Schools in Northern Ireland which teach pupils that Christianity is true are breaking the law. That is the ruling of the Supreme Court, which finds that religious education lessons and collective worship which aren’t ‘objective, critical and pluralistic’ are a form of ‘indoctrination’. It also finds that allowing parents to withdraw their children from these activities, which is already a statutory right, is not enough because doing so might place an ‘undue burden’ on parents or stigmatise the child.

By its very nature, Christianity is an absolute truth claim: Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God who died for our sins

The case involves a girl who, between 2017 and 2021, attended a ‘controlled’ school, a non-denominational institution overseen by a board of governors, funded by the Educat

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