{"id":14815,"date":"2014-03-06T09:49:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T13:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=14815"},"modified":"2014-03-17T11:03:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T15:03:39","slug":"good-news-obama-administration-allows-christian-homeschooling-family-seeking-asylum-to-stay-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/good-news-obama-administration-allows-christian-homeschooling-family-seeking-asylum-to-stay-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News &#8211; Obama Administration Allows Christian Homeschooling Family Seeking Asylum to Stay in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Romeike Family\" src=\"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Romeike-Family-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/>By Heather Clark<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Christian News Network<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON \u2013<\/strong> The Obama administration has decided to allow a Christian homeschooling family from Germany to remain in the country after initially battling the family in court as they sought asylum in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/2013\/07\/21\/christian-homeschooling-family-fighting-deportation-to-appeal-to-u-s-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">As previously reported<\/a>, Ewe and Hannelore Romeike have been battling the matter in the courts for several years while continuing to raise their\u00a0six children in rural Tennessee. The Romeike family fled to the United States in 2008 after German authorities demanded that they stop homeschooling\u00a0in violation of\u00a0national law.<\/p>\n<p>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was made illegal in the country in 1938 under the dictatorship of Adolph Hitler, and the law has never been repealed, but rather strengthened.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<ins><ins id=\"aswift_1_anchor\"><\/ins><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>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. 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