Tag: religious
Several dozen trampled to death in a religious event in India | News in brief
According to preliminary data, 15,000 people participated in the event, although only 5,000 people were allowed to attend. Several dozen people have been trampled to death in a religious event…
Within the French army, the surprising tradition of religious pilgrimages – L’Express
Lourdes: its churches, its sanctuary, its source, and… its soldiers. Each year, between 14,000 and 15,000 soldiers travel to the town in the Hautes-Pyrénées in May to participate in the…
Fatal knife attack in Bordeaux: a possible religious motive?
The knife attack which left one dead and another seriously injured in Bordeaux on the evening of Wednesday April 10 was not of a terrorist nature according to the prosecution.…
Israel has come to rely on prophecies! The photograph put into circulation may be the first spark of religious wars: It will spread in waves
Two months before the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, a plane that took off from Texas, USA, was greeted by official officials on the apron when it…
Dupont de Ligonnès case: new checks underway after several reports in a religious community
A woman who participated in a prayer vigil in Montferrand-le-Château on March 9 claims to have recognized Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, wanted for the murder of his wife and two…
“The Maurice-Ravel high school affair illustrates the difficulties of applying the law on religious symbols at school”
Resignation of a principal threatened with death, complaint filed in the name of the State against a student, establishment of a “ mobile school force “… The Maurice-Ravel high school…
“Many adolescent girls live under the constraint of religious prohibitions” – L’Express
On April 2, Samara, a 13-year-old teenager, was violently attacked in front of her Arthur-Rimbaud college in Montpellier by several young people of her age, to the point of being…
the marriage of a 12-year-old girl to a religious man causes scandal
The Attorney General and the Ministry of Justice have requested the opening of an investigation into a child marriage on the outskirts of the capital Accra. An alleged union, widely…
The 2004 law on religious symbols is 20 years old: the system “has been well respected”
Twenty years after the 2004 law in France on the wearing of religious symbols at school, things are mostly going smoothly, school leaders assure, despite some highly publicized conflicts. “Today,…
20 years after the 2004 law, religious symbols in public schools still in the news
This Friday, March 15, we commemorate the anniversary of a pillar of French secularism: the law of March 15, 2004 which prohibits the wearing of signs or outfits ostensibly demonstrating…