EU: Court rejects crucifix display in Italian schools
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled in favour of an Italian woman who opposed the display of a Catholic crucifix at her children's school. Soile Lautsi, from Abano Terme, a small town outside the northern city of Padua, had lodged a the case to protest against the crucifix at the state school....
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- News Source: The Guardian | 18 days agoIt's a religious symbol that violates the right of parents to educate children according to their principles. "The court," reads the sentence "cannot see how the exposition in schools of a symbol that is reasonable to associate with Catholicism could...
- News Source: Asian Age | 19 days agoShe was also awarded 5,000 euros in damages. "The presence of the crucifix...could easily be interpreted by pupils of all ages as a religious sign and they would feel that they were being educated in a school environment bearing the stamp of a given...
- News Source: Truthdig | 19 days agoAn Italian mom’s wish for her kids to have a secular education provided the catalyst for a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights to bar crucifixes from being displayed in Italy’s classrooms. Needless to say, the court’s decision didn’t...
- News Source: The Scotsman | 19 days agoItaly, the European Court of Human Rights rules yesterday, sparking uproar in the largely Catholic country. Vatican officials were said to be "furious" at the judgment which also ordered the Italian government to pay 5,000 damages to Soile Lautsi, an...
- News Source: Christian Science Monitor | 19 days agoItalians reacted with outrage on Tuesday after a European court ruled that displaying crucifixes in the country's schools violated the principle of secular education. Italy's education minister condemned the judgment by the European Court of Human...
- News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner | 19 days agoIn this Sunday, April 9, 2006 file photo, a cameraman films a crucifix hanging from a wall of a classroom used as a polling station during Italy's general election, in Milan, Italy. The Vatican on Tuesday denounced a ruling by the European court of...
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- Blog Source: www.radio-people.itThe European Court of Human Rights: "No crosses in school". In a legal landmark that sparked a storm in Italy, the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled that crucifixes in Italian classrooms were a violation of parents' rights ...
- Blog Source: www.huffingtonpost.comThe European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in classrooms in Italy.
- Blog Source: blog.echurchwebsites.org.ukThe European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Italian schools have violated the rights of their students and their parents by displaying crucifixes on classroom walls. The court ordered Italy to pay €5000 ($7400) in “moral damages” ...
- Blog Source: blog.taragana.comEuropean court: No crucifixes in Italian schools.
- Blog Source: islaminaction08.blogspot.comThe seven-judge panel, however, stopped short of ordering Italy to remove the crucifixes, which are common in Italian public schools. The ruling can still be appealed to the European Court of Human Rights' Grand Chamber of 17 judges, ...
- Blog Source: clericalwhispers.blogspot.comItaly has appealed a landmark European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling against crucifixes in Italian classrooms that sparked a storm Tuesday in this heavily Catholic country. The appeal was announced by Education Minister ...
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I don't understand what the big deal is? I've gone to businesses and seen crucifixes in cubicles.....why not in schools?
I understand! This suddenly makes so much sense to me now! Why have I never thought of this before?
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