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Churches embracing homosexuality prepare members to accept the Anti-Christ: Russian Orthodox leader

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Churches that have deemed homosexuality morally acceptable have rejected Christianity and are preparing their followers to accept the Anti-Christ , according to one of the leading figures in the Russian Orthodox Church . His statement came as the Russian Orthodox Church announced that it is ending "formal contacts" with the United Protestant Church of France and the Church of Scotland over those churches' abandonment of traditional Christian sexual morality. In its statement, the church said ecumenical dialogue was pointless after France's United Protestant Church last month voted to allow pastors to officiate at same-sex "marriages" and the Church of Scotland approved ordaining clergy who are in same-sex civil unions. "The Russian Orthodox Church holds the firm position based on Holy Scriptures and has repeatedly declared that [homosexual 'marriage' is] inadmissible for moral teaching," the statement reads. Churches that offer to

Gay ‘marriage’ a ‘sign of the apocalypse’: Russian Patriarch

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MOSCOW , July 22, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – In his Sunday sermon this weekend in Kazan Cathedral in Moscow , Patriarch Kirill , Primate, of the Russian Orthodox Church , warned against the extraordinary rise in many western countries of the homosexualist movement. Kirill said that the trend of legalizing “gay marriage” is “a very dangerous sign of the apocalypse.” It “means people are choosing a path of self-destruction,” he said. He said he supports the recently passed  national ban  on homosexualist propaganda that has prohibited the Gay Pride festivities that have become a prominent feature of national life elsewhere.  Patriarch Kirill “Lately, we have enormous temptations, when a number of countries opting for sin is approved and justified by the law, and those who, acting in good conscience, are struggling with such laws imposed by a minority, being repressed,” Kirill said.  He added that everything must be done to prevent the approval of sin “on the spaces of Holy