Relic to promote motherhood in Russia

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/11/20111112125939274327.html


Church wants belt thought to be Virgin Mary's to be taken to pregnancy centres to discourage abortions.


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A sacred relic, believed by some Orthodox Christians to be the belt of the Virgin Mary, is drawing thousands of Russian pilgrims in search of a cure for a myriad of ailments including infertility. But the treasure – a 2,000 year old cincture woven from camel fur - is also having political resonance.

Russian leaders have called the country’s shrinking population a matter of national security and now the influential Orthodox church has joined the fight.

It wants to take the relic to pregnancy centres to discourage women from having abortions and save mother Russia by promoting motherhood.
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most Russian women will probably lol at this Mary belt crap

[Cirque du So-What]

1. I didn't believe the Russian Orthodox Church

had developed quite the 'cult of Marian worship' that exists in the RCC.

[formercia]

2. I could never understand how some of the most reactionary

warmongers were into that. Bill Casey, late CIA Director had a large statue of her in his office at CIA.


It's such a disconnect.