http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/italians-oppose-same-sex-marriage-adoption/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/italians-oppose-same-sex-marriage-adoption/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 23:05:12 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134402 Catholic Culture: Italian public opinion remains firmly opposed to same-sex marriage, a new survey shows. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/22/italians-oppose-same-sex-marriage-adoption/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/italian-foreign-minister-on-attacks-against-christians-these-massacres-must-stop-says-terzi-we-must-defend-freedom-of-religion/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/italian-foreign-minister-on-attacks-against-christians-these-massacres-must-stop-says-terzi-we-must-defend-freedom-of-religion/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:46:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132509 StarAfrica.com: The attacks in Nigeria and Kenya on Sunday 29 April left over 20 worshippers dead and numerous injured. “These atrocious and barbaric massacres must stop. Defending freedom of religion is an absolute priority for Italy”, said Minister Terzi. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/italian-foreign-minister-on-attacks-against-christians-these-massacres-must-stop-says-terzi-we-must-defend-freedom-of-religion/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/30/two-men-torch-themselves-in-italy-as-economic-hardship-bites/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/30/two-men-torch-themselves-in-italy-as-economic-hardship-bites/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:57:04 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129978 Reuters on Yahoo: A Moroccan worker in Italy set himself on fire on Thursday in protest at not being paid for months, a day after an Italian businessman set himself alight over a tax dispute, police said. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/30/two-men-torch-themselves-in-italy-as-economic-hardship-bites/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/italy-court-rules-gays-have-right-to-family-life/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/italy-court-rules-gays-have-right-to-family-life/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:57:03 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128823 AFP on Google: Italy's highest civil court opened the way for homosexuals to have the same rights as heterosexual married couples Thursday, but it upheld a ban on gay marriage and said those celebrated abroad were not valid in Italy. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/italy-court-rules-gays-have-right-to-family-life/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/24/libya-historic-european-court-judgment-upholds-migrants-rights/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/24/libya-historic-european-court-judgment-upholds-migrants-rights/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:34:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=126813 allAfrica.com: The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ruled that Italy violated human rights principles by spurning African migrants and asylum-seekers on the high seas, a judgment hailed as historic by Amnesty International. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/24/libya-historic-european-court-judgment-upholds-migrants-rights/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/16/pope-large-families-a-witness-to-faith-source-of-%e2%80%98wealth-and-hope%e2%80%99-to-nation/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/16/pope-large-families-a-witness-to-faith-source-of-%e2%80%98wealth-and-hope%e2%80%99-to-nation/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:19:19 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=125950 LifeSiteNews.com: Families are a witness to “faith, courage and optimism” when they welcome many children even amid today’s social environment, said Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/16/pope-large-families-a-witness-to-faith-source-of-%e2%80%98wealth-and-hope%e2%80%99-to-nation/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/16/legal-periodical-by-william-saunders-does-neutrality-equal-secularism-the-european-court-of-human-rights-decides-lautsi-v-italy/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/16/legal-periodical-by-william-saunders-does-neutrality-equal-secularism-the-european-court-of-human-rights-decides-lautsi-v-italy/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:37:34 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=123082 The Federalist Society Engage Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2011: Religion can be an intensely personal activity. However, the idea that religion is only a private, personal devotion with no public political consequences is relatively new. For many nations in Europe, religion, in particular Catholicism, exerted an important influence over government and politics for centuries. The remnants of this influence still remain in anthems, oaths, and ideologies, not to mention architecture. However, with the rise of an ideology of “strict separation of church and state” in the European Union and the Council of Europe, it has been unclear how countries may incorporate their religious influences and histories into public life and expression. The case of Lautsi v. Italy in the European Court of Human Rights illustrates this struggle between secular ideology and religious faith and affiliation in the European context. The ultimate decision in the case acknowledges that “freedom of religion” need not result in, as the late Richard John Neuhaus put it, the naked public square.1 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/16/legal-periodical-by-william-saunders-does-neutrality-equal-secularism-the-european-court-of-human-rights-decides-lautsi-v-italy/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/13/five-european-nations-to-be-downgraded-by-sp-report/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/13/five-european-nations-to-be-downgraded-by-sp-report/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:53:29 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=122989 CNBC: Standard & Poor's will cut the credit ratings of Italy, Spain and Portugal by two notches and downgrade France and Austria by one notch, a French newspaper said Friday, without citing its sources. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/13/five-european-nations-to-be-downgraded-by-sp-report/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/28/francis-x-rocca-pope-benedicts-interfaith-outreach-as-a-cardinal-joseph-ratzinger-was-skeptical-about-a-common-concept-of-god/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/28/francis-x-rocca-pope-benedicts-interfaith-outreach-as-a-cardinal-joseph-ratzinger-was-skeptical-about-a-common-concept-of-god/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:33:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117161 WSJ.com: This audacious goal has unsettling implications for Catholicism's relations with other faiths. After all, if religion is of more than merely subjective value, and if its many varieties are not just different expressions of the same reality, it follows that some religions are truer than others. And Benedict has never hidden his conviction of where the truth in its fullness lies. However undiplomatic it may seem in certain contexts, Benedict's emphasis on objective truth is, by his lights, essential to the agenda for which he prayed in Assisi. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/28/francis-x-rocca-pope-benedicts-interfaith-outreach-as-a-cardinal-joseph-ratzinger-was-skeptical-about-a-common-concept-of-god/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/27/eu-deal-sparks-union-outrage-in-italy/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/27/eu-deal-sparks-union-outrage-in-italy/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:25:19 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117072 The Guardian: Workers angry with Silvio Berlusconi's pledges to make it easier for companies to sack employees, but hold back from strike call ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/27/eu-deal-sparks-union-outrage-in-italy/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/28/italian-church-criticizes-%e2%80%98licentious-conduct%e2%80%99-of-the-elite/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/28/italian-church-criticizes-%e2%80%98licentious-conduct%e2%80%99-of-the-elite/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:08:38 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=114894 NYTimes.com: But a recent published account of a party at Mr. Berlusconi’s home where one female guest performed a striptease dressed as a nun, apparently was more than the Church could stand. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/28/italian-church-criticizes-%e2%80%98licentious-conduct%e2%80%99-of-the-elite/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/15/china-states-price-for-italian-rescue/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/15/china-states-price-for-italian-rescue/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:46:09 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=113582 Telegraph: China has called for major strategic concessions from Europe before agreeing to rescue the eurozone, chilling hopes for immediate purchases of Italian bonds. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/15/china-states-price-for-italian-rescue/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/24/growth-of-islamistan-in-europe-means-no-go-zones-for-non-muslims/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/24/growth-of-islamistan-in-europe-means-no-go-zones-for-non-muslims/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:36:56 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=111741 The Cutting Edge News: Islamic extremists are stepping up the creation of "no-go" areas in European cities that are off-limits to non-Muslims. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/24/growth-of-islamistan-in-europe-means-no-go-zones-for-non-muslims/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/18/italian-women-the-most-unhappy-in-europe-12-regret-marriage-23-regret-having-children/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/18/italian-women-the-most-unhappy-in-europe-12-regret-marriage-23-regret-having-children/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:39:43 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=111214 Telegraph: The survey of 4,000 women in the continent's five largest countries found that 76 per cent of Italian housewives were dissatisfied with their lives . . . half of Italian women said they regretted getting married and two-thirds regretted having children. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/18/italian-women-the-most-unhappy-in-europe-12-regret-marriage-23-regret-having-children/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/17/italy-could-recover-billions-in-taxes-by-setting-up-licensed-brothels/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/17/italy-could-recover-billions-in-taxes-by-setting-up-licensed-brothels/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:12:00 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=111105 Telegraph: Italy could recover billions of pounds in taxes by legalising prostitution and setting up licensed brothels, a member of Silvio Berlusconi's party has proposed. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/17/italy-could-recover-billions-in-taxes-by-setting-up-licensed-brothels/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/04/revenge-italian-prosecutors-seize-documents-from-moodys-sp/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/04/revenge-italian-prosecutors-seize-documents-from-moodys-sp/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:07:22 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=110012 CNBC: Italian prosecutors have seized documents at the offices of rating agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's in a probe over suspected "anomalous" fluctuations in Italian share prices, a prosecutor said on Thursday. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/04/revenge-italian-prosecutors-seize-documents-from-moodys-sp/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/02/italian-parliament-commission-approves-burqa-ban/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/02/italian-parliament-commission-approves-burqa-ban/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:08:18 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=109734 AP: An Italian parliamentary commission on Tuesday approved a draft law banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/02/italian-parliament-commission-approves-burqa-ban/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/15/bill-to-outlaw-dehydration-euthanasia-passed-by-italy%e2%80%99s-lower-house/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/15/bill-to-outlaw-dehydration-euthanasia-passed-by-italy%e2%80%99s-lower-house/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:25:15 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=108288 LifeSiteNews.com: This week, the lower house of the Italian legislature voted 278-205 to pass a bill that would definitively exclude the possibility of starving and dehydrating vulnerable patients to death. The Advance Directives Bill opens with a specific prohibition of euthanasia or assisted suicide and requires that patients not be denied food and hydration. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/15/bill-to-outlaw-dehydration-euthanasia-passed-by-italy%e2%80%99s-lower-house/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/13/italian-lower-house-votes-to-ban-euthanasia/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/13/italian-lower-house-votes-to-ban-euthanasia/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:00:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=108065 LifeSiteNews.com: The lower house of Italy’s parliament has voted to prohibit the starvation and dehydration of patients in a move that is seen as a response to the killing of Eluana Englaro in 2009. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/13/italian-lower-house-votes-to-ban-euthanasia/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/16/phyllis-schlafly-crosses-can-stay-in-italy%e2%80%99s-classrooms/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/16/phyllis-schlafly-crosses-can-stay-in-italy%e2%80%99s-classrooms/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:40:25 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=106530 The Moral Liberal: I would hate to admit that Italy has more freedom of religion than the United States, where we like to brag about our First Amendment rights . . . A conservative public-interest law firm in the United States, called the Alliance Defense Fund, persuaded the judges to allow 33 members of the European Parliament to intervene in this lawsuit. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/16/phyllis-schlafly-crosses-can-stay-in-italy%e2%80%99s-classrooms/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/06/italians-not-having-kids-and-now-not-getting-married-either-new-stats/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/06/italians-not-having-kids-and-now-not-getting-married-either-new-stats/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:38:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=105631 LifeSiteNews.com: The archetypal Italian family, with mamma and papa presiding over a noisy dinner table, surrounded by rambunctious children and grandchildren, has become a cultural artifact of the past. Not only are Italians not having children, they are increasingly not even bothering to get married, according to recently released government statistics. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/06/06/italians-not-having-kids-and-now-not-getting-married-either-new-stats/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/27/berlusconi-to-obama-we-have-almost-a-dictatorship-of-leftist-judges/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/27/berlusconi-to-obama-we-have-almost-a-dictatorship-of-leftist-judges/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 16:13:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=104906 AP: Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has taken his claim that he is being persecuted by leftist judges to the G-8 summit, telling a clearly perplexed President Barack Obama that in Italy they represent "almost a dictatorship." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/27/berlusconi-to-obama-we-have-almost-a-dictatorship-of-leftist-judges/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/10/rome-braces-for-prophet-predicted-quake/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/10/rome-braces-for-prophet-predicted-quake/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 19:50:57 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=103267 BBC: The panic was sparked by rumours that seismologist Raffaele Bendandi, who died in 1979, predicted the city would be devastated by a quake on 11 May. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/10/rome-braces-for-prophet-predicted-quake/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/04/eu-nations-cant-jail-illegal-immigrants/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/04/eu-nations-cant-jail-illegal-immigrants/#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 21:01:18 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=102797 Courthouse News Service: The highest court of the European Union ruled that member states may not jail immigrants who enter their countries illegally and then refuse to leave. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/04/eu-nations-cant-jail-illegal-immigrants/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/28/eu-top-court-throws-out-italian-law-making-illegal-immigration-a-crime/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/28/eu-top-court-throws-out-italian-law-making-illegal-immigration-a-crime/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:13:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=102282 ADNKronos: The EU Court of Justice ruled that jailing migrants contradicts an EU directive whose main objective is "to set up an effective policy to drive out and repatriate third country nationals whose stay (in the EU) is irregular, while respecting their fundamental rights," the court said in a statement. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/28/eu-top-court-throws-out-italian-law-making-illegal-immigration-a-crime/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/25/top-italian-official-blasts-ikea-over-gay-advert/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/25/top-italian-official-blasts-ikea-over-gay-advert/#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:10:28 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=101906 TheLocal.se: A top Italian official on Saturday called an Ikea advertisement with two gay men holding hands "in bad taste", invoking the ire of opposition parties and rights groups. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/25/top-italian-official-blasts-ikea-over-gay-advert/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/20/efforts-to-ban-the-burqa-go-well-beyond-france/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/20/efforts-to-ban-the-burqa-go-well-beyond-france/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:21:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=101547 Islamist Watch: Though France is the pace setter, efforts to impose burqa bans, both broad and narrow, press on across the West. The following is a quick and by no means exhaustive update on recent attempts . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/20/efforts-to-ban-the-burqa-go-well-beyond-france/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/19/27-of-cases-at-european-court-of-human-rights-concern-italy/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/19/27-of-cases-at-european-court-of-human-rights-concern-italy/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:43:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=101465 AGI News: "A full 27 percent of cases pending at the European Court of Human Rights concern Italy." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/19/27-of-cases-at-european-court-of-human-rights-concern-italy/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/12/calls-for-academic-to-resign-after-saying-roman-empire-fell-due-to-homosexuality/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/12/calls-for-academic-to-resign-after-saying-roman-empire-fell-due-to-homosexuality/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:53:43 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=100818 Scotsman: A LEADING Italian academic is facing growing calls to resign after he blamed the collapse of the Roman Empire on homosexuality. Professor Roberto De Mattei, vice-president of Italy's Centre for National Research and who is also a devout Catholic, has already faced criticism after claiming that the Japanese tsunami and earthquake disaster was "divine punishment". ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/12/calls-for-academic-to-resign-after-saying-roman-empire-fell-due-to-homosexuality/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/08/france-says-will-not-accept-wave-of-tunisian-migration/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/08/france-says-will-not-accept-wave-of-tunisian-migration/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:31:49 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=100574 Expatica.com: France warned that it would not tolerate a "wave of Tunisian immigration" after Italy on Thursday granted humanitarian permits to thousands of Tunisians allowing them to travel around Europe. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/08/france-says-will-not-accept-wave-of-tunisian-migration/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/30/homeschooling-grows-in-italy/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/30/homeschooling-grows-in-italy/#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:46:27 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=99550 HSLDA: Homeschooling in Italy is growing, and a website called Controscuola.it is helping. Run by homeschool mom Erika Di Martino, the tagline on the Controscuola website reads, “Education is compulsory ... not school attendance!” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/30/homeschooling-grows-in-italy/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/25/secularism-in-europe-takes-a-blow-as-vatican-flexes-its-political-muscle/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/25/secularism-in-europe-takes-a-blow-as-vatican-flexes-its-political-muscle/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:11:52 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=99138 National Secular Society: The ruling from the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights that the display of crucifixes in state school classrooms does not violate a student’s freedom of conscience is a severe blow to the concept of secularism in Europe. It also leaves an uncomfortable suspicion over the motives and independence of the European Court . . . The European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) – (a branch of US televangelist Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice), was elated. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) also hailed the ruling. (Both groups had filed briefs urging the court to uphold the crucifixes.) ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/25/secularism-in-europe-takes-a-blow-as-vatican-flexes-its-political-muscle/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/24/european-court-affirms-crucifixes-may-be-displayed-in-public-schools/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/24/european-court-affirms-crucifixes-may-be-displayed-in-public-schools/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:10:37 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=99037 C-FAM: The final decision can be summarized by the concurring opinion of Judge Giovanni Bonello who wrote, “The Convention has given this Court the remit to enforce freedom of religion and of conscience, but has not empowered it to bully States into secularism or to coerce countries into schemes of religious neutrality.” “It is for each individual State to choose whether to be secular or not, and whether, and to what extent, to separate Church and governance.” . . . A loss in this case would have meant, in essence, that it would be illegal under the European Convention on Human Rights to have religious symbols in any state institution anywhere in Europe,” said Roger Kiska, Legal Counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund that represented 33 Members of the European Parliament in the case. “That would have set a dangerous example for the rest of the world.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/24/european-court-affirms-crucifixes-may-be-displayed-in-public-schools/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/21/european-court-upholds-crucifixes-in-public-schools/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/21/european-court-upholds-crucifixes-in-public-schools/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:14:49 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=98639 Christian Post: "The European Court of Human Rights shouldn't overstep its authority and force a member nation to abandon traditions and beliefs that it has a sovereign right to protect if it so chooses," said Roger Kiska, legal counsel of Alliance Defense Fund, who was present at the announcement of the court's decision. Last year, ADF attorneys were granted permission by the European court to intervene in the suit on behalf of 33 members of the European Parliament. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/21/european-court-upholds-crucifixes-in-public-schools/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/21/piero-a-tozzi-on-the-zeb-bell-show-eu-court-rules-crucifixes-can-stay-in-italian-classrooms/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/21/piero-a-tozzi-on-the-zeb-bell-show-eu-court-rules-crucifixes-can-stay-in-italian-classrooms/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:07:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=98634 Piero A. Tozzi appeared on the Zeb Bell Show to discuss the ruling. A related ADF press release is here. | MP3 audio 10:46 mins ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/21/piero-a-tozzi-on-the-zeb-bell-show-eu-court-rules-crucifixes-can-stay-in-italian-classrooms/feed/ 0