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This is Bishop Profiry, the abbott of the Solovetsky monastery in northern Russia who has emerged as an outspoken voice in the Russian church against the vaxxines, and vaxx passports, which in Russia are referred to as “QR codes.”

He’s reading a statement by Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, stating the church’s position that vaccination has to be voluntary, can never be forced and that QR codes infringe on civil rights, in a major win for the burgeoning antivax movement in Russia.

The Patriarch’s statement was required to be read out in churches all across Russia at the end of Sunday morning service. Bishop Porfiry did so, and then proceeded to urge Russians to resist the vaxx and the vaxx passports as evil and unacceptable on moral and legal grounds.