Religious material ban lifted in N.B. schools Updated Sat. Apr. 22 2006 7:05 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Schoolchildren in New Brunswick can once again receive religious material in class, but texts like the Bible can't be distributed freely as they had been for 60 years. The Gideons, a Christian group that hands out Bibles to hotel rooms and hospitals, had been distributing copies of the New Testament to Grade 5 students for 60 years before a school board policy changed stopped the practice in 2003. In lifting the province-wide ban Thursday, Education Minister Claude Williams said the Gideons will...