The Russian Orthodox Church is officially opposes mandatory vaccination of children

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. The statement below was written by the "Patriarchal Commission on the Family", an official advisory committee of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill reporting to. The committee members include Fr. Dmitry Smirnov and Fr. Maxim Obukhov, prominent prelates in Moscow, who spoke at the recent World Congress of Families in Verona, in Italy, without the Italian press will give news. The commission said: “First of all, concern for the welfare of children, including their health, God has entrusted to their parents: the state and society should respect the priority of parental rights. [..] It is well known that, along with the risk of infectious diseases, There is also the risk of serious complications following the vaccination, even death: it follows that it is the patient himself must consent to vaccination. In the case of a child to make the choice should be the parents [..] No one has the right to make that choice instead of parents [..]”. The Russian Orthodox Church has initially released this statement publicly opposed the new laws proposed by some Russian parliamentarians who want to make vaccinations mandatory, while preventing parents to refuse vaccination for their children. This stand of the Orthodox Church's position is a response with which it encourages legislators not to implement the vaccination requirement. Source: https://russian-faith.com/