Top court rules Northern Ireland religious teaching breaches rights

NAMPA / DPA

2025-11-19

Belfast (PA Media/dpa) - The provision of Christian religious education in Northern Ireland schools does not comply with human rights standards and is unlawful, the UK Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. In a landmark judgment, the court upheld an appeal brought by a pupil at a Belfast school and her father and reinstated an earlier court ruling that the teaching of religious education and collective worship breaches human rights as it does not app......

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