[Olivia Hanks]
Krishna-Avanti primary school, which opened this September in Edgware, is Britain’s first Hindu state school. While it cannot actually ban children from non-Hindu families, it will, like other state-funded religious schools, be permitted to discriminate on grounds of religion if it is oversubscribed. In practice, then, there will not be a single child in […]
Faith schools
Orissa Burning
[David Staines]
According to human rights activists, more than 25 Christians have been murdered over the last month alone in the state of Orissa, in Southern India. Furthermore, there are allegations of a systematic campaign of violence against Christians and their property. The violence did seem to be organised- it began with 35 attacks carried out […]