Topic: France

Hundreds of hardline Islamists protested outside France's embassy in Cairo on Friday against a French satirical newspaper that published pictures of the Muslim prophet, the state MENA news agency reported.The news agency quoted Khaled Said, the spokesman of the Salafi group that ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A French ban on praying in the street came into force on Friday, driving thousands of Muslim worshippers in northern Paris into a makeshift prayer site in a disused fire brigade barracks, angering a small but vocal minority.The street-prayer ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A French businessman paid fines Wednesday for two women in Belgium who wore full-face veils in public and said he would take Belgium and France to court over laws banning Muslim niqabs and burqas.Property dealer Rachid Nekkaz has set ...

AUBERVILLIERS, France (Reuters) - Four years after they first frightened France, Muslim creationists are back touring the country preaching against evolution and claiming the Koran predicted many modern scientific discoveries.Followers of Harun Yahya, a well-financed Turkish publisher of popular Islamic books, held ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Belief in a god, or a supreme being, and some sort of afterlife is strong in many countries around the globe, according to a new Ipsos/Reuters poll.Fifty one percent of the 18,829 people across 23 countries who ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, in his Easter message to the world, on Sunday lamented that the day's joy was marred by war in Libya and urged Europe to welcome desperate migrants fleeing strife in north Africa.The 84-year-old pope, marking his ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, in his Easter message to the world, on Sunday lamented that the day's joy was marred by war in Libya and urged Europe to welcome desperate migrants fleeing strife in north Africa.The 84-year-old pope, marking his ...

Niqabs, the full-face veils worn by conservative Muslim women, are not required by Islam but banning them by law is an affront to liberty, radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said Thursday.His remarks come in response to a draconian new law in France, ...

The United States endorsed Tuesday the right of people to "express religious belief through religious attire" after French police fined a woman for wearing a full-face veil.US State Department spokesman Mark Toner stood up for freedom of religion and expression, but stopped ...

France, home to Europe's biggest Muslim population, banned the wearing of full-face veils in public Monday, despite threats of protest from a groups that already feels stigmatised.The draconian new law, the first of its kind to be enforced in Europe, was immediately ...