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African volunteers help restore monastery in Ryazan region

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African volunteers help restore monastery in Ryazan region


11.08.2023


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Volunteers from African countries are learning Russian and helping to restore the monastery in the Sarayevsky district of the Ryazan region. Volunteers have chosen a spiritual path and are preparing to enter or study at an Orthodox seminary in Russia, the Rznonline.ru website reports.

It is noted that volunteers from the Firebird Center, including guests from African countries who came to Russia to become Orthodox priests or monks, are participating in the restoration of the Nikolo-Bavykinsky Monastery in the Ryazan region.

Some of the young people are preparing to enter the seminary, others have already become students. In the Ryazan region, guests from Africa go sightseeing and actively study the Russian language.

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