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Global Plus: My Freedoms Are Your Freedoms! The price of religious freedom denied.
This is a perilous period for religious freedom throughout the world. Most large countries officially proclaim religious freedom—but a growing body of…
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Tips for Journalists on Covering Islam: Fresh Ideas You Can Use Today
All journalists regularly covering religion around the world find themselves reporting on Islam and, in 2019, we encounter extreme voices—fueled by a rising tide of…
Meet Our Regional Representatives: Elisa Di Benedetto
As we continue our series of profiles of our IARJ Regional Representatives, we share inspiring words from Elisa Di Benedetto (our representative for Europe). Even though she focuses on…
Meet Our Regional Representatives: Rachael Kohn
In our second profile of our IARJ Regional Representatives, Rachel Kohn (our representative for Australasia) reports on some of the milestones in her own career of covering religion around the…
Global Plus: Can the Catholic Church Change? Pope Francis and the long, winding road to revitalizing a troubled…
This latest Global Plus column comes from the journalist with the closest, ongoing access to Pope Francis: Sergio Rubin…
Meet Our Regional Representatives: Peggy Fletcher Stack
In a series of profiles of the IARJ's Regional Representatives, Peggy Fletcher Stack (our representative for the United States) describes the importance of this specialty in journalism…
Global Plus—Baring souls: How modest fashion is upending anti-Islamic bias and empowering woman of all faiths
Reina Lewis examines changing styles and expectations about Muslim women's fashions. Reina is Artscom Centenary Professor of…
Why journalists should welcome the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The IARJ not only fully complies with the EU's new data protection law—we welcome it. In this new column, we explain why journalists around the world…
Breaking good: Scholars discuss how religion and science can work together
What happens when well-known speakers are brought together to fill an auditorium to discuss the compatibility of religion and science? Too often a circus in which…
Global Plus: Breaking barriers, increasing understanding, one joke at a time
Lina Molokotos-Liederman, a researcher in sociology of religion in London, writes about the many connections between humor and religion. All of us feel…