The Pancyprian Parents Union (P.P.U.), an independent non-profit organisation, was established in 1994 with the aim to Protect the Greek Orthodox Culture, the Family and the Individual.

In its attempt to provide accurate and timely information on Sects and Destructive Cults active in Cyprus and abroad, the P.P.U. has set up a Task Force to study, analyze and evaluate data and current events and inform the broad public.

The above work is a purely ecclesiastical, theological and pastoral project with the aim to protect and safeguard the Evangelical and Patristic faith of our Orthodox Church. The inclusion of the various sects and cults in the project does not imply any correlation between them, which are mainly quite extrinsic and different. Moreover, it is not aiming at any degrading nor branding of the members of them, neither does it imply any form of religious intolerance, discrimination or fanaticism. On the contrary, the project has been set up out of pastoral care for every fellow human-being, so that he may make free and conscious decision when runs into the temptation to join such sects and cults or to follow their teachings, methods, techniques and prescriptions.

In addition, the project proves the love and affection of our Church towards those brothers and sisters who may have joined these groups, without indenting to abandon or alloy the content of their faith and their Orthodox character and who wish to know the truth as it is expressed through the life and tradition of our Church, staying constant and fixed to them.

If all these modern sects, cults and contemporary ideological movements were to reveal their true face and declare outright that their teachings run contrary to the Orthodox Faith and did not appear under various disguises, often claiming that they do subscribe the Orthodox Church’s teachings, and thereby disorienting Orthodox Christian flock, this apologetic work would have been unnecessary.

Associations that are referred to as sects (cults) are defined as such by reputable organisations or by governmental or judicial decisions ( see E.U. decisions ) based on the structure and aims of these groups.

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