On June 15, 2018, a round-table conference on ‘Let Us Save Children Together’ took place at the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI) to consider ways of helping children affected by the hostilities and armed conflicts in Syria.

The round table was organized by the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR) with the CMI’s support, the Poznaniye charitable foundation, the Liniya Zhizni charity and the Science-Practice Center for Children’s Psycho-neurology of the Moscow city healthcare department.

It was attended by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, DECR chairman and CMI rector; M. Bogdanov, deputy minister of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and presidential special representative for the Middle East and African countries; Ms. Ye. Baibarina, director of the Russian Healthcare Ministry department for medical aid to children and obstetric aid services; Ms. F. Zakharova, president of the Liniya Zhizni charity; Dr. L. Roshal, president of the Emergency Surgery & Children’s Trauma Department of Moscow’s Pediatric Scientific Research Institute; Ms. T. Batysheva, director of the science-practice children’s psycho-neurology center of the Moscow city healthcare department; Mr. Haddad Riad, the Arab Republic of Syria’s ambassador to Russia; Archbishop Celestino Migliore, apostolic nuncio to Russia; Metropolitan Niphon of Philippople, representative of the Patriarch of Antioch to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; Ms. Ye. Agapova, vice-president of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society; Mr. Rajhi Al-Ali, president of the Lebanon Club of Russian (Soviet) University Graduates, and others.

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