Christina was "a gentle, beautiful little girl, " said Teresa Bier, the parish's director of religious education.
There has been a twelvefold increase in the number of students taking exams in religious education.
And Jewish parents will have to jump additional hurdles to get their children a religious education.
That is part of a trend, which has been encouraged by Labour's indulgent attitude to religious education.
Conservatives are limbering up for a battle to lift the longstanding ban on religious education in public schools.
First, individuals must complete religious education and secondly, they must receive an ecclesiastical endorsement from an approved body.
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Student teachers at St Mary's could take a Catholic certificate in religious education that was not available at Stranmillis.
At the same time, in an effort to control extremism, religious education and the state-sponsored religious bureaucracy have been tightly controlled.
Church leaders, for example, are asking for further constitutional changes, notably a lifting of restrictions on religious education in public schools.
Public schools are generally larger and don't offer single-sex or religious education.
According to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, there has been a rapid increase in pupils taking GCSEs in religious education since 1997.
Yet the biggest boost to religious education came from the army itself, after it seized power for the third time in 1980.
But the emphasis on Christianity in religious education (RE) lessons does not mean that teaching is always "challenging and vibrant" say the researchers.
"The vast majority of students will be robbed so that a group of students can get religious education on taxpayer dollars, " she added.
This year there were 679 new religious education trainees compared with a target of 730, and 2, 058 maths trainees against a target of 2, 350.
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But his ruling political party has pushed some Islamist policy, such as trying to promote religious education, trying to ease the ban on Islamic headscarves.
Local 969 groups have been starting religious education classes for children.
Religious education in schools is under threat, faith leaders have warned.
But the closure of all but a handful of mosques, and the virtual end of religious education, meant that knowledge of Islam had nearly evaporated.
But in America, where mothers tend to be more responsible for a child's religious education, the products of Muslim interfaith couples are often raised in another religion.
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Teachers could discuss how creationism differed from scientific theory if a student brought up the subject, but any further discussion should occur in religious education lessons, she said.
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In the secondary sector, cuts range from 19% in the case of trainee history teachers to small increases in the number of places for religious education and mathematics.
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There have been several lobbying campaigns to add further subjects to the English Baccalaureate - including arts and religious education - with concerns that subjects outside this group could be marginalised.
The "short course" GCSE, which can be taken in subjects including religious education, physical education and art, covers fewer topics than an ordinary GCSE and is valued at half the full qualification.
Though it controls some 70% of the private education enjoyed by the young of the elite (as indeed it did, unofficially, before the reforms), religious education is still barred from public schools.
However, despite calls for subjects such as religious education and music to be included in the EBacc, the Department for Education said Education Secretary Michael Gove was "minded to leave the subjects unchanged".
In the end, the revolutionaries won, and wrote an anti-clerical constitution, forbidding religious education, denying the church legal recognition, reiterating the ban on monastic orders and church ownership of land, even denying clergymen the vote.
The Religious Education Council of England and Wales said that excluding RE from the EBacc was already causing a drop in the number of schools offering it as a GCSE and would "gravely weaken" the subject.
As his first initiative, he proposed sweeping changes to America's schools, including the annual testing of elementary-school pupils and the use of vouchers to help parents of children in bad public schools to pay for private or religious education.
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