Metropolitan Hilarion Urge Faithful to Get Vaccinated

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OCP News Service – 7/7/21

Moscow-Russia: ‘Those who do not want to be vaccinated against coronavirus are committing sins that need prayers and repentance for life’ stated Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the Chairman of the External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church.

“I now constantly face such situations when people come to the priest in order to repent that they did not vaccinate themselves or their loved ones and that they became an unwitting cause of the death of people. They come and say: How am I now to live with it? “And it’s even hard for me to say how to live with it now. You’ll have to atone your whole life for the sin you committed” Metropolitan added, according to Russia-24. Met. Hilarion urged everyone to think primarily about the safety of others.

The Russian Orthodox Church has made it compulsory for faithful and visitors to wear masks and adhere to various safety measures inside churches and monasteries.

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