The Moscow Patriarchate draws a cle

The Moscow Patriarchate draws a clear distinction between non-Orthodox who believe in the Holy Trinity and the divinity of Christ, and "sects", according to a document adopted by the Church's Episcopal Synod on 14 August 2000. "The Orthodox Church opposes all forms of destructive missionary activity by sects," it reads. The Church has never made any secret of precisely which denominations it opposes. The most well-known of those included in "New Religious Organisations in Russia of Destructive and Occult Character," a reference work published by the Moscow Patriarchate's missionary department in 1997, include Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses, Ba'hai, Krishna Consciousness, The Church of the Last Testament (Vissarion) and the Unification Church (Moonies). The concluding document of "Totalitarian Sects - Threat of the 21st Century", an April 2001 conference held under the auspices of Nizhny Novgorod Orthodox diocese, adds the Mormons and "neo-Pentecostals" such as New Generation, Word of Life and Full Gospel Churches.