MOSCOW — The opening plenary session of the International Forum ‘Large Family and the Future of Humanity’ featured all major religious leaders in the nation sitting side by side jointly and vocally supporting the pro-life and pro-family stance of the gathering.
Patriarch Kirill, the Russian Orthodox leader of Moscow and All Russia, commenced the meeting with a strong endorsement of the family. Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of external relations for the Russian Orthodox, noted the repression against those who stand up for marriage, giving France as an example. He called attention to Europe’s “profound demographic crisis” and lamented that “legalized murder – abortion – is being permitted en masse and nobody says anything.”
The Chief Mufti of Russia welcomed participants in the name of Russian Muslims. Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin warned that when society removes the concept of sin it crumbles.
Rabbi Berel Lazar, the Chief Rabbi of Russia, followed by echoing his religious counterparts, noting that in the West there has appeared a “strange way of life” rejecting children. “Thank God this is not acceptable in Russia today,” he added.
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Remembering that the first law God gave to mankind was to “go forth and multiply,” Rabbi Lazar said the greatest wealth of Russia is large families. “We need natural families,” he said, “with a father and mother and a large number of children.”
The president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, addressed the forum by video. He called the family a “cornerstone” of society rather than merely a building block and warned that there are many laws today weakening the family.