The Interfax-Religion website reports today (May 3, 2012) that the Russian Orthodox Church has criticized the dissemination of leaflets on the territory of Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow that call on parishioners to join a protest rally on May 6.
"Surely, the dissemination of any printed matter on a church territory is inappropriate without the church's blessing," Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin -- the head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations -- said yesterday.
"It is obvious that both this action and the actions that took place on Sunday (the opposition's attempt to conduct a prayer for Vladimir Putin's resignation) were free from blasphemy and attempts to propagate anti-Christian beliefs," he said.
Political protest -- which "will always be present in any society" -- should be civilized and should be respectful to the sanctity of a church and a church territory, Father Chaplin added.
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