Once again, the Greek Church decided to declare its vertical opposition to abortion. So decided yesterday the Permanent Holy Synod, announcing that a sermon against abortion will be read in the churches of the country on September 8, the day of the celebration of the Nativity of the Virgin.

The unshakable theological position of the Church on this issue, “based on the Holy Scripture and the Holy Tradition of the Orthodox Church of Christ”, as she says, is that the fetus is a complete and whole person from the moment of its conception” and therefore considers voluntary abortion to be murder and does not accept his”.

In particular, the Permanent Holy Synod, after the completion of its two-day meeting, announced that it “decided to send the following circulars to the Christ-named Crew of the Church of Greece: a) On the protection of human life and the avoidance of abortion, for reading in holy churches on the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos on 8-9-2022” . As for the second sermon, which has been decided and should be read on September 11, it concerns the 100th anniversary of the catastrophe in Asia Minor.

At the same time, the BIS meeting discussed exorcisms by the Church of All Nations, a Thessaloniki-based sect whose actions caused an uproar this week when a video of an exorcism in Aristotle’s Square circulated on social media and the media.

It will be read in churches on September 8 – the Permanent Holy Synod draws the attention of believers so as not to become a victim of the so-called “Church of all peoples.”

“The Holy Synod, in connection with the action of the so-called “Church of all nations” in Thessaloniki, which was projected by the media, and the alleged “exorcisms”, once again informs the faithful, as it was done in the past, that we are talking about an autonomous neo-Pentecostal organization that conducts rites in central locations in major cities to impress and attract people,” the BIS said in a statement yesterday, “drawing the attention of Orthodox believers so they don’t fall victim to heresy,” he said in a church source.

Regarding the issue of the event in Aristotle’s Square, the prosecutor’s intervention is already being carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office of First Instance of Thessaloniki, which has commissioned an investigation into the City State Security to establish whether there has been a violation of the law. about proselytism and disorderly conduct.

“The municipality did not give any permission,” the mayor of Thessaloniki Konstantinos Zervas told K. “Last week we were asked for permission for a series of events they wanted to do on Sundays, but they didn’t give us anything.”