At the Interregional Conference on Social Ministry in Yekaterinburg, a session “The Orthodox Church and a sober lifestyle for family and society” was heldtranslated

At the Interregional Conference on Social Ministry, which was held in Yekaterinburg from October 27 to 30, 2026, a session “The Orthodox Church and a sober lifestyle for family and society” was held. More than 50 people from different parts of the Urals Federal District took part in it.  At the meeting there was a lively, frank conversation and exchange of views about the forms, problems and prospects of sober activity in the Church and society.

The session was moderated by the head of the Coordination Center for Promoting Sobriety and Combating Alcoholism of the Synodal Department for Social Ministry and Church Charity Valery Konstantinovich Doronkin.

The discussion as experts included the head of the Department for the Promotion of Sobriety and the Prevention of Addictions of the Yekaterinburg Metropolis, Archpriest Igor Bachinin, the head of the Methodological Resource Center "Territory of Sobriety", the Chairman of the Public Council under the State Committee of Justice of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Elena Karlovna Kolesnikova, a sister of mercy, the leader of the sobriety group at the parish of St. Luke of Crimea Alla Rukovishnikova.

The conversation began with personal questions: what led each of the experts to this...