New European Union school calendar omits Christian holidays

CNA ^ | 1/16/11 | CNA

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Strasbourg, France, Jan 14, 2011 / 02:11 pm (CNA).- A 2011-2012 school calendar published by the European Union has omitted Christian holidays, while continuing to note important Jewish and Muslim celebrations.

The European Union has printed three million copies of the calendar which will be distributed free-of-charge to students who request them.

Former French politician and government minister, Christine Boutin, wrote in her blog Jan. 11 that the calendar leaves out Christianity, “the religion practiced or recognized as forming the cultural assembly of our ‘old’ continent.”

Boutin is a consultant for the Pontifical Council for the Family, as well as president of the Christian Democratic Party in France. She went on to lament that Christianity has “fallen into the limbo of collective ignorance.”

While Christian holidays such as Christmas and Easter are missing from the calendar's pages, days commemorating “Sikh Baisakhi-Day, the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday, the Muslim holiday Aid-el-Kebir,” remain in place,” Boutin continued.

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Using a large screen helps for me - but I know a large HDTV would help - especially on the text and details

- Trying to mix up and balance my schedule often does not work for me

My eyes are talking to me tonight

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Lol, you need to go on to bed and rest them, you must have had a long day.

I’m about to head off myself.

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How can anyone believe it a ‘religion of peace’?

Any religion largely unchecked and seldom under scrutiny from the highest authority cannot be a religion of peace for very long. Had it not been for the European people, and their politicians, Islam would not have become a protected class, but would likely have had to get what just about every other one of us has to get. But in actuality, that is the Europeans’ choice, and that choice has consequences.