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Grad student loses $18-million lawsuit against UBC professors
MA candidate claimed she was discriminated against because of her faith
Published: Monday, January 14, 2008
Continue reading Comments (0) 14.01.2008. 22:28 Wearing a cross to workBritish Airways worker loses cross row case
LONDON (AFP) — A British Airways worker has lost her case for religious discrimination over wearing a cross to work, she said Tuesday.
Nadia Eweida, 56, took BA to an employment tribunal claiming it effectively discriminated against Christians because they were not allowed to wear religious jewellery while Muslims were allowed to wear hijabs and Sikhs bangles.
The airline, which changed its policy to allow crosses on chains over work clothes last year amid controversy over the case, said its clothing policy did not discriminate against Christians.
The row erupted in 2006 when Eweida claimed she was asked to remove or hide her cross.
"I'm very disappointed," she said.
"The judge has given way for BA to have a victory on imposing their will on all their staff."
A BA spokesman said: "We are pleased that the tribunal's decision supports our position.
"Our current policy allows symbols of faith to be worn openly and has been developed with multi-faith groups and our staff."
Eweida, who still works for the airline, pledged to return to work Thursday wearing the cross.
Here is the same note about the case, accept it's done in a soft multifaith language of the Catholic News Service: Text of the article from CNS.Family is at top of the value hierarchy. Almost 70 % of people have chosen family as the most important value.Continue reading Comments (0) 13.01.2008. 15:17 January 13, 2008 BulletinBulletin for the 13th of January, 2008 is available for download. It's out early on our website, so again we can try to download it before coming to church and getting a paper copy. This way perhaps we will save some trees, and be more environment friendly.Comments (0) 10.01.2008. 14:02 Just a note of introduction to this scary article and claims of the Cardinal. First of all, this is not a polish catholic church in the picture, where you can see people kneeling for consecration, but a Roman Catholic Church, that is the proper name. Polish Catholic Church is a schismatic organization, which belongs to the Old Catholic Church after First Vatican Council schism. It would help to explain this to those who see this picture, and then read the scary claims of the cardinal, who might be an English Cardinal, not a Catholic Cardinal. Somehow all this smells like anglicanism to me, perhaps in Wilkie we also have a polish catholic church, which is split from the Canadian Catholic Church.
"Be not afraid" John Paul II once said, perhaps more than once.
Catholic leader claims Poles could split Church
31/12/2007
The leader of the country's Roman Catholics has sparked a row by accusing immigrants of creating a separate church in Britain.
Continue reading Comments (3) 04.01.2008. 23:18 Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the head of the Church in England and Wales, said most parents did not want their children to be taught that marriage was just "one lifestyle choice among many".
Continue reading Comments (0) 04.01.2008. 23:07 The Vatican has backed a Roman Catholic bishop who has told Catholic schools in his diocese to reject "safe sex" education because it is "dangerous and immoral".
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