The Dutch Cabinet has pushed back its proposal to prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing visible religious symbols ...

Justice Minister Foort van Oosten (VVD) will pursue a formal law to prohibit visible religious symbols, such as kippahs or ...

The outgoing government’s plan to ban city council wardens from wearing religious symbols has been delayed after strong ...

Massachusetts city divided as residents challenge mayor's plan to install 10-foot bronze statues of St. Michael and St.

It's a divine sign in an ancient legend, according to which the god Huitzilopochtli asked a group called the Mexica to leave ...

What is missing from these debates is the voice of women themselves. Few policymakers ask how women feel about being told ...

Afghan officials are lashing out against their former allies in the Pakistani military as hostilities between the two ...

While there are fewer protests on campuses, student activists say that the pro-Palestine student movement is still strong.

Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

This paper examines the development of mourning customs from the early stages of the kibbutz, where the sacred in terms of Jewish tradition was rejected as a matter of ideology, and where secular ...

People have always found ways to flaunt their social status and wealth. These days, it could be a high-end vehicle or a ...

The burial of a 19-year-old who died in the June bombing at the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria, has come to symbolize the ethno-religious cleansing of Syria s Christian indigenous people, says a ...