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

• A former pastor has been accused of killing one woman and sexually assaulting two others after herding them at gunpoint into a back room of a Catholic Supply store.
• A federal judge declared Congress’s female genital mutilation law unconstitutional, dismissing key charges brought against two doctors alleged to have participated in the ritual genitalia cutting of girls whose families belong to Dawoodi Bohra, a small Shiite Muslim sect.
• The DOJ has asked the Supreme Court to hear a challenge to the Trump Administration’s policy that bars most transgender people from military service.
• An Episcopal priest is suing the city of Aberdeen (WA), claiming a violation of her rights to free speech and freedom of religion after she was denied access to a longstanding homeless encampment.
• Voters in Taiwan passed a referendum on Saturday asking that marriage be defined as the union of one man and one woman.
• A federal judge denied Neo-Nazi publisher Andrew Anglin’s motion to dismiss in a lawsuit alleging invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress after Anglin used his website, the Daily Stormer, to encourage readers to troll a Jewish woman.
• The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit against a jail in Virginia, claiming officials discriminated against Muslim inmates by refusing to allow them access to a Christians-only housing unit dubbed the “God Pod.”
• American missionary John Allen Chau was killed by an isolated tribe on a remote island in the Indian Ocean during his efforts to spread Christianity.
• The DOJ filed a statement of interest in support of Redeemer Fellowship of Edisto Island in its lawsuit challenging the town of Edisto Beach’s ban on renting a public civic center for religious worship services.
• Mississippi’s Attorney General will appeal a recent federal district court ruling, which struck down a state law banning most abortions after 15 weeks.
• An American-Israeli hacker was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a Tel Aviv youth court for a series of approximately 2,000 hoax bomb threats between 2015-2017, many of which were aimed at Jewish community centers.
• The Catholic Church has attacked efforts to remove babies’ genders from Western Australia birth certificates, claiming the move discriminates against religion.
• The Ninth Circuit held that nonprofit United Poultry Concerns lacked standing in a claim that sought to prevent a Jewish Orthodox synagogue from engaging in Kapparot, an annual religious service that involves slaughtering chickens.
• An inmate at the Missoula County jail in Montana is claiming a religious, constitutional right to smoke marijuana in prison, citing a Bible verse that God gave people “every herb bearing seed.”
• The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments to determine whether a Phoenix law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation would require a Christian-owned wedding invitation business to make custom products for same-sex nuptials.
• A jury found an Idaho homeowners association guilty of religious discrimination in violation of the Fair Housing Act in a case involving a dispute over a man’s Christmas light display.
• A mural at Duke University honoring the victims of last month’s Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh was vandalized with a swastika.
• Two Philadelphia police officers filed a lawsuit in federal court, claiming systemic anti-Semitic harassment by their supervisor and other officers.
• A judge in Jodhpur, India, agreed to move forward with a petition filed against Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, claiming he violated numerous sections of India’s Penal Code by posting a photo of himself posing with women holding a poster reading “Smash Brahminical Patriarchy.”
• Some 1,100 supporters of Khadim Hussain Rizvi—leader of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik party who led nation-wide protests after the acquittal of Asia Bibi—were arrested in sweeps across Pakistan.
• A member of the Mill Hill Missionaries was killed by military gunfire in Mamfe, Cameroon, amid the country’s continued political conflict in which guerrilla fighters are seeking to form an independent nation.
• The Diocese of Winona-Rochester (MN), which is currently facing 121 claims of clergy sex abuse over a span of several decades, announced its plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• The Satanic Temple settled its lawsuit with Netflix for $50 million over the unauthorized use of a statue of the goat-headed deity Baphomet in the series “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”
• The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly voted to broaden its prayer policy to permit a greater range of individuals to deliver invocations after the Alaska Superior Court held that the policy violated the Alaska Constitution’s Establishment Clause.
• The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh placed a priest on administrative leave following an allegation of sexual abuse of an altar boy in the 1980s.
• A French court sentenced a Catholic priest to two years imprisonment for sexually abusing multiple children in 1993, while his former bishop received a suspended sentence of eight months for failing to report the abuse.
• Equality Utah has proposed legislation to prohibit state-licensed therapists from engaging in efforts to change a minor’s sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual, otherwise known as “conversion therapy.”