VTOC activists once again opposed the presence of the Vatican list of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Kazan

On November 10, activists of the All-Tatar Public Center held a human rights picket in Kazan, where they accused law enforcement officers of persecuting Muslims under the pretext of fighting extremism and once again spoke out against the Vatican list of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God being in Kazan.

According to Blagovest-info , Renat Yusupov, head of the Kazan branch of the VTOC, said that the presence of this icon in the city infringes on the rights of Muslims to freedom of religion. “According to him,” the agency reports, “the presence of a Christian shrine in the capital of an Islamic republic is inappropriate. As he assured journalists, this fact has negative consequences for Kazan spiritually. how Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' delivered the icon.

Blagovest-info recalls that "November 4, on the feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and the Day of National Unity, the Orthodox of Kazan made a procession with the Vatican image. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 5 thousand people took part in the procession."

Sources

• Tatar nationalists believe that the presence in Kazan of the Vatican list of the icon of the Mother of God has "negative consequences" // Blagovest-info. 2005. November 12.