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10 June 2026
 

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Events Headlines

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)

International Headlines

Africa

Freedom of religion or belief in Sudan (House of Commons Library)

How Christians and Muslims promote peace in this Nigerian refugee camp (Ekpali Saint, Religion Unplugged)

Middle East

Knesset advances Basic Law bill equating Torah study with IDF service, despite coalition revolt (Ariela Karmel, Times of Israel)

Largest-ever Israeli interfaith delegation visits UAE (Steve Linde, Columbus Jewish News)

Asia

India’s Bengal pushes out Muslim Bangladeshis, deepening religious tensions (Gurvinder Singh, Al Jazeera)

Indonesian groups slam dispersal of Ahmadiyya youth camp (Union of Catholic Asian News)

PHC upholds man's life sentence in Quran desecration case (Pakistan Today)

Canada

Man charged in attempted arson of Montreal-area synagogue awaiting psychological evaluation (CBC News)

Europe Headlines

Police drop plans to record anti-Islam ‘hostility’ (Nick Gutteridge, The Telegraph)

Anti-Christian incidents May 2026 (Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)

Worldwide head of Ahmadiyya Muslim community calls for absolute justice for the sake of attaining global peace at 19th National Peace Symposium (Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK)

UK: HRWF reporting from Crewe about a Muslim community besieged by extremists (Hans Noot, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

CEC contributes to EU dialogue on ethical and social impact of artificial intelligence (Conference of European Churches)

Spain reports 86% rise in antisemitic incidents, as interior minister takes aim at ‘xenophobia’ (Shira Li Bartov, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Armenian PM wins reelection amid religious freedom concerns (Persecution.org)

United States Headlines

Michalyn Steele on why the progeny of Bowen v. Roy changed her view of the original 1986 case (Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

McCaul introduces amendment to support Tibetans' religious freedom, ability to select Dalai Lama successor (Michael McCaul, U.S. House of Representatives)

Critics say religious service protections could run afoul of right to free speech (Howard Fischer, Arizona Capitol Times)

Florida Attorney General issues opinion supporting religious release time education under Florida law (First Liberty)

Religious liberty at 250: America’s most radical idea (Bethany Mandel, Washington Examiner)

College football coach asks court to flag Washington State for religious targeting (Becket)

Faith leaders step into the vacuum as cities grapple with ‘teen takeovers’ (Clemente Lisi, Religion Unplugged)

Jewish leaders throw support behind bipartisan House antisemitism bill (Grace Gilson, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Trump’s meeting with Orthodox Christian patriarch sows confusion (David I. Klein, Religion News Service)

A Catholic mayor commissioned statues of saints. Residents revolted. (Jenna Russell, The New York Times)


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