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Christians seek hearings in the European Court of Human Rights
6 June 2011
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Government to make a formal statement on whether the rights of Christians to manifest their religion have been infringed by decisions in the British courts, according to The Telegraph.The newspaper reported yesterday that Nadia Eweida, Lillian Ladele, Gary McFarlane and Shirley Chaplin, whose cases have featured heavily in the media in recent years, have now made application to the Strasbourg court.
Eweida and Chaplin’s cases concerned the wearing of a cross at work in defiance of their employers’ uniform policies, whilst Ladele and McFarlane sought to excuse themselves from duties which they declared to be at odds with their beliefs.