Church pacifiers in Russia are constant in constant danger, according to the Moscow Patriarchate

The Church is open to all people, including unsettled ones, so its ministers are constant in constant danger, they note in the Moscow Patriarchate.

"The pastors of the Church communicate with different people - among them there are those who recently got out of imprisonment, and people without a certain place of residence, but that it is precisely the clergy, as well as doctors, teachers, suggests that there are many morally wild people in our society," said the deputy chairman of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate of Vsevolod in an interview with ITAR -TASS Chaplin.

He noted that "the general criminal situation in Russia remains very sad, and the clergy, like all citizens of the country, are not safe from criminals, which the statistics themselves are talking about: the dead priests have recently - more than a dozen."

The representative of the Patriarchate emphasized that "special attention is always attracted to the murder of a priest, since an encroachment on a person who has devoted himself to God is perceived by morally healthy people." But at the same time, he added, “it recalls that the priests do not hide from the people and do not live“ on the planet of the elite ”, which has long become an artificial companion of the“ planet Russia ”.

As already reported , on the eve of the monastery in the cell in the Chekhovsky district of the Moscow Region, the body of Archimandrite Herman, the rector of the Ascension-David desert, was discovered. He died of a head injury. A safe was opened in the cell and things were scattered. The investigation considers two versions of the crime - robbery and revenge after a personal conflict. In favor of the first, the fact that the priest disposed of the material means of the monastery speaks. The murder from revenge could be committed by one of his former wards of Archimandrite.

According to ITAR-TASS, over the past 15 years, about 30 clergymen have been killed. Among them are more than 20 - Orthodox, as well as several mufti, Catholic and Old Believers. The most sensational murders of Father Alexander me, three monks of Optina Desert, several priests in Chechnya, were the murders of Alexander me. In the village of Tour in Evenkia, the abbot of the local temple was beheaded, two priests were killed in Moscow. Almost all the murders were committed with special cruelty.