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guardian.co.uk - 24 days ago

Human rights ruling against classroom crucifixes angers Italy | World news | The Guardian

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A crucifix on a classroom wall in Rome A crucifix on a classroom wall in Rome. Photograph: Tony Gentile/Reuters

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news.yahoo.com - 24 days ago

Italy, Vatican in uproar over court crucifix ruling

— news.yahoo.com — ROME (Reuters) The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that crucifixes should be removed from... Italian classrooms, prompting Vatican anger and sparking uproar in Italy , where such icons are embedded in the national psyche."The ruling of ... (more) Italy, Vatican in uproar over court crucifix ruling

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news.bbc.co.uk - 25 days ago

Italy school crucifixes 'barred'

— news.bbc.co.uk — The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in classrooms in Italy.... It said the practice violated the right of parents to educate their children as they saw fit, and ran counter to the child's right to freedom of ... (more) Italy school crucifixes 'barred'

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quickanded.com - 10/28/2009

The View from Your Classroom

— quickanded.com — This week we launch a new feature: The View from Your Classroom. Based on Andrew Sullivan’s wildly... popular The View from Your Window, we’ll showcase views from classrooms around the country, like the one below from Brian Woodward, an ... (more) The View from Your Classroom

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AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth:  EU court bans crucifix in Italian schools

Hyscience:  European court of human rights rules against crucifixes in Italian classrooms

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Apparently when in Rome you don't have to do as the Romans do. Ron Burgundy is pissed. http://tinyurl.com/yf5gc2y 15 days ago

crucifixes in Italian classrooms are violation of... http://bit.ly/3CCLE0 20 days ago

Human rights ruling against classroom crucifixes angers Italy | World news | The Guardian: http://bit.ly/LM4Cv via @addthis 21 days ago

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EU court bans crucifix in Italian schools
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — This is a very big move by the European Union court. Though the court has been asserting itself on business issues such as competition, social issues have been less controversial. It's going to be interesting to see what new cases related to church and state come as a result of this. In this particular case it is somewhat understandable to accept the argument that the crucifix is part of the Italian identity (from a purely historical perspective) though it's harder to make the argument that the crucifix in classrooms today is much more than imposing a specific religion on ...

European court of human rights rules against crucifixes in Italian classrooms
Hyscience — ... The Guardian reports that the European court of human rights has ruled that crucifixes that hang in classrooms "violate religious and educational freedoms": ...