TASHKENT -- Uzbek police outside the capital have forced dozens of practicing Muslims to shave off their beards, a practice that has been criticized by domestic and international rights organization ...

Once again, according to the headlines, the Pentagon has bowed to Islamic demands: — “Caving to pressure from Muslim groups, the Pentagon has relaxed uniform rules to allow Islamic beards, turbans and ...

CANTERBURY, England — A senior bishop in the Church of England has blessed the idea that its vicars, or parish priests, should grow beards as a way of reaching out to this country’s fast-growing ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the religious freedom claims of a prisoner in Arkansas who wanted to grow a beard in accordance with his Muslim faith, but was blocked ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Facial hair is trendy worldwide these days, but in Jerusalem beards have never gone out of style, projecting religious mysticism, nationalism and ideals of masculinity. For men of all ...

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of a Muslim prisoner in Arkansas on his beard length in a case that drew Orthodox Jewish support. In the ruling Tuesday in favor of inmate Gregory Holt, ...

A Muslim NYPD police officer who was suspended for wearing a beard was reinstated by the department on Friday. Masood Syed was allowed back on the force a little more than a week after a judge said ...

A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas prison inmate's right to a beard and skullcap as required by his religious beliefs. A unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Muslim inmate who won a U.S. Supreme Court case upholding his right to grow a beard for religious reasons said in a lawsuit that Arkansas officials transferred him to a federal ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the religious freedom claims of a prisoner in Arkansas. Gregory Holt is a Muslim who wanted to grow a beard in accordance with his faith but was not ...