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Costa Rica's Constitutional Court Rejects Bishops Power To Select Religion Teachers

By Howard M. Friedman

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CNA yesterday reported that Costa Rica's Constitutional Court, by a vote of 4-3, struck down the agreement between the Catholic Church and the government that gives the Bishop's Conference of Costa Rica the right to approve teachers of Catholic religion in public schools. The arrangement, which allowed the Church to reject a teacher on moral grounds as well as knowledge of religion, was seen by those challenging it as an intrusion by bishops into affairs of the public schools.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on February 09, 2010 (boomark / email).

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