Bishop Gennady took part in a meeting of the "Religions" working group of the "Petersburg Dialogue" forum

On November 12, 2024, regular meeting of the "Religions" working group of the Russian-German public forum "Petersburg Dialogue" was held in Moscow..

Bishop Gennady of Kaskelen, Administrator of the Kazakhstan Metropolitan District, took part in the meeting.

The meeting was attended by: Deputy Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, head of the working group, Archimandrite Philaret (Bulekov); Secretary of the DECR for Far Abroad Affairs, Archpriest Sergiy Zvonarev; Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church-Society and Mass Media V.V. Kipshidze; Head of the Charitable Foundation of the Interchurch Christian Diaconia of the St. Petersburg Diocese, Priest Alexei Zhigalov; Head of the Department for Church-Society and Mass Media of the Tashkent Diocese, Hieromonk Mikhail (Stolyarov); employee of the DECR Secretariat for Far Abroad Affairs Hierodeacon Alexy (Ochkanov); employee of the DECR Secretariat for Inter-Christian Relations M.B. Nelyubova; press secretary of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service V.V. Rulinsky; head of the Department of Social Work at the Orthodox St. Tikhon's University for the Humanities T.V. Zaltsman; employee of the Favor Charity Organization A.S. Leviz and curator of social activities in Central Asia and Kazakhstan of the Synodal Department for Charity E.Yu. Ivanova.

During the meeting, the work plans of the Religions group for 2025 were discussed.

The Petersburg Dialogue is a forum of civil societies of Russia and Germany. Created in 2001 on the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin and Federal Chancellor of Germany G. Schroder, the forum is intended to promote deepening mutual understanding between Germany and Russia and further development of bilateral cooperation in all spheres of society.