Metropolitan Kirill: "... the value of freedom... is not disputed by the Orthodox approach, but is not considered as the only condition for the realization of human dignity"
On September 30, the head of the DECR MP, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, spoke at the conference "Religion in the modern system of international relations" in St. Petersburg with a report "Universal and original in the concept of human rights." In his opinion, the concept of human rights is "one of ... the most powerful positive ideas of the modern world", which, moreover, has Christian roots.