Some law and religion stories from around the web this week:
- Supporters of Egypt’s deposed Islamist president rallied in Cairo to demand his restoration
- Secretary John Kerry named Shaun Casey of Wesley Theological Seminary head of the State Department’s new office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives
- A Pennsylvania judge upheld murder charges against a fundamentalist Christian couple in their infant’s faith-healing death
- To protest new anti-piracy rules in Russia, piracy advocates submitted official applications to form their own church, the Church of Kopimizma
- In South Africa, a series of botched circumcisions by unlicensed practitioners led to calls for regulation (subscription required)
- A Muslim test-taker was told by a proctor to remove her head scarf during the Massachusetts bar exam last week; bar examiners later apologized
- A London pastry chef fired for using non-kosher jam while working at a kosher bakery won a large compensation payout after employment judges ruled he had been unfairly dismissed
- An attack on a Buddhist temple in Indonesia’s capital was apparently aimed at avenging violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myannmar
- A Sharia committee in the rebel-held area of Aleppo issued a fatwa deeming croissants “haram” (forbidden) because they symbolize a European victory over Muslims