Newsletter N. 10 - November 2009 - English version
This is the newsletter of the Oasis International Foundation, www.oasiscenter.eu
Editor: Maria Laura Conte
Forefront
A paradoxical sentence
For Oasis, the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on 3 November 2009 to ban the crucifix from Italian schoolrooms because its presence violates the freedom of religion of children and the right of parents to educate their children in conformity with their convictions is provocative in more ways than one, because it goes to the heart of what its studies and research have pursued for years.
Oasis has dedicated much thought on the role that religions play in the public square and on the contradictions a plural society must deal with when civilisations and cultures intermingle. For this reason, it is presenting an excerpt from Paolo Gomarasca’s Meticciato: convivenza o confusione? (Mestizaje: coexistance, or confusion?, Marcianum Press, Venice 2009) entitled ‘Civil relationality: the public role of religions’.
Correspondences
Synodal work is getting in high gear in the Church. The Synod on Africa ended a few days ago, as the next one on the Middle East gets ready to open soon.
For Oasis, the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on 3 November 2009 to ban the crucifix from Italian schoolrooms because its presence violates the freedom of religion of children and the right of parents to educate their children in conformity with their convictions is provocative in more ways than one, because it goes to the heart of what its studies and research have pursued for years.
