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GROUP OF CHRISTIANS ACCUSES MOLDOVAN AUTHORITIES OF ANTI-CHRISTIAN POLICY
Chisinau. A group of Orthodox Christians of Moldova has accused the Moldovan authorities of pursuing the anti-Christian policy.
On Thursday, at a news conference Lawyer Elena Bitca read a declaration, which says that the new Moldovan authorities continue pursuing the policy of the ousting of the Orthodox Christians from the society by rejecting their demand to issue to the population documents without indicating the identification code.
”By these discriminative actions the authorities make the existence of the Christians in Moldova unbearable, Without taking into consideration the Orthodox population's natural reaction, the authorities allowed installing in the center of the capital city the object, which is hostile to the Christian traditions (the Jewish Hanukkah)", Bitca said.
In her words, after the removal of the Hanukkah by a group of the Christian believers they are threatened with persecution.
Bitca is discontent that the Moldovan authorities appropriated defiantly the right, which only the church can have, to establish arbitrarily Christian “holidays”.
”The declaration of December 25 as a holiday infringes rudely the internal church life and imposes the practice, which is contrary to the traditions and life of the orthodox people and church. This decision throws a greater split in the society and spread discord among people”, Bitca said.
She remarked, if the authorities make the believers to depart from Christ, the Church must refuse to obey the state and may call for peaceful civil disobedience.
The participants in the news conference refused to answer journalists” questions.
