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)

Introduction to OJLR Special Issue: The New Catholic Integralism and Religious Anti-Liberalism (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion)

Global Interfaith Monitor No. 49 (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Australia

Religious motivation needs to stay in our terrorism laws (Australian Strategic Policy Institute)

Why is it so hard for unis to agree on a definition of ‘antisemitism’? (Mareike Riedel, The Conversation)

Asia

Japan’s anti-Muslim sentiment turns its sights on mosques (Shinji Kojima and Atsushi Yamagata, East Asia Forum)

Japan: After the Unification Church’s dissolution although no crime was committed (Masumi Fukuda, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

“Brainwashing” accusations and the persecution of The Church of Almighty God (Mia Li, Bitter Winter)

Filipino bishops fight stigma of mental illness (Paterno R. Esmaquel II, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Africa

Lawyers vow to fight on after Kenya court rejects Rastafarians' cannabis bid (Alison Hird, RFI)

COMSTECH and the OIC launch a program to train healthcare staff in Benin to reduce maternal mortality (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation)

Middle East and North Africa

Chaldean Patriarch Nona meets senior Iraqi officials to strengthen Christian community support through cooperation between Church and state (SyriacPress)

Egypt introduces new procedures governing Umrah trips (Egypt Today)

Canada

The nation and the veil: Quebec’s struggle with secularism and religious symbols (Cardus)

Open consultation: Tying the Knot: Reforming weddings law in England and Wales (Ministry of Justice, GOV.UK)

Human rights violations against Protestants continue in Turkey (Agos)

On the sidelines of the Women Ministerial Conference in Islamabad: Amb Dr. Tareg Bakheet meets with the Turkish Minister of Family Affairs to discuss strengthening partnership and supporting women’s empowerment (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation)

A wider vision of belonging in a shared Dutch society (Bahá’í World News Service)

Russian couple detained for reading bible in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia (Nigora Umarova, Kursiv)

Belarus: Polish priests "increasingly not allowed to continue their work" (Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Positive obligation under the ECHR to investigate religiously-motivated violence: Barsuk and Gyl (Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

USCIRF welcomes appointments of commissioners (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

USCIRF policy recommendations for 2026 (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Proposed Muslim cemetery splits Southern California residents (Madhiha Anis, Religion News Service)

The Free Exercise Clause and the Rights of Conscience (Donald L. Drakeman, Harvard University Press)

How Americans are engaged with news, politics, religion and civic life (Pew Research Center)

Defenders of religious liberty join for the sixth annual Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit (University of Notre Dame)

The Faith-Based Office at 25 years: Accomplishments, challenges and opportunities (Faith & Law)