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PORTUGAL
Abortion boat banned from port
LISBON -- Portugal banned a Dutch boat with an abortion clinic on board from entering its territorial waters yesterday, but activists said the exclusion was illegal and they still hoped to find a way to perform abortions.
The floating clinic offers an abortion pill in international waters to women in countries where it is illegal or more restricted than the Netherlands. It planned to allow women to board in a Portuguese port before sailing back out to international waters.
Abortion is legal in mainly Roman Catholic Portugal when the mother's life is in danger and in a few specific cases.
RUSSIA
Pope gives back Orthodox icon
MOSCOW -- A Russian icon that hung for years in Pope John Paul II's private chapel returned home to the Russian Orthodox Church yesterday, a gesture the ailing pontiff hopes will improve relations between the two churches.
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II formally accepted the 18th-century replica of the Mother of God of Kazan icon from Cardinal Walter Kasper, who headed the Vatican delegation, at the end of a three-hour Orthodox service in the Kremlin's Assumption Cathedral.
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