Should religious symbols be allowed in public schools or government buildings? Some argue that religious neutrality should be maintained by no permanent display of religious symbols in government ...

Religious symbols are technologies of transformation. The images, stories, and rituals of religion meet us where we are and carry us to some new place, to some new us. They grab hold of us in Kansas, ...

FILE - A girl reads a book in her classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File) STRASBOURG, France (AFP) — A Belgian regional ...

Nov. 28 (UPI) --The European Union's Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that public administrations may ban overt religious symbols, like headscarves, in order to create a neutral environment as long ...

The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) has condemned the removal of Christian symbols from Cape Town’s Christmas lights, arguing that the decision ...

Spiritual and religious practices vary around the world. Some activities, such as prayer, are widespread across many societies. Other practices, such as fasting and lighting incense or candles, are ...

The Quebec government has tabled new legislation that would further tighten secularism rules in public institutions, extending restrictions on religious symbols, prayer spaces and religiously based ...

Quebec’s secularism minister says the province needs tighter rules to keep religion out of the education system — and even out of public places. More than six years after the Quebec government passed ...

On Tuesday, the French Senate is examining a bill that would extend the ban on religious symbols to all sports. In football, ...

A Catholic school in a northeast Indian state has sought police protection after a threatening poster was found pasted on its wall, nearly two weeks after Christian schools were told to remove ...