Some interesting law & religion stories from around the web this week:

• The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has rejected a constitutional challenge by the Freedom from Religion Foundation and several individual plaintiffs to the issuing of US currency bearing the national motto, “In God We Trust.”
• When a wave of attacks on churches and Christian properties swept across Egypt last month, the city of Minya was hit the worst
• Dr. Robert P. George was sworn in as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Freedom in a ceremony at the Supreme Court on Monday
• A court in Germany has ruled that a Muslim schoolgirl must take part in mixed-sex swimming lessons and that whatever religious liberty concerns she has are allayed by wearing a “burkini”
• Adoption agencies could refuse to place children in homes based on religious or moral beliefs, according to a bill that was considered by the Michigan state house on Wednesday
• A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that Abercrombie & Fitch wrongly fired a Muslim worker who insisted on wearing a headscarf
• A Sudanese woman will be tried on September 19 for refusing to cover her hair with a hijab
• Anti-Islamic pastor Terry Jones is arrested on his way to a Koran burning