In the public school I went to in the 1970s, "secular" was A neutral, descriptive word. Our social-studies teacher taught us that ours was a "secular" government, by which she meant that we lived free ...

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Walk around multicultural metropolises like Paris or Marseille, or any small village in the French countryside, and signs of faith are everywhere. Many Muslim women wear ...

THE coexistence of the “godly” and the “godless” of traditional piety and modern secularism has been a characteristic of Western civilization since the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The rise ...

Tolerance, openness and secularism are the first steps towards economic prosperity, according to new research. Since the Enlightenment began in the eighteenth century, many societies around the world ...

BJP National Spokesperson Dr. Sudhanshu Trivedi contrasts the ideologies of Jawaharlal Nehru and Narendra Modi, arguing that ...

BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi criticized the TMC and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for corruption and 'pseudo-secularism' in West ...

The free exercise of religion — or, more precisely, the free exercise of conservative Christian religions — is increasingly assuming the cultural, and even legal, stature of an inalienable American ...

French Muslims are in the process of reconciling with the Fifth Republic of France, established with the 1958 Constitution, which declares France to be a secular state. In the past thirty years, ...

Secularism is deadly, but it’s on the rise in both Europe and the United States. When will we ever learn? An unnamed Catholic priest is led to his execution in Kalisz, Poland, in 1939. (photo: Tadeusz ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's jumbled views of the Establishment Clause threaten to render secularism the country's de facto faith. It is time the court adopted a standard that does not punish the ...

This article by Samee Alhwash was originally published on The Battleground and is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Whether in the boycott-French-products campaign ...