Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web:
- The head of the federal government’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships has resigned after controversy erupted over statements he had made about African Americans and Muslims.
- A museum dedicated to the Bible has opened in Washington, D.C.
- Turkey’s foreign minister claimed that the U.S. justice system has been infiltrated by followers of Fethullah Gulen, the exiled Muslim cleric often blamed by the Erdogan government for fomenting unrest in Turkey.
- The U.S. Supreme Court has sent a case involving New Mexico’s Blaine Amendment back to state court in light of the Court’s ruling in Trinity Lutheran.