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ULYANOVSK – Earlier this month, several hundred schoolchildren in the central Russian city of Ulyanovsk were gathered in a municipal cultural center for an assembly marking the sixth anniversary of a unique Russian Orthodox Church youth-outreach program.

“It’s easier to live with God,” Olga Solntseva, director of the department of supplemental information of the Ulyanovsk Oblast’s Ministry of Education and Science, told the children. “I hope that all of you will understand this. And the earlier you understand it, the better.”

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