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)

An Evangelical update to just war theory (Jay Thomas, First Things)

Brainwashing returns through trafficking laws: A new threat to religious freedom (Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)

Africa

Nigerian authorities arrest controversial polygamous pastor (K.C. Nwajei, Roy's Report)

Morocco’s religious model, bulwark against extremism, IEGA report (The North Africa Post)

Gaddafi-built mosque sparks controversy under Nyerere’s leadership (Tanzania Insight)

Abubaker Ahmed Mohamed and 28 Others v. Ethiopia: State repression of Muslim identity, political justice, and landmark ACHPR decision (Addis Standard)

How digital platforms fuel ethno-religious hate speech in Nigeria (Fact Check Hub)

Middle East

Iran condemns Zionists desecration of mosques and attacks on Palestinians in West Bank (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran)

Coexistence and religious diversity highlighted (GDN Online)

Asia

South Korea arrests Shincheonji church leader for meddling in politics, media report (Reuters)

Indonesian clerics seek criminalization of LGBT advocacy (Union of Catholic Asian News)

Canada

Regina mosque's weekly call to prayer on hold after backlash (Randi LaRocque, CBC News)

Turkey’s religious authority urges families to have children as birthrate falls (Turkish Minute)

Ukraine: Conscientious objector's violent death at military base "being covered up"? (Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Vandalism, taunts and hijabs torn off: Muslim leaders in UK say hate crime hitting new levels (Aamna Mohdin, The Guardian)

Even Denmark’s left wants the Islamic call to prayer banned (Zolta Győri, The European Conservative)

“Artificial Intelligence must serve the human person”, COMECE stresses at Article 17 TFEU Seminar (The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))

Moves to decriminalize abortion in Germany decried by evangelical alliance leader (Chris Eyte, Christian Daily)

Germany: Five-meter high Memorial in Berlin for Jehovah’s Witnesses persecuted by the Nazis (Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

A Trump commission urges ‘bridges’ between church and state in sweeping draft report (Peter Smith, Associated Press)

Rep. Huffman responds to Trump Administration Commission’s report to tear down wall between church and state. (Jared Huffman, U.S. House of Representatives)

When city rules chill home worship, courts should step in (William C. Duncan, Sutherland Institute)

American apostasy at 250 (Thomas F. Farr, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)

Why a Supreme Court case over a haircut could be a setback for religious liberty (Charles J. Russo, The Conversation)

Supreme Court rules Rastafari man can’t sue Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocks (Mark Sherman, Associated Press)

Supreme Court rejects suit against Cisco for aiding persecution of Falun Gong. (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Catholic family and preschools urge Supreme Court to end Colorado’s religious discrimination (Becket)

700+ US rabbis sign letter urging Mamdani to apologize for calling AIPAC ‘monsters’ (Grace Gilson, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Bible stories are approved as required reading in Texas public schools (Jamie Stengle and John Hanna, Associated Press)

Alaska Airlines must face religious bias claims by workers who opposed LGBTQ bill (Daniel Wiessner, Reuters)

America at 250: Hinduism’s hidden place in its founding (Syama Allard, Hindu American Foundation)

Massachusetts Supreme Court invalidates initiative petition that excludes religious housing from rent controls. (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Faith, law and peacebuilding (John Andrew Quizana, BYU–Hawaii News)