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1st Piazza Grande Religion Journalism Award: Deadline nears for 2019 submissions from European and Mediterranean…
A REMINDER TO JOURNALISTS across Europe and around the Mediterranean basin that the deadline is looming for the first…
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IARJ co-founder Rachael Kohn honored by Commonwealth of Australia
All of us at the International Association of Religion Journalists are celebrating with our co-founder Rachael Kohn, who was honored recently with one of Australia's highest…
Ahead of the Trend: Aging Populations May Slow Global Secularization
Is there an inexorable trend toward secularization in the West as younger generations in nations from the U.S. to Switzerland are less likely to affiliate with organized…
IARJ and FSCIRE open new Piazza Grande Religion Journalism Award for European and Mediterranean Journalists
The International Association of Religion Journalists (IARJ) and the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII (FSCIRE), an…
IARJ joins with Committee to Protect Journalists in support of our member Erick Kabendera
The Committee to Protect Journalists has alerted the world to the arrest of journalist Erick Kabendera, who is an active member of The Association of…
Director’s Pespective: Endy Bayuni reports on U.S. gathering Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom
IARJ Executive Director Endy Bayuni, known around the world for his work as Senior Editor at the Jakarta Post, was in Washington D.C…
Journalists from Central and Eastern Europe discuss critical issues of religion in the news
This summer, journalists from Central and Eastern Europe gathered in Warsaw, Poland, for a conference exploring coverage of faith issues in public…
Journalists, scholars and human rights experts gather to stop human right abuses in SE Asia
“The Nexus between Freedom of Religion or Belief, and Freedom of Expression in Southeast Asia” seminar and workshop took place in Nusa Dua, a…
World Press Freedom Day Is a Reminder of the Dangers Faced by Honest Journalists
Marking this year’s United Nations World Press Freedom Day on May 3—I represented the IARJ on State of Belief, a global radio-and-internet broadcast, to…
Global Plus: End to American exceptionalism? Researchers find U.S. is part of Western drift toward secularism
Many researchers were startled by new reports that the Western trend toward secularism is also crossing the U.S., generation by…