IRELAND
Ecumenical News
Henri Rose Cimatu
Monday, September 15 2014
The Evangelical Alliance Ireland has said that believers, and not the State, should fund their own schools
The EAI stance is similar to that held by a prominent atheist group and a leading Muslim academic in the predominantly Catholic country.
EAI executive director Nick Park said evangelical Christians feel alienated by State-funded schools that are usually run by the Catholic Church, which has by far the largest religious following in Ireland.
He mentioned Catholic practices such as the First Communion which can be a problem for evangelical parents. …
Increased prosperity in the 1990s along with cover ups by Catholic leaders of child abuse at schools in the 20th century have undermined church credibility and led to many Irish now shunning Catholicism.
The Irish Times reported that the position of EAI to call for a secular education system in Irish schools is similar to the one proposed by Atheist Ireland.
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