Russian Church to establish its own YouTube channel

Moscow, October 7, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church will open its own site at popular YouTube video hosting service.

The project presentation will be held October 11 in the conference hall of the Christ the Savior Cathedral during the international festival of Orthodox media "Faith and Word", the Synodal Information Department reported to Interfax-Religion Thursday.

Before, Vladimir Legoyda, head of this department, acknowledged in an interview the need to develop the church public relations and "create proper awareness of the Church's activity."

He emphasized that the Church currently "is exposed to continuous information pressure, i.e. "counter-public relation" practices initiated by people who never play fair and do not scruple to employ dirty tricks."

Legoyda believes that such challenge should be opposed by "a competent and efficient work performed by specialists, otherwise the Church may be drowned in the flood of lies and deceit."

"If "public relations" means creating and promoting any image, I believe, this term is not quite appropriate in relation to the Church," Legoyda states.

He reminded that the Church is "a bearer of Truth and the Truth - Christ - does not need any image."

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