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Schools in the U.K. must teach students that Britain is a Christian nation, the country’s education secretary said this week. Secretary of State for Education Nicky Morgan announced that non-faith schools in the country must tell students that British religious traditions “are, in the main, Christian” when they teach about other religions.
Morgan’s comments came after Prime Minister David Cameron’s Christmas message this year, in which he emphasized Britain’s Christian roots. Morgan’s guidelines are also in response to a British High Court ruling in November, which found that the government had unlawfully excluded atheism and nonreligious views from school curriculum. Continue reading from ibtimes.com here
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