Cyril of Moscow: "Abortion is a terrible sin"translated

The conviction that the legislation of the Russian capital should be more than a simple set of legal rules and become an effective tool for morally oriented progress was expressed by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Excellency. Cyril. On September 15, 2026, the Moscow Patriarch visited Moscow City, where he participated in the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky Church on the site of the historic Novo-Ekaterininskaya Hospital near the Petrovsky Gate, now part of the Moscow City complex.

After a prayer in the church, the Primate of the Russian Church attended a meeting in the assembly hall and addressed the participating deputies of the Moscow Duma underlining, among other things, that "the calling of a deputy is more than the simple fulfillment of political or economic functions."

"Thousands of children are killed every year in Russia by abortion" Mr. Cyril spoke about a number of pastoral and social issues and how they are approached by the Russian Church. He particularly referred to the issue of…