Here are some interesting law & religion stories from around the web this week:

• Republican lawmakers and conservative activists are concerned that religious expression in the military is “under attack.” They are rallying behind an amendment that would provide greater protection for religious “actions and speech” in the armed forces.
• Leading secularists are calling on nonreligious parents to fight a government effort that would allow the Church of England to run thousands of state schools.
• The Church of England’s legislative body has voted to ordain women bishops
• As the Israeli government phases out the exemption from mandatory military service for Haredi men, hard-line elements in the ultra-Orthodox community are fighting back with crude, comic-style posters
• Boston Beer Company, which owns the Samuel Adams beer brand, is defending the omission of the reference to God in an ad featuring words from the Declaration of Independence
• Security officials say suspected militants killed a Christian merchant in the northern Sinai Peninsula, the second Christian to be killed in the region in less than a week. The violence is part of a backlash against Christians by Islamist militants for their activism against former President Morsi.
• On Sunday, a series of explosions rocked the Mahabodhi Temple, one of Buddhism’s holiest sites
• Thousands of ultra-Orthodox teenage girls and adults flooded the Western Wall early Monday, forcing a group of activist women to hold their monthly service farther from the wall than usual
• Christian groups in India’s northeastern state of Nagaland are working to quell the reported rapid growth of Satanism
• A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order on a new Wisconsin law that prohibits doctors from performing abortions if they lack admitting privileges at nearby hospitals
• Nineteen former students of a high school run by Yeshiva University have filed a $380 million lawsuit, alleging a massive cover-up of the sexual abuse of students by faculty and teachers
• The Vatican is to face tough questioning by a United Nations committee over the Catholic church’s record in tackling child sexual abuse by its clergy around the world