The Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods demands to cancel the concert of the “satanic” group in Khabarovsk

The Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods sent to the Governor of Khabarovsk edge letter with a request to cancel the upcoming concert of the "satanic" rock band from Poland. Orthodox consider the performance of musicians an insult to religious feelings.

On April 17, 2014 it became known that the Union of Orthodox fraternities appealed to the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory with a request to ban scheduled for May 14 performance of the Polish rock band "Behemoth".

In a letter signed by the coordinator of the Union of Orthodox fraternities Yuri Ageshchev, it is said that the governor should “speak for Russia and its foundations" and to prevent the concert of "an openly satanic group" .

“Overseas Satanists come here to break our laws. Myself the fact of their arrival is already an insult to the feelings of believers. And we have the law Against this. To everything on the Internet there is rabid anti-Christian propaganda this coven ,” the letter says.

According to the organizers of the concert, protesters against the arrival Polish metalheads "confuse religious worldview and musical genre" . Tem nevertheless, they do not rule out that the authorities will heed the demands of the Orthodox and cancel the concert.

“Our system has leverage to cancel any speech, be it Behemoth, "Silver" or Dima Bilan on the square. Lenin. But we are all adults living in a secular state, and we must understand that creativity and propaganda are completely different things ,” said Denis Rublevsky, one from the organizers of the performance.

Sources

• Orthodox activists demand from the governor a ban on the Behemoth concert in Khabarovsk // DVHab.ru. 2014. April 17.