Some interesting law & religion stories from around the web this week:
- Boston’s largest mosque requested that police guard its campus in the wake of Monday’s bombing
- Egypt’s Coptic Christians continue to live in fear of Islamic extremists
- An Irish constitutional convention has voted in favor of a civil marriage for same-sex couples
- The Archbishop of Canterbury will meet with a gay rights activist
- In Turkey, concert pianist Fazil Say was given a suspended jail sentence for blasphemy against Islam
- Pastors push back against city’s annual registration fee for churches, claiming the fee is a tax that it violates separation of church and state
- Rabbi Michael Broyde has been suspended from the Beth Din of America, a Jewish high court, for using a fake identity
- An Ohio elementary school shut down its “Mindfulness Program” due to concern over its roots in Buddhism
- McDonald’s settles class action over misrepresenting chicken as halal in a controversial $700,000 settlement