Premier François Legault’s fiery promise to defend Quebecers from "radical Islamists" by banning prayer in public has reignited a debate that has dominated the political agenda in the province for the ...

The discussion also drew in recent controversies and court-linked disputes around Waqf properties, minority rights and Centre–state tensions John Brittas and Tejasvi Surya at MBIFL 2026 Questions ...

Thousands of young Muslim women in France are side-lined from competitive sport because of rules in several disciplines, including basketball, that ban kits and clothing carrying a religious or ...

In 1976, the Swaran Singh Committee was appointed to recommend constitutional amendments. It submitted its report the same year itself, and the Preamble of the Constitution was amended based on this ...

The Canadian province of Quebec plans to impose restrictions on public prayer and limit the exclusive offering of religion-based menus, like kosher and halal meals, in public institutions as part of ...

As Bangladesh debates large-scale constitutional reform, one issue in particular is beginning to echo a parallel debate taking place across the border in India. Two words are at the centre of this ...

Addressing a packed audience during his session, titled Javed Akhtar: Points of View, Akhtar said secularism in recent times has been reduced to a “four-letter word”, but argued that secular values do ...

The Constitution has not failed to define secularism. What we suffer from is selective understanding. We remember secularism ...

With the death of the prodigiously productive, rigorously intelligent and reportedly irascible Paul Kurtz in October at the age of 86, American secular humanism lost, as it were, one of its guiding ...

Since dharma in our tradition has never meant religion in the narrow sense, dharma nirapekshata unnecessarily conveys indifference to a society’s moral values ...