Education Minister Evarist Bartolo has emphatically denied that either his ministry or the Directorate for Educational Services or any college principal had banned the Sign of the Cross in government school morning assemblies.

Mr Bartolo was answering a parliamentary question by Nationalist MP Ryan Callus, who did not say which school he was referring to.

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