Religion enters Russian schools
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Orthodox Christianity is made a compulsory school subject in four of Russia's regions.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday for the first time in the Vatican amid signs of warmer ties between the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.Comment
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Religious segregation is expanding from places of worship to neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Flags flew at half-mast across  Russia on Monday at the start of national mourning for 338  people killed when Chechen rebels seized a school, while  questions mounted over President Vladimir Putin's policies.
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Two weeks after heavily armed militants took more than 1,200 hostages in a school in southern Russia, students in this grief-stricken town returned to classes accompanied by nervous relatives and armed, camouflage-clad police.
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Alexander, a 14-year-old  Christian from the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz,  achieved two firsts this summer -- he saw the sea and formed a  friendship with a Muslim boy from Chechnya.
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BESLAN, Russia, Sept. 5 Â Shafts of light passed through the bullet holes in the pupils desks, which had been stacked at windows, makeshift barricades against attack. Grisly scenes awaited behind them.
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ANTI-sectarian novels about the religious divide in Northern Ireland are to become texts in the English curriculum in Scottish schools in a radical bid to tackle discriminatory attitudes among pupils.
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New Church of England schools should offer 25% of places to pupils from outside the faith, government is told.
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BESLAN, Russia - Militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a southern Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, taking hundreds of hostages - many of them children - and threatening to blow up the building if police storm it. As least two people have been reported killed, including a school parent...
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ARSHAN, Russia Thousands of Buddhists have made a pilgrimage to southern Russia to join prayers led by the Dalai Lama. It&#39;s the spiritual leader&#39;s first visit to Russia in a decade.
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A group of children from Beslan arrives on Wednesday in the most famous Bohemian spa of Karlovy Vary following an agreement reached between the Czech Foreign Ministry and the Russian Red Cross Committee, ...
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Services were held for 120 of the more than 300 killed when a school was seized in an attack by militants. BESLAN, RUSSIA -- Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of this southern Russian city yesterday
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MOSCOW Sept. 1, 2004 - Armed men seized a school in the Russian region of North Ossetia Wednesday morning and were in a gun battle with police, news reports said.
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MOSCOW  - A ballet depicting Czar Nicholas II dancing in tights is drawing protests from members of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has declared Russia's last czar a saint.
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A school in Burgundy is seeking to train moderate imams to preach to France's Muslims.
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The Russian president visits Pope Benedict in a new effort to heal the Vatican-Orthodox rift.