EVENT, 14 June 2026: Flag Day Fireside: Discussion on the Blessings of Religious Liberty (Nashua, New Hampshire, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council)

EVENT, 15 June 2026: RFAC Dinner (Provo, Utah, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council)

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)

EVENT, 30 August 2026: Festival of Faiths (Indianapolis, IN, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council)

Latin America

Carney says Jewish Canadians are being 'brutally targeted' and the country is failing them (Christopher Nardi, National Post)

Nicaraguan advocate laments ‘silence’ about Catholic persecution (Madalaine Elhabbal, EWTN News)

Trump’s designation of Brazilian criminal groups as terrorists concerns clergy (Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Protection on paper: The situation of freedom of religion or belief in Mexico (CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)

Asia

Christians arrested in Uttar Pradesh for holding prayer meeting (Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

One arrested in Kathmandu for inciting religious hatred (Nepal News)

Kyrgyzstan: Secret police's latest target: Baptists (Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Christians slam ‘conversion’ remark by Nepali parliamentarian (Union of Catholic Asian News)

Montagnard pastor and congregant arrested for 'undermining national unity' (CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)

Buddha's Birthday Celebration: A vivid testament to Vietnam's policy of religious freedom. (Báo Quốc Tế)

A cathedral, Ho Chi Minh, and a Catholic backlash (Union of Catholic Asian News)

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

Middle East

New patriarch assumes role in Iraq in one of Middle East’s most important Christian churches (Associated Press)

Ultra-Orthodox protesters block roads and trains across Israel over military draft (Melanie Lidman and Samy Magdy, Associated Press)

Lebanon, Gaza and the Holy Land: Christians caught between war, humanitarian collapse and a struggle for religious freedom (Zenit)

Sikhs 'demonised' after murder, says community leader (Ethan Gudge, BBC)

WCC co-organizes Vatican conference on building interreligious fraternity in Europe (World Council of Churches)

Germany’s church tax faces rights scrutiny (The European Times)

How the Alevi community came to thrive in Germany (Ceyda Nurtsch, Deutsche Welle)

The destruction of churches and the battle over a nation’s future (Mariya Manzhos, Deseret News)

New law would require priests to break seal of Confession (Thomas Colsy, Catholic Herald)

Religion and the Russia-Ukraine War: A Primer (Denys Brylov, Tetiana Kalenychenko, Peter Mandaville, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

In good faith? The federal government’s long road to rebuilding trust with faith-based partners (Katie Thompson, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Presidential message on Global Coptic Day (The White House)

Rep. Tom Suozzi: Faith should be freely embraced, not politically imposed (America: The Jesuit Review)

Muslim voices on AI, human dignity, and the G20 USA agenda (G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)

How Democrats turned on religious freedom (Thomas F. Farr, First Things)

A faith-based movement is destroying guns — and making them garden tools (Alma Beauvais, Religion Unplugged)

The Pope addressed AI. Can employees reject it for religious reasons? (Greta Cross, USA Today)

Chicago mayor sees Pope Leo XIV as key ally on social justice, migration after Vatican meeting (Andrea Rosa and Giada Zampano, Religion News Service)

Why there are (and should be) Constitutional constraints on government religious speech (Alan Brownstein and Vikram Amar, Justia)

2nd Circuit: USCIS rejection of Yemeni guardianships as equivalent to adoption did not violate RFRA (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)