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Metropolitan Pavel: If I Wear Cross – It Does Not Mean I Am Pharisee

Metropolitan Pavel: If I Wear Cross – It Does Not Mean I Am Pharisee
METROPOLITAN PAVEL

The head of the BOC commented on the attempt to ban medical workers to wear religious symbols.

Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavl Pavel, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, commented on the initiative on wearing next-to-skin crosses in his interview to the program "Contours" on the ONT TV channel.

"How can I hide that I am a priest? Then I should take off the robe, the cross and be like an ordinary person without any symbols. This is not right," – Metropolitan Pavel said.

According to him, if you go on with the ban on wearing next-to-skin crosses and other religious symbols, it is possible that the society would become unprincipled. "Then you need to remove the crosses and gravestones also from cemeteries. But it will also be a sign of an ideology - the atheistic one," – he believes.

At the same time, Metropolitan Pavel emphasized the need to observe reasonable limits. "Christ the Savior Himself denounced the Pharisees, who prayed publicly. This is Pharisaism. And the fact that I wear a cross on the chest, does not mean that I am a Pharisee," – he explained.

We remind, that at the end of last year, the Ministry of Health brought up a draft resolution on medical ethics for public discussion. The draft contained, in particular, a ban on wearing of religious symbols.

Metropolitan of Minsk and Mahilyou, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, was wondering why it was allowed to wear a party badge but wearing of a cross was banned.

The head of the BOC Metropolitan Pavel supported him and suggested that the ban on wearing of religious symbols could cause the protests of the faithful. The Ministry of Health has responded to criticism and removed the controversial restriction from the document.

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