ZAGREB, Feb 24 (Hina) - The Ministry of Science, Education and Sport announced on Tuesday that within the next three days it would issue an expert opinion on the film "Nijemi krik" (A Silent Cry), which explicitly shows an act of
induced abortion, and recommended that Religious Education teachers refrain from showing the film until the publication of the opinion.
ZAGREB, Feb 24 (Hina) - The Ministry of Science, Education and Sport
announced on Tuesday that within the next three days it would issue an
expert opinion on the film "Nijemi krik" (A Silent Cry), which
explicitly shows an act of induced abortion, and recommended that
Religious Education teachers refrain from showing the film until the
publication of the opinion.#L#
The opinion will be made by a group of experts, including
gynaecologists, psychologists and theologians, Minister Dragan
Primorac said at a press conference at which parts of the film were
screened.
The film, produced by an American film company in 1983, was included
as optional literature in the Catholic Catechism curriculum for
secondary schools that was approved by the Croatian Bishops'
Conference and the Ministry of Education and Sport.
Last week the film was shown to third-grade students in a Religious
Education class at a Zagreb secondary school, provoking disturbing
responses from several students and subsequently from their parents.
(Hina) vm sb