Patriarch Kirill announced the emergence of a “new paganism” around the world after the Easter liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. DEA News.
“Today, on a global scale, a new paganism is developing, based on various human variants – the worship of progress, science, technology – not to mention reverence for the one, the other and the third, but about deification … ”said the patriarch.
He added that the Russian Orthodox Church rejected such a choice, believing that it had sad consequences in the Soviet Union, “the first country in history to declare atheism as its ideology.”
Formerly Patriarch Kirill announced The success of delivering the Holy Fire from Jerusalem to Moscow.
The Patriarch openly expressed his gratitude to Vladimir Yakunin, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation (FAP), who came to Moscow with Holy Fire.