"It's a perversion." German bishops on Kirill's statement about the war

According to Focus, this was reported by Deutsche Welle.

"I consider Kirill's position religiously and ethically cynical. He glorifies the death of Russian soldiers sent to the front as cannon fodder and calls it martyrdom. This is a perversion," said the leader of the Catholic peace movement Pax Christi, Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Mainz.

The Bishop of Essen and the German Army Franz-Josef Overbeck also added that sometimes the freedom given by God "can lead into the abyss of guilt and evil."

"This is what we are facing here under the religious cover and with the power it gives," said the clergyman.

As previously reported, on the day of the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord in the Yelohiv Cathedral in Moscow, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill advised priests to go to war in Ukraine and recommended ordinary citizens to collect funds to finance the military aggression of the Russian Federation.