Archpriest Alexander Ivanov conducted a lesson on the problem of self-harming at the Chistinskaya schooltranslated

On September 3, 2026, the rector of the St. Nicholas Church in the village of Chist, Molodechno district, Archpriest Alexander Ivanov, gave a lesson in the 9th grade of a local school on the topic “Selfharming (self-harm) of adolescents as a consequence of spiritual unsanitary conditions of the individual.”

According to the clergyman, inflicting physical pain on oneself as a means of escaping internal problems, the “pain” of the soul, is flawed and ineffective. The path of self-harm leads to a dead end, driving psychological “splinters” even deeper. The spiritual therapeutic experience of the Church is something that can be both a pharmacy and a hospital for the life mistakes of young people.