Christian Club: French delegate rejects EU Convention head's stance on Turkey
Paris, 10 November: The European Union is not "a Christian club", France's representative on the Convention on the Future of Europe, Pierre Moscovici, said on Sunday [10 November], affirming, with regard to the possible accession of Turkey to the EU, that Muslims will have their place in the future European Union.The former European affairs minister said on Radio J that the remarks of the chairman of the Convention on the Future of Europe, Valery Giscard...
Turkish opposition party official says EU wants to be "Christian club"
Turkish opposition party official says EU wants to be "Christian club" [Presenter] True Path Party [DYP] deputy leader Ali Sevki Erek held a news conference in Istanbul, where he said that the EU member countries want to turn the union into a Christian club.[Erek] We must approach the issue with dignity. We must protect the rights of the Turkish Republic insistently, seriously, but calmly. This does not mean that we must say: We are ready to accept a place...
Christian Club: Battle lines drawn as EU debates Turkey's entry
Members are divided about opening the doors of their exclusive Christian club to a Muslim country, writes Anthony Browne TURKISH Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Brussels last night to join the most passionate, far-reaching but closeted debate Europe has had for many years.Across the continent, a battle is raging within and between governments and countries. It splits leaders from the people they govern. It has led already to the founding of one political party, could bring...
Christian Club: School pulls the plug on Christian concert
Students in a Christian club at Juneau-Douglas High School are upset that the school administration abruptly shut down a lunchtime concert Wednesday.But Principal Deb Morse said officials didn't know the concert was taking place and wouldn't have approved it if they did."It wouldn't matter if it was the Honor Society. That isn't something we would do," she said.The concert, in a room in the Marie Drake...
Christian Club: RELIGION AND ABSURDITY IN THE SCHOOLS
The substance of a Supreme Court decision is occasionally less revealing than what it says implicitly about the state of the national dialogue. And a good example is the decision in the case of the after-hours ''Christian club'' at an Omaha high school. It offers dismal witness to what years of violent controversy have done to the Establishment Clause, and to religion and learning Six years ago, Congress passed a so-called...