This is a timeline of events during the year 2022 which relate to religion.
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Events
- 15 January – A hostage crisis occurs at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.[1]
- 5 February – The government of Karnataka, India upholds a hijab ban at schools.[2]
- March – Hundreds of Eastern Orthodox clergymen sign the Volos Declaration against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3]
- 4 March – A member of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province carries out a bombing of a Shiite mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan.[4]
- 15 March – The United Nations sets 15 March as the International Day To Combat Islamophobia.[5]
- 19 March – Pope Francis publishes and promulgates the Praedicate evangelium.[6]
- April –The Bishops' Conference of Central Asia is established and selects José Luís Mumbiela Sierra as its first president.[7]
- 15 April – Riots break out in Sweden after a far-right group announces its plan to burn a Quran.[8]
- 26 April – Gunmen attack a mosque in Gondar, Ethiopia.[9]
- 1 May – The Global Methodist Church is established to split from the United Methodist Church in opposition to its tolerance of LGBT practitioners.[10]
- 27 May – Indian politician Nupur Sharma accuses Muhammad of pedophilia, causing widespread protests.[11]
- 5 June – The Praedicate evangelium takes effect in the Catholic Church.[6]
- 21 June – The Je Khenpo of Bhutan ordains 144 bhikkhunīs, allowing full ordainment for women in Bhutanese Tibetan Buddhism.[12]
- 27 June – The Supreme Court of the United States determines that the Free Exercise Clause allows instructors to incorporate prayer into school activities in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District.[13]
- 4 July – The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church is consecrated in New York City to replace the church that was destroyed during the September 11 attacks.[14]
- 24 July – Pope Francis visits Canada and apologizes for the church's historical involvement in the Canadian Indian residential school system.[15]
- 14 September – The 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions begins in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.[16]
- 18 December – An election takes place to choose the Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus.[17]
- 31 December – Pope Benedict XVI, who served from 2005 to 2013 as head of the Catholic Church, dies at age 95.[18]
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