MINELRES: Moldova starts to expel Bessarabian Metropolitanate priests
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Chishinau starts to expel priests
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Two Romanian priests were expelled by Chishinau authorities allegedly
because of lacking employment documents. The measure was decided
during checks concerning all the priests in Romanian parishes on
Moldovan territory.Constantin Stoica, a spokesman of the Romanian
Orthodox Church, argues: "The representatives of the Metropolitan
Church of Basarabia have informed us that all the priests in this
administrative structure were checked on by Moldovan authorities
wishing to see if they had legal residence and employment documents.
They decided that the employment documents of two Orthodox priests
were not all right and the two should be expelled at once."The action,
legal from Moldovan authorities' point of view, has emerged at times
of dispute between the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Russian
Orthodox Church, caused by the reactivation of three Romanian parishes
on Moldovan territory. Although Moldovan authorities admit the three
religious structures are legal, the Russian Church thinks the
reactivation is "an act of aggression", namely a break of the Russian
canonic territory.Moldovan authorities opened campaign to denigrate
the priests and officials of the Metropolitan Church of Basarabia,
canonically subordinate to the Romanian Patriarchy. His Holiness
Petru, the Bishop of Basarabia, was retained in December 26, 2007 in
the customs point in Leuseni, when he was returning from Iasi.
(G.D.)
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