2022 in religion

This is a timeline of events during the year 2022 which relate to religion.

Events

 * 15 January – A hostage crisis occurs at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.
 * 5 February – The government of Karnataka, India upholds a hijab ban at schools.
 * March – Hundreds of Eastern Orthodox clergymen sign the Volos Declaration against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
 * 4 March – A member of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province carries out a bombing of a Shiite mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan.
 * 15 March – The United Nations sets 15 March as the International Day To Combat Islamophobia.
 * 19 March – Pope Francis publishes and promulgates the Praedicate evangelium.
 * April – The Bishops' Conference of Central Asia is established and selects José Luís Mumbiela Sierra as its first president.
 * 15 April – Riots break out in Sweden after a far-right group announces its plan to burn a Quran.
 * 24 April – The 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines celebrations conclude.
 * 26 April – Gunmen attack a mosque in Gondar, Ethiopia.
 * 1 May – The Global Methodist Church is established to split from the United Methodist Church in opposition to its tolerance of LGBT practitioners.
 * 27 May – Indian politician Nupur Sharma accuses Muhammad of pedophilia, causing widespread protests.
 * 5 June – The Praedicate evangelium takes effect in the Catholic Church.
 * 21 June – The Je Khenpo of Bhutan ordains 144 bhikkhunīs, allowing full ordainment for women in Bhutanese Tibetan Buddhism.
 * 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.
 * 1 July – The Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque became the first mosque in Germany to raise a rainbow flag.
 * 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.
 * 24 July – Pope Francis visits Canada and apologizes for the church's historical involvement in the Canadian Indian residential school system.
 * 14 September – The 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions begins in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
 * 18 December – An election takes place to choose the Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus.
 * 31 December – Pope Benedict XVI, who served from 2005 to 2013 as head of the Catholic Church, dies at age 95.