The hierarchs of the Church of Poland established the order of burial for babies who died at birth or before birthtranslated

The members of the Synod of the Orthodox Church of Poland, meeting on Tuesday in Warsaw, established the procedure for the burial of babies who died at birth or before birth.

In response to the interest shown by Polish Orthodox in the Krakow area regarding the burial of stillborn children, the Synod specified that the obligatory practice established in the Orthodox Church is for them to be entrusted to the earth after a short prayer for them and a prayer for their parents, invoking God's mercy. The Holy Liturgy will not be celebrated.

On this occasion, the Polish hierarchs reaffirmed that the Church does not allow the cremation of the bodies of the sleeping.

Polish law recognizes the humanity of the unborn child In Poland, the remains of stillborn or stillborn children are considered by law to be human remains, regardless of the stage of development of the pregnancy, and cannot be treated as medical waste. That is why the lifeless bodies of these children cannot be incinerated together with medical waste.

Most often, hospitals notify social institutions, which take over the bodies and organize mass burials in public cemeteries, in the presence of…