#crucifix

Quand les juges préservent une Europe chrétienne - LeMonde.fr
http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2011/07/26/quand-les-juges-preservent-une-europe-chretienne_1553057_3232.html

La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme est censée défendre la liberté de pensée, de conscience et de religion, en vérifiant que la liberté de chacun de manifester ses convictions donne seulement lieu aux restrictions qui s’avèrent indispensables à la protection d’intérêts publics ou des droits d’autrui. Cette mission a donné lieu cette année à des applications pour le moins contrastées, que deux affaires permettent d’illustrer.

#religion #minaret #crucifix

Compulsory #crucifixes in Italian classrooms? Not a good sign | Paul Sims | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/mar/25/crucifixes-italian-classrooms-echr

A neutral state is crucial to secularism, which is why those in favour of such a system view the Lautsi case as a defeat. The crucifix is not, as the Italian government laughably tried to argue, an “ethical symbol” which “could be perceived as devoid of religious significance”, but the single most recognisable symbol of the Christian faith. How could its compulsory display in classrooms possibly be compatible with a plural society, in which the state favours no single religious or philosophical position?

It’s worth noting, also, that the Lautsi judgement has implications beyond the classroom.

#religion #laïcité