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Hello!

I was woefully ignorant of your important national holiday today and was wondering if anyone knows if Kykkos monastery is open for visitation today. Not the museum, just a short look inside the courtyard. Apologies for the question!

For the second time in three years, Slovenian voters have decided their country is no place for SSM. The referendum on Sunday has not been officially declared over, but the opponents of SSM have prevailed with an estimated 63% of the popular vote. They have also reached the necessary quorum of 1/5th of the electorate.

This is an increase in opposition to social changes, up from 55% opposed in the last referendum in 2012. The campaign against was lead by a civil initiative "It's for our children!", with deep opposition from the right-wing parties in the country and from the Catholic Church. I would like to thank everyone for their prayers, please keep us in them going forward also.

We were having a bit of a breakdown on this sub when Ireland voted in favour, but I have not seen any coverage whatsoever regarding our referendum. The wind in the sails from Ireland kind of propelled the left-wing to launch another attempt, seeing as the previous one in 2012 was defeated. They pushed a law essentially allowing SSM and same-sex adoption through the parliament and a massive initiative began to organize a referendum. Although we were shut down by the courts in a few days, it was eventually overriden.

The support is split about halfway and the "against" vote also has to contend with gatherin