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[News] Almost 2,000 children are reported for 'hate crimes' in Scotland NEARLY 2,000 children in Scottish schools and nurseries were reported to their local education authority for "hate crimes" in the last three years, according to official statistics.

[News] "Children of Lausanne" Exhibition Held in Ankara, Turkey Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presented an exhibition “Children of Lausanne” in Ankara on Thursday.

[News] Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk begins his visit to Paraguay In the evening of 30 June 2011, Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), arrived in Acunción at the invitation of the government of Paraguay and with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to take part in the celebration of the 200th independence anniversary.

[News] The 12th All-Diaspora Russian Orthodox Youth Conference Opens in Paris On Friday, July 1, 2011, at the Concorde Lafayette Hotel in Paris, the ceremonious opening of the The 12th All-Diaspora Russian Orthodox Youth Conference took place.

[News] Serbian edition opened on Pravoslavie.ru On June 28, 2011, the Serbian edition of Pravaslavie.ru began working.

[News] Holocaust survivors denounce Pope’s Croatia Statement The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors on June 6 blasted Pope Benedict XVI over his statement about WW2 Croatian Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac.

[News] Ecumenical Patriarch Barthrolomew Meets PM Papandreou in Parliament The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew expressed his hopes that Greece will overcome the crisis , after meeting Prime Minister George Papandreou, at his office in Parliament.

[News] Italy’s ambassador to Moscow thanks Moscow Patriarchate for support in getting the case of Lautsi reviewed On June 22, 2011, a presentation of the Russian version of the book entitled European Religious and Cultural Identity: the Issue of Crucifix took place in the Italian embassy in Moscow. Italy’s ambassador to Moscow Mr. Antonio Zanardi Landi thanked the Moscow Patriarchate for support in defending the right of Italian schools to place crucifixes in classrooms.

[News] Wycliffe Associates Stepping Up Support for Bible Translation in War-Ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo

[News] Court Imprisons More Than 500 Muslim Extremists for Mass Church Burnings More than 500 Muslims have been given prison sentences in Ethiopia for violent attacks against Christians that left one dead, and 69 churches burned to the ground, reports International Christian Concern (ICC).

[News] Christians bring aid to Libyan civilians amid conflict Christians are braving the fighting in Libya to deliver help to civilians trapped in the five-month-old conflict between dictator Muammar Gaddafi's forces and NATO alliance-backed rebels, a senior Roman cleric there said on 21 June 2011.

[News] Latvian churches in row over social science sexuality teaching Christian churches in Latvia have criticised a new social science school textbook that describes gay and lesbian life as a "normal aspect of sexuality"