ROC about Charlie Hebdo caricature: We regret their savagery

"We regret their savagery, we regret their stupidity, we regret their blasphemy, but as they say, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. A foreign country after all ... That's no big surprise, no good too," said hieromonk Makariy.

He noted that the magazine could hardly be accountable for publishing the cartoons. According to the priest, it's about the difference in the perception of religion by different people. Thus, in Russia for the believers, "it is shameful to be a disbeliever," he said.

Previously, the authors of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo made the front news the opening of the Orthodox cathedral in Paris, as well as dedicated to it an article on one of the pages of the edition. It contains a brief background to the history of Orthodoxy in Russia in the ХХ and early ХХI centuries, the description of events leading to the opening of the cathedral, set out in the critical, sarcastic, wicked and mocking manner. The caricature to the article depicted the cathedral itself with haughty faces on the domes.

The ceremony of laying the first stone at the construction site of the Russian Orthodox Spiritual and Cultural Center was held in April 2015 on the Quai Branly, in Paris, France.

Read also