A poisonous vacation that revives paganism, the religious chief believes
In a speech, the pinnacle of the Russian Orthodox Church warned towards what he referred to as makes an attempt to “revive paganism,” saying neo-paganism had infiltrated sure “army circles” in Russia.
Patriarch Kirill criticized the previous chief prosecutor of Crimea and member of the State Duma Nataliya Poklonskaya, who posted on her Telegram channel pictures of herself wearing Celtic clothes and face paint to rejoice the Gaelic competition of Samhain.
The Orthodox excessive priest additionally complained that Russian colleges proceed to rejoice Halloween, with some even disguising the “poisonous” Western vacation with one other Slavic title.
“This substitute of values, the falsification of nationwide historical past and the belittling of the position of Christianity within the building of our nation’s statehood is, in a way, a problem to the true values of the Russian world,” Patriarch Kirill stated.
