Editing Crucifix (section)

=== Modern ===
[[File:Visite, Hotel du Parlement du Quebec - 14.jpg|thumb|A crucifix hung above the seat of the  [[National Assembly of Quebec]] from 1936 to 9 July 2019.]]
In 2005, a mother accused her daughter's school in [[Derby]], England, of discriminating against Christians after the teenager was suspended for refusing to take off a [[crucifix necklace]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1504822/School-ban-on-girl-wearing-cross-%27discriminatory%27.html |title =School ban on girl wearing cross 'discriminatory'|work= The Telegraph |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913031447/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1504822/School-ban-on-girl-wearing-cross-%27discriminatory%27.html |archive-date=13 September 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2008, a chapel in a [[prison]] in England replaced its crucifix and static altar with a cross and portable altar when it was renovated as a multi-faith chapel. Right-wing media reported that the crucifix had been removed "in case it offends Muslims".<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3775702/Prison-chapel-not-to-have-a-crucifix.html |title = Prison chapel not to have a crucifix  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219231822/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3775702/Prison-chapel-not-to-have-a-crucifix.html |archive-date=19 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2008 in Spain, a local judge ordered crucifixes removed from public schools to settle a decades-old dispute over whether crucifixes should be displayed in public buildings in a non-confessional state.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/features/article_1446455.php/&quotWar_of_crucifix%22_questions_Catholic_predominance_in_Spain__Feature__ |title = Monster and Critics |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120903174347/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/features/article_1446455.php/&quotWar_of_crucifix%22_questions_Catholic_predominance_in_Spain__Feature__ |archive-date=3 September 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 18 March 2011, the [[European Court of Human Rights]] ruled in the ''[[Lautsi v. Italy]]'' case, that the requirement in Italian law that crucifixes be displayed in classrooms of state schools does not violate the [[European Convention on Human Rights]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?action=open&documentId=883171&portal=hbkm&source=externalbydocnumber&table=F69A27FD8FB86142BF01C1166DEA398649| title = Press release of the European Court of Human Rights}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.echr.coe.int/echr/resources/hudoc/lautsi_and_others_v__italy.pdf| title = Full text of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2011/03/european-courts-grand-chamber-upholds.html| title = Summary of the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights| date = 18 March 2011}}</ref> Crucifixes are common in most other Italian official buildings, including [[law court|courts of law]].

On 24 March 2011, the [[Constitutional Court of Peru]] ruled that the presence of crucifixes in courts of law does not violate the secular nature of the state.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/22197/peru-court-upholds-presence-of-crucifix-in-public-places| title = Peru court upholds presence of crucifix in public places}}</ref>