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By Heather Clark
\nChristian News Network<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The White House responded to a petition on Monday that called for the granting of asylum to a Christian family who fled their homeland of Germany to homeschool their children, choosing not to comment on the matter.\"\"<\/p>\n

As previously reported<\/a>, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike fled to the United States in 2008 after German authorities demanded that they stop homeschooling their six children. Homeschooling was made illegal in the country in 1938 under the dictatorship of Adolph Hitler, and the law has never been repealed, but rather strengthened. In 2007, the German Supreme Court ruled that the country\u2019s mandate that children be sent to public school is necessary to \u201ccounteract the development of religious and philosophically motivated parallel societies.\u201d<\/p>\n

German officials have been cracking down on families that keep their sons and daughters at home, and have threatened them with fines, imprisonment and even the removal of the children from the household. The Romeike children were taken from their parents for a time before fleeing to the United States for refuge. Click here <\/a>to continue reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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