Orthodox Women Union set up in Moscow
‘Women are to revive traditional values, oppose abortions, struggle against alcoholism and protect housewives’
Moscow, June 25, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate lays great hopes on the Orthodox Women Union as its organizational forum took place on Friday in Moscow.
“I think this organization is much needed, there’s a social demand in it. It has got a great potential of real influence on society,” head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said at the forum.
The forum adopted the Union’s Statute, which mentions that the organization would be international and was set up with Patriarch Kirill’s blessing.
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