Jesus 'remains' report is seasonal anti-Christian propaganda - cleric

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Moscow, February 26, Interfax- There must be a 'seasonal' connection between the recent report on the alleged discovery of Jesus Christ's remains in Jerusalem and the previous sensation regarding the Gospel of Judas, which call into question Christian postulates and regularly trigger a broad international response, Moscow Theological Academy Prof. Deacon Andrey Kurayev told Interfax.The U.S. television channel Discovery said on Monday that the ancient urns found in Jerusalem in 1980 might have contained the remains of Jesus Christ and some apostles. Researchers who had studied the remains' DNA and urn captions said that people called Jesus, Maria Magdalena and their possible son Judas were buried in those urns. They also claimed that other urns allegedly contained the remains of Joseph, Maria and Matthew."The Western media releases plenty of such reports each spring before the Catholic Easter holiday. They discharge a portion of poison, which allegedly is to question our evangelic belief. A refutation will be published in small letters by June, but few people will read it," he said."Anti-Christian provocative reports in the Western media similar to the Da Vinci Code and the Gospel of Judas have become a 'seasonal phenomenon.' They are also a sign of the existence of a modern Priory of Zion, or something under a different name, which has broad access to the media and persistent hatred for Christianity," he said."The cold war against Christianity goes on in the Western world," he said.