Sentences with phrase «religious holidays in»

This article is reprinted with permission of the First Amendment Center, whose original Religious Holidays in Public Schools guide was put together with contributions from First Amendment experts, religious groups and leading education organizations.

Haynes, a member of a coalition of educators who created guidelines for religious holidays in public schools, suggests asking these five questions before planning religious holidays in public schools: Is this activity designed in any way to either promote or inhibit religion?

They recommend workshops for educators regarding the appropriate place of religious holidays in the schools.

I know August is the month in which most of you go on holidays, especially Greeks, because in August the 15th we celebrate the Assumption of Mary (as I told you last year too), one of the most important religious holidays in Greece (after Christmas and Easter).

I feel like I haven't done much baking on the blog as of late, so when I saw that coconut pound cake was a popular food offering on religious holidays in Cambodia, I was psyched for the opportunity to adapt a pound cake recipe from a gluten - free cookbook I just picked up the other day.

Guides were published about how to treat religious holidays in the schools, how to teach students about religious traditions, and how to create equal access for organizations, including religious clubs on campus.

So again, if we allow religious holidays in our public schools will only lead to something far worst.

As an atheist I do not believe any religious holidays in school.

first of all Easter is always in a Sunday so no one would attend school on Easter but my school did not observe spring break during Easter so I attended school on Ash Wednesday and Holy Thursday and Friday prior to Easter which are important Religious holidays in the Catholic Church.

If there are any religious holidays in our public school calendars then they should be removed.

Some people use it perhaps in this context, but wheni say say Christmas is a religious holiday in which pagans amd Christians celebrated it, it means that people of varying faiths celebrated it.

Easter has become more than just a religious holiday in the West; it's Big Business.

El Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, on November 2, is an important religious holiday in Mexico.

(Super Bowl is not a religious holiday in Canada, as it is in the States, but I do watch a lot of sports — less than usual because the Toronto Raptors basketball team are playing so poorly this year.)

Not exact matches

Personal days can cover things like the illness of a child, a death in the family, jury duty, military obligations, or religious holidays.

Of course, things like extended illnesses, a death in the family, or religious holidays can always force an employee to miss work.

Several workers also told the Guardian that they were fired from the factory just before Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that began at the end of May, and rehired a month later in what they believe was an effort to make them ineligible for a religious holiday bonus that is required by Indonesian law.

But as the 140 - mile journey can take four hours by car in traffic, Uber is betting that Romanians would rather fly there, especially this weekend, which is a long weekend in Romania, with banks closed on Monday for a religious holiday.

I hear religious music in the Mall during the Christmas holidays (they are using Jesus to sell stuff!)

Many non-Christians celebrate the holiday season, call it Christmas, and sing religious Christmas carols — because it's nice music they learned in their childhood.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate their spiritual growth in that way, Happy Holidays to those who do not believe, May all others celebrating their religious beliefs have a joyous occasion.

And yes, regrettably Christmas has in many cases become a commercial holiday without religious observance.

We simply don't want you imposing yours on us in laws and education and by demanding everyone use your religious greeting during holidays.

But people going way beyond the call to do the right thing, nor the holiday of thanksgiving in general, are not religious issues and ought not be on a «Religion Blog».

Religious holidays have long been a venue for terrorist attacks against all religious groups in the Middle East and NortReligious holidays have long been a venue for terrorist attacks against all religious groups in the Middle East and Nortreligious groups in the Middle East and North Africa.

Senior CDU member Wolfgang Bosbach told newspaper Bild that people can celebrate whatever religious holiday they want, but «whether the state should also protect non-Christian holidays with legal regulation in future is a different issue entirely.»

Plato, for example, calls the religious holiday an anapausa, a breathing spell.16 We see it in children's play where a new space and time are set apart for the duration of the play experience — the back yard becoming a jungle or the Western prairie where the Indians and the cowboys are fighting.

In other words, they're dumb enough to get in a self righteous name calling uproar for the simple sake of offending amd being offended over a religious holiday they don't beleive in anyways but still want to celebratIn other words, they're dumb enough to get in a self righteous name calling uproar for the simple sake of offending amd being offended over a religious holiday they don't beleive in anyways but still want to celebratin a self righteous name calling uproar for the simple sake of offending amd being offended over a religious holiday they don't beleive in anyways but still want to celebratin anyways but still want to celebrate.

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

Excuse me then of not crying large tears over your atheist plight of wanting to celebratie a spiritual holiday that you don't beleive in, and additionally being upset that Christians actually call it by a religious name.

In civilized States, like New York, all athletic contests take into account Religious Holidays and do not force young people to make such a choice.

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If you'd like to use a religious holiday to keep your kid home from school, then you should be able to call your child in sick.

If you have problems in allowing religious holidays for one religion, then you can't have holidays for any of the others.

In my experience, school children of non-Christian faiths are excused from school for religious holidays.

We do not celebrate Jewish holidays (except maybe in New York City), nor any of the Indian, Chinese, African, or even other Christian holidays (such as the Eastern Orthodox holidays; there are many more religious holidays on the Christian calendar than Christmas and Easter).

Making religious holidays into school or federal holidays in never going to work because some religions and some people will always be excluded.

The holidays have been renamed winter and spring break, no they have not been moved, but they are not considered by most to be religious in nature any more.

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BUT I do believe in separation of «church» and state (another founding principal of our country)... so NO religious holiday should result in a day off from school not even CHRISTMAS or PASSOVER etc. if you celebrate the holiday don't send your kid to school and they can catch up later.

If they want to observe religious holidays, observe all religious holidays like we do it in India.

For example, the school system could build in some flexibility to reasonably accommodate the minority's religious needs by allowing exams to be written on alternative days, or permitting extensions on assignments if the due dates fall on holidays etc..

However, most schools are probably in session for most if not all other religious holidays.

These should not be «religious holidays», but rather planned breaks in the schedule to accomidate all students» faiths.

If a Christian child is not permitted to say a prayer in a public school (which is the case in many provinces) then a Muslim should certainly not have access to special religious holidays.

Let's hope they don't celebrate one of their religious holidays and bring one to school or to the new mosque near the World Trade Center in New York City.

And don't forget, religious Holidays — I would then expect our government to be in full capacity on Christmas too!

SUNYAB closed early on Fridays in observance of Rosh Hashanah and / or Yom Kippur, but observed no other religious holidays I can recall.

Do only Muslim kids get off that holiday and if so how is that fare too all the other kids in America with many diffrent religious holidays?

I think that, in keeping with the separation of church and state (which is a good policy, I think), we should not observe ANY religious holidays, including Good Friday, which is widely observed by public schools throughout the US.