Interfax May 3, 2006
VIENNA. The Russian Orthodox Church believes that Europe’s abandonment of its Christian roots could ultimately lead European society to shocks comparable to those that Russia experienced under the Bolsheviks, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad has said.
“Russia’s history in the 20th century should serve as a warning for contemporary Europe: the abandonment of spiritual and cultural foundations on which this or that civilization is based could pose a serious threat to civilization itself,” Father Kirill said at an international conference in Vienna on Wednesday.
“We worry that, by losing the link with Christianity, Europe might finally come to forms of pressure on or even suppression of an individual that have always been alien to it,” he said.
