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)

EVENT, 1-3 September 2026: 8th ICLARS Biennial Conference: State Neutrality and Cooperation with Religion: Protecting Freedom of Religion or Belief without Discrimination (Palermo, Italy) (International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies)

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2026): Intermediate actors and religious accommodations (International Journal for Religious Freedom)

Asia

In divided Sri Lanka, monks create display of interfaith unity (Sonia Sarkar, Religion Unplugged)

New ecumenical group rebukes Philippine senator for 'blasphemy' (Paterno R. Esmaquel II, Union of Catholic Asian News)

Middle East

Lebanon's Christians flee Tyre, fearing Israel's campaign will prevent return (Nazih Osseiran and Emilie Madi, Reuters)

Bahrain bans mourning for Islamic revolution’s martyred leader (International Quran News Agency (IQNA))

Nigeria

UN expert on freedom of religion or belief to visit Nigeria (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations)

Latin America

Legal Journal Number 6 (21): May 2026 (Spanish) (Observatorio de Libertad Religiosa de América Latina y El Caribe)

Pope visiting ‘dock of shame’ in Canary Islands where migrants slept in squalor (Nicole Winfield, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Caritas in the Canary Islands: ‘The Church is present where the state is not' (Kielce Gussie, Vatican News)

Italy violated Jehovah’s Witnesses’ rights and must pay them 18,000 EUR, ECHR said (Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Italy formally recognises Sanatana Dharma Samgha as official religious denomination amid PM Modi's visit (Firstpost)

Sarah Mullally’s Church of England: A national church with a global voice (Harriet Pettifer, London School of Economics Religion and Global Society Blog)

European Court of Human Rights unanimously affirms freedom to peacefully share faith (Jehovah's Witnesses)

International Journal for Religious Freedom

Identity choice, intercultural learning and inclusive citizenship (Pier-Luc Dupont Picard, Thomas Sealy, Tariq Modood, International Journal for Religious Freedom)

Reasonable accommodation for religious minorities through trade unions and collective bargaining (Michael Luther, International Journal for Religious Freedom)

Accommodating religious minorities before the EU Court of Justice (Costanza Nardocci, International Journal for Religious Freedom)

Lawmakers want Governor to support religious freedom following Lt. Gov’s comments (Benjamin Thorp, WFYI)

Exploring diversity as a path to lasting peace (Bahá’í World News Service)

Mosques face increasing challenges to provide security amid growing anti-Muslim fervor (Ulaa Kuziez and Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Ramadan remark revives fired economist's bias case against Energy Department (Carleen Bongat, Human Resources Director)

Legal Spirits 078: A short take on religion in the military (Mark Movsesian, Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)