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.

VA OKs Wiccan Symbols On Soldiers' Graves. April 23, 2007 / 3:58 PM EDT / AP ... Wicca is a nature-based religion based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons.

Some consider themselves "white" or good witches, pagans or neo-pagans. Approximately 1,800 active-duty service members identify themselves as Wiccans, according to 2005 Defense Department statistics.

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 ...

Administration Yields on Wiccan Symbol. Pentacle to Be Permitted on Tombstones in U.S ... The Department of Veterans Affairs previously had given veterans a choice of 38 religious symbols, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, April 23 — To settle a lawsuit, the Department of Veterans Affairs has agreed to add the Wiccan pentacle to a list of approved religious symbols that it will engrave on veterans ...

"These symbols still hold meaning for those who practice witchcraft, and they remain staples of the craft to this day," Anderson says. "They represent the history of witchcraft, the good and bad." ...

Karen Silva and Sharon L’Heureux, both of Meriden, are proud to count themselves among the nation’s witches. The women are both priestesses of Wicca, a federally recognized neo-Pagan re… ...