Posted on 11/03/2017 3:35:33 PM PDT by NRx
MOSCOW, Russia, November 2, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Patriarch Kirill of Moscow opened the seventh church-wide Congress for Social Work with the repeated admonition that ending abortion is priority number one.
His Holiness stated emphatically that the fight for innocent human life is, and must remain, the Church’s main social work.
“The problem of abortion in our country … is our highest priority,” he unequivocally stated.
Many anti-marriage and anti-family issues have come to the fore in recent years, but Kirill brought the focus back to the source of social division and cultural death.
“A few years ago, I raised the issue of the need to pay special attention to the problem of abortion in our country… And I now repeat: It is our highest priority,” the patriarch said in the majestic sanctuary of Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.
Russian Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova echoed His Holiness’ concern. “We understand that our most important common task is the fight against abortion, and we have tried to do a lot together in this direction,” she said. “We have opened 1,500 abortion prevention centers and officers throughout the country, at maternity clinics and wards, and prenatal centers.”
She pointed out that the number of abortions in the country is going down. Over the past five years, abortions have dropped by 25 percent.
His Holiness said the way to combat the mass slaughter of the preborn is not only to rebuke abortionists and exhort women not to kill their children but to help women in crisis. The primate told 2,000 attendees to analyze why young women abort. He said we must address the problems that drive women to kill, such as instability, parents’ anger, social pressure, and poverty.
Kirill coordinated political leaders and Orthodox bishops to work together to build homes for pregnant women in every province. “I cannot say that everything is working well; there are issues in Church-State relations, but my call was heard,” he reported.
The Russian hierarch addressed the State Duma twice, boldly issuing a call to solve the “horrifyingly high” number of abortions in the mother country.
He pointed out that 650,000 abortions were committed in Russia in 2016. “A city like Tyumen has 744,000 residents. That means an entire city was lost within a year,” he noted.
The Orthodox Church’s Congress for Social Work brings together the leaders of Russian social projects, diocesan social work department heads, monastic sisters of mercy, and volunteers.
The congress also discussed how the church and the government can encourage and support large families.
Orthodox Christianity reports that the Russian Orthodox Church has more than 4,000 “social agencies, projects and initiatives.” Among them are more than 400 sisterhoods of mercy, 52 women’s shelters, more than 100 humanitarian aid centers, more than 40 almshouses, 400 projects for the disabled, and 95 shelters for the homeless. In addition, there are more than 500 Orthodox organizations helping addicts.
The reawakening of Christian Russia is why the Progressives hate and fear it so much.
“His Holiness said the way to combat the mass slaughter of the preborn is not only to rebuke abortionists and exhort women not to kill their children but to help women in crisis. The primate told 2,000 attendees to analyze why young women abort. He said we must address the problems that drive women to kill, such as instability, parents’ anger, social pressure, and poverty.”
A nation that suffered 700 thousand or so casualties along the way of ridding itself of the evil of slavery, let seven lawyers in blackrobes legalize 60 million murders, and with it, the destruction of our republic.
The hatred of Russia makes no sense.
There is deep seeded hatred at the highest levels of our government probably driven by the need to suck off of Saudi and Chinese wealth to finance our county’s deep national debt of 20 some trillion dollars.
To paraphrase Jorge Bergoglio, “Global Warming is our highest priority; we talk too much about abortion”.
>To paraphrase Jorge Bergoglio, “Global Warming is our highest priority; we talk too much about abortion”.
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Boy, do I hope and Pray that Putin and Co come to their senses and just outlaw it. What an economic boom to supply the needs of the babies, kids, teens and all the blessings that come along with them.
Besides, the Biblical consequence for nationally ordained child sacrifice is invasion and conquest. One reprieve with making it illegal again.
“Surely at the command (mouth) of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; AND THE LORD WOULD NOT FORGIVE.” (All caps mine) 2 Kings 24:3 & 4
This happened generations after Manasseh returned from Babylon captivity having repented in prison and tore down the altars. His grandson Josiah lead Judah into a great revival but Josiah’s grandson took up the practice again and Babylon finished the conquest.
One reprieve.
They tried to make it illegal between 1936 and 1968 and the result were illegal abortions killing no less preborn but many more women than regular ones.
In USSR they were creative about it. There was a case of a warrant officer who used the ejection seat trainer at his base to cause miscarrieges for money. He got busted after one of his clients bled to death on bus while going back home. The cops found he label or some other item related to a charge used to deploy trainer in her purse.
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