Some interesting law & religion stories from around the web this week:

• Five Catholic bishops opposed the newly authorized Violence Against Women Act, citing protection of traditional views of marriage and gender
• The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) submitted a document to the Human Rights Council alleging  extensive discrimination against atheists and non-religious
• Analysis: Indonesian provincial vote suggests religious parties are no longer popular with voters in the region
• Report: Iran to try five members of the Church of Iran for evanglizing and threatening national security
• Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic church enthroned a new patriarch who promises to push for dialogue with Muslim clerics
• After bishops’ lobbying campaign, UK’s largest supermarkets will carry Easter eggs with a religious theme
• A federal judge ordered a Missouri public library to stop blocking patrons’ access to sites related to occult websites
• The Thomas More Society petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Colorado state court decree banning pro-life advocates from displaying “gruesome images”
• David Brooks wrote on modern Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities
• The Cyrus Cylinder, described as the world’s first human rights declaration, will be shown for the first time in the U.S. at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery