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

• The United Arab Emirates, concerned about militant Islam, outlawed religious or racial discrimination this week.
• A recent draft of Nepal’s new constitution bans religious conversion, prompting concerns about religious freedom.
• Malaysian activists are questioning government-enforced restrictions on dress.
• Newark Archdiocese files suit over a New Jersey law prohibiting the church from competing in the headstone industry.
• The city of Coeur d’Alene is fighting a case brought by two ministers who are seeking a religious exemption enabling businesses to refuse to take part in same-sex weddings.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working to ease the tension between Reform and Conservative American Jews and Orthodox members of the Israeli government.
• ISIS and other extremist movements across the Middle East are enslaving, killing and uprooting Christians, with no aid in sight.
• Political conservatives as well as political liberals in America are not happy with Pope Francis’ track record.
• Dylann Roof is facing hate crime charges for the Charleston shooting. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch stated that “Mother Emmanuel was [Roof’s] target specifically because it was an historically African-American church…”