Some interesting law and religion stories from around the web this week:
- Lawyers are petitioning the Law Society of New Brunswick to reverse its decision to accredit Trinity Western University Law School, Canada’s first and only Christian law school, which is slated to open in 2016.
- After the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood, Coptic Christians in Egypt continue tol face persecution.
- Iraq named moderate Sunni Islamist, Salim Al-Jabouri, as speaker of Parliament in the first step towards the creation of a power-sharing government.
- ISIS is following the jihadist trend of ‘heritage terrorism,’ the practice of destroying and profiting from the sale of religious artifacts.
- The Church of England voted in favor of allowing women to be ordained as bishops.
- A proposal barring employers from claiming a religious exemption to the Contraception Mandate failed to receive the 60 votes required to move the bill forward under Senate rules.
- The Louisiana Supreme Court has ordered a hearing to determine whether a Catholic priest must reveal information allegedly obtained during Confession.
- A “secular invocation” was offered for the first time in the Town of Greece, New York. The town of Greece’s non-coercive sectarian invocation policy was upheld last month by the Supreme Court.
- Florida’s marriage law was overturned by a state court.
- The UK House of Lords is set to debate an “Assisted Dying” Bill this Friday. The bill would allow doctors to give lethal drugs to terminally ill patients wishing to commit suicide.