Here are some interesting law & religion stories from around the web this week:
- After funeral for Coptic Christians killed in sectarian violence, clashes outside Cairo’s Coptic cathedral leave one dead and raise tempers in a tense political atmosphere. Copts say they no longer see a future in Egypt and Egypt’s Coptic Christian pope directly criticized the Islamist president.
- President Obama issued an Executive Order extending the faith-based advisory council
- Time Magazine features “The Latino Reformation,” addressing the rise of evangelical Latinos in the United States
- A North Carolina lawmaker links Islamic prayer to terrorism
- Arizona weighs unemployment tax break for churches
- Study: religious schools perform better than public or charter schools
- Women continue to challenge Orthodox practice at Israel’s Western Wall. Orthodox rabbi says he will not oppose a proposal to create a new area of prayer for Jews to worship in a less traditional style. After the proposed compromise, five women are detained for praying at the Western Wall.
- Riley on interfaith unions
- Religious leaders from the G8 countries are pushing heads of government to renew their efforts to meet the anti-poverty benchmarks by 2015
- Church of England approves recognition of civil partnerships
- The Crown Prosecution Service warns that Sharia courts are putting women at risk
- Russian Orthodox patriarch denounces “dangerous feminism”
- Bryson urges the Roman Catholic Church to allow nuns to be U.S. military chaplains
- Romanian lawyer sues his bishop and four priests for failing to properly exorcise flatulent demons