The strategy was posted on the government’s strategy.by website for comments from January until February 8. The Synod published their comments on the patriarchate’s website which were then added to the governmental website, reports the Sofia Globe.
In taking the Orthodox stand against abortion, the Synod said that banning such murder would allow for society and children in particular to have a full chance at existence and “blessed progress,” giving society the chance to overcome its demographic crisis.
Abortion is “unworthy of the Bulgarian nation,” the bishops’ statement reads.
The bishops also called for religious education in schools, saying:
Religious
education in kindergartens and schools educates not only the minds
but also the hearts of the smallest members of our society, which
means that religious activities (in particular: Orthodox
Christianity) reveal to children the sacred secret of this, that man
is created in the image of God, and that to educate means to develop
not only intellectually, but also to be perfected in faith, hope,
love, charity and godliness. This is and should be the highest goal of
any education, of any education-form, that man should be likened to
the image of his Creator,
“Children’s rights, parents’ rights, and the protection of the traditional family have a direct bearing on national security, state prosperity and eternal salvation in God,” the bishops also said.
The bishops also addressed issues of child violence and drug abuse, protecting parental rights, and the elimination of familial policies imported from outside Bulgaria that are impractical for Bulgarian society.
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If only The Episcopal Church had been of such a mind. Sigh.
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