Patriarch Kirill calls for law to ban ‘persuading’ women to have abortions
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, voiced his support on Sunday for a recent spate of regional laws in Russia banning the promotion of abortion and called for a similar ban to be introduced federally. “Unfortunately, the number of abortions in the country remains high,” Kirill said in a speech, adding that he hoped a law recently introduced in the republic of Mordovia would be replicated in other regions and “at the federal level”.