The Inaugural Summit on Peace and Tolerance devoted to the contemporary state and perspectives of the international inter-confessional dialogue has opened in the Ukrainian capital.
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April 27, 2007A court in South Russian Kuban Region has liquidated a Christian religious group that used swastika and Nazi salute as part of the cult.
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April 10, 2007A priest and his family were killed on the weekend in an arson attack on their home in a Central Russian region.
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December 4, 2006A top Russian Orthodox cleric said on Sunday that the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church were allies in the face of hostile secularism, the Reuters news agency reported Monday.
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November 20, 2006Russia’s Central Muslim Board Chairman Talgat Tajuddin has urged Palestinian and Israeli secular leaders and clergy to sign a 40-year peace deal, with Russian religious leaders posing as guarantors, Interfax news agency reports.
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November 7, 2006An official spokesman of the Russian Orthodox Church has said that schools should teach other theories of human creation apart from Darwin theory, but did not name any options.
Darwinism should not be presented at schools as the only scientific hypothesis of human origin, said the Secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate’s External Relations Department Michail Dudko.
“Obviously, this theory may be taught in school but not as the only scientific view on the origin of the world. Besides, Darwin’s theory contradicts Christian ideology according to which our world was created and did not evolve graduallyâ€.
The official also noted that the Church’s point of view had the right to be presented in schoolbooks on equal terms with Darwin’s theory.
Dudko made the comments as a court in St. Petersburg started hearings into the lawsuit of a schoolgirl who said teaching Darwin’s in schools infringed her rights as a Christian believer. The girl, represented in court by her father, also claims that presenting Darwin’s theory as the only correct theory encroaches her human right to choose the point of view.
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October 27, 2006The Russian registration Service has shut down a women’s monastery in the Tyumen region of Siberia. The state agency said that the monastery, headed by a U.S. citizen, failed to meet the registration rules for NGOs in Russia.
The check on Ishim monastery of St. John, carried out under the recent controversial law on NGOs, has revealed that the activities of the organization did not correspond to those declared in its order, RIA Novosti reports.
The monastery has been forced to seize its actions and move to its original location — Odessa, Ukraine. Besides, local registration officials have informed the Federal Security Service and to the Prosecutor’s Office about the case.
Local branch of the Registration Service registered 9,740 NGOs in the Tyumen, Yugra and Yamal regions in 2006, plus 2,785 public associations, including 410 religious associations.
The service has had to act on violations in 609 cases.
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