Baby found alive in rubble three days after Iran-Iraq border quakeThe father Roman Polishchuk said the priest of the Moscow-led church they turned to told the family he could not perform the burial ceremony. “The priest said our baby was unchristened and our church was a sham,” Polishchuk told the local Forpost news site. The priest who turned the family away said he had no choice because those were the rules of his faith. A child christened by the Kiev Patriarchate remains unchristened.”“And the Kiev Church itself is a hoax.”A spokesperson for the Kiev Patriarchate said such incidents had happened before and only fed frustrations among the faithful in Ukraine. “There is no official document from the Moscow Patriarchate saying this must be the case,” Yevstratiy Zorya wrote on Facebook.

Source: The Express Tribune January 05, 2018 12:00 UTC