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Jun 7, 2019 · The prime reason for this is the chasm between the Church and the State. In the end, the majority end up with a sort of pseudo-position on the issue, wherein many Christians (Orthodox or otherwise) find capital punishment (i.e. the death penalty) acceptable sometimes, but not always. Indeed, many Orthodox avoid taking a position at all.
The penalty prescribed for this in Deuteronomy 22 is death by stoning. (Incidentally, there are some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where adultery is a capital offense for women today.) According to John 18:31, the Romans had taken away from the Jews the right to administer capital punishment.
Jul 8, 2008 · Capital punishment. Capital punishment (commonly referred to as the death penalty) is the execution of a convicted criminal, carried out by a State. The punishment is applied in cases where someone has commited one or more capital crimes or capital offenses (i.e. murder, treason). The definition of a capital crime varies from country to country.
On Capital Punishment. March 29, 2010. Fr. Ted Bobosh. The relationship of Christians to the death penalty has a long history, and it is not as simple as finding a passage in Scripture that allows or forbids capital punishment. It is much more the overall message of Christ - especially since He came to destroy death which is the final enemy of ...
Oct 26, 2020 · In an interview with Vatican News on October 20, 2020, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, called opposition to the death penalty “the logical and moral consequence” of adherence to Christian principles of human dignity.
Almost all Orthodox states, including the Byzantine and Russian empires, had the death penalty on their books for various crimes, including blasphemy and sorcery. Although, to the present writer’s knowledge, there was never any dispute over whether murderers and similar criminals should be executed, there was a dispute, in early sixteenth ...
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World Day Against the Death Penalty is marked every year on Oct. 10. Andrew Romanov is a Fellow at the UN for the Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (un.goarch.org). The Archdiocese is an accredited Non-Governmental Organization at the United Nations through the ...
