All-Holiness Kirill Fr. Mark Hodges
MOSCOW, Russia, November 2, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Patriarch Kirill of Moscow opened the seventh church-wide Congress for Social Work with the repeated admonition that ending abortion is priority number one.
His Holiness stated emphatically that the fight for innocent human life is, and must remain, the Church’s main social work.
“The problem of abortion in our country … is our highest priority,” he unequivocally stated.
Many anti-marriage and anti-family issues have come to the fore in recent years, but Kirill brought the focus back to the source of social division and cultural death.
“A few years ago, I raised the issue of the need to pay special attention to the problem of abortion in our country… And I now repeat: It is our highest priority,” the patriarch said in the majestic sanctuary of Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.
Russian Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova echoed His Holiness’ concern. “We understand that our most important common task is the fight against abortion, and we have tried to do a lot together in this direction,” she said. “We have opened 1,500 abortion prevention centers and officers throughout the country,
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