Paganism is the fastest growing religious group in the British Armed Forces, The Telegraph can reveal. Followers of the pagan faiths, who typically sport beards as a lifestyle choice, numbered 660 ...

The rule allowed exceptions for religious beards, though no player ever claimed one. Still, it could be argued, and it has, that the policy was an overreach, on freedom-of-worship grounds.

“This letter is to confirm that keeping a beard for a Muslim male is necessary in the religion of Islam. It is part of the Islamic teachings in which it states a Muslim male should not shave his ...