European court accepts Italy appeal on crucifix ruling
The European Court of Human Rights accepted Italy's appeal over its ruling condemning the display of crucifixes in Italian schools, the court said in a statement today.
"The college of five judges in the court's Grand Chamber accepted the appeal lodged by the Italian government on January 28", the court said, adding it would deliver a definitive judgement on the case in several months.
The court's ruling on November 3, that found the display of crucifixes in Italian schools breached the rights of non-Catholic families, drew howls of anger from Church and political leaders in the staunchly Catholic country.
Catholicism was the state religion in Italy until 1984, and a 1920s ruling ordering the presence of crucifixes in schools was never abolished.
Italian mother Soile Lautsi, whose two children attended a state school near Venice, took her case to the European court after a long battle pitting her against Italy's Catholic establishment.
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Joseph Aquilina
Mar 5th 2010, 02:35
@Ian Grech,
The stories in the Bible are acceptable because they fall under GOD's word and NOT under the cap of religion. Christianity is a relationship with God. The Bible is God's WORD and not what men souped up Prophets (men of God) and the apostles wrote what the Holy Spirit inspired them to write.
Ian Grech
Mar 3rd 2010, 23:38
@jcamilleri
This is not cynicism. This is stating that a cross represents a whole schema of horrors to which children should not be exposed. Our beloved censors see fit that any movie, book, or any other material that may harm children is so rated. However no such censorship is applied to stories in the bible or those of saints who were brutally murdered and/or tortured. These are acceptable because they fall under the cap of religion.
jcamilleri
Mar 3rd 2010, 14:05
@ Ian Grech
Being cynical does not help. Please be clear in what you want to say and argue sensibly.Thanks.
Ian Grech
Mar 3rd 2010, 10:14
@Frans Sammut
It is not the crucifixes that frightened me as a child but all the gore, murder and stories of demons, possessions and hell. I was not allowed to watch Dracula, The Exorcist, Friday The 13th or Poltergeist at the time, because they would possibly impress me and give me nightmares, yet I was allowed in church and Muzew and bombared with horror stores of people burned or skinned alive, tortured, murdered, etc .....
I was also thought of heaven and choirs of angels singing lodes to a God who over saw everyone and everything and knew what was, is and will be. In parallel I was told that X-Men's Dr Xavier, who could read minds and know what is going on with people and then try to help them, was pure fiction.
Lorraine Vella
Mar 3rd 2010, 08:23
great news! whoever does not like what my country is, including religion, should leave my country, and not expect my country to change because of them!!!!
Joseph Aquilina
Mar 3rd 2010, 06:27
The Crucifix is not Catholic, it is the way of salvation. As we can see the world is getting ready for the World Order Dictator and for the apostate church. Jesus died on the cross to wash out our sins. Without the Cross there would have been no way for salvation. Satan knows that his time is short and is doing everything possible to make people lose their souls. He wants to get rid of God altogether and tries to take His place as he did before he was kicked out of heaven. But that will never happen. People open your eyes and realise what is going on. God help us.
Joseph Aquilina, Ontario, CANADA
victor vella
Mar 3rd 2010, 02:04
The crucifix in classrooms is normally a small 30 cm long icon which when hung on the wall is barely noticable , but it's presence there is a reminder of what Christ went through.I believe that giving up the crucifix is giving up on our religion, custom and culture, very soon the Moslems will be asking us not to celebrate our village festas.We are Maltese we take no :
T Camilleri
Mar 2nd 2010, 22:11
Frans Sammut Did you have witches in mind Frans?
Frans Sammut
Mar 2nd 2010, 19:32
Good news indeed. I hope we won't get more people claiming that the Crucifix frightened them as children and should therefore be banned from classrooms.