As part of the program "Revival and Development of Historic Small Towns", two million rubles were allocated from the federal budget for the restoration of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Alatyr (Chuvash Republic). The cathedral, which turns 300 this year, was transferred to the Chuvash diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1999.

On September 24 , Slavyansky Legal Center reported that the Moscow prosecutor's office had terminated the criminal case against the director of the Badr publishing house, Takhir Abdurakhmanov, who was accused of inciting religious hatred (Article 282 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), due to the absence of corpus delicti.

In the Krasnoborsky regional children's TB sanatorium "Evda" near Arkhangelsk, on the initiative of doctors and teachers, they began to teach the OPK. Classes are held on Sundays in a special class for everyone. The sanatorium treats 60 children from dysfunctional families. In the future, teachers plan to teach their pupils the basics of icon painting, gold embroidery and traditional Orthodox needlework. Sources Arhangelsk region.

St. Nicholas Cathedral in Vladivostok was robbed on the night of September 23. The thieves made a real pogrom in the sacristy, overturned the boxes of incense and broke the crosses on the bishop's miter. Panagias and crosses of the Archbishop of Vladivostok and Primorsky Veniamin, as well as a silver chalice, were stolen. The Primorsky diocese turned to the police. An investigation has begun. On October 3, one of the criminals was detained. Part of the stolen has already been seized.

September 25 - on the day of the meeting of President V.V. Putin at the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in New York with ROCOR hierarchs and clergy - official representative of the Moscow Patriarchate Fr. Vsevolod Chaplin told an Interfax correspondent that the Russian Orthodox Church does not lose hope for the reunification of the Churches.

The observers of the portal "Religion and Media" Alexander Morozov and Alexander Kyrlezhev, starting from the ideas of Jurgen Habermas, expressed by the famous German philosopher and sociologist several years ago - shortly after the September 11 disaster, talk about the relationship between secular and religious principles in society, which have long been in conflict with each other. with a friend.

On September 23, employees of the social work department of the Penza Christian Church "Living Faith" organized at the local Center for Temporary Isolation of Juvenile Offenders the video programs of the Christian television company TBN, whose regional representative is the Church.

On September 25, at a regular meeting of the Moscow Diocesan Commission for Church Social Activities, it was decided to open a reference and information service from October 1. By phone 107-70-01, the clergy from 10 am to 5 pm on weekdays will give information about Moscow church and state social institutions. They also discussed the prospects for cooperation between the commission and the media and the idea of ​​creating their own website. In addition, the chairman of the commission, Rev.

According to the website "Pravoslavie.ru" with reference to the Information Center of the Government of Moscow, the city authorities decided to transfer the chambers of the Kirievsky house on Ostozhenka, which are in disrepair, to the Zachatievsky Convent for free use. It is planned to build a hotel for pilgrims and clergy on this site within the next two years. Sources A hotel will appear in the Zachatievsky Convent // Pravoslavie.ru. 2003. 25 September.