers for their Christian neutrality (Jehovah's Witnesses)

‘No future for Jews of France:’ Scores of French Jewish doctors prepare to immigrate to Israel (Etgar Lefkovits, Jewish News Syndicate)

'For decades, there has been a negative selection process among the clergy in Russia': Metropolitan Evstratiy (Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Belarus: Regime official denies permission for 3 more Catholic priests to remain (Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

UK Muslim groups slam government for ‘scapegoating’ Gaza anti-genocide protests as antisemitism (Middle East Eye)

‘We can’t live behind walls’: Muslim-Jewish networks will not give up after Golders Green attack (Patrick Butler, Guardian)

Starmer urges tougher action against Gaza protests in UK following antisemitic attacks (Sylvia, Associated Press)

Police raid on AROPL in Crewe raises concerns over proportionality (Alessandro Amicarelli, Bitter Winter)

‘Like Race’? Is Religious Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage Analogous to Racism? (Peter Cumper and Tom Lewis, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion)

London antisemitic attack alarms European intelligence services (Jacques Follorou, Le Monde)

TN school board clears way for nation’s first religious charter school (Alliance Defending Freedom)

Will Massachusetts sour on religious freedom? (Michael McConnell and John Witte Jr., Wall Street Journal)

Not a godless region: Writing about faith in the Pacific Northwest (Tracy Simmons, Religion Unplugged)

No religious discrimination in firing employee because of controversy caused by employee's removing Israeli hostage posters (Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Seventh Day Adventist clinic receives $134,000 FEMA hazard mitigation grant (Pacific Daily News)

Tribes sue to halt exploratory drilling in Black Hills near sacred ceremonial site (Sarah Raza, Associated Press)