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Escape from Catholic Religion Instruction Isn’t Stopping

The UAAR has once again knocked on the door of the Ministry of Education and Merit and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano with a general civic access, recovering data on attendance at Catholic religious education (IRC) in Italian state schools. Students who chose not to attend religious education, which are still archaically and disrespectfully called “exempted,” reached a record number of 1,164,000 (+68,000), rising from an average of 15.5% in 2022/23 to 16.62% in 2023/24. Analyzing the provincial… Read more »