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Messiah is cancelled at school ‘due to religious content’

Messiah is cancelled at school ‘due to religious content’

There is a public outcry in Finland after a junior school in Uusima cancelled a concert of Handel’s Messiah by the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and the Helsinki Chamber Choir, apparently out of anxiety that its religious themes might offend some students.

It seems the school was aware of a recent case in Hämeenlinna, where a school had to pay 1,500 Euros for hurt feelings to a student’s mother who objected to hearing a song with Jesus’ name in it.

Neither school has made any comment, but politicians and bishops are raising a storm and the organiser of the concert said, ‘we have fallen out of a tree’.

‘What kind of society is it where schoolchildren don’t get to hear a baroque concert and get to know cultural history?’ demanded Social Security Minister Sanni Grahn-Laasonen.

Read more here.

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