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Fides).- Scotland's Catholic bishops restated their strong backing for Catholic schools, following recent negative media coverage of denominational education. In particular, Archbishop Mario …
read moreGlasgow Archbishop Mario Conti has compared attacks on the Catholic school system to the racist and anti-Catholic campaigns to deport the Irish from Scotland in the 1920s. In an article in the …
read moreJohn Paul II says Catholic universities and schools must face the challenge of preserving Christian culture and identity in the era of globalization. When the Pope met today with Chilean …
read moreDespite recent Maoist rebel attacks on two Catholic schools in the Gorkha region, a priest says the local Church is determined to continue its mission of service. On both occasions the rebels, …
read moreMexican legislation should increase religious liberty so that the Catholic Church can have its own media and access to schools, says a bishop in Chiapas. During his homily Sunday, Bishop …
read moreMoves are under way in the United States to extend single-sex schools to the public sector. In January $3 million in experimental funding for single-sex schools was approved and in May the …
read moreSchools run by the Marist Brothers in this region are funding a pioneer project to care for terminal AIDS patients in the Ivory Coast. Through their nongovernmental organization SED …
read moreThe debate over public funding for private religious schools in Britain has intensified in recent months. Some critics denounce the so-called faith schools as promoting intolerance and …
read moreOn Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over whether government vouchers should be given to enable parents to send their children to private or religious schools. The long-standing …
read moreThe Catholic Church is opposing a move by the African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa (AIPCA) to repossess all the schools it had before Kenyas independence in 1963. "We cannot give …
read moreJohn Paul II urged Catholic teachers to promote "the perennial human values, which stem from the evangelical view of life," in order to have schools that are tailored to students. The Pope …
read moreDespite the rise of religious sensibilities in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Christmas is an unwelcome holiday in many U.S. public schools this year, reports the Washington …
read moreThe 66th International Conference on Education, organized by UNESCO, has a high goal: to wipe out literacy in the world by 2015. Now, 875 million people worldwide are illiterate. About 580 …
read moreGerman religious leaders have appealed to the countrys Supreme Court to make the teaching of religion compulsory in schools of an eastern state where ethics is now taught. Lutheran and …
read moreThe Labor governments plans for a big expansion of religious schools were condemned by the National Secular Society as grossly discriminatory and an "explosive" threat to community relations, …
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