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Residents of Krasnoyarsk demand a referendum on the construction of a temple on Strelka
Residents of Krasnoyarsk began collecting signatures under an appeal to the city Council of Deputies and to the head of the city with a demand not to allow the construction of an Orthodox church on the Yenisei embankment without taking into account the opinion of the townspeople.
April 25, 2017 became it is known that the residents of Krasnoyarsk began collecting signatures under an appeal to the city Council of Deputies and to the head of the city demanding not allow the construction of an Orthodox church on the Yenisei embankment without citywide referendum.
« Mayor Edkham Akbulatov, making a decision to build an Orthodox Cathedral on Strelka and not asking at the same time, the opinion of Krasnoyarsk residents risks provoking an increase in society degree of aggression, which is already large enough ,” the petition says.
« Pushing through by the mayor's office and the diocese of the construction of the cathedral on Strelka at any cost, regardless of the opinion of the townspeople, Krasnoyarsk residents regard it as an aggressive clericalization of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. This is a dangerous trend because clericalization, as historical experience shows, is the only consequence - anti-clericalization. And she can be aggressive too. With his ill-conceived obsessive intrusion into public and political life, the Church loses even that part of her flock, which, although not being churched, she professes Orthodox Christianity , ”they believe text authors.
The townspeople were especially outraged by the "imperative form of statements about the construction of the cathedral, which they regarded as disrespect for them, for their opinion"
Behind a few days the petition was signed by 1460 people. They all agree with the requirement hold a referendum.
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