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Russia's Orthodox patriarch, says West trying to smother Russia

7/1/2025 12:25
The patriarch of Russia's Orthodox Church, celebrating Christmas alongside Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday that the Western world despised Russia and its "alternative path of civilised development".



According to the Julian calendar, Orthodox Christians in Russia celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7.



Patriarch Kirill, an enthusiastic backer of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, blessed icons and crosses that were to be engraved with the president's initials and sent to servicemen in the 34-month-old war in Ukraine, Russian news agencies quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying.



According to the news agencies, Kirill said, Russia presents a challenge to powerful countries not because of its nuclear capabilities or strength.



"They hate us because we are offering a different, alternative path of civilised development," he said at Christ the Saviour cathedral, which was rebuilt on the site of a swimming pool in the 1990s after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin levelled it in the 1930s.



The West was in moral collapse, he said, but Russia showed the world how to blend science, culture, education and faith.



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