(The Conversation) — France is famously strict on enforcing what it calls “laïcité”: keeping religion out of the public sphere. Yet more than 7,500 private schools receive government funding, and most ...

Bally Bagayoko, the son of a family of Malian origin and a member of La France Insoumise, swept the first round of the ...

A newly enacted law in France aims to reform how Islam is viewed by society. The law, which bans foreign imams from operating in the country, is an attempt by the government to combat religious ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Last year, Sihame Denguir enrolled her teenage son and daughter in France's largest Muslim private school, in the northern city of Lille some 200 kilometres (125 miles) from their ...

A major gathering of Muslims in northern Paris is going ahead as planned after a French court overturned a government bid to ban it. The Paris police department argued that the four-day Annual ...

A cannabis ban has been in place in France since 1970, but there are ongoing demands to end it. juanma hache/Moment via Getty Images In recent years, France has come closer to ending its national ...

EVERY FEW years the French get worked up about an item of religious clothing that they deem inappropriate in the classroom. This time a controversy has broken out at la rentrée, the start of the new ...

Just a week after the deadly terror attacks in Paris, many of France's Muslims fear a backlash from the state and right-wing politicians even more than they fear ...

French Muslims fear the impact of a far right election win - Copyright AFP Jack TAYLOR French Muslims fear the impact of a far right election win - Copyright AFP Jack ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students attend a class at the Averroès school in Lille, France, in September 2023. Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images France is ...