Already we have seen the downgrading of Christmas – for reasons of daft political correctness – and now Easter
is being undermined as the most important of the Christian festivals.

Education chiefs’ plan to delay school holidays until two weeks after Easter Sunday next year shows at the very least a lack of respect for Christianity and, at worst, downright disdain. Increasingly, Christianity – the rock on which our civilisation has been built over two millennia – is being betrayed by schools to the detriment of our young people.

It is small wonder that children have lost their moral compass and fail to grasp the difference between right and wrong when our religion is held so lightly. Look at how differently minorities are treated by schools. The Holocaust and the Crusades are being quietly ignored by some teachers lest Muslim pupils are offended or anti-Jewish sentiments are inflamed.

And Britain’s proud role in abolishing slavery is being watered down to protect the sensibilities of Afro-Caribbeans.

This political nonsense is as offensive to the minority as it is to the majority. We must not allow history to be glossed over or rewritten in this way. What will they hush up next: the very existence of Jesus? The Church should find its voice and quickly.