Round table on issues of interaction with religious associations in the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Samara Regiontranslated

A round table was held at the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Samara Region on issues of interaction between the penal system and religious associations. The head of the department for prison ministry of the Samara diocese, Priest Andrei Ivanov, as well as a member of the board of the Vera Charitable Educational Foundation, Konstantin Bobylev, took part in the interdepartmental forum. The meeting participants discussed current issues of organizing the spiritual and moral education of convicts and people in custody, as well as ways to improve pastoral work to provide spiritual support to citizens in departmental institutions.