” “”On a railway carriage, the church reaches the far north of Russia, in the areas where concentration camps for political prisoners used to stand and are still inhabited by very many people who are still waiting to receive the light of Christ”: the "Church as a carriage" is one of the plans hat have been illustrated, in the report "The mission of the Russian Orthodox Church in the contemporary world”, by bishop Ioann Popov of Belgorod, envoy of the Patriarchate of Moscow, who spoke at the second session of the XIV International Ecumenical Meeting, which opened today at the monastery of Bose. There are different types of missions, explained Popov: “catechetical, for adult catechumens, after decades of state atheism which left them only the tradition of the roots of faith, apologetic, against agnostic or sectarian doctrines to fight widespread proselytism, which exploits material needs or people’s ignorance; ethno-cultural, to establish dialogue with all the ethnical and cultural components; of the reconciliation of the memory, against the existing social tensions”. "Today wrote in his address, Alexius II, patriarch of Moscow and all Russia a great process of spiritual revival is in progress, which involves new challenges to which we must respond by staying faithful to the Holy Scripture and the tradition of the Church".” “
