Listening to foreign experiences, discussing the value of human life, and reflecting upon political influence. That is a grab from the conference “Human and Family Identity Today and Forever” last week in Riga, Latvia.

A child should grow up with his mother. That’s the theory. But in the real world, some new mothers are in panic and try to hide their baby. That is where the baby hatch seems to be an outcome. The number of them is growing in Europe.

The Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvič has blocked the new partnership bill. More than a hundred lawmakers had urged him to do so.

Latvia has a duty to protect all families, including rainbow ones. That is what the Constitutional Court ruled. Now, the Latvian Parliament considers a new partnership law in order to comply with this order.

The Latvian state broadcaster refuses to broadcast Orthodox worship services any longer. It implemented the ban after nuns prayed for the Russian Patriarch Kirill.