The independent federal panel charged with monitoring religious freedom abroad is rife with charges of religious discrimination at home, according to WaPo. The paper is also reporting that the Archdiocese of Washington, making good on fears of cutting back social services, has ended its foster care program rather than yield to the city’s pending gay-marriage (and anti-discrimination) law.

Pew is out with new numbers on the up-and-coming Millennials (take-away: they’re more liberal than their parents). Atheists have filed suit to end the tax-break housing allowances for clergy. In a new wrinkle on the “Choose Life” license plates debate, Virginia drivers may soon have the option of a “Trust Women/Respect Choice” plate. Revenue from the plates that was supposed to go Planned Parenthood will instead go to a government program to assist women with unplanned pregnancies.

Some students and alumni at Baylor University (the world’s largest Baptist university) are grumbling over the choice of former Clinton arch-nemesis Kenneth Starr as the school’s new president. One of their complaints: he’s not even a Baptist (he was, until recently, a member of the acapella Church of Christ).

An international ban on cluster bombs will take effect in August after requiring the necessary number of supporters, without the U.S. or Israel as signatories (98 percent of victims are civilians, activists say). The Dominican lawyer who’s been advising those U.S. missionaries detained in Haiti is on the run, and confirmed to the AP that he’s wanted on an 2003 immigration-smuggling charge out of Vermont. Oops.

As we reported yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI wrapped up his two-day scolding of Ireland’s Catholic bishops over the “heinous” sin of child sexual abuse. (David Gibson says the Emerald Isle is in need of a modern-day St. Patrick). Speaking of “heinous” abuse, three Muslim women in Malaysia were caned — the first women to receive the punishment, officials say — for extramarital sex. A debut film by a German Muslim filmmaker that tackles taboos like homosexuality and abortion is making a splash at the Berlin Film Festival.

WaPo follows a Jehovah’s Witness from Peru who’s desperately in need of a lung transplant but has refused treatment because the surgery would involve a blood transfusion, which is prohibited for church members.