The African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ACLARS) has come a long way – literally and metaphorically – since its establishment in Ghana in 2013 for an inaugural symposium under the leadership of Professor Kofi Quashigah, then Dean of the Law School at the University of Accra. It subsequently reconvened in South Africa (2014), Namibia (2015), Ethiopia (2016) and Morocco (2017). The proceedings of the Morocco meeting, Religion, Law and Security in Africa, have just been published. The 2018 conference in Nigeria was an ambitious affair. It was preceded by an intensive study programme at Nile University, also in Abuja, hosted by the West African Regional Center for Law and Religion Studies (WARCLARS), under the direction of Professor Akin Ibidapo-Obe, from the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos. The pioneering work of WARCLARS in creating a curriculum for law and religion studies from a uniquely African standpoint was warmly welcomed, and this was presented as part of a separate symposium held at Nile University in the days immediately preceding the ACLARS conference. Religious leaders were well represented, including Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nigeria, and I was privileged to bring greetings from Anglican Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, Primate of All Nigeria, following a private meeting on the Feast of Pentecost. While the focus of the various contributions was on the position within the wide and diverse continent of Africa, there were a number of high-level international contributions, particularly the keynote speech of Jan Figel, EU Special Envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief outside the European Union. The Nigerian judiciary was similarly well represented, with papers delivered by several justices of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals and the Federal High Court.

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非洲法律与宗教研究联合会第六届会议：法律、宗教与人类繁荣

非洲法律与宗教研究联盟 (ACLARS) 自 2013 年在加纳成立以来，在时任加纳大学法学院院长 Kofi Quashigah 教授的领导下成立了首届研讨会，并取得了长足的进步——无论是字面上的还是隐喻的——阿克拉。随后在南非（2014 年）、纳米比亚（2015 年）、埃塞俄比亚（2016 年）和摩洛哥（2017 年）再次召开会议。摩洛哥会议纪要“非洲的宗教、法律和安全”刚刚出版。2018 年在尼日利亚举行的会议是一项雄心勃勃的活动。在此之前，尼罗河大学也在阿布贾开展了一项强化学习计划，该计划由西非法律和宗教研究区域中心 (WARCLARS) 主办，由阿布扎比大学法学院的 Akin Ibidapo-Obe 教授指导。拉各斯。WARCLARS 在从独特的非洲角度创建法律和宗教研究课程方面的开创性工作受到热烈欢迎，这是在 ALARS 会议前几天在尼罗河大学举行的单独研讨会的一部分。宗教领袖们的代表都很好，包括尼日利亚罗马天主教大主教约翰·奥奈耶坎红衣主教，在五旬节盛宴的私人会议之后，我有幸带来了圣公会大主教尼古拉斯·奥科的问候，他是全尼日利亚的大主教。虽然各种贡献的重点是在广阔多样的非洲大陆上的地位，但也有一些高水平的国际贡献，特别是 Jan Figel 的主题演讲，欧盟促进欧盟以外宗教或信仰自由问题特使。尼日利亚司法机构的代表也同样出色，最高法院、上诉法院和联邦高等法院的几位法官都提交了文件。