JRL NEWSBLOG: “Russian Orthodox Church to stop blessing missiles” – The Times (UK)/ Tom Parfitt

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“… a church commission has concluded that one category of blessings is beyond the pale and should not continue: weapons of mass destruction. … at odds with recent practice. … In November, a priest … blessed an S-400 missile unit as it was deployed to the Crimea. The previous year, a priest could … be seen having just completed the ceremony in Russian defence ministry footage of a Yars  … ICBM … lowered into a silo near Kaluga Archpriest Vsevolad Chaplin file photo…. Television footage has also shown priests splashing holy water on Topol ICBMs …. A draft document regulating the blessing of weapons is expected to be finished by the end of July …. Vsevolod Chaplin … former head of communications for the Russian Orthodox … [said] nuclear weapons were the ‘guardian angels’ of the country. ‘Only nuclear weapons protect Russia from enslavement by the West,’ he said. …”

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