The veneration of images involves humans or other subjects showing respect and homage to objects that visually represent, point to, or embody sacred beings or realities held to be especially worthy of honor. While such practices have been disputed in...

Religious symbolism is the use of symbols, including archetypes, acts, artwork, events, or natural phenomena, by a religion. Religions view religious texts, rituals, and works of art as symbols of compelling ideas or ideals. The symbols helps create a...

The city's police department can forbid a Muslim officer from wearing a head scarf on the job, a federal judge ruled.Kimberlie Webb, 44, who has been on the force more than 10 years, filed a discrimination lawsuit in October 2005 after the department said she...

Polling sites located within houses of worship do not violate the constitutional separation of church and state, a federal judge has ruled.Jerry Rabinowitz, a nonobservant Jew whose voting precinct is in a Catholic church, sued Palm Beach County elections officials, claiming that casting a ballot...

A cross that stands 8 feet tall in the vast Mojave National Preserve must come down, a federal appeals court ruled in invalidating a congressionally endorsed land exchange that sought to preserve it.The Christian symbol was built in 1934 by a group of World War...

Why would CNN, Reuters, a French television crew and more than a dozen other reporters come to a protest in City Hall to watch 25-odd protesters yell about a little school in Brooklyn? Because it has everything needed to make it a big, sensational story....

It is inappropriate to prevent the wearing of religious symbols, as the French government did, because such symbols mean more than just clothing or jewelry. Religious symbols help identify an individual's origin and culture, as well as play an important role as symbols of one's faith. And religious symbols are part of one's right to practice his or her religion, a basic human right that should not be denied.