Russian women and religion

You know that the majority of the population in the FSU is Orthodox that is a branch of Christianity. But that knowledge can be also quite misleading. Most of the women from former SU are much less religious than the ones from America or Western Europe. Even if they call themselves Christians that can mean only that they were baptized in childhood and that they celebrate religious holidays such as Easter or Christmas. Some of them visit church rarely (may be on feast days) but the majority avoids doing it. Most likely it is a result of upbringing in the Soviet Society. But such cool attitude to religious traditions doesn't mean that women from FSU are atheists. Almost all of them believe in the existence of that or another divine power. But their faith often is a mix of orthodox and pagan ideas. As well as in God they believe in witches, witchcraft, malefice, fortunetelling etc. But the interest to religion has recently grown. In the countries that are close to Europe especially where Catholic Church plays an important role even young people are more religious. If the question of religion is really important to you, we recommend to discuss this issue with each lady, you are interested in.

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AllRussian.com !