Sunday, January 16, 2005
 Agence France-Presse January 17, 2005:The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexis II, assured his flock that new identification documents to be introduced in Russia would not contain the “sign of the antichrist” despite scare-mongering rumours to the contrary, ITAR-TASS reported.
Speaking ahead of a meeting of clerics in Moscow, he acknowledged plans to introduce new passports and other identification documents that employ new technologies including digital fingerprints and photographs of the iris of the holder’s eye.
"But this is not the sign of the antichrist!" the news agency quoted the patriarch as stating. His assertion was made "convincingly," ITAR-TASS said. The decline of communist ideology and atheism of the former Soviet regime has coincided with a growth of sects and superstitions, including a belief that Satanic ideas would be spread under the cover of administrative innovations such as new individual tax identification numbers.
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