The package consists of the central law, “On the Protection of Family Values and Minors,” with 18 amendments to various other laws.
Two Orthodox prayer services for an end to abortion are scheduled in different parts of New York state for October.
Lada Bayeva
For us being together, doing something together and involving other children in this is not just a tradition—it is our way of life.
In general, it is very important to do everything together, be it games, outings or trips. This is how the association that a family is one whole is formed in children.
The parade was organized as part of the national "Day of Family, Love, and Fidelity," established by a decree of President Vladimir Putin on June 28, 2022.
Metropolitan Seraphim (Joanta) of Germany and Central Europe
The family is a place where God's love should dwell. The family is an icon of the Holy Trinity.
Anna Romashko
And no good assurances from elderly ladies that if you commune an infant for forty days in a row they will later become a bishop will ever work without true love, faith, and natural religious life.
Elena Kucherenko
My friend Fr. Yevgeny’s teenage son was once put in a holding cell. He had been such a good boy. The church grandmothers used to cry tears of joy looking at him, and even the priest secretly did the same.
Protodeacon Vladimir Vasilik
The poisonous slogans, “there is no need to create poverty” and “you will still have children”, destroyed many more people than the carpet bombing of Korean cities and the burning of Vietnamese villages with napalm.
Among my acquaintances with many children, there was no case where doctors in consultation or even in the prenatal ward did not blackmail expectant mothers and try to persuade them to have an abortion under one pretext or another.
A hierarch of the Moldovan Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) has been ordered by a Chișinău court to pay compensation for moral damages for “homophobic” statements he made in 2022.
The day before, the Bulgarian Synod issued a statement against the event, calling for the people to resist such attempts to impose sin as a normal lifestyle:
Each year, the National Orthodox Baby Shower sparks dozens of new partnerships between Orthodox parishes and local PRC’s.
On June 4, a package of bills titled, “On the Protection of Family Values and Minors” will be introduced to the Georgian parliament.
Gay marriage is forbidden in Albania, but a lesbian couple had an unofficial ceremony on the roof of the mayor’s office, served by two British pastors.
The center has already accepted the first 10 families with children for rehabilitation, including five families from Donbass. All assistance is provided free of charge.
Alexandra Gripas
"It’s neither the mountains, nor the climate, nor the Gobi Desert. It’s a miracle."
Over the weekend, the outlet lifo.gr published an interview with Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America entitled, “Discriminating against people based on their love life isn’t Orthodoxy.”
The Council established a working group of jurists, sociologists, theologians, and medical professionals to examine the bill, and its new statement is a result of their work.
Anna Mustafina
All men of genius, pathfinders, and military leaders had mothers who delivered, loved, and took care of them.
