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

• A report on religious freedom in Pakistan submitted to the British House of Lords challenged Britain’s position and found that Christians, Ahmadis and Hindus in Pakistan face a real risk of persecution.
• Two leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were indicted on and pled not guilty to charges of food stamp fraud and money laundering.
• Ireland has abolished a 50-year old rule which gave religion classes a privileged status.
• The Minnesota Department of Public Safety will revoke a personalized license plate offensive to Muslims and review the process by which personalized license plates are issued.
• An Egyptian court sentenced four Coptic Christian teenagers to up to five years in prison for insulting Islam, the latest of a series of high-profile blasphemy convictions.
• At an international conference, Pope Francis called for an end to capital punishment and asked Catholic politicians to seek moratoriums on executions during the Church’s Year of Mercy.
• Italy’s Senate voted to grant legal recognition to civil unions, but LGBT activists say the bill did not go far enough.
• Two religious freedom bills passed Senate committees in Kentucky amid controversy as to whether they protect religion or limit the rights of others.
• An ultra-Orthodox passenger on a flight from Warsaw to Tel Aviv objected to an in-flight movie that he considered immodest and he became angry and destructive.
• Washington Post: What would it mean to label the actions of ISIS a “genocide?”