RUSSIAN ORTHODOX BISHOP SLAMS DEMOCRACY, G8. Diomid, who is Russian Orthodox bishop of Siberia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, said in a recent open letter that the Moscow Patriarchate has effectively "retreated from the purity of Orthodox faith" through its policies in nine separate areas. Diomid criticized the church's "approval of democracy" as a call to vote for specific political leaders in alleged defiance of church tenets. The bishop also warned that "the Group of Eight...is preparing the coming to power of a single world leader,[who would be] an anti-Christ. Therefore, any cooperation with them is spiritually dangerous." He also said that it is a "mistaken opinion" for the Orthodox Church to teach that Jews, Roman Catholics, Muslims, and the Orthodox have the same moral values.
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