“I believe that these infants  [who are aborted] are martyrs. They will complete the number of the martyrs in the last times, as the Apocalypse says. In dying through abortion they receive the baptism of blood, but the Church does not commemorate them in her prayers in order not to encourage abortions, which for the parents is an act of infanticide.”
(Elder Cleopas+ of Romania, interview in ‘The Orthodox Word’)

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