Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin called on the “most decisive means” to fight “sects”

December 2, 2013 during the "round table" in the Public the head of the synodal department for interaction between the church and society, archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin called for a tough policy against "sects".

“We need, as I am convinced, without regard to our eternal teachers in some Western and Eastern countries to build a policy of hard attitudes towards destructive religious or pseudo-religious phenomena , ” he said.

According to the priest, “the state and society have the right to respond most resolutely, defending oneself, from deceit, from aggression, from preaching radical doctrines, which, as modern history shows, have always end in blood and violence . Sources *

• Archpriest Chaplin calls to fight destructive sects without regard to the West // Interfax. 2013. December 3.