About 1,300 years ago, this 85-foot-long ship sank less than 100 feet off the coast of Israel. Now, archaeologists excavating ...

Islamic religious scholars disagree on whether Muslim ... In France, where the Islamic head scarf (and other “conspicuous” faith symbols) was banned from state schools in 2004, President ...

Once a year, large numbers of Muslim pilgrims converging on Saudi Arabia unite in religious rituals and acts of worship as ...

Of the 64 countries in this category, about half have Christian symbols (48%) and about a third include Islamic religious symbols (33%), with imagery on flags from the world’s two largest religious ...

The judges refused to follow the state's pious law, arguing that regulations that treat Christian symbols as good, but Muslim symbols as the devil's work, were unacceptable under the German ...

The visible Muslim presence has therefore added a pronounced religious dimension to rising French concerns about immigration and integration. In addition, many French people regard the headscarf as a ...

The Catholic far right defended France's Christian identity ... Myard tabled a bill against the "Islamic headscarf" in schools, which he described as "a symbol of sexual discrimination." ...

flowing dresses worn by some Muslim women — in public schools, kicking off a fierce national debate about secularism, individual freedoms and what counts as a religious symbol. France has long ...