Parents' Campaign Forces Church School to Ban Christian Charity Group; Wants Symbols Removed

Case information
Incident date
Country
United Kingdom
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
Societal Sphere
  • Education
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Parental Rights and Education
  • Exclusion (of individuals or ideas)

After a parents' group complained about a Christian charity's "fundamentalist approach" in discussions of sin, St. John's Church of England Primary School in Tunbridge Wells agreed to block CrossTeach from running assemblies or giving lessons. The campaign also demands the removal of crosses, Bibles and clergy from Church of England school assemblies.

According to Christian Today, a 13-page briefing document circulated by concerned parents to raise support includes criticism of a 'large cross' at a worship area in the school.

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