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)

Articles of Interest - 13 July 2026 (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Middle East

Iran persecutes its Baha’i minority fiercely in a year of protests and war, rights groups say (Fatma Khaled, Associated Press)

Fears grow that entire Tehran church compound may be demolished (Article 18)

The government’s proposed kashrut bill: What it would change and why it matters (Ariel Finkelstein and Ayala Goldberg, Israel Democracy Institute)

Africa

Rwanda travelogue: Rwandan values for post-genocide resilience (M. Christian Green, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Mauritanian actors discuss migration, social cohesion and the role of dialogue (KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

Christians turn to tobacco farming despite religious objections (Cyril Zenda, Religion Unplugged)

Egypt tables new St. Catherine’s deal that would cement state control (Rana Mamdouh, Mada Masr)

Coptic Christians accuse Egypt of football apartheid (Jules Gomes, Middle East Forum)

Asia

Pope: respect for religious freedom is "fruitful" in Mongolia (Asia News)

Religious persecution in Uzbekistan going from bad to worse (Asia News)

In Muslim-majority Pakistan, some schools now have a Hindu curriculum (Jamaima Afridi, Religion Unplugged)

Statement by the NCCSL on prison reform following the Negombo Prison tragedy (Facebook, National Christian Council of Sri Lanka)

Xi Jinping’s ‘forging’ of ‘ethnic unity and progress’ (Michael Clarke, The Diplomat)

Irish EU presidency: European churches meet with Prime Minister Micheál Martin (Conference of European Churches)

Ukraine: Conscientious objectors convicted, jailed, held in military units: list (Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Macron warns of resurgent demons of antisemitism as France honors Alfred Dreyfus (Masha MacPherson, Associated Press)

UK says an Iran-backed group was behind attacks on Jewish community and bans Revolutionary Guard (Jill Lawless, Associated Press)

Church of England vicar wins legal settlement and overturns safeguarding blacklisting after seven-year battle over sermon on gender identity (Anglican Ink)

Man jailed for 16 months after antisemitic attack (BBC)

Evangelical Alliance in the Netherlands calls for compassion and high-quality palliative care after child's life is terminated (Chris Eyte, Christian Daily)

White House Faith Office visit (Instagram, BAPS Public Affairs)

‘Deseret Voices’ Episode 40: Protecting the freedom to choose — or reject — faith (Jane Clayson Johnson, Keira Farrimond, and Steven Watkins, Deseret News)

Adventist Church urges Federal Religious Liberty Commission to preserve church-state separation (André M. Wang, North Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists)

Religious schools that get public funds must follow anti-discrimination laws (Sean Scott, Religion Unplugged)

'It really did take me back to after 9/11': How Islamophobia roiled a Texas election (Fiona André, Religion News Service)

Muslim advocacy group fights for trust after Texas brands it a terrorist group (Ulaa Kuziez, Religion News Service)

Beckwith wants to ban Muslim call to prayer, raising legal concerns (Cate Charron, Indianapolis Star)