Sikh athletes and spectators will be allowed to wear ceremonial daggers into London Olympic venues next year, despite the intense security arrangements, as part of a multi-faith approach to the Games.

Members of a hardline Sikh group clash with guards of the Sikhs' holiest shrine, the Golden Temple, in Amritsar, India, Friday. At least 10 people were reportedly wounded in the clash.

Britain's first Asian judge has said Sikhs should be allowed to wear their ceremonial daggers - known as Kirpans - to school and other public venues. It follows a number of high-profile cases where ...

Sikhism requires that Sikh males wear the ceremonial dagger, known as a kirpan [Sikh Coalition backgrounder], at all times, but they are forbidden to use it as a weapon. Sir Mota, who is now retired, ...

A Quebec court has ruled that a 12-year old Sikh boy should be allowed to wear his ceremonial dagger - known as a kirpan - while he is at school. The decision overturns one made by his school and ...

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. Skip to content Mastodon.

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 ...

India's sword-wielding Sikh warriors guard protesting farmers. ... British colonialists dissolved the Sikh empire in the mid-19th century and the Nihangs were reduced to ceremonial roles.

The decision by the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools reverses a ban put in place in December after a fourth-grader at a Canton Township elementary school was found with a dull, 3- to 5-inch kirpan.