Russian Orthodox Church members showed the drawbacks of liberal values to Secretary General of the Conference of European Churches Colin Williams (center).
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Christians Do Not Believe in Human Rights
// Russian Orthodox Church’s idea to reconsider liberal values received support of Catholics and Protestants
Meeting of Christian leaders of CIS and Baltic countries ended in Moscow yesterday. One of the chief issues on the agenda was the initiative of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) to reconsider the concept of human rights existing in secular world. ROC said this concept is often used to “cover up lie, falsehood, insult of religious and national values”. ROC received support of Catholics and Protestants, who are now proposing the idea to reconsider the International Human Rights Declaration.
Religious leaders from CIS and Baltic countries yesterday met in Moscow to discuss issues related to morality and human rights. Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) was the meeting’s initiator.
ROC began the onset on the existing system of liberal values, and secured the support of leaders of various Christian denominations. The religious leaders said that “the propaganda of individualism leads to demographic decline, anti-social and immoral conduct.”
“We are for changing the existing human rights, up to reconsidering the International Human Rights Declaration,” said Pastor Konstantin Benas, executive secretary of the United Russian Union of Gospel Faith Christians. “For there cannot be universal human rights,” he added.
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