The “Year of the Family” for the Russian Orthodox Church became a year of struggle for power over minds
A ban on childfree and migrant children in schools, hundreds of lectures by priests for schoolchildren and a full-length film about abortion In 2024, the Russian Orthodox Church managed to lobby for conservative laws and organize hundreds of screenings of a full-length film about the dangers of abortion for schoolchildren, students and doctors throughout the country. Priests were increasingly called to schools to tell children that swearing changes genetics, and abortion leads to infertility.
