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Sacramento City Council voted unanimously to allow a religious dagger in the Sikh faith known as a Kirpan into city chambers, a move that expands religious freedom of the Sikh community.

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte announced this week that it would allow Sikh students to wear a kirpan on campus, a religious article. The change comes about two months after a video was ...

"I hope that everybody feels that we value them, we respect their religion and the right to practice it," said Councilmember Caity Maple.

A Sikh student at UNC Charlotte was handcuffed after an unidentified person called 911 on them. The caller had mistaken a religious item, a kirpan, for a knife, the university said in a statement. The ...

The entrance to UNC Charlotte on University City Boulevard is shown in this 2017 file photo. Chancellor Sharon Gaber apologized after police handcuffed a member of the Sikh religious community in the ...

On what seems to be a usual Thursday, a young man sits at his student union, wearing his article of faith. Little does he know, students around him have already made a judgment about a small sword ...

SACRAMENTO, CA (IANS) – A Sikh man has claimed that he was denied entry to a basketball match because he was carrying a ‘kirpan‘ — a small dagger, which practicing Sikhs are required to carry at all ...

Officials at a North Carolina university are being criticized after an incident in which a Sikh student was detained for wearing a kirpan, a curved dagger carried by some Sikhs as part of their faith.

HOPKINTON — Reflecting a changing student population, a school weapons policy now allows for blade-like objects to be worn for religious reasons. The new weapons policy, adopted on March 21, allows ...