Dog in the manger

“If representatives of non-traditional religions build houses of worship in places of deprivation of liberty, we will regard this as a violation of the agreement between the Russian Orthodox Church and the penitentiary system,” said the head of the diocesan press service, Fr. Valery. There are already Orthodox prayer rooms or churches in almost all colonies, and priests appear there infrequently, but they fight with all their might against the same Protestants, who are not considered “traditional” in Russia, but if they set up a prayer room, they do not leave it empty.