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The crucifix in Italian schools does not violate human rights

Posted 18/03/2011

The court in Strasbourg (France) said that having the cross hanging in the classroom does not exert any influence on students and does not violate the rights of non-Catholic families if not used with the intention of indoctrinating.

The decision overturns a previous statement of 2009, which had aroused the ire of the Italian Catholic community, which had been appealed to Rome and other European countries.

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, received the decision as a victory of "popular sentiment in Europe."

"I hope that after this verdict, Europe begin to address the issue of tolerance and religious freedom with the same courage," added the minister.

The Vatican also welcomed the ruling. His spokesman, Federico Lombardi, called it "a sentence that makes history." Landmark decision


also expressed welcome the Minister of Education, Mariastella Gelmini, who argued that the crucifix "summarizes the values Christianity, the principles that underpin European culture and Western civilization itself: the dignity of the human person and his freedom. "

" it is a symbol that does not divide but unites and presence in the schools, not a threat to the secular state, not for religious freedom. "

The crosses are not mandatory in Italy, but is a widespread custom.

The legal dispute began with a mother Finnish origin, who alleged that the public school where they were studying their two children refused to remove Catholic symbols from classrooms in which two children were studying.

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Soile Lautis violating secular principles of the school are supposed to have.

But the final decision of the Grand Chamber in Strasbourg says there is no evidence that could "affect the students."

Her husband, Massimo Albertin, also expressed disappointment and said the ruling does not respect the principles on which society has been built in Italy.

"Religious freedom, the right to non-discrimination, freedom of choice are fundamental principles in this case were not respected," Albertin told The Associated Press.

The resolution is limited to public schools Italian and is not binding on other European nations, who would not be required to allow Catholic symbols in public schools.

But that argument could serve up to 47 countries for its citizens to ask the court that religious symbols are permissible.

Governments could also use it as an argument to change the law.

Source: BBC

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