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Red Nose Day Banned in Catholic Schools in South Wales

May | 06.03.2005 08:26 | Education | Social Struggles

Welsh children in Catholic comprehenive schools banned from raising money for Comic Relief!!

The South Wales Evening Post has reported that pupils in catholic comprehensive schools in Port Talbot,Swansea,and Llanelli have been banned from supporting this year's Comic Relief Appeal by the Diocese of Meneva which controls the three comprehensive schools of St Joseph's,Bishop Vaughan and St John Lloyd.
The ban has been opposed because Comic Relief has been accused by the spokesman of the catholic church of having links with "acts of abortion" in third world countries.
Many pupils , parents and teachers are angry about the ban.

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charity

06.03.2005 14:21

if everyone involved in red nose owned up to the fact that the way this country operates +creates+ the need for charity, they might be more inclined to put their energies into working for lasting political change rather than feelgood gestures.

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good but...

07.03.2005 11:42

Good, but shame about the reason.

Red nose day is nothing more than a celebration of wealth power and deifies celebrities as the new gods. It has no place in a modern society. I have to stop now or I shall rant incoherently.....

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