Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web:

• A three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a district court’s order to remove a decades-old Latin cross from a park in Pensacola, Florida, while calling for a rehearing en banc.
• The Third Circuit heard oral arguments Friday on whether Lehigh County’s seal, which features a cross, violates the Establishment Clause.
• The City of Phoenix defended its anti-discrimination law before the Arizona Supreme Court in a lawsuit brought by devout Christian owners of a wedding invitation business who intend to refuse to make custom products for same-sex couples.
• The Communist Party in China’s Xinjiang region escalates its crackdown on Islam, forcing more and more Muslims into internment camps—or, as the government calls them, “transformation-through-education” centers.
• Thousands or Argentinians began formal proceedings to renounce their religious affiliation to the Catholic church over the church’s opposition to efforts to legalize abortion.
• The Chilean Senate passed a bill that, if approved by the Chamber of Deputies, would permit minors as young as fourteen to legally change their name and gender.
• New York’s Attorney General’s Office issued subpoenas last week to all eight Catholic dioceses in the state as part of an investigation into how the dioceses handled sexual abuse cases.
• The Third Circuit affirmed a lower court’s decision that held a historic black Baptist church in Pittsburgh was free to dismiss a pastor without government involvement.
• India’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down a colonial-era law that criminalized homosexual acts.
• Argentine authorities raided the Antonio Provolo Institute, a Catholic-run school for deaf youth in Buenos Aires, as part of an investigation into sexual abuse allegations.
• A challenge to Indiana’s Charter School Act brought by a coalition of public school teachers and employees, which claimed the Act violated the Establishment Clause by permitting religious private schools to authorize charter schools, was dismissed for lack of standing.