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Article: Court removes crucifix from Spanish school.(AROUND THE WORLD)(Brief article)
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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A public school in northern Spain must remove crucifixes from its walls, a Spanish judge ordered recently.
A parent and a local secular association requested the removal of the crucifixes from Macias Picavea School in 2005. Judge Alejandro Valentin of the city of Valladolid agreed, saying, "The presence of these symbols in areas ... where minors are being educated can promote the idea that the state is closer" to Roman Catholicism than other faiths.
Under the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco, Roman Catholicism was Spain's ...