Some interesting law & religion stories from around the web this week:
- In Egypt, despite the growing tally of dead, Muslim Brotherhood supporters of Mr. Morsi continue to exhort followers to take to the streets
- In Syria, Al Qaeda-linked rebels are reported to have killed Italian Jesuit priest Paolo Dall’Oglio, a vocal supporter of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad
- A northern Arizona family, lost at sea for weeks in an ill-fated attempt to leave the U.S. over what they considered government interference with religion, will fly back home Sunday
- A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy’s name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and “that one person is Jesus Christ”
- Schismatic Roman Catholic priests, who left the church to claim their right to marry, are now asking for an “African pope” to lead them
- Egypt’s Coptic Church says Pope Tawadros II has cancelled weekly public meetings due to concerns over possible attacks on his congregation
- Religious believers are asking if test-tube burgers allow them to keep the faith
- Liberty Institute has been retained by the 19-year Air Force veteran who was relieved of his duties after he expressed religious objections to homosexuality to his openly gay commander
- Senator Marco Rubio defends legislative prayer
- Peter Berger on issues of religious freedom in Canada
- The Swiss are holding a competition to write a new national anthem stripped of references to God