François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec government has tabled another bill aimed at tightening the province’s secularism laws. The legislation builds on a years-long effort to limit religion in the ...

On the first day of consultations on Bill 9, Quebec municipalities expressed concern the proposed secularism law would open ...

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 ...

The SANATAN debate has reignited with the Haridwar entry ban and growing questions over the use of shrine funds. Is this a matter of protecting faith and moral values, or an example of selective ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...