The Russian Orthodox Church responded to
LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who suggested in a live TV program to
control the birth rate in the North Caucasus to combat terrorism.
The head of the Synodal Department for
Church and Society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said that nations have
the right to develop independently and plan as many children as they see
fit.
The priest also said that the Church was
maintaining dialogue with Russian political forces, including the
Liberal Democratic Party, but that did not mean, Chaplin said, that the
clergy should agree with all statements that representatives of state
power may make.
The archpriest is convinced that despite
the fact that the migration problem has been a very serious one in the
society recent,y people's indignation should not lead to the
consolidation of "fruitless populist radicalism."
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