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Secular Sunday #553 – UN tells Ireland to provide secular schools
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial UN tells Ireland to provide secular schools This week the UN Human Rights Committee again told Ireland to provide secular education by establishing non-denominational schools, to bar all forms of ...
Atheist Ireland welcomes today’s concluding observations of the UN Human Rights Committee, which again tell Ireland to provide secular education by establishing non-denominational schools, and to further amend the Employment Equality Act to bar all forms of discrimination against teachers and medical workers. The UN Committee has also told Ireland ...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Misuse of public funds regarding religious instruction Since last December, Atheist Ireland has been lobbying to vindicate the constitutional right to not attend religious instruction in schools, and to uphold parental ...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Pope says Catholic education is evangelisation Pope Francis has said that Catholic education is evangelisation. This confirms again what Atheist Ireland has been saying for years: that our publicly funded school system ...
Pope Francis has confirmed that Catholic education is evangelisation, and has compared not speaking the truth about God in education to burning books, during a private reception in the Vatican on 22 April for educators including from Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. He also told a gathering of Christian Brothers ...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Ireland misleads UN about nondenominational schools Atheist Ireland raised several issues with the UN Human Rights Committee who questioned Ireland about this week under the International Convention on Civil and Political ...
Atheist Ireland had this letter published in the Irish Times this week following the UN Human Rights Committee questioning Ireland under International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Minister Roderic O’Gorman told the UN Human Rights Committee this week that Ireland aims to have 400 multi-denominational primary schools by 2030. ...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial The UN will question Ireland this week The United Nations Human Rights Committee will be examining Ireland’s human rights record this Monday and Tuesday under the International Covenant on Civil and ...