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in Moscow killed the priest: he asked the killers not take a crap in the hallway
 
time of publication: December 22, 2009, 23:25
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, Rector of Ascension Church of the village satin Russian Podolsk district near Moscow, Archpriest Alexander Filippov killed. Information about the circumstances of the death until the coming contradictory. Filippov was killed by a shot in the heart - this, as Interfax-Religion, "said the widow of a priest my mother Elena.

"Father Alexander was killed only because he made the remark unsociable, who sent in the doorway natural functions" - she said. Now the priest was left with three teenage daughters. Father Alexander was 39 years old.

- Church: a measure of the level of relations in society

Meanwhile, according to the Moscow Patriarchate, the killer has been detained. "Interfax" referring to a law enforcement source confirmed that for a murder suspect detained two men.

"Two drunks trying to go to the toilet in the wrong place. Passing by Alexander Filippov made them a note. Drunken visited him in the doorway and shot out of hooliganism," - said the source.

Detain the suspects in the murder has "hot pursuit". They were 35-year-old local resident and 28-year-old native of the Vladimir region. It also confirmed the Head of Information and Public Relations suburban Moscow police department Eugene Gildeev.

Another law enforcement source told the father of Alexander made the remark company, is in the courtyard of his house. "The priest was no robe, but in ordinary clothes," - said the agency. In response to a remark he was pulled into the entrance of his house, where they began to beat. Source said that the residents of the entrance called the police, who detained the suspects. He did not confirm the information that the priest was killed, saying that his father Alexander died as a result of beatings.
Church: a measure of the level of relations in society

New murder a priest - a serious signal to society, said the Russian Orthodox Church. "The human mind is just stiff from such evil, when a person becomes a victim of blatant outright anger. All the events of recent months should be seen by all of us very seriously," - said the head of the Synod of the Information Department Vladimir Legoyda.

"Of course, all people of the Church will now pray for the souls of the father of Alexander. Terribly aware that as a result of this senseless malice man was killed, children orphaned, families destroyed," - said the head of the Information Department.


In turn, the deputy head of the Department for External Church Relations of Moscow Patriarchate monk Philippe (Ryabykh) believes that "another terrible event that happened in Russia, in this case indicates that the level of relations between men in society has fallen so low that people are incapable of normal , in a civilized way to respond to the comments of their loved ones. "

"It is significant that in this situation was just the priest. In modern Russia, indifferent people are just the clergy and all religious people. They have shown active citizenship and seek to improve our lives, to make it more beautiful, brighter," - said his father Philip.

However, he said, as a result, it appears that such attempts and desire to meet with resistance and, moreover, turn into death for these people. "


This is the second for the last month of the murder of an Orthodox priest in the capital region. November 19 shot in the head, was killed rector of the Moscow church of the Apostle Thomas, the famous missionary, Father Daniel Sysoev. Overall, since 1990 in Russia were killed 25 Orthodox clergy.
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