This summer, the Center for Law and Religion co-hosted a conference in Rome, “International Religious Freedom and the Global Clash of Values,” with the St. John’s Center for International and Comparative Law and LUMSA University. We were honored that Pope Francis offered some remarks on religious freedom to kick off the conference. Pictures of various conference-related events can be found below.

Rome Conference 2014

Professor Mark L. Movsesian addresses the class

Class on international religious freedom at St. John’s, Rome campus

Professor Marc O. DeGirolami addresses the class

Audience members at the conference

Rome Conference 2014

Rome Conference 2014

Professors Tom Farr and Marc O. DeGirolami

Rome Conference 2014

U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Dr. Heiner Bielefeldt

Rome Conference 2014

Professor Mark L. Movsesian addresses the conference

Panel on The Politics of International Religious Freedom

U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Ken Hackett

Professor Pasquale Annicchino

Professor Margaret E. McGuinness

Rome Conference 2014

Professor Roberto Zaccaria

Professor Francisca Pérez-Madrid

Rome Conference 2014

Professor Marco Ventura

Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im

Professor Mark L. Movsesian

Rome Conference 2014

Professor Olivier Roy

Panel on Christian and Muslim Perspectives on International Religious Freedom

Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute

Rome Conference 2014

Rector Giuseppe Dalla Torre delivers concluding remarks

Rector Giuseppe Dalla Torre and Dean Michael A. Simons

Rome Conference 2014

Professor Mark L. Movsesian and Pope Francis

In St. Peter’s Square before the papal audience

Awaiting Pope Francis

Dean Michael A. Simons and Pope Francis