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

• ABA accreditors are investigating Brigham Young University amid allegations that BYU’s policies violate nondiscrimination standards by expelling students who live in same-sex relationships or leave the Mormon faith.
• Philippine government officials and Muslim rebel peace negotiators expressed concern over the spread of radical Islamic ideology in the nation and urged lawmakers to pass a law to counter radicalism.
• Arguments were heard in the appeal by Rowan County, VA of a federal court ruling that commissioners violated the Constitution by offering public prayers that the court said overwhelmingly advanced beliefs specific to one religion.
• Locals say that violence against Sikhs in Fresno, California is a growing concern as two 68-year-old men have been attacked–one fatally– in the past month.
• Hundreds of religious clerics and scholars met in Marrakesh in a bid to revive the Prophet Muhammad’s Charter of Medina to protect religious minorities in Muslim communities.
• A judicial commission has recommended that an Oregon judge who has refused to perform gay marriages and has drawn a formal ethics complaint for other issues should lose his job.
• A Texas grand jury declined to indict Planned Parenthood for illegally selling fetal organs and instead indicted the undercover videographers behind the allegations for actions that the videographers claim are part of investigative journalism.
• A district judge ruled that Kentucky’s Tourism Cabinet cannot exclude a new Noah’s Ark attraction from its sales tax tourism incentive based on its “religious purpose and message.”
• Indonesian authorities have sent about 1,600 members of a religious sect, the Dawn Archipelago Movement, for “re-education” following a public outcry over their “deviant” teaching.
• Findings of a new Pew survey include that Americans are becoming less opposed to non-religious presidential candidates.
• Pope Francis asked Protestants and other Christian Churches for forgiveness for past persecution by Catholics and will visit Sweden to mark the Reformation’s 500th anniversary.