UK: Multi-Faith Assemblies to Replace Christian Worship in Schools – breitbart.com

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A Labour-run London council has become the first nationwide to allow its schools to opt out of providing Christian assemblies.

 

State-funded non-faith schools are required by law to offer a daily act of worship which must be “wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character”, unless granted special dispensation by the local authority.

 

But Brent Council in north-west London has used that loophole to offer all its schools an opt-out, encouraging them to take up the option and replace Christian worship with multi-faith assemblies, the Mirror has reported.

 

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