Interconfessional delegation of Russia's religious leaders visit Damascus

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Inter-religious delegation from Russia visits Damascus

Members of the Russian inter-religious delegation visit the boarding school for the orphans of killed Syrian servicemen in Damascus. From right to left: Chairman of the Muslim Board of Moscow and the Central Region, member of the Civic Chamber Albir Krganov, Administrative Aide of the Presidential Department on Domestic Policy and Executive Secretary of the Council on Cooperation with Religious Organizations Sergei Melnikov and Imam-Muhtasib of the Tyumen Region Ildar Ziganshin.

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Interconfessional delegation of Russia's religious leaders visits Damascus

From right: Archimandrite Pogos Vardanyan, Vicar of the Head of the Novonakhichevan diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church; Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), head of a delegation of the Interreligious Working Group of the Russian Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations, secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations at the orphan home for children of killed servicemen of the Syrian army in Damascus.

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Interconfessional delegation of Russia's religious leaders visits Damascus

From right: Archimandrite Pogos Vardanyan, Vicar of the Head of the Novonakhichevan diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church; Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), head of a delegation of the Interreligious Working Group of the Russian Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations, secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations; Sergei Ryakhovsky, senior bishop of the Russian Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith (Pentecostals) at the library at Islamic school in Damascus.

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Interconfessional delegation of Russia's religious leaders visit Damascus

An interconfessional delegation of Russia's religious leaders during a visit to a Muslim school in Damascus. From left: Sergei Ryakhovsky, senior bishop of the Russian Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith (Pentecostals); Sergei Melnikov, referent of the Presidential Executive Office for Internal Policy, executive secretary of the Council for Interaction with Religious Associations; Albir Krganov, Chairman of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Moscow and the Central Region, member of the Civic Chamber; fifth from left: Imam-Muhtasib Ildar Ziganshin of the Tyumen Region; center: Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), head of a delegation of the Interreligious Working Group of the Russian Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations, secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations; right: Archimandrite Pogos Vardanyan, Vicar of the Head of the Novonakhichevan diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

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Interconfessional delegation of Russia's religious leaders visits Damascus

Worshipers and an interconfessional delegation of Russia's religious leaders during a liturgy at the Orthodox Church of Antioch in Damascus. From right: Sergei Ryakhovsky, senior bishop of the Russian Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith (Pentecostals); Imam-Muhtasib Ildar Ziganshin of the Tyumen region; Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), head of a delegation of the Interreligious Working Group of the Russian Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations, secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations.

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Interconfessional delegation of Russia's religious leaders visit Damascus

Bishop Armash Nalbandian, Primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church Diocese in Damascus, second right, during a meeting with an interconfessional delegation of Russia's religious leaders, in Damascus. Right: Imam-Muhtasib Ildar Ziganshin of the Tyumen region; third right: Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), head of a delegation of the Interreligious Working Group of the Russian Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations, secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations.

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Interconfessional delegation of Russia's religious leaders visits Damascus

Representatives of an interconfessional delegation of Russia's religious leaders receive a commemorative gift from the religious community of a mosque in Damascus. From left: Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), head of a delegation of the Interreligious Working Group of the Russian Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations, secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations; Sergei Melnikov, assistant at the Russian Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate, executive secretary of the Russian Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations.

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