(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130115-crucifix-rights-615a.photoblog600.jpg)Yui Mok/PA via APBritish Airways employee Nadia Eweida celebrates winning her religious rights case outside her lawyer's office in London Tuesday.By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC NewsA Christian airline worker in England who was sent home for wearing a small silver cross at work has won a lawsuit in which she alleged her right to freedom of religion had been violated.
In a judgment Tuesday (http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-115881#%7B), the European Court of Human Rights ordered that the United Kingdom should pay Nadia Eweida, who works for British Airways, about $2,675 in damages and $40,000 in costs.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (https://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) However another Christian worker, Shirley Chaplin, lost her case that she should be allowed to wear a crucifix while working as a nurse in a hospital geriatric ward in Devon, England.
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