Italian Mayors Order Crufixes Put in Classrooms in Revolt against European Court Ruling Polish president and Greek Orthodox Church also hit out at dec

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Italian Mayors Order Crufixes Put in Classrooms in Revolt against European Court Ruling

Polish president and Greek Orthodox Church also hit out at decision against crucifixes in classrooms

ROME, November 17, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Poland’s president, Lech Kaczynski and the leadership of the Greek Orthodox Church have both hit out at a decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) attempting to ban the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools. At the same time, a general revolt against the ruling in municipalities all over Italy has been started by public officials, who are now ordering the display of crucifixes in schools, and levelling fines for non-compliance.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/images/2009h/crucifixclassroom.gifThe November 3rd ECHR ruling, made in response to a complaint by an Italian secularist campaigner, said that the display of crucifixes violated the religious rights of pupils.
During Independence Day celebrations on Wednesday in Warsaw, Poland’s Kaczynski said that “nobody in Poland will accept the message that you can’t hang crosses in schools.”
“One shouldn’t count on that. Perhaps elsewhere, but never in Poland,” Kaczynski said.

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[Mark77]

**God Bless the brave souls who stand up against this secular, "one world order"garbage!
**
Why doesn’t the EU tell Iran to remove the Koran and all mention of Muhammad from schools as it offends Christians? (Oh i forgot, you can’t practice Christianity in Iran!)(i know Iran isn’t in the EU, just making a point.)

Pope Benedict XVI called on Iran on Thursday to grant Christians “the freedom to practice their faith” and Catholics “the essential conditions” to survive in the Islamic republic. nytimes.com/2009/10/30/world/europe/30WebBriefs-PopeBrf.html

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!

mark

 

[Brickmaker]

**God Bless the brave souls who stand up against this secular, "one world order"garbage!
**
Why doesn’t the EU tell Iran to remove the Koran and all mention of Muhammad from schools as it offends Christians? (Oh i forgot, you can’t practice Christianity in Iran!)(i know Iran isn’t in the EU, just making a point.)

Pope Benedict XVI called on Iran on Thursday to grant Christians “the freedom to practice their faith” and Catholics “the essential conditions” to survive in the Islamic republic. nytimes.com/2009/10/30/world/europe/30WebBriefs-PopeBrf.html

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!

mark

Before the European posters bust a gut over your response, let me save them the trouble of once again stating: the European Court has nothing to do with the European Union. So,mark77, your point is moot.

:tiphat: to Kaninchen and Yellow Belle.

 

[Kaninchen]

:tiphat: to Kaninchen and Yellow Belle.

 

[chevalier]

Yes, the ECHR is not a EU thing. It’s a Council of Europe thing. It falls outside the EU regime, but all EU members are members of the Council of Europe along with ECHR jurisdiction. Also the European Court of Justice (EU’s court) defers to the ECHR. There are plans to regularise the situation somehow.

I’m proud of President Kaczyński. It’s a pity he’s so horribly out of support in the country and there seems to be no way he could get re-elected. His adversaries, the liberals, score over 50% of the vote. Many of them are Christian activists, Christian writers, open members of the Charismatic Renewal, but overall, I’m not happy with that party for its lack of a stand I would expect from a Christian party on issues which are important from a Christian point of view. No, they don’t go as far as the US Democrats and at least they aren’t commies.