Posted on 08/30/2021 7:31:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, August 30, Interfax - State Duma deputy Vladimir Resin who oversees the program for the construction of Orthodox churches in Moscow, known as the "program-200", reported a significant increase in its scale.
"More than a dozen years will pass, and churches will be built. Moscow is developing, Moscow is growing. And if you have churches within walking distance (one church for 20-30 thousand people), of course, then we should not be talking about 200 or 300 churches. And not even about 500 churches," Resin said during a visiting meeting.
At the same time, he admitted that it has already been possible to achieve the number of churches necessary for local residents in some areas of Moscow.
The program for the construction of Orthodox churches was launched in 2010 on the initiative of Patriarch Kirill. At the time of its implementation, Moscow, according to the estimates of the Russian Orthodox Church, was experiencing a special shortage of churches compared to other regions of Russia.
"Ten years after the laying of the first capsule in the foundation of the first program church, 283 church complexes have been in operation on the territory of the "big Moscow", 103 church complexes have already been built," said Resin.
The program is implemented entirely on donations. To raise funds, a charitable foundation was created to support the construction of churches in the city of Moscow, the co-chairs of the board of trustees are Mayor Sergey Sobyanin and Patriarch Kirill.
Russia doesn’t allow gays tom adopt kids. The US can’t say that. What does God think?
Meanwhile in the West Christian churches are being sold to muslims who convert them to mosques.
Impress us all, make abortion illegal. They have the demographic hole for Vlad to justify it if he wanted, right?
FReegards
I can tell you from personal experience, Russians are closer to our view of “Conservatism” than most Americans.
"In my country, we are building new churches within walking distance of any part of the city with donations and the government is encouraging (even incentivizing) large families."
Joey Stalin must be more tormented than normal in his 9th level of hell.
God thinks he's seen this before, in ancient Rome. It didn't end well.
You know it’s bad when Russia seems like a good place for American refugees.
If it wasn’t for that stupid alphabet and unprounounceable language of theirs . . . .
In fifty years they will all be mosques.
I've been thinking the same for over s year. It looks like Russia is returning to pre-1917 traditional Russia while America and the West are falling into the abyss of tyranny. Youtube has a lot of videos about life in Russia. It doesn't look bad at all.
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