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

• Fifty people were killed and dozens of others were injured in shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand.
• The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Clergy Housing Allowance, a sixty-year-old tax break that excludes the rental value of a home from the taxable income of U.S. clergy, does not violate the First Amendment.
• Three Montana parents filed a cert petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule a decision by the Montana Supreme Court that held a tax credit program for private schools violated the state’s constitution, as itself in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
• The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a pair of cert petitions concerning public accommodations laws that raise First Amendment questions left unanswered following last term’s Masterpiece Cakeshop decision.
• The DuPage County (IL) Board will vote Mar. 26 on whether to continue its tradition of beginning public meetings with prayer after a newly elected Democrat suggested ending the practice, claiming the primarily Christian prayers offered are not inclusive.
• Missouri’s House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow school districts to offer study of the Bible as an elective course.
• The New York Police Department’s hate crimes unit is investigating after a poster of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on a Brooklyn subway platform was vandalized with a swastika and the words “Die Jew.”
• President Trump applauded the so-called “Jexodus” movement, a purported grassroots movement encouraging Jewish millennials to leave the Democratic Party en masse.
• A sixty-four-year-old Roman Catholic priest in Miami, Florida, was charged with sexual battery on an incapacitated victim after he allegedly drugged a female parishioner and raped her.
• Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has asked the state’s legislature for an additional $2 million in funding for an ongoing investigation into clergy sex abuse within the Catholic Church.
• The Roman Catholic Church in Poland published a study that found that from between 1990 to mid-2018, church officials received abuse reports concerning 382 priests and 625 child victims.
• A new Gallup poll found that thirty-seven percent of U.S. Catholics say the clerical sex abuse crisis has led them to question whether they will remain in the church.
• The National Association of Evangelicals approved a resolution advising churches to improve screening and vetting of staff and volunteers amid increased reports of sex abuse.
• An eighteen-year-old at Assumption Academy, a private Catholic school in Walton, Kentucky, has sued the Northern Kentucky Department of Health after he was told he could not attend or play in any basketball games because he has not been vaccinated for chicken pox.
• Prosecutors declined to file charges against a security guard who shot and wounded a Youtube personality outside a Los Angeles synagogue last month.
• California’s bishops hailed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to impose a state moratorium on the use of the death penalty by executive order.
• An audit of the United Methodist Church’s recent vote to strengthen its ban on same-sex marriage and gay clergy revealed that some ineligible persons may have participated, raising questions about the process behind the divisive decision.
• The head of the Georgian Parliament’s Defense Committee will introduce a bill to remove exemptions from military service for religious clerics, with the exception of Georgian Orthodox priests, who have special status pursuant to a 2002 constitutional agreement.
• The Pentagon instituted a new transgender policy that will require most individuals currently in uniform to serve according to their birth gender and largely limit transgender troops from transitioning to another sex.
• House Democrats introduced a bill that seeks to extend the protections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to cover sexual orientation and gender identity after similar legislation failed in 2015 and 2017.
• A thirty-year-old pastor in Garissa, Kenya, was hospitalized after being beaten with clubs by a group of angry Muslims on his way home from a prayer gathering.
• Georgia state Rep. Dar’shun Kendrick (D) proposed the “Testicular Bill of Rights,” legislation that seeks to ban vasectomies, classify unprotected sex as aggravated assault, and require men to get permission from their sex partners before obtaining erectile dysfunction prescriptions.
• A federal district court judge in Kentucky issued a temporary order barring the state from enforcing a new fetal heartbeat bill, which bans abortion once a baby’s heartbeat is detected.
• The Ohio Senate passed a fetal heartbeat bill, which many suspect the state’s Republican-led General Assembly will also pass; Gov. Mike DeWine says he will sign the legislation into law.
• The Oklahoma Senate passed a bill that calls for a statewide election to ask voters to declare that the state’s constitution does not protect or secure the right to perform or receive an abortion.
• New Mexico’s Senate voted down a bill seeking to repeal a dormant 1969 law that criminalizes abortion as a felony.
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent warning letters to two organizations selling medical abortion pills over the internet.
• The governors of Arkansas and Utah have been presented with legislation that would ban most abortions eighteen weeks into a woman’s pregnancy.