The Rostov-on-Don diocese has launched the second stage of a pilot project of educational meetings with high school students “Talks about important things”translated

From October 20 to October 30, 2026, the Rostov-on-Don diocese held the second stage of a pilot project to organize meetings of clergy with high school students. 58 schools in Rostov-on-Don and 11 schools in Bataysk took part in the project. The initiative is being implemented by the diocese in collaboration with the Department of Education in the 2026-2027 school year.

Project curators: head of EOROiK Olga Shevchenko, adviser to the Head of the Don Metropolis for religious education and catechesis priest Alexander Verchenko, vice-rector for scientific work of the DDS priest Alexy Ovchinnikov.

The main goal of the meetings is to help teenagers understand important life issues in the context of traditional values ​​and build an open dialogue with clergy. During the conversations, topics of family, intergenerational relationships, friendship and other issues relevant to young people are discussed.

Meetings involve informal communication, joint discussion of life situations and the search for ways to resolve them. This format allows high school students to independently comprehend moral guidelines and find answers to questions that concern them.

The moderators of the meetings were: Priest Andrei Goryachkov, Priest Alexy Kashuba, Priest Vladimir Chigrin, Priest Alexander Gheorghe, Priest...