The Russian Orthodox Church urged the state Duma to allow to flog children

Parents forbidding physical punishment of children, “we come into contradiction with the Holy Scripture.”

Wednesday, may 17, the state Duma held a meeting of the inter-factional working group of the lower house of Parliament for the protection of Christian values.

It discussed the possibility of an official ban abortions in Russia and permission to use parents physical punishment against children

The Governor of new Jerusalem monastery Archimandrite Feofilakt (Bezukladnikov) has called on state Duma deputies at the legislative level to ban abortion, and allow parents to use physical punishment to children. He said this during the first in the new convocation of the meeting of the inter-factional working group of the lower house of Parliament for the protection of Christian values.

“Abortion must be murder. This law still need to pay attention, and it needs to be accepted,” he said.

The priest also stressed that parents forbidding physical punishment of children, “we come into contradiction with the Holy Scripture.” “It is unacceptable when it has a traditional upbringing in a Christian family, when the children are equal to parents”, — he said.

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