lifeinitaly.com - 26 days ago
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(ANSA) - Strasbourg, November 3 - 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 to educate their kids according to their principles. Upholding a plea from a Finnish ...
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 ...
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Italy, Vatican in uproar over court crucifix ruling
themoderatevoice.com - 22 days ago
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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'
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... Finnish Immigrant Forces Italian Schools to Remove Crosses (ANSA) — Strasbourg, November 3 — 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 to educate their kids according to their principles. Upholding a plea from a Finnish immigrant to Italy, the Strasbourg-based court also said the crosses ran counter to a child’s own rights to freedom of religious choice. The Finnish ...
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