Belarusian Christmas Educational Readings Start on November 12

The events within the framework of the XII Belarusian Christmas Educational Readings “Christian Teachings about Man and Challenges of Modern Technologies” will start on November 12 in Minsk. Such information is posted on the official portal of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, writes sb.by.

- The program provides for conferences, round tables, seminars and sectional sessions devoted to issues of spiritual and moral education, Christian understanding of man, interaction of church and society, as well as challenges associated with the development of modern technologies. The first event will be the round table “Orthodox Anthropology in the Context of Contemporary Challenges of Christian Civilization”, which will be held at the Minsk Theological Academy.

The plenary session of the Belarusian Christmas educational readings will be held on November 27 at the National Library of Belarus. Metropolitan Benjamin of Minsk and Zaslavsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus will address the participants with a welcoming speech.

The organizers of the Belarusian Christmas educational readings are the Belarusian Orthodox Church, the ministries of culture, health, education, labor and social protection, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Library of Belarus. Minsk St. Elizabeth Monastery won the All-Russian competition of the Russian Orthodox Church to help the homeless