On a day where one particular faith has been targeted in unprecedented ways, with residents in Melbourne’s “Bagel Belt” taking to social media to note the increased police presence marking the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, the head of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Australia and New Zealand of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, Bishop George, has written to the premiers of New South Wales and Victoria condemning vaccine passports as “untenable”.
“The essential Gospel message of respect for free will and its expression in civil life is the historical foundation of the Western democratic state, including...
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