Children in Flero, Italy, did not sing the lyrics of Holy Night.
Instead pupils hummed the carol during a concert dubbed the “Winter Recital” in Bresciano, northern Italy.
The decision was criticised by a local councillor.
Franceschini, the culture commissioner for the town of Bresciano, said: "Even if the state and the school claim to be secular, we would like to have ‘Christmas Concerts’ and not ‘Winter Recitals’ where children can feel free to sing Holy Night without thinking that this offends or excludes pupils who belong to other cultures or other religions or who declare to be atheists.”
It is not the first time children in Italy have been censored over Christmas.
Last week Express.co.uk reported schoolchildren in an Italian town had been banned from mentioning Jesus in Christmas songs.
Youngsters preparing for their school production in Pontevico were given lyric sheets with Jesus' name removed from popular tunes.
Defending the bizarre decision, headteacher Paola Bellini said: "Children will sing songs that evoke universal themes of peace and solidarity."
It comes days after a school in Sweden removed references to Christianity from a popular Christmas carol to avoid offending others.
The school in Amal cut lines from 'Now Light 1,000 Christmas Lights' which make references to Jesus and God.
A line about "a star over Bethlehem" was edited – and replaced with the phrase "the star over all of us".
The move provoked criticism, with one of the pupil’s grandfathers writing an angry letter to a local newspaper.
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Rezemos pela intervenção de Nossa Senhora.
Isso chega a causar vertigem... De um lado um Estado cada vez mais gigante impondo o multiculturalismo nas culturas locais e do outro um intelectualismo baseado na ficção o liberalismo moral. Tudo isso servindo de material para construir uma mentalidade estranha e ecoada. Isso me fez lembrar de duas coisas: 1) lá no nordeste, Recife a exemplo, os evangélicos cantam alto e pregam dentro dos ônibus. 2) Aqui no sul vejo os católicos carismáticos cantando empolgados e manifestando a fé deles em lugares públicos. Será que os católicos da Europa não estão confundindo covardia com "bom mocismo"?
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