THE PANCYPRIAN Parents Association (PPA) called for stricter legislation to combat the “threat of Satanist beliefs trickling into children’s minds”, reports said yesterday.
Represented by their chairman, Archimandrite Christoforos Tsiakkas, the PPA met on Thursday with the Justice and Education ministers to relay their demands for wider action against the filtering of satanic rituals into schools.
They called for a re-evaluation of legislation protecting children, including banning the sale of indecent material – such as satanic publications, paraphernalia and games to minors – and providing the threat of legal punishment to those who sell such products.
Archimandrite Tsiakkas reported in the meeting that parents were contacting him on a daily basis expressing their fears of the spread of Satanism. He told the ministers how children could be lured in their everyday lives and that they needed protection. And he warned that “the increase in satanic rituals abroad” should act as an alarm bell to the dangers facing our country.
Education Minister Ouranios Ioannides said the ministry was waiting for the PPA to gather their facts and evidence and present them to the ministry.
“The problem, if it exists, is refined to very few cases. If the parents can bring us examples, we may investigate further the situation,” said Ioannides. But he said that at present the ministry received only one allegation a year on Satanism. Despite this, the minister announced a seminar was being organised for counsellors and teachers so they might make themselves fully informed of the situation.
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