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, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In recent years, France has come closer to ending its national prohibition of cannabis, which has been in place since 1970. But as a scholar of the centuries-old links between ...

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 ...

MARSEILLE, France — No ordinary preacher, El Hadi Doudi is perhaps France’s leading proponent of fundamentalist Islam. His influence extends throughout Europe, where his lawyer says the cleric is the ...

PARIS (AP) — As she cooks lunch and talks politics, Sarah Gutmann has a nasty feeling — of would-be French president Marine Le Pen invading the privacy of her home and meddling with her Jewish faith ...

At a time when concern is growing about the rise of Islam, which is threatening to become the primary religion in historically Catholic countries such as France, a phenomenon of fundamental importance ...

“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 ...

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 ...

French jihad? Algeria’s revenge? Intifada-sur-Seine? Forget all that. The riots currently rocking France have far more in common with the violence that shook Watts, Cleveland, and Harlem in the ...

Hiba Latreche took a last gulp of water and reached for a date, her eyes flitting between the plates of food before her and her phone screen as it blinked toward 5:42 a.m., the beginning of her fast.

French Muslims face a decision between Emmanuel Macron, whose presidency some of them view as harmful, and Marine Le Pen, whose far-right party has a history of anti-Muslim positions. By Norimitsu ...