Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web:
- The parents of three toddlers filed a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the St. Francis Learning Center alleging a teacher sexually abused the children.
- Indigenous people in Nova Scotian court will be able to swear their oaths on eagle feathers.
- Hasidic families in Woodbury, New York, would have to get permits for eruvs under a proposed law.
- The annual German Islam Conference (DIK), held this week in Berlin, will focus on integration, Islam, and German law.
- Egypt’s grand mufti condemned the Tunisian government’s law that allows men and women to get the same share of an inheritance.
- A new Indonesian government app allows the public to report suspected cases of religious heresy, drawing fire from human rights groups.
- The Delhi Commission for Women rescued a 25-year-old Muslim woman whose parents kept her captive after they learned of her marriage to a Hindu man.
- Republican Party leaders in one of Texas’ most populous counties are seeking to remove a Republican Party vice chairman because he is Muslim.
- The Sixth Circuit ruled that a Michigan city did not violate civil rights laws when it denied a journalist’s request for a Muslim woman’s booking photo where the woman was not wearing her headscarf.
- Airbnb’s policy to de-list properties in the West Bank has been called anti-Semitic and potentially violative of discrimination laws.