French legislators consider including beards and bandanas in a controversial ban on religious symbols in public schools. Muslim girls wear bandanas as a discreet alternative to headscarves, which ...

Muslim women march in Lyon in 2004. A law banning religious symbols in public schools, passed that year, may soon be extended to private businesses. Photo: Phillipe Ksiazek/AFP Public opinion has ...

French ministry bashes religious symbols proposals Lawmakers adopt measures against religious symbols on parents accompanying children on school trips Shweta Desai | 31.03.2021 - Update : 31.03.2021 ...

French lawmakers have been banned from wearing religious symbols in parliament under a proposal submitted by a member of President Emmanuel Macron’s party.

A majority of French high schoolers believe they and their classmates should be allowed to wear religious symbols such as a hijab or a kippah, a poll has found. “Conspicuous religious symbols” have ...

Several French symbols in the country have since come under attack, after the soldiers accused Damiba of hiding at a French military base and of plotting his return to power. France’s cultural ...