“Talking about mercy with the help of photography to touch people’s hearts”: a photo exhibition “The Church Helps” opened at the Church on the Bloodtranslated

As part of the XVII Interregional Conference on Church Social Ministry, the solemn opening of the photo exhibition “The Church Helps” took place at the Church on the Blood. The exposition was prepared with the participation of the Kommersant publishing house.

The opening of the exhibition was attended by guests of the Ekaterinburg diocese, who arrived in the Ural capital to participate in the Forum on Social Ministry.

The exhibition is based on photographs taken by the publication’s photographers in social projects of the Russian Orthodox Church in different regions. They did not just state the fact of help, but showed the stories of people - those who help and those who are supported. in various regions of the country. A significant part of the photographs is dedicated to the work of the Yekaterinburg Orthodox Mercy Service.

The purpose of the exhibition is to clearly show how the social ministry of the Russian Orthodox Church is structured.

“Someone will come up and think that there is another life besides his problems, that one must live not only for oneself, that there is an opportunity to be caring, there is an opportunity to spend one’s strength, time, and money on helping others,” said the chairman of the Synodal Department for...