The opposition will conduct a prayer for Putin's departure in XXS

The Russian opposition prepares a response to a prayer service and standing "in defense of faith, scolded shrines and church", organized by the Russian Orthodox Church on April 22 in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. According to Interfax, a member of the Federal Political Council of Solidarity Roman Dobrokhotov said that the moleben "The Virgin, Putin of the run" will be held in the temple on the next Sunday. "The Pussy Riot punk group is accused of violating the canons of the Orthodox Church. We are going to arrange a prayer service in accordance with all church canons. No political slogans and agitation are planned," Dobrokhotov said.

"I believe that the theme of the prayer service" for the salvation of Russia "is not completely disclosed. The shortest way to save Russia is Putin’s departure. We are going to pray about this," he said. According to Dobrokhotov, more than a hundred people are going to take part in a religious event. "I hope that by Saturday the number of our supporters will increase to several hundred," Dobrookhotov said.

In the prayer standing, which took place on Sunday at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, more than 50 thousand people took part. According to the estimates of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, in the XXS and in the adjacent territory there were 65 thousand people. According to independent observers who gathered several times less. The order was provided by two thousand police officers. The integration was carried out "in defense of faith, scolded shrines, church and her good name."

In the morning, Patriarch Kirill served in the XXS liturgy, which was broadcast on large screens installed in front of the temple. At about 14:00, the Patriarch headed the procession at the walls of the temple, during which the scolded shrines were shown to believers: a cross cut by a knife from the Cathedral of Nevinnomyssk, shot down in the 20s and chopped icons from the Great Ustyug in our time. “I never bless and under no circumstances restore these icons,” said Patriarch Kirill. The shrines of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior himself were also issued: a particle of the Riza of the Lord and the nail of the Cross of the Lord.

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“Today we were attacked by the persecutors, not comparable to what was in the past, but dangerous in that the very fact of blasphemy, sacrilege, mockery of the shrine is proposed to be considered as a legitimate manifestation of human freedom, as that should be protected by modern society,” he said and urged young people to refrain from “devilish temptations”.

On a par with the desecration of icons, the Moscow Patriarchate put the "punk-spring" of the Pussy Riot group in XXS. A criminal case was instituted on this fact, three accused - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich - on Thursday extended the arrest until the end of June. They face up to 7 years under a criminal article on hooliganism.

According to RIA Novosti, during a prayer service, one woman held a picket with Pussy Riot from the XXX. She stood near the fence on the Prechistenskaya embankment with three balloons, on which the names of the arrested girls were written. Some who passed by the believers shouted insults and complained that the picket and the journalists crowded around her interfere with the passage of believers. The police did not interfere in the conflict.

On Sunday, prayers "in defense of the scolded shrines" were held in all the cathedrals of Russia. "We call all the hierarchs, shepherds and laity on April 22, on the day of the memoirs of the assurances of the Apostle Thomas, to again reveal to the whole world the triumph of the truth of Christ, having committed a prayer and standing in defense of the faith, scolded shrines, the church and its good name. In the city of Moscow, they will be committed before the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Cross, who were injured from anchors and the cross. madmen, ”said in the appeal of the Supreme Church Council.

At a meeting of the Council, Patriarch Kirill said that the Russian Orthodox Church should be prepared for public debate with his opponents, but not to be like those who "lie and slander." "We are all witnesses of powerful anti -church rhetoric, unfortunately, coincided with a great post in time. We hear a lot of attacks on the Church, starting with a notorious case in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Then three terrifying desecration of temples - all this was concentrated almost during the week - ten days, then after you know, my modest person was informational Attacks, ”said the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church. “Therefore, we are talking, of course, that we are dealing with a certain information strategy against the church,” he added.

In a passionate week, the circular of the Russian Orthodox Church began to read out in the Orthodox churches, in which “anti -church forces” and supporters of “aggressive liberalism” were declared enemies of faith. The head of the Patriarchal press service, Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansk, confirmed that during a passionate week this appeal "will be read necessarily." "There is no order to this, but the Higher Church Council is a very authoritative organization, headed by the Patriarch and all the leaders of the synodal departments, bishops, and their statement is an important church document," Vigilyansky explained. "It is important that he reaches every parishioner."

The circular says that the Russian Orthodox Church "demonstrates an active position on many topical issues and is actively involved in resolving urgent social problems," takes care of the future of the people. But anti -church forces do not want and are afraid of the "revival of national identity and mass folk initiative." "Such people are a few, but some of them have influence and are ready to use their financial, information and administrative resources to discredit hierarchs and clergy, to generate split and rejection of people from temples."

“Those who promote the false values ​​of aggressive liberalism join these forces” - permissiveness and fornication, freedom of expression of all desires, uncontrollable consumerism, recognition of same -sex unions. "The attacks became especially noticeable in the election and post -icing period, which indicates their political background, including anti -Russian." Further, the appeal lists the "series of acts of vandalism and the desecration of temples", which began with the so-called "punk-spring" of the Pussy Riot women's group in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on February 21.

On March 24, Patriarch Kirill called the Pussy Riot campaign in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior "mocking over the great shrines" and expressed grief that some people, including those who call themselves Orthodox, are trying to justify or minimize the "blasphemy" of Pussy Riot.

“People appear who justify this blasphemy, minimize it, try to imagine as a kind of funny joke. And sadly, and from bitterness my heart breaks, that among these people there are those who call themselves Orthodox,” said the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. “Those people do not believe due to prayer. They believe due to propaganda and slander, by virtue of the Internet, by virtue weapons ".

He also stated that the people who perceive the Pussy Riot action as "a certain valor, as a kind of expression of political protest, as a kind of appropriate action or as a harmless joke," have no future. At the same time, he believes that this action is a mockery of the devil and testing to believers. "The devil laughed at all of us, introducing so many sorrows in those days when we must move away from the unrest of this world, immerse ourselves in prayer, limit ourselves to fasting, repent in our own sins. But maybe the Lord leads us through these trials on the Holy Days of the Great Lent in order for us to realize our responsibility for our land, for the Saint, for the faith of the Orthodox," said the patriarch.