Patriarch Kirill called for a ban on the mobilization of fathers of three or more children
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Originally appeared at: RIA
Fathers of three or more children should be exempted from mobilization (according to the current law, fathers of four or more children are not mobilized), said Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', speaking in the Federation Council.
“In order to save the people and stimulate the birth rate in Russia, I consider it important at the federal level to legislatively prohibit the mobilization in peacetime of fathers of large families with three or more children, this is especially relevant now,” Patriarch Kirill said at the plenary session of the XII Parliamentary Meetings within the framework of the International Christmas Educational readings in the Federation Council.
© RIA Novosti / Ramil Sitdikov Patriarch Kirill. Archive photo
He recalled that according to the current law, fathers of four or more children are not mobilized, “but it is necessary to provide the same rights to families with three children - after all, it is precisely such a family that provides a minimal, but real, population increase.”
“We don’t have many families with four children, but there are families with three. And it is precisely such a family that ensures the reproduction of the population,” concluded the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
On September 21, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin had signed a decree on conducting partial mobilization in the country within the framework of the Northern Military District; it ended at the end of October of the same year. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation decided to grant the right to a deferment from partial mobilization to men who have three or more dependent children under the age of 16.
International Christmas educational readings are an annual church and public forum. In 2024, the theme of the readings is “Orthodoxy and Russian culture: losses and gains of the past, image of the future.”
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