Some interesting law and religion news stories from around the web this week:
- The Harvard Business Review reports on the rise since 2007 of reports of religious discrimination in the workplace, and explains how companies can deal with clashes between religion and work.
- Reuters: Egypt’s prime minister sacked Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zend on Sunday after he was criticised for saying he would jail Islam’s Prophet Mohammad himself if he broke the law.
- The Georgia legislature has just passed a revised version of “The Free Exercise Protection Act,” which is intended to increase protections for religious freedom in Georgia.
- The Washington Post examines Judge Merrick Garland’s record on religious freedom cases, in light of his recent nomination to the Supreme Court by President Obama.
- TIME: Buddhism is growing in China, but it remains in legal limbo.
- The government of Egypt has begun to draft a bill that would prohibit women from wearing the Islamic niqab and burqa in public places, including government buildings.
- CNN: Secretary of State John Kerry has stated that the United States has determined that ISIS’ action against the Yazidis and other minority groups in Iraq and Syria constitutes genocide.
- This week, the FBI raided private Jewish schools in New York to investigate a charge that the schools have embezzled millions of federal dollars.
- The Kansas legislature approved a bill on Wednesday that allows college religious groups to restrict membership, notwithstanding a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from six years ago.
- An Israeli Magistrate Court has sentenced a Muslim preacher to 11 months in prison over inciting speeches at al-Aqsa.