On December 10, 2024, a meeting with journalists was held in Moscow, timed to coincide with the opening of the second charity festival "Star of Christmas". It will be held in Moscow from December 19 to January 22. The main organizer of the festival is the portal Милосердие.ги with the support of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service. All proceeds from the festival will be used to support charity projects. The meeting was attended by Archpriest Mikhail Potokin, Acting Chairman of the Synodal Department, organizers, participants, partners and friends of the festival, and journalists.
"Christmas is a celebration of life, and we have nothing more precious than life. The possibility of living with God opens up through Christmas, thanks to this holiday, a new relationship between man and God arises. And this relationship is a joy, because Someone has come into the world who will always be with a person and will never leave him," Archpriest Mikhail Potokin said during the meeting.
Editor-in-chief of the charity portal Милосердие.ги Yulia Danilova shared the results of the previous festival. Last year, the total charity collection of the festival amounted to more than 6 million rubles. The funds raised were used to help the wards of the Mercy service and refugees. More than 3.5 thousand people attended the events of the festival.
At the meeting, the organizers of the festival also talked about its program and upcoming events. During the month — from mid—December to mid-January - the Moscow public will enjoy concerts, performances, master classes, a large charity fair, nativity performances, an exhibition of a charity poster of the early twentieth century, meetings and conversations "Conversations about Christmas", an animated film screening "Native Christmas" at the Cinema House. The festival will open on December 19 with a concert by the Leonid Lundstrom Orchestra at the Moscow Cathedral Chamber, and will end with a gala concert by the Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra at the Zaryadye Concert Hall on January 22, 2025.
This year, the festival was joined by: the Yesenin Museum, where an exhibition of a charity poster of the Art Nouveau era will open; designer Victoria Andreyanova, who will provide exclusive lots for a charity fair; the Bel Canto Foundation will perform a musical fairy tale with an organ and sand animation in the Cathedral Chamber; the Tretyakov Gallery will hold one of the nativity performances at the inclusive site "Good Museum". 
The Star of Christmas Festival was supported by famous artists and performers: conductors Denis Lotoev and Leonid Lundstrom, pianist Ekaterina Mechetina, actors Alisa Grebenshchikova, Ksenia and Irina Alferov, Alexander Mikhailov, Alyona Babenko, Olga Kalashnikova, Elena Zakharova and others.