Greek theologians accuse education minister of attempting to convert children

The occasion was a letter from the Ministry of Education to Greek School Directors requesting to know the number of books of Religious lessons returned to schools by students' parents,

"It is clear that Mr. Gavroglou insists on proceeding autarchically and fascistically to the implementation of his Government's policy in the sensitive area of ​​Education, especially in the field of religious education, not taking into account the reactions he is causing - just as his government is also doing in the great national issue of Macedonia - obviously, only to satisfy ideological presumptions of an origin unknown to our people, but directly related to the spiritual evolution of the Greek Orthodox students." The Associaiton stressed in a statement under the title "The Minister of Education insists on changing the beliefs of Greek Orthodox students ".

By accusing the Minister of unorthodox educational policy, the Union states: "But in the end, what the ministry does in practice with all these attacks is to create a wave of reactions that tend to take on the characteristics of a mass movement - just as in the Macedonia issue against the government's anti-Orthodox educational policy, the first the revolutionary and globally unprecedented initiative of Greek parents to return to the Ministry, the books/files of Religious lessons."

And he concludes: "Soon, we also believe that the responsible leaders of the Ministry of Education and the Institute for Educational Policy, who are responsible for the approval and promotion of all these "dangerous and unacceptable" cultural and religious sub-products, will understand that their fascist disrespect to the parents and through the new religious approach to de-orthodox children, and will receive the corresponding answer."