Some interesting law and religion news stories from around the web this week:

• Richard A. Epstein explains the legal background and arguments concerning the debate on religious liberty, anti-discrimination, and Indiana’s RFRA law.
• The ACLU plans to file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to obtain documents relating to government contracts with Catholic Charities and other religious organizations for care of refugee and undocumented minors.  The ACLU claims that these organizations are impermissibly restricting access to reproductive health services, which the organizations say they cannot provide for religious reasons.
• Assyrian Christians’ history of violent persecution is important to understand the threat they face from ISIS today.
• Three former ballpark ushers for the Washington Nationals have filed a federal lawsuit against the team alleging religious discrimination. The ushers, 7th Day Adventists, claim they were fired because their religion required that they not work on their sabbath, which occurs from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
• The Florida House passed a bill to let private adoption agencies turn away gay couples on religious and moral grounds. Proponents say the law would protect the religious rights of certain adoption agencies while still allowing gay couples to adopt from many other agencies.
• The Islamic State freed more than 200 Yazidis on Wednesday, many of whom were elderly and infirm, after taking them captive in Iraq last summer.
• Buddhist monks from India and Sri Lanka participated in a two day dialogue in New Delhi to strengthen cultural understanding between the two groups.
• The Archbishop of York used his Easter message to insist that the political sphere should not be out of bounds to religious leaders, whom he says must involve themselves in politics.
• Iraqi military leaders are vowing to follow up their defeat of ISIS in Tikrit by marching into the Sunni heartland in western Iraq to root out some of the most significant militant strongholds, but Sunni-Shiite relations complicate the military planning.
• Experts opine that while the Russian federal government’s increasing reliance on the Russian Orthodox Church is a tool aimed at social consolidation, the authorities risk giving the clergy too much power, which may eventually backfire against the Kremlin.
• Kenya froze the accounts of 85 groups and individuals, including bus companies and Muslim rights organizations, allegedly linked to al-Shabab, the Somali group that claimed responsibility for killing 148 mostly Christian students at Garissa University College.
• Opinion: In amending the country’s century-old “Islam Law,” the Austrian Parliament has taken a positive step to combat extremism while protecting religious liberties. A 2014 University of Vienna report put the number of Muslims in Austria at over 550,000, or about 7 percent of the national population as of 2012.