ICFJ conducted International Coverage of Religion, an online course that highlighted the importance of understanding religion in cultural and political context. Course applications are now CLOSED.

The course was conducted by the award-winning journalist David Briggs. He regularly has been published in newspapers throughout the world over the last 20 years, first as a national religion writer for The Associated Press, overseeing religion coverage for the news organization reaching 1 billion people a day, and then as a religion reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where his work also was distributed by Religion News Service and Newhouse News Service. Briggs holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia and a master's of arts in religion from Yale Divinity School.

Journalists from around the world took part in this course. “I'm having a blast,” said American journalist Christopher Quinn. “What a great opportunity to have interaction with fellow reporters from around the world. To be able to hear, almost instantaneously, from others about perceptions and shared problems in reporting about religion has 24 karat value.”