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)

EVENT, 18 September 2026: Idaho Religious Freedom Summit (Boise, Idaho, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council)

EVENT, 14 October 2026: Fourth Annual Interfaith Symposium: Faith, Doubt, and the Next Generation (Chicago, IL, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council) (Interfaith Chicago)

EVENT, 15 October 2026: The US Constitution: Where Separation and Unity Meet (Ames, IA, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council) (Iowa Religious Freedom Day)

EVENT, 22 October 2026: 9th Annual Summit for Religious Freedom (Dallas, TX, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council) (DFW Alliance for Religious Freedom)

New Cambridge white paper on religions and economic development (Cambridge Interfaith Programme)

Why religious freedom matters for democratic peace and prosperity (Allen D. Hertzke, Institute for Global Engagement)

Middle East

Archbishop of the Episcopal Church: Respecting the faith of others is a practical commitment beyond dialogue, and Christian–Muslim relations centers are essential for building peace (Anglican Ink)

IGE joins humanitarian delegation to Syria, meeting senior government and religious leaders (Institute for Global Engagement)

Asia

Uzbekistan considers easing restrictions on religious education for minors (Daryo)

Nga: Govt preparing nationwide inventory of sites for non-Muslim houses of worship (Zaf Seraj and Amalia Azmi, New Straits Times)

Vietnam seeks practical roadmap for revised Law on Belief and Religion (Vietnam Net Global)

China: Freedom House welcomes release of Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, calls on CCP to release other detained Zion Church members and all political prisoners (Freedom House)

In East India, a Marian shrine draws in Christian, Hindu and Muslim pilgrims (Priyadarshini Sen, Religion News Service)

The Americas

US sanctions are harming the Cuban Catholic Church, the island’s hope (Jeffrey von Arx, Religion News Service)

English court set to rule on final challenge to Trinidad’s gay sex ban (Dánica Coto, Associated Press)

Australia

Defining the Boundaries of Church and State: Legal Establishment of Churches in Australia (Benjamin B Saunders, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion)

Estonia gives Orthodox church 6 months to choose between God and the Kremlin (Johannes Voltri, Eesti Rahvusringhääling)

Armenia’s Jews hope Israeli recognition of 1915 Ottoman genocide will jumpstart bilateral ties (Larry Luxner, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Germany’s Federal Court of Justice backs Jehovah’s Witnesses in Kusserow case (Jehovah's Witnesses)

Europe must not ignore Egypt's persecuted Baha'is (Nikos Papandreou, Euronews)

European Parliament strongly condemns ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria following village massacre (ADF International)

Chief Rabbi urges Church of England to reject ‘genocide’ report ahead of Synod vote (Annabel Sinclair, Jewish News)

'A choice to die will become a duty to die': Churches challenge assisted dying plan for the Isle of Man (Chris Eyte, Christian Daily)

Citing synagogue protests, Ann Arbor aims to adopt new law to protect places of worship (Ryan Stanton, MLive)

A country’s story, still being written (Bahá’í World News Service)

Amicus brief: Missionaries of Saint John the Baptist v. Frederic (U.S. Supreme Court) (Free Exercise Clinic, Yale Law School)

Webinar: Voting rights and religious liberty (Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Why removing a distinct religious code for Native American military service members will make their needs invisible (Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation)

Muslims and religiously unaffiliated view Palestinians more favorably than other groups do (Pew Research Center)

New polls show plummeting support among faith groups for Israeli government, Netanyahu (Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)