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A mixed feeling among Russians gives way to a new holiday
After 1990, Russians do not officialy celebrate the Red October anymore. But the holiday feeling was prolonged first by Day of National Reconciliation and Accord, itself a replacement of the Soviet-era Great October Socialist Revolution day. Orthodox Church wants this date to be a remeberance of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. (...)

Intelligent design or intelligent evolution?
At a moment when the debate of evolution and “intelligent design” preoccupies Christian circles and to a surprising degree even American political discourse, how about the Pope backing Charles Darwin? (...)

Meeting of CEC-KEK and the European Commission
The Conference of European Churches (CEC) met with the President of the EU Commission, President José Manuel Barroso, in Brussels on Monday to discuss the role of European churches on the continent. (...)

A political beatification
Eight martyrs of the Spanish Civil War were beatified in a special beatification Mass on Saturday, 29 October. The gesture secures a place inside the community of saints of former socialist resistance members, formely believed to be associated with atheism and communism. (...) See photo here (...)

African Lutheran Communion considers the past and future at historic gathering
With important issues on their agenda, the Lutheran bishops of Africa still have to answer one of the hardest questions asked by indigen population: „Why should we accept a reigion brought to us by the colonists?”. The conference is held between November 9-14 in Windhoek, Namibia. (...)

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