'Chastity or Passion?': Orthodox Priests Bring ‘Chastity Lessons’ to Russian Schools
"Future adults have come to understand a woman's responsibility toward the life of an unborn child,” the school administration wrote of the lesson. The campaign comes as Russia grapples with a deepening demographic crisis. Earlier this year, the country's fertility rate fell to its lowest level in two decades.
- ▪"Future adults have come to understand a woman's responsibility toward the life of an unborn child,” the school administration wrote of the lesson.
- ▪The campaign comes as Russia grapples with a deepening demographic crisis.
- ▪Earlier this year, the country's fertility rate fell to its lowest level in two decades.
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'Chastity or Passion?': Orthodox Priests Bring ‘Chastity Lessons’ to Russian Schools By Angelina Trefilova July 24, 2026 A chastity lesson at a school in the village of Izluchinsk in the Khanty-Mansi autonomous district. ugraeparhia.ru At a rural school in Russia’s Tver region this March, a class of ninth-grade students examined models of fetuses during a lesson. "Future adults have come to understand a woman's responsibility toward the life of an unborn child,” the school administration wrote of the lesson.
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