About fifteen thousand people will participate in the work of the XXIII International Christmas educational readings 2015, which will open the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the death of the Prince, said on the last working day of the week the head of the Synodal Department for religious education and catechism of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Merkury of Rostov and Novocherkassk.

" Reading will be held in Moscow from 21 to 23 January, in their opening will involve about 7 thousand people. It Authorized 200 dioceses of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other countries of near and far abroad

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