Russia’s Patriarch Kirill Slams Charlie Hebdo’s Mockery of Muslims, Christians and others with its irreverent cartoons
“Today, in saying ‘no’ to terrorism, killings, violence, we also say ‘no’ to the inexplicable drive by a certain group of people to deride religious feelings,”
The head of Russia’s influential Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has said cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were “childish” compared to offenses it had dished out to Christians.
Charlie Hebdo has regularly offended Muslims, Christians and others with its irreverent cartoons.
Gunmen killed 12 people at the Paris office of the weekly this month saying they were avenging the Prophet Muhammad, whom the magazine had depicted in cartoons in defiance of a ban in Islam on representing its founder.
Kirill, who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said in a sermon that he opposed both terrorism and giving offense to religious feelings.
Armenian Patriarch deplores desecration of Prophet Muhammad
“The European countries do not live according to the principles of Christianity,”
The patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church censured France for the publication of sacrilegious cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), saying these moves indicate that the European country has strayed far from the principles of Christianity.
“The European countries do not live according to the principles of Christianity,” Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni said in a meeting with Head of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) Abouzar Ebrahimi Torkaman on Saturday.
He made the remarks in a reference to recent sacrilegious cartoons published by the French weekly, Charlie Hebdo, depicting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
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