The need for promoting and protecting religious sites as places for the preservation of culture was emphasised at the 2nd Conference of the Religious Fundamentalism Monitor which opened at the Orthodox Academy of Crete in Kolymbari on 2nd July. The two-day conference was sponsored by the Metropolis of Alexandroupolis, Traianoupolis and Samothrace, by the General Secretary for Religions of the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sport, and the Orthodox Academy of Crete.