The widow of a soldier killed in Afghanistan won state approval Wednesday to place a Wiccan religious symbol on his memorial plaque, something the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had refused.

That's because Stewart was a Wiccan, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has refused to allow a symbol of the Wicca religion -- a five-pointed star within a circle, called a pentacle -- to ...

Stewart had previously won state approval to place a Wiccan religious symbol on his memorial plaque, something the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had refused. "I'm honored and ecstatic.

In news from across New York state: OLEAN, N.Y. -- Police are investigating vandalism aimed at a symbol of the Wiccan religion set up next to a Nativity scene in front of city hall. Officials in ...

The Bush administration has agreed to allow Wiccan pentacles in military cemeteries in a court settlement announced yesterday by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

The widow of a Nevada soldier killed in Afghanistan a year ago won state approval Wednesday to place a Wiccan religious symbol on his memorial plaque, something the U.S. Nevada OKs Wiccan Sign for ...

Stewart, the widow of a Nevada soldier killed in Afghanistan a year ago won state approval Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006, to place a Wiccan religious symbol on his memorial. For story, click here ...

The ACLU has long argued that veterans and their families should be free to choose religious symbols on military headstones – whether Crosses, Stars of David, ... Yet the agency had refused since the ...

The widows of two Wiccan combat veterans sued the government Monday, saying the military — the Department of Veterans Affairs — has dragged its feet on allowing the religion’s symbols on ...