Vaccine as silent support for abortion In the United States, Catholic bishops have advised believers to abandon Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine, CNN reports. The fact is that this drug was created using cells from aborted embryos. The Bishops' Conference, which is the collegial governing body of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, said COVID-19 vaccination "raises additional ethical concerns." The collegium stressed that the bishops also question the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, because they also used an "abortion-derived cell line" to test them, but it was not used in production. Earlier on Friday, February 26, the Archdiocese of New Orleans also said Johnson & Johnson's vaccine was "morally compromised" due to the use of aborted cells during both development and testing and production. Meanwhile, the Vatican is critical of the opponents of vaccination. The press service of the Holy See called "ethically acceptable" the use of drugs, in the development and production of which cells from aborted embryos were used. Moreover, the Vatican authorities have passed a decree according to which refusal of vaccination against COVID-19 without medical indications could lead to dismissal. Pope Francis, meanwhile, called everyone's "ethical duty" to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. He himself received his first dose of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine back in January. In addition, even before the December 2020 pandemic, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, dedicated to the orthodoxy and purity of the Roman Catholic Church, said that while it encourages pharmaceutical companies to create vaccines without using abortion-derived cells, the use of such drugs would not count. a violation for Catholics. To clarify, the cells used for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine belong to a cell line recovered in the 1970s from aborted embryos. This line is very often used by many scientific organizations and pharmaceutical companies. Controversy about its use has not subsided for several decades - critics insist that supporting developments that use such technologies is tantamount to tacit acceptance of the practice of abortion. Rabbis warn of infertility Meanwhile, in Israel, the coronavirus literally attacks the Orthodox Jewish communities, reports The New York Times. According to the newspaper, these communities make up 12.6% of the total population of the country, and they are diagnosed with coronavirus twice as often as among other Israelis. The fact is that, as a rule, Orthodox Jews refuse to receive treatment for coronavirus, believing that the infection is God's punishment that cannot be resisted. Jews often refuse to abide by the rules prescribed by the secular state. “This is a controversy that has been going on for decades,” said the chairman of the Institute, Haredim Eli Paley, to The New York Times. identity. And the coronavirus has increased this intensity even more. " Some rabbis enjoy the trust of the Jews and promote their anti-vaccination ideas, thereby further aggravating the epidemic situation in the country. Thus, Rabbi Yuval Ha-Cohen Asherov, armed with quotes from the Torah, shoots videos in which he convinces viewers not to rush to vaccinate. “I’m really wondering where the new virus is. They just changed the name from flu to coronavirus. And the vaccine against it is similar to genetic engineering. There can be many problems with such things. Among a portion of the population, these drugs include autoimmune diseases and infertility, "he said in one of these videos. In another video, he reported that antibodies formed during the immune response after vaccination subsequently attack the body." Therefore, everyone who injects the vaccine, will be in danger, "concluded Asherov. At the same time, the special department for combating fakes under the Israeli Ministry of Health said that it found at least 12 Hebrew-speaking groups on Facebook, where other rabbis also spread misinformation about the pandemic. Only Halal Muslims, in turn, care more about halal vaccines from COVID-19. In Islam, products are divided into halal (permitted) and haram (prohibited). And this applies not only to food, but also to everything that comes into contact with the body, including cosmetics and medicines. Therefore, at the request of believers, the clergy in all over the world marks products permitted by religion. For example, in the second largest Muslim country - India - the council of ulema (experts in Islam) at the academy in Mumbai urged the authorities not to purchase vaccines against COVID-19, as they contain pork gelatin. According to them, this primarily applies to drugs manufactured in China. At the same time, at the beginning of January 2021, the supply of the Chinese vaccine to the Sinovac company to Indonesia, the world's first country in terms of the number of followers of Islam, was in jeopardy. Then the scandal was used by Western manufacturers who also want to cover the huge Islamic population. Pfizer, Modern, and AstraZenec have all assured they do not use pork ingredients. The Indonesian authorities will have to finally resolve the issue with the choice of the drug until May 2021, when the mass vaccination will begin in the country. "First - healing, then - spiritual death" In Russia, meanwhile, Orthodox believers, on the contrary, are massively calling for vaccination against coronavirus. "I think that there is currently no alternative to the vaccines that we have. Therefore, I recommend that everyone who can, who has no contraindications, get vaccinated against coronavirus," the head of the department for external church relations said on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel. Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk. He himself was vaccinated back in August 2020. At the same time, ex-schema-abbot of the Sredneuralsky nunnery Sergiy stood out among the opponents of vaccination. The issue of vaccination occupied a significant place in his sermons. According to the schemamonk, special chips will be implanted into people through vaccinations. "First, after vaccination, there will be healing, people will delight in the devilish love of the country's leadership, doctors, and so on. But then torment and death will come. Not only physical, but also spiritual," said the former priest. It is with these views that the accusations of extremism leveled against Sergius are linked. In September 2020, the Russian Orthodox Church deprived him of the rank of schema-abbot and excommunicated him because of disobedience to the will of the metropolitan. On December 29, 2020, Romanov was detained during a night special operation on the territory of the monastery and was soon placed in a Moscow pre-trial detention center. He is accused of arbitrariness, inducement to suicide and violation of the right to freedom of conscience and religion.
