A group of Moscow Tolkienists visited the Moscow parish of St. John of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria on Sunday to look at the "elven priest" - the rector of the parish of St. John pastor Andrei Reznichenko, who at one time was also fond of the books of J. R. R. Tolkien - the author of The Lord of the Rings - and maintained contacts with the Tolkienists. The young people who attended the liturgy, according to one of them, felt that Lutheranism was very close to their spirit.

The Islamic Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Holy Rus' (formerly the CDUM of Russia) declared jihad against the United States. The head of the ICDUM, the Supreme Mufti of Russia Talgat Tadzhuddin, recalled that in the modern history of the Fatherland this is the second case after Russian Muslims declared a “holy war” against Germany in 1941, and stated: “Russian Muslims have effective leverage over the United States.

On April 2, the Yekaterinburg branch of the All-Russian creative public organization "Union of Artists of Russia" and the Yekaterinburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church signed a cooperation agreement.

Journalists from the Stavropol Territory and the Bethlehem Regional Public Charitable Foundation addressed the Russian Church Abroad and called for stopping the destruction of the St. John Maryinsky Convent in Stavropol. The monastery in the past was a major spiritual center of the North Caucasus, but now, according to Portal-Credo.ru , a branch of the regional psychiatric hospital is located here, and the cell building is leased; there is a toilet in the altar of the cathedral.

Training courses for teachers of "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" have opened in Samara. They are organized by the Samara Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church with the participation of the Department of Science and Education of the Administration of the Samara Region. Classes are held in the premises of the Samara Theological Seminary. Earlier, the Department of Science and Education invited the schools of the region to nominate teachers for these courses.

After the congress of Orthodox youth of the regions of the Central Federal District was held in Tambov, the youth affairs department of the Voronezh City Hall and the Voronezh Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church MP held a round table on the problem of involving students in “non-traditional religious organizations.” Representatives of the city’s universities also took part in its work.

The Krasnoyarsk Association of Orthodox Disabled People announced that on the Easter holiday, Easter cakes for disabled people who do not leave their homes will be delivered directly to their homes. The action will be carried out thanks to gratuitous support from the Krasnoyarsk bakery. According to the organizers, there has never been anything like this in the city, REGIONS.RU reports with reference to RIA "Press Line".