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, ...

Students attend a class at the Averroès school in Lille, France, in September 2023. Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images France is famously strict on enforcing what it calls “laïcité”: keeping ...

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 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Last year, Sihame Denguir enrolled her teenage son and daughter in France's largest Muslim private school, in the northern city of Lille some 200 kilometres (125 miles) from their ...

French Muslims fear the impact of a far right election win - Copyright AFP Jack TAYLOR French Muslims fear the impact of a far right election win - Copyright AFP Jack ...

PARIS -- Opened 20 years ago and voted best high school in France in 2013, with baccalaureate success rates between 97% and 100% each year, the Averros school group in Lille, which is also the largest ...

Muslim Brotherhood movement, which was founded in Egypt in 1928, is under strict scrutiny in France. In 2023, France banned pupils in public schools from wearing the abaya, a loose-fitting garment ...

PARIS, Sept 9 (Reuters)- The Muslim Council in France, home to Europe's largest Islamic minority, denounced the persecution of Middle East Christians on Tuesday and said mosques across the country ...

Anti-Muslim attacks and insults have risen steadily in France in recent years as some politicians and media increasingly present Islam as a problem for French society, a Muslim rights group said on ...

(The Conversation) — France is famously strict on enforcing what it calls “laïcité”: keeping religion out of the public sphere. Yet more than 7,500 private schools receive government funding, and most ...