US EditionMoldovan Prime Minister Urges Lawfulness Amid Orthodox Church Dispute
The dispute involves over 1,300 parishes divided between Moscow-linked and Romanian-linked Orthodox branches, with authorities detaining six people including the village mayor.
- Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu told reporters on Wednesday that all Moldovans, including parishioners facing public-order offences, must obey the law without exceptions.
- Last week in Dereneu, a Russia-linked priest took over the church building accompanied by his wife and two children, amid unresolved church autonomy in Moldova.
- On Tuesday, parishioners clashed with elite police and barricaded themselves inside, resulting in six people detained, including the village's mayor.
- Declining direct action, Munteanu said authorities will watch criminal-case developments and that resolving the dispute should be left to clergy and parishioners.
- More than 95% of Moldovans adhere to Orthodoxy, but parishioners are split between the Moldova Metropolis and the Metropolis of Bessarabia, with about 1,000 and 300 parishes respectively.
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About 150 people, including priests from the Moldova Mittropolia, underpriested by the Russian Patriarchy, were forced into a historic monument declared by the Roman Orthodox Church, which belongs to the legal Mitrogolii Basarabia, the Roman Orthodox Church. This is...
Moldovan PM says law must be upheld in dispute over occupied church
Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu said on Wednesday that all Moldovans had to obey the law, including parishioners facing public order offences for barging into a church handed by the country's court system to a rival branch of the Orthodox faith.
Prime Minister Alexandru Monteanu said Wednesday that all Moldovans, including the Enoriyas, must respect the law after six persons were detained after a violent conflict in a church in the village of Deereneu.
Alexandru Munteanu says that the authorities do not intervene in church duties, stressing that the law must be respected after a group of people entered the church, where the priest of Mittropoli of Moldova, together with the family, is imprisoned on the basis of the decision of the court according to which the petition was delivered
Political analyst and historian Čtefan Bejan commented on TVR Moldova's tense situation from the Dereneu, the Cálarasi region, stressing that the violent conflict is not a religious one but one with political motives, managed to divide society. He warns that the involvement of priests, former combatants and pro-Russian politicians raises tensions and threats to the stability of the community.
The Metropolitanate of Bessarabia has requested the emergency intervention of the state authorities following the events that occurred at the "Assumption of the Virgin Mary" church in the village of Dereneu, Călărași district. The institution claims that the place of worship is legally in its ownership and use and accuses the occurrence of serious acts during the evening. In a publicly released statement, representatives of the Metropolitanate c…
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