School's chastity ring ban 'violated religious freedom'
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A ban on a teenage girl wearing a 'purity ring' was attacked at the high court as an 'unlawful interference' with her right to express her Christian faith.
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London's High Court on Wednesday refused permission for the father of a 12-year-old Muslim girl to challenge a school's ban on her wearing the full-face veil, or niqab, during lessons.
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VATICAN CITY  - The Vatican denounced the reported arrests of several Catholic faithful in China last month, calling such actions "a grave violation of freedom of religion."
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The High Court on Monday upheld a ban on a teenager from wearing a so-called &quot;purity ring&quot; at school to signal her refusal of sex before marriage.
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A judge bans the word from a sexual assault case, sparking debate over freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial
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Traditionally, clashes over academic freedom have pitted politicians or administrators against instructors who wanted to express their opinions and teach as they saw fit. But increasingly, it is students who are invoking academic freedom, claiming biased professors are violating their right to a classroom free from indoctrination.
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France's bold effort to reign in Muslim fundamentalism was put to the test Thursday, with a new law that bans students from wearing Islamic head scarves taking force with the start of the school year.
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Headteacher is told establishing non-religious education would be 'politically impossible'.
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A PENNSYLVANIA law which was designed to prevent Internet users from child pornography has been chucked out because it blocks free speech.
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ADRID, Spain, NOV. 11, 2004 .- The National Catholic Confederation of Parents of Families and Students (CONCAPA) criticized the government's decision to impart Islamic religion classes in public ...
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France's bold effort to rein in Muslim fundamentalism was put to the test Thursday, with a new law that bans students from wearing Islamic head scarves taking force with the start of the school year.
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- The French parliament passed the law in March to ban &quot;conspicuous symbols&quot; of faith from its state school system. Guidelines for applying the law identified Muslim headscarves, Jewish skullcaps and large
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Millions of American schoolchildren are offered religiously-inspired &quot;sex education&quot; courses that are riddled with falsehoods, a congressional staff report has found.
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MULHOUSE, France, Oct 20  - Three more Muslim schoolgirls were expelled in France Wednesday for flouting a controversial law on the wearing of religious insignia in schools.
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A minister orders an inquiry into an Islamic school which is accused of promoting religious intolerance.
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Two Muslim girls were expelled Wednesday from high school for refusing to remove their head scarf -- the fourth such expulsions in two days as officials began taking action against
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A Sikh religious body said it was &quot;deplorable&quot; that a French ban on the wearing of religious symbols, including turbans, in state schools was depriving boys of education in France.