Paganism is the fastest growing religious group in the British Armed Forces, The Telegraph can reveal. Followers of the pagan faiths, who typically sport beards as a lifestyle choice, numbered 660 ...

A group of D.C. firefighters won a major legal victory Tuesday after a federal appeals court ruled the city may have violated a 2007 court order that allowed them to keep their beards for religious ...

The experiences of service members with religious beards are particularly instructive. Consider Edmund Di Liscia, a Hasidic Jew serving in the Navy. After he received a temporary accommodation for ...

Religious exemptions are also being made. In addition, an April 2022 lawsuit was filed by two Sikh marine recruits—whose faith requires they have a beard—and whether they could be deployed to ...