GThe lava of the Russian Orthodox Church called on rich Russians to help those who need it. Those who “can’t help others out of a lot of money” are on their way to hell, he warned Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia called on rich Russians to help those in need, warning that otherwise they face hell. He stated this during a sermon after the liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, reports TASS. “If the rich are able to give a significant part of their funds to others,” those who are in need, those who suffer, “then the possession of wealth becomes justified,” Patriarch Kirill noted. According to him, the Lord will help to increase wealth while it serves other people, “especially those in a critical life situation.” The more money a person has, the more responsibility he has for it, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) stressed. If someone who “out of a lot of money can’t help another”, “this is “the way to hell”, he warned. “If a rich person does not see the sorrow of another and does not help,” this is clearly a way away from God, from Christ and his kingdom,” concluded the patriarch.
From January 1, 2021, Russians earning more than 5 million rubles a year must pay personal income tax (personal income tax) at a rate of 15%. This income corresponds to a monthly salary of 416.7 thousand rubles and above. At the same time, not all incomes are taxed at an increased rate, but only that part of them that exceeds 5 million per year. President Vladimir Putin proposed to raise the personal income tax rate to 15% for Russians with an income of more than 5 million rubles a year in June 2020.
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The ROC considered the initiative of the head of state “morally justified”, since, according to the church, this will allow overcoming the property stratification. In January 2018, Patriarch Kirill noted that the greater the gap between the incomes of the population, the greater the destabilization of society, the more negative energy, the more people reject everything that happens in society, in the country, the more criticism.
In 2012, the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church published a photo of the patriarch from a meeting with the Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov. In the reflection on the table on the patriarch’s hand, a Breguet watch was visible, but they were retouched on the hand itself. Subsequently, the ROC deleted the photo and apologized. The press service of the Patriarchate stated that the picturehandled by a 24-year-old inexperienced employee, a secular girl, not a nun. “The person showed a stupid, unjustified initiative, not coordinated with the management. It is clear that this is a misunderstanding. We don’t want to hide anything, we have nothing to be ashamed of,” said Deputy head of the press service Alexander Volkov.
Last year, a video was published on the Pope Roman YouTube channel, in which the priest of the church of Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg in Novocheboksarsk, Roman (Stepanov), called on Patriarch Kirill and other clergy to declare their income and property, which, in his opinion, will allow people to regain trust in the church. According to Stepanov, the church should cease to be an organization where “lawlessness, abuse and use of its official and spiritual authority” is obscured, hushed up and blurted out. After that, the priest was forbidden to serve in the church.
Prior to that, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church urged parishioners not to believe “terrible things about the patriarch, about bishops, about priests.” He claimed that they were trying to defame the clergy, including spreading rumors about their wealth, since they were telling the truth, unpleasant to the powerful of this world.
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