Here is a look at some law and religion news stories from around the web this week:
- Imprisoned Muslim protestors who opposed Ethiopian laws for interfering with their religious practice have been released.
- Haaretz: Anti-Semitic incidents in France have decreased by 64 percent in the first half of 2016 compared to a year ago.
- A new law in Russia restricts missionary work and evangelism, limiting people to sharing their religious beliefs at state-registered places of worship.
- Donald Trump was interrupted while giving a speech at a church in Flint, Michigan this week. Religion News Service discusses the IRS guidelines that define the legality of a political speech in a church here.
- BBC: A restaurant manager in Bielefeld, Germany expelled a woman wearing the Islamic niqab from his premises.
- Rachel Freier will become the first Hasidic Jewish woman elected as a judge in New York state.
- Members of Turkey’s secular opposition party have recently been making more references to Islamic values in public speeches.
- Religion Clause Blog: The Second Circuit rules that students lack standing to sue over funds allegedly diverted by their local school board to Orthodox Jewish schools.
- NY Times: Reconciling the Conflicting Aims of Church and State
- On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Constitutional Court held that a law which mandated permission of local authorities for holding public religious services was unconstitutional.