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Russian priest who advised women to bear more children and send them to
war dies in Ukraine

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Ukrainska Pravda
Sun, November 6, 2022 at 1:10 PM·2 min read

Mikhail Vasiliev, a Russian priest famous for recently saying that if
women in Russia bore more children it would be easier for them to send
their sons away to fight, died in the war in Ukraine on 6 November.

Source: official website of the Russian Orthodox Church; The Insider, a Latvia-based, Russia-focused media outlet

Details: The website of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) reported that Archpriest Mikhail Vasiliev died on the morning of 6 November "in the
area of ​​the special military operation in Ukraine while carrying out pastoral duties."

The ROC said Vasiliev, as a priest, had travelled on missions to "hot
spots" and participated in "peacekeeping operations" in Kosovo, Bosnia, Abkhazia, Kyrgyzstan, the North Caucasus and Syria.

He was the archpriest of the church of St. Barbara the Great Martyr and
the Venerable Ilya Muromets, the garrison church of the Strategic Rocket
Forces of the Russian Armed Forces in Vlasikha, Moscow Oblast.

The Insider reported that Vasiliev had expressed the opinion - speaking
live on the Spas (Saviour) TV channel in October - that if women in
Russia had more children, it would be easier for them to send their sons
to war.

The presenter had told him about a woman who hid her son in the Canary
Islands to avoid mobilisation.

"The Lord has allowed each lady to give birth to many children. And if a
lady, fulfilling this commandment to ‘be fruitful and multiply’, refused
to use artificial pregnancy termination methods, in the widest sense,
then obviously she would have more than one child. And therefore, she
would not find it so painful and terrifying to part with her child, even
for a while. The devil is not so terrible as he is painted. Whom God
helps, nobody can harm," the Russian priest said.

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Comments include

Ray
6 November, 2022
Good to see at least one brave enough to follow his own advice.
He paid for it also. That’s what happens in war. You may think it’s just talk, but to someone else it’s a target.


david
6 November, 2022
We don't know how many children his mother has, but even if he is the
only one, I doubt if she'll weep for him.

NickS
6 November, 2022

Holy? He is evil for just making women babymakers. He is also fighting
an unholy war.



Rick
6 November, 2022
What advice did he follow? Did he have multiple sons that he sent off
to be killed?

Steve
6 November, 2022

Brave? This so called "priest" is a coward of epic proportions. Asking
mothers to provide more human lives for Putin to slaughter is the very definition of sick and cowardly.

John
6 November, 2022
brave? how bout nuts

Ray Angel Harris
6 November, 2022

Good. This is not a priest but an id, up, t fool.

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