Source: Sofia News Agency Surrogate motherhood is no different from prostitution, according to Bishop Nikolay, the radical Bulgarian Orthodox Bishop of Plovdiv. Speaking after a service in Plovdiv on Wednesday on the occasion of the arrival of holy relics of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, the parents of Virgin Mary, Nikolay mentioned surrogacy while commenting on a recent case in which Bulgarian heroin-addicts offered their newborn baby “on sale” in an online forum for EUR 5 000. “Two days after I reminded the position of the Holy Synod [of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church] about surrogate motherhood, and I was duly…
Trending
- #Giving Tuesday – Support Orthodox Christian Laity!
- Together We Thrive: OCL Annual Conference & Year-End Giving Campaign
- Archon Officers Participate in Historic Pilgrimage to Nicaea
- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Leo recite the Creed together during 1700th Anniversary of Nicaea
- Mission Center Board Convenes
- The “Orthodoxy as Masculinity” Narrative
- Walk with Us: Orthodox Volunteer Corps (OVC)
- St. John Chrysostom’s Legacy: From Antioch to America