Dagestan to host III International Interreligious Youth Forum

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Makhachkala, July 20, 2016. On July 29 to 4 August, the Republican Children's recreational and educational center will host the III International Interreligious Youth Forum.

The Forum organizers aim at establishing and strengthening the spiritual and moral values among the younger generation, as well as at bringing up the youth taking into account the ethnic and cultural diversity of the region. Dagestani Head Ramazan Abdulatipov, religious and public figures, scientists and politicians are expected to attend the event.

The participants and guests, among them - more than 150 young people aged 16 - 30 years from the regions of the Russia’s Northern Caucasus and the neighboring CIS countries, will see a full program. It is known that the forum attendees will participate in the sports and intellectual competitions and live discussions with scientists, religious and community leaders. The forum participants will watch few movies, listen to the lectures of the acting Dagestani Mufti - Mahdi Haji Mutailov, the bishop of Makhachkala and Grozny Varlaam and the representative of the Jewish community of Dagestan.

In Derbent, the forum participants will visit Naryn-Kala fortress and the museum complex “House of Peter I”, the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the synagogue Kehl-Numaz, Derbent Juma Mosque and the Armenian Church of the Holy Saviour.

Besides, the participants are invited to discuss contemporary problems: “The temptation of radicalism: Causes and Consequences / frank conversation”, “North Caucasus; religion in a secular, multi-ethnic society” and “Spiritual values of traditional religions as the basis of Russian cultural code”.  

Recall, the I International Interreligious Youth Forum took place in the recreation facility “Kizlyar Lagoon” in 2014.  Last year, the educational center "Sunny Beach" hosted the II forum dedicated to the celebration of the 2000th anniversary of the city of Derbent.  

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