At the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, said that human rights that contradict the bible are “heresy”.

"Today we are [dealing with] a global heresy of worshipping the human, the new idolatry that removes God from human life. Nothing like that had even happened on a global scale before. It is specifically at overcoming this present day's heresy, the consequences of which can become apocalyptic, that the church must aim the force of its protection, its word, its thought," Interfax quoted the Patriarch as saying.

According to the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church, this movement first swept through western Europe and the US, and then later Russia. "In many prosperous countries, the law makes effort to uphold the right of a person to make any choice, including a sinful one,” the Patriarch said.

Kirill also said that his meeting in Havana with Pope Francis became the occasion for a serious discussion on the scale of the persecution of Christians in the Middle East. "During the talks with the Pope, we agreed that we should meet and loudly tell the entire world about the persecution against Christians. This meeting happened, and the world started talking," Patriarch Kirill said.

According to the Patriarch, he has repeatedly raised the subject of the persecution of Christians abroad, "and as if nobody heard anything… And surprisingly, the US Congress suddenly declares that the destruction of Christians in the Middle East is a genocide. We were asking to declare the same: announce that it's a genocide, that there are killings! There was no answer, and now there is an answer, because the voice of the East and West has united and said the most important thing, that all of us today are concerned about," the head of the Russian Orthodox Church concluded.

  Russia

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