Crucifix ban in Italy's public schools

[sharkey360]

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Europe's increasingly muscular brand of secularism has an unofficial capital: Strasbourg, France. Over the past decade, the quaint city of 273,000 near the German border — home to the European Parliament and other key international bodies — has been the site of a series of repeated slap-downs to those who are fighting to hold on to the Old Continent's fading religious impulses.

The latest religious vestige to be targeted is the crucifix that still hangs on the walls of many Italian public schools, a fixture the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights has now ruled is a violation of religious and education freedom. The Italian government announced it would appeal the Nov. 3 decision that would force Italy to pay a €5,000 ($7,400) fine to a mother in northern Italy who fought for eight years to have the crucifixes removed from her children's classrooms. Though the European court's decision does not call for the immediate removal of all the Italian crucifixes, it could eventually force a Continent-wide review of the use of religious symbols in all state-run schools.

Source - Italy School Crucifix Ban Latest in Europe's Secular Shift - TIME

[woodstuck]

tsk tsk tsk, naunsa naman ni atong panahon karon

[sharkey360]

Europe's court of human rights said Tuesday the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms, prompting an angry reaction from the Catholic Church and government officials in Rome.

The ruling could force a review of the use of religious symbols in government-run schools across Europe. Saying the crucifix could be disturbing to non-Christian or atheist pupils, the court rejected arguments by Italy's government that it was a national symbol of culture, history, identity, tolerance and secularism.

Source - European court: No crucifixes in Italian schools | baxterbulletin.com | The Baxter Bulletin

[samsungster]

even crucifix init pa!!

[davybri]

These aholes should learn from the prime minister of australia...

[unsay_ngalan_nimo]

pwede namn siguro kay dili mans ad tanan naa sa public school kay catholic...

parehas ra na sa france na gi did-an ug wear ang muslim ug veil... kay kung ikaw dili catholic mura sd lain diba na public school gud na maayo unta kung catholic school..

parehas gud sa UP dili ag pray kay murag lain sad sa uban mga estudyante na dili christian...

[miyay]

i hope dili ma ing ana ang pilipinas. nindot baya na predominantly catholic ang ato nasud para daghang holidays

[KizoneC]

i hope dili ma ing ana ang pilipinas. nindot baya na predominantly catholic ang ato nasud para daghang holidays

Miyay ai holiday rai giapas... hehehehe

[prukutung]

hinuon naa silai point.... it really is disturbing to people who are non-catholics...

but anyways it's their opinion, we have our own opinions, and whatever the outcome is, accept it as what it would be...

[insect111]

disturbing? aw mura diay ni sa mga muslim women nga gi-prohibit pag wear ug head scarf in public and in schools, kay disturbing para sa mga non-muslims.