TORONTO (RNS) A Canadian Sikh boy has been found not guilty of assault using his kirpan, a ceremonial dagger, in a schoolyard spat. But the 13-year-old from suburban Montreal, whose name was not ...

A fourth grader at Bentley Elementary wore a Sikh ceremonial dagger to school, according to Plymouth-Canton Schools spokesman Frank Ruggierello "Every baptized Sikh male wears this from the time ...

A Detroit-area district says Sikh students are permitted to wear a small, religious dagger to school. The decision by the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools reverses a ban put in place in December ...

YUBA CITY (CBS13) — A Sikh man wants to serve on a Sutter County jury, but the court will not let him because of the ceremonial weapon ... who is Sikh carries a dagger, known as a kirpan ...

TORONTO (RNS) The kirpan, the ceremonial dagger worn by devout Sikh men, is back in the news in Canada after a man was stabbed with one. The April 2 incident outside a Sikh temple in Brampton ...

A Sikh college student was reportedly kicked ... alerted the police after spotting the student’s kirpan, a curved ceremonial knife that baptized Sikhs are required to carry at all times.

On March 18, 1922, a court in British-ruled India sentenced Mohandas Gandhi to six years in prison for sedition in connection with his civil disobedience campaign for Indian home rule. Read Gandhi's ...

Toronto police have developed a formal policy allowing Sikhs to bring their ceremonial daggers into courthouses ... Human Rights Commission and World Sikh Organization of Canada, contains some ...

A Sikh man in Yuba City is protesting a movie theater after he was told he could not bring in his kirpan, or ceremonial dagger. “They should be understanding that Sikhs are peace loving people ...

a ceremonial dagger. It was particularly surprising to him, he said, since he worked closely with the team as an ambassador for community engagement to bring in fans from the local Sikh community ...

return to school of a Sikh boy whose family insist that he be allowed to wear a sacred ceremonial dagger, called a kirpan, under his clothes.

The move comes about two months after a Sikh student at the university was arrested on campus for wearing the ceremonial dagger. According to the updated policy, the university will allow students ...