About 15 thsds of women annually die from home violence – Metropolitan Hilarion

Moscow, December 23, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate urges society and authorities to consider scales of violence in Russian families. “Scales of home violence are impressive: about 15 thousands of women a year perish from hands of their husbands or cohabitors. This terrific statistics is only the top of the iceberg: great amount of women, children and old people become victims of physical and psychological violence in family,” head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations (DECR) Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk said in his address to participants of a round table on problems of home violence held in Moscow