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India: Adventist students allowed to take exams after Sabbath |
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Two Seventh-day Adventist students from the Seventh-day Adventist Boarding School in Kottarakara won a court ruling in Kerla, India allowing them to take their exams after 6 p.m. on Saturday. The students, Remya Rajan and Jincy Monachan, refused to take exams on Saturday because they believe in keeping holy the Biblical Sabbath day from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. Some 60 more Adventist students who also refused to take the March 15 exam will be allowed to take the exam at a later date without penalty. Scheduling this year's exam on a Saturday interfered with a 1961 government order against Saturday exams. Government leaders explained that they scheduled the exam on a Saturday to avoid holding it on Good Friday, a holy day for Christians and Muslims. Church leaders are working with government officials to ensure that scheduling conflicts like these do not happen in the future. [Gordon Christo/Southern Asia Division]
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