The Romanian Greek-Catholic Community is facing a cultural and religious wipe-out

HotNews ^ | 5/15/2009 | n/a

[Pyro7480]

The Romanian Greek-Catholic Community is facing with a cultural and religious wipe-out: the Greek-Catholic churches are systematically destroyed by the Orthodox Church representatives, whose actions are supported and accepted by the Romanian authorities, the Romanian Greek-Catholic Association accuses in a letter addressed to Hillary Clinton, the US state secretary.

Romanian Greek-Catholic Association, Inc. is a non-for-profit association registered in the United States of America, aiming to support the Greek-Catholic communities.

Head of the association priest Cristian Terhes argues that "the citizens are harassed and threatened because they declare themselves Greek-Catholic; the rights and freedoms of the Greek-Catholics are systematically infringed, without the State interfering".

The quoted letter draws attention upon the situation of the Geek-Catholic church next to the Merry Cemetery from Sapanta, Maramures (North Romania, Transylvania) and upon the fact that "the Romanian state institutions could not find the time for the last two weeks to enforce a court decision that specifically demands an end to the demolishing and building actions".

"Since the abolition of Communism in 1989, the Romanian authorities haven’t done anything to return the assets confiscated by the communists to their rightful owners", the association claims. The organisation requests the State Department to reintroduce "the situation of violating the human rights and the civil rights in case of the Romanian Greek-Catholic community" on the discussions agenda that the US politicians will have with Romanian officials in the future....

[Pyro7480]

Not good...

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[Frantzie]

The liberal American Catholic Church and Notre Dame are doing their part to destroy the church in America.

[Alex Murphy]

The Romanian Greek-Catholic Community is facing with a cultural and religious wipe-out: the Greek-Catholic churches are systematically destroyed by the Orthodox Church representatives, whose actions are supported and accepted by the Romanian authorities

Greek Orthodox PING to read later

[Pyro7480]

Actually, it would be the local Romanian Orthodox, not the Greek Orthodox.

[annalex]

The Merry Cemetery in Sapanta









The sign seems to indicate that an Orthodox church is being restored.









Source (Romanian)

[Dajjal]

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