But many other countries have flags with religious symbols on them. Indeed, according to the Pew Research Center, nearly a third of the 196 countries in the world, have flags with a religious element.

A rising tide of restrictions on religion spread across the world between mid-2009 and mid-2010, according to a 2012 study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life.The share of ...

Of the 64 countries in this category, about half have Christian symbols (48%) and about a third include Islamic religious symbols (33%), with imagery on flags from the world’s two largest religious ...

That added to a 2004 ban on middle and high-school students wearing “ostentatious” symbols with a clear religious meaning, and a 2011 ban to wearing a face-covering veil in public spaces.

A bill banning some public employees in Quebec from wearing religious symbols like head scarves, skullcaps, turbans and crosses has passed despite concerns about civil liberties.

In the heart of Germany’s capital, a heated political debate has reignited over the boundaries of religious freedom in the public sphere. The Bundestag's Green Party group has submitted a motion ...