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"Freedom of religion or secularism in the Spanish university? The ensuing debate beyond the performance of the Complutense. EBEN

In recent days the English press has paid special attention arrest and subsequent release four students who were identified as some of the people who entered the existing chapel Somosaguas campus of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and who conducted a performance to protest the closure of the university campus grounds, action even have been repudiated by the Ministry of Education .

The events occurred more than a week say more than 70 people entered the chapel located in the Faculty of Psychology Somosaguas Campus in Madrid, in addition to the reading of a manifesto rejecting the presence of this temple, exterior walls lined with insults, also included some people naked inside the enclosure. Similar protests have taken place in Barcelona.

The online edition of newspaper El Pais today entitled "secular The battle now being waged in campus," to remember as in the past two years at least been discussed deeply in English society about the role played by the Catholic church in education, especially regarding the presence of crucifixes in the precincts, but also in the curriculum area.

The debate that opens from these records if it has to do with the presence of the Catholic Church in the English public universities, it raises in my opinion as a matter of substantive discussion on issues such as religious freedom or secularism on college campuses, where respect and Tolerance should prevail as an expression of more fundamental university values.

Thus, the presence of the chapels inside the university campus does not seem to be the best indicator of these values, which in any case means for example that have built temples in the universities of each of the religions that request, since there are spaces in each city so that they carry out these activities, the university has other purposes, which is not to say that we should respect that everyone freely and professes a particular personal religion, or, if not follow any religious belief, a debate that apparently still has "much cloth to cut" in the English university.