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.

Wiccans worship the Earth. Wicca is recognised by the US military as an official religion but military veterans are not allowed to display the symbol on their graves. Some 36 other religious symbols, ...

Yet the agency has refused since the mid-1990s to act on requests by Wiccan families and clergy to approve ... the government cannot ban families from posting Christian crosses or other religious ...

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 ...