The Yoshkar-Ola diocese and the Ministry of Education of the Republic signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of spiritual and moral education of children. An interdepartmental coordinating council has been set up in the republic to develop plans for joint action between the ministry and the diocese. In the near future, it is planned to hold a round table on the relevance of the study of religion, seminars to study the experience of the Orthodox gymnasium.

The statement of the inhabitants of the Moscow microdistrict "Otradnoye" was received by " Interfax ". Residents are outraged by the fact that a ritual of sacrifice is being performed directly under their windows on the occasion of the Eid al-Adha holiday. "For two days, we have to watch how sheep are slaughtered. Blood, horror, entrails - that's what our children see from the windows of their home. Is there really no other place for sacrifices?", the statement says.

In Arkhangelsk, the litigation between the mayor's office and the gypsy camp continues. Since the autumn of 2004, 16 gypsy families have settled on the territory of the second sawmill in Arkhangelsk - about 80 people who have moved from the Volgograd region. During this time, the gypsies managed to build 12 makeshift houses, the legality of the construction of which is now being challenged in the Lomonosov court.

Alu Alkhanov donated 100,000 rubles to the Orthodox parish of the Church of Michael the Archangel in Grozny. With the blessing of the Archbishop of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz Feofan (Ashurkov), the money was distributed to the parishioners. The transfer of money took place after the meeting between the president and the bishop. The topic for discussion was the restoration of the Grozny church and the restoration of peaceful life in the republic. A.

Credo.ru, citing news agency Severinform, reports on relations between the Vologda diocese and military units. The diocese cooperates with the UIN structures located in the Vologda region, universities with military departments and military units. Worst of all is the situation with conscript soldiers, because. the admission of priests to the unit depends on the position of the command.

In my opinion, starting a conversation about religious education in state and municipal schools should be with a very important thought, which, unfortunately, for some reason remains unheard (or misunderstood) by the general public. Defenders of the principle of the secular nature of state and municipal secondary schools are not at all opponents of the Russian Orthodox Church in general and religious education in particular.

Bishop Iosif Werth was elected chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia (CCER). He replaced Bishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, who had completed his second (last) term of office. On January 22, the new chairman of the CCER issued a statement, which reads, in part: "I address the representatives of other Christian denominations, first of all - to the Russian Orthodox Church.

On January 22, 2005, in Moscow, at the Independent Press Center, a presentation of the analytical report of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights “How to overcome relapses of neo-Nazism in a country that defeated fascism” took place. "(New monitoring data on the development of Russian radical organizations and media promoting the ideology of neo-Nazism).

Bishop Irinarkh (Gresin) of Perm and Solikamsk sent an appeal to the regional government bodies, which was regarded by the media as a speech in support of pensioners and other beneficiaries who blocked traffic on January 17 in protest against the monetization of benefits.