With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine, an international conference on the Patriarchal Visit to Ukraine: Responding to Challenges of Time will take place on 19-20 November 2009 in Kiev. Among its participants are hierarchs, priests, pubic leaders and scholars from Ukraine, Russia and other countries.<\/p>\n
The conference will be preceded by a prayer service at the Kiev Monastery of the Caves. During the first day the conference will work in plenary sessions and sections. A documentary on the Patriarchal visit to Ukraine will be shown.<\/p>\n
It is planned to hold sections on \u2018The unity of the Church \u2013 the unity of the people\u2019, \u2018Today\u2019s\u2019 social service of the Orthodox Church\u2019, \u2018Church-state relations in post-totalitarian countries\u2019, and \u2018The Church and information technologies\u2019.<\/p>\n
On November 20, the conference will continue its work in issue sections. The closing plenary session will take place in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
The public will have an opportunity to see a photo-exposition \u2018His Holiness Patriarch Kirill in Ukraine\u2019. There will also be presentations of documentaries and publications devoted to that event, including a book entitled \u2018A Patriarch of Unity\u2019, which is a collection of talks, sermons and homilies Patriarch Kirill delivered during his visit to Ukraine. In addition, there will be a presentation of a full collection of Nikolay Gogol\u2019s works and the book on church-state relations in Ukraine, entitled \u2018In Leviathan\u2019s Circles\u2019.<\/p>\n
In the evening of November 20, several Ukrainian TV networks will broadcast live talks with participants in the conference.<\/p>\n
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