news.yahoo.com - 26 days ago
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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 the European court was received in the Vatican ...
themoderatevoice.com - 22 days ago
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themoderatevoice.com —
Judge Oscar Magi: Repercussions over his decision to
convict 23 CIA agents of kidnapping on Italian soil...
are already being felt. Italians today may be proud that their system of justice hasn’t spared intelligence agents of the world’s mightiest power, but the children of ...
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Now, Italy Must Gird for the Repercussions Over CIA ...
news.bbc.co.uk - 27 days ago
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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 ...
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Italy school crucifixes 'barred'
adnkronos.com - 23 days ago
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Rome, 6 Nov. (AKI) - Italy was susceptible
to terror attacks by allies of the Al-Qaeda network,...
the interior minister Roberto Maroni said on Friday. Maroni warned there were terror cells that identified with Al-Qaeda and they had "authorisation" to ...
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Qaeda allies 'may carry out attacks'
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They're not French
doubleplusundead —
They're not French Uh-Oh. This is going to be interesting. The EUnuchs say Italy has to remove crosses from classroom s. That could be huge for a few reasons. First, for Italians the Catholic Church is theirs. They own it, they're very casual about their religion, but that's because they've owned the Church for so long. Sure the last two popes weren't Italian, but before that they were Italian for a long time. The last non-Italian pope might have been during the Avignon Papacy (when there were two popes for a while), at least the last non-Italian pope was hundreds of years ...
Eurocourt Bans Crucifixes in Italy
Moonbattery —
... Sometimes it seems liberal Euroweenies are deliberately testing to see just how much totalitarian moonbattery they can ram down people's throats before encountering significant resistance. In the latest outrage against liberty and national sovereignty, bureaucrats of the European Court of Human Rights have ruled that Italians cannot have crucifixes on the walls of their classrooms. ...
Eurocourt Bans Crucifixes in Italy
Stop The ACLU —
... Posted on November 5, 2009 Sometimes it seems liberal Euroweenies are deliberately testing to see just how much totalitarian moonbattery they can ram down people’s throats before encountering significant resistance. In the latest outrage against liberty and national sovereignty, bureaucrats of the European Court of Human Rights have ruled that Italians cannot have crucifixes on the walls of their classrooms. The ruling by the court in Strasbourg, which Italy said it would appeal, said crucifixes on school walls a common sight that is part of every Italian’s life could ...
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