“…A top official in the Russian Orthodox church said on Tuesday that the trial of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot had been willed by God – and called on Russia to do away with its secular state.
Three members of Pussy Riot stand accused of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred following a February performance in Russia’s main cathedral aimed at protesting against Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency.
“It was a sin against God and it is God that is judging it,” Vsevolod Chaplin, a high-ranking priest who often acts as the church’s spokesman, said.
“And all Christians should know this.”..”
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