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		<title>Georgian Court fines condom-manufacturing company for insulting believers’ feelings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2018 17:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 7, 2018. A Tbilisi City Court has fined Georgian condom company AIISA for “offend[ing] national morality and dignity” with its various packaging designs featuring images such as St. Tamar, members of the royal family, statesmen, politicians, and also Tbilisi’s “Mother of Georgia” statue, a beloved national symbol. They also blasphemously and mockingly make mention of Orthodox feast days. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgian parliament to consider bill on insulting religious sensibilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 26, 2018. The Georgian parliament will soon consider a bill that would introduce criminal penalties for insulting religious sensibilities. A representative of the Georgian Orthodox Church has stated that the patriarchate supports the bill. “I … am ready to join these discussions,” said parliamentary Chairperson Irakli Kobakhidze. “The committee will make a definite decision, after which this question will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgian faithful outraged by condoms featuring St. Tamar on packaging</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 23, 2018. A group of politicians from the “Sakartvelos” party and faithful Georgian Orthodox Christians have addressed Georgian authorities, calling for a ban on condoms from the company “Aiisa” that feature blasphemous packaging. According to party chairman Giorgi Liluashvili, the company makes products with designs and labels that offend the personal, religious, and national sensibilities of the Georgian people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parishioner stabbed in courtyard of ancient Georgian cathedral</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 22:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[March 5, 2018. A man was wounded in a knife attack on Saturday outside the ancient Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, Georgia, reports News-Georgia. The incident occurred Saturday afternoon. According to eyewitnesses, the young man was coming out of the church when he was attacked with a knife, receiving several wounds to the neck. “The parishioner was picked up by two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vandalism of property of the Georgian Orthodox Patriarchate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2016 10:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 17, 2016. Ten gay rights activitists are being held in custody for defacing a fence at the Georgian Orthodox Patriarchate with graffiti, as reports the pravoslavie.ru. The activists face possible charges of vandalism and disobeying police orders after being caught writing &#8220;All love is equal&#8221; on Church property in the early hours of Tuesday, May 17. While the republic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox church in Georgia desecrated</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[April 4, 2016. Last week Nino Andriasova, a resident of Tbilisi announced through social media sites that some inscription inexplicably appeared on the wall of Jvari monastery in Mtskheta. ‘Today I went to Jvary with some guests and what do you think I saw there… The walls were covered with inscriptions in Turkish, Arabic and Latin languages. Why is this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discomfort for the new school books in Georgia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 19, 2016. A wave of discontent is currently rising in Georgia as the Ministry of Education by orders of the European Union is introducing new subjects into schools, such as “Me and society” and “My Georgia”, which will be taught to children aged 7-13, as the website pravoslavie.ru reports. One of the textbooks offers the most sophisticated depravity, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protest action of Orthodox Christians in Georgia against the promotion of homosexual propaganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2015 18:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 17, 2015.  As was announced at a press conference at the Georgian Patriarchate’s office, it was decided to hold a prayer rally on May 16-17 in connection with arrival of the wonder-working Atskursk Icon of the Mother of God to the Georgia’s capital, reports Pravoslavie.ru. A procession of the cross started with a solemn service at Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in [...]]]></description>
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