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In Sweden, a prosecutor has decided that as burning the Quran is part of freedom of expression, there is no need for an investigation into the act of burning the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm on Jan. 21.

His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia presided over the Divine Liturgy today at the St. Nicholas Hermitage in the northern Swedish city of Rättvik, followed by a memorial service for the hermitage’s founder, the ever-memorable Hieromonk Eusebios Vittis. Joining in the serves were the local Metropolis clergy and members of the local Church. The Very Rev. Fr.