Discussion on Religious Tolerance Receives Broad Attention in Kostroma
Between April 16 and 27, the USAID-supported Youth LINX program facilitated dialogues in Ivanovo, Kostoma, and Moscow among religious leaders in an effort to increase interfaith communication and understanding and expose local university students to tolerance issues. In Kostroma, for example, regional clergymen Father Grigoriy Chekmenyov, Father Mikhail Nasonov, Imam-Khatab Marat Zhalyaletdinov, and Rabbi Nison Mendl Ruppo served as panel experts, and a Kostroma State University student, trained on tolerance issues, moderated the discussion. Professors of the Philosophy Department of Kostroma State University, and some 55 students attended the event. Representatives of the Kostroma regional administration emphasized the importance of an open dialogue in promoting tolerance.
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| Father Grigoriy Chekmenyov, Rabbi Nison Mendl Ruppo, Imam-Khatab
Marat Zhalyaletdinov, and Father Mikhail Nasonov of Kostoma discuss the
day’s event |
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