Muslim activists from various organizations hold placards and participate in a protest against France, near the French Consulate, in Kolkata, India, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. Muslims have been calling ...

STORY: ABDERAHIM: "They stayed there, and they made sacrifices so that we could come here...” It wasn't easy for Abderahim Denguir and his sister to attend France's largest Muslim private school, ...

A parents' association accused the local prefect of acting as "judge and jury." PARIS -- Opened 20 years ago and voted best high school in France in 2013, with baccalaureate success rates between 97% ...

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 ...

Celebrated worldwide for her film career and screen presence, Bardot later withdrew from cinema and devoted herself almost ...

Mannequins with veils are on display inside an exhibition hall at the France Muslim Annual Fair in Le Bourget, north of Paris. AP PARIS — When a far-right French official disrupted a regional council ...

POISSY, France -- Some dressed in dark suits and others in robes, Muslim men lined up to vote Sunday in the first election of an official council to represent their community in France. Gathering in a ...

Following the murder of Fr. Jacques Hamel by terrorists who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, Muslims across France and Italy attended Mass on Sunday in a show of solidarity with Catholics. "We ...

SAINT-OUEN, France — The first day of school is never easy. But the start of classes Thursday was especially tough for French Muslim mothers such as Nissia. As a new ban on Islamic head scarves in ...

PARIS — The pressure rises with each gruesome attack. After three in five weeks, France’s Muslims are feeling squeezed. A spotlight of suspicion was trained on them again even before the latest acts ...

“Yes to the headscarf – those few words were so simple,” French-Moroccan model and activist Hanan Houachmi told CNN via video call. “Yet we’ve been begging and waiting and fantasizing about the day we ...

PARISPARIS — Many countries, especially in the democratic West, champion freedom of expression and allow publications that lampoon Islam’s prophet. So why is France singled out for protests and calls ...