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[News] Requiem served for Feodor Dostoevsky in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra Since 1988, St. Petersburg has yearly observed a cultural and spiritual tradition of serving a pannikhida (requiem) for Feodor Dostoevsky on the date of his death. 1988 was the millennium celebration of the Baptism of Russia.

[News] New Orthodox Church Opens in Pakistan This is the third Orthodox Church in Pakistan. Already there are the Greek and Coptic Orthodox Churches in Pakistan.

[News] Climacus Conference to Examine the Legacy of Byzantium On February 24 and 25, St. Michael Antiochian Orthodox Church in Louisville, Kentucky will host the 2012 Climacus Conference, titled "Byzantium, You Are Not Forgotten."

[News] Talks held in Moscow between Russian Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church in Lithuania on teaching religion in secular school On February 7, 2012, the second talks between representatives the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church in Lithuania were held at the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations in Moscow.

[News] St. Gregory the Theologian Charity establishes 5 scholarships for students from far abroad On February 7, 2012, the commemoration day of St. Gregory the Theologian, the Charity of St. Gregory the Theologian, with the blessing of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, established five scholarships for citizens from the far-abroad countries who come to study at the Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church Post-Graduate and Doctoral School and other educational institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church.

[News] Engin Ardic Criticizes Fall of Constantinople Festivities in Turkish Newspaper Sabah In an impressively straight forward article published in the Turkish newspaper Sabah, Engin Ardic, a well known author and journalist, castigated the way celebrations are held in Turkey for the Fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453.

[News] Scientologists wired the Russian Federal Security Service’s communications center in Archangelsk A company jointly owned by a lifetime member of the International Association of Scientologists and the World Institute of Scientology Enteprises (WISE) Raila Fofanova equipped a special communications center of the regional Russian Federal Security Services (FSB) for Archangelsk province.

[News] The First Church in the World Dedicated to the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia Marks its 30th Anniversary On Sunday, February 5, 2012, the Synaxis of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, visited the first church in the world dedicated to the saints.

[News] French Court Upholds Verdict Against Scientology Center A French court upheld fraud convictions and fines totaling €600,000 ($790,000) against the Church of Scientology's Paris-based Celebrity Centre and its bookshop on Thursday, in a case highlighting the country's attempts to curtail some of the activities of the Los Angeles-based organization

[News] Russian Orthodox Church calls for more transparent NGOs The Moscow Patriarchate believes that the activity of nongovernmental noncommercial organizations (NGOs) in Russia should be highly transparent.