The Moscow Metropolis hosted a webinar on monitoring the activities of religious organizations 09/17/2026translated

Main events All news Kolomna diocese Balashikha diocese Podolsk diocese Sergiev Posad diocese Odintsovo diocese A webinar on monitoring the activities of religious organizations was held in the Moscow Metropolis 09/17/2026 On September 17, the interdiocesan department for coordinating missionary work of the Moscow Metropolis held a training webinar for leaders diocesan missionary departments and those responsible for missionary work in the deaneries of the dioceses of the Moscow Metropolis. The topic of the webinar was “Methodology for monitoring the activities of religious organizations in the Moscow region.” The event was opened by the head of the interdiocesan department, Archpriest Ilya Nastevich. In his opening remarks, he noted that monitoring the activities of religious organizations is one of the areas of the apologetic mission carried out by employees of missionary departments.

Archpriest Ilya Nastevich emphasized the need for a systematic study of the activities of religious organizations operating in the territory of canonical responsibility of dioceses, which allows timely receipt of information about ongoing processes and taking it into account when organizing missionary and...