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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10028

27 November 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/culture/religion
Italian Catholic Centrists lead fight in European Parliament to keep crucifixes in classrooms

Strasbourg, 26/11/2009 (Agence Europe) - In a unanimous decision by seven judges on 3 November, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Italy had infringed the European Convention on Human Rights with the requirement, made by means of a ministerial circular, that a crucifix be hung on the wall of every classroom in the country. The Court decided that this measure ran counter to the right of parents to educate their children according to their own beliefs and to the right of the child...

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