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  Woman loses fight to wear cross Ms Eweida said she was standing up for her faith   Ms Eweida interview A British Airways (BA) employee has lost her fight to openly wear a cross necklace at work at Heathrow.Nadia Eweida, 55, of Twickenham, has been on unpaid leave since her bosses told her she could not visibly wear her cross at the check-in counter. She found out she had lost her appeal against the decision by BA when she met with the airline bosses on Monday. BA denied it had banned the wearing of crosses and said Ms...

WARSAW, Oct 20, 2006 (AFP) - A small group of Poles rallied outside the British embassy in Warsaw Friday to show their support for a British woman who was suspended from her job for wearing a necklace with a cross to work. "We are here to show our support for and solidarity with Nadia Eweida. We are worried by the flouting of democratic values in Great Britain. Freedom of religion has been threatened there, despite being one of the fundamental freedoms," one of the demonstrators, Jaroslaw Kniolek, told AFP. Britain's Daily Mail newspaper reported last week that Nadia Eweida, 55,...