Quiz about basic knowledge of Christianity

All warfare is a manifestation of the sinfulness of the human race, but while condemning warfare generated by hatred and enmity, the Church does not forbid her children to participate in hostilities if it is a matter of defending their neighbours and restoring justice that has been violated - these actions are seen as aimed at limiting and curbing atrocities on the part of the enemy.

At the same time, as noted in the Fundamentals of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, "there are areas in which clergy and canonical church structures cannot assist or co-operate with the state. These are: ... waging ... aggressive foreign warfare."

Note also that St Basil the Great has Rule 13, in which he recommends that soldiers who participated in war and killed people in the process should not be allowed to receive Holy Communion for three years. The reason is that warriors do not have clean hands (in blood). Here is this rule: "It seems to me that our fathers did not consider killing in war as murder out of leniency towards the defenders of chastity and piety. But it may not be wrong to advise that, as having unclean hands, they should be kept only from communion for a period of 3 years."