Nadiya

[Svetlana]

Creaction of the Commision for Religious Equity, official divorce from the Rodashyam-led church and birth of a new branch in Zarvosopol with sister Lidiya Illivna elected matriarch: praise be mother

Zoetergraaf, Brakav. Nearly a year into their term as the newly elected commissionary government of the NEC, the Pastel coalition has began to deliver on the biggest and most important reform, the tackling of the issue of male only priesthood and leadership in the Augustan Church of Nadiya. The issue was first ought to be dealt with during the first Utopianist era but before any meaningful change could happen, the Utopianists were ousted in favor of the paleoconservative KTP who rolled back the proposed reform. But given how radically different the political situation of the isles are at the moment, the MU pressed forward in the general assembly the Religious Liberalization and Empowerment Act which mainly is divided into 3 key parts. Firstly, the divorce from the Trigunian Patriarchal Church and formation of the Nadiyan Matriarchate, this move aims to officially separate the NEC from the Rodashyam-led church by establishing a brand new branch a carbon copy of their sister organization however male priesthood and male preferential systems were abolished in favor of female preferential ones, this culminated in the election of sister Lidiya Illivna as matriarch of the Nadiyan church, during her inauguration speech, she talked about the necessity to reform the church from within and make it viable for the societal context of the 57th century by addressing the issues of child sexual exploitation, bigotry against sexual minorities, and disparity between between the different classes of the clerical institution. Secondly, the main "headquarters" of the Matriarchal institution will be held in Zarvosopol as a testament to the inherent opposition with the patriarchal church in Rodashyam, not only that but the conversion process for current patriarchal controlled churches will be launched by the Matriarchate in cooperation with the newly created Commision for Religious Equity of the NEC in order to wipe out any remnants of the ACT within the member states of the NEC and tsarist occupied territories too. Finally, even tho men are banned from ever holding a position higher than inferior priest, the matriarch declared her intention to still implement a policy of gender equality and even opening up the priesthood to gender and sexual queer people whome she considers as "undeniable parts of our life that we cannot just shuh away by calling it a sin even tho it is god who destined them to a life of uniqueness." The transition to a brand new clerical system was welcomed warmly by the women of the isles as many already started the process to become nuns, preexisting nuns also eagerly started the communion to achieve priesthood and even bishopry to hopefully become themselves Matriarch of all Nadiyans, tho there has been some resistance from fervent members of the PTC yet they accepted their new fate due to undying path set forward by the matriarch and her reforms.

Emblem of the Nadiyan Matriarchate:

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