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Saturday, November 01, 2014

Turkish public education system to offer class in Christianity for first time | Christian News on Christian Today

Turkish public education system to offer class in Christianity for first time
Published 01 November 2014 | Damaris Kremida

REUTERS/Osman Orsal
Students in a classroom in Istanbul - is religious teaching in Turkey fair on non-Sunni Muslims?

The Turkish education system's mandatory religion classes are not fair to students who do not follow the country's majority Sunni Islam and it must amend its policies, according to a recent verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), reports World Watch Monitor.

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