{"id":17599,"date":"2025-04-19T07:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T11:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=17599"},"modified":"2025-04-19T07:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T11:35:48","slug":"khazarian-directed-religious-terrorism-launched-in-moldava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=17599","title":{"rendered":"

KHAZARIAN-DIRECTED RELIGIOUS TERRORISM LAUNCHED IN MOLDAVA<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Moldova\u2019s largest opposition party has accused the country\u2019s government of\u00a0\u201can unprecedented act of spiritual terror,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0after a senior Moldovan Orthodox Church bishop was prevented from traveling to Jerusalem for an Easter ritual.<\/p>\n

Bishop Marchel was set to attend the Holy Fire ceremony, a major religious event ahead of Orthodox Easter on April 20. Orthodox Christians believe the flame miraculously appears each year on Holy Saturday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, marking the site of Jesus Christ\u2019s crucifixion and resurrection. Pilgrims traditionally light candles from the flame to bring home.<\/p>\n

However, Bishop Marchel\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0TASS on Thursday that Moldovan police had stopped him and two clerics at the airport, conducted searches, and delayed them until 30 minutes after their flight had departed.<\/p>\n

The Party of Socialists accused the government of\u00a0\u201cpublicly humiliating\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the senior cleric and demanded an apology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe consider the actions of [President] Maia Sandu\u2019s regime a deliberate act of spiritual terror against the Moldovan Orthodox Church and hundreds of thousands of its parishioners,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the party said in a Telegram statement on Friday.\u00a0\u201cAny pressure on the Church is a crime against the people and an encroachment on the foundations of Moldovan statehood.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The party described the incident\u2019s timing during the Holy Week as especially egregious.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe authorities publicly humiliated the archpastor\u2026 during the Holy Week, on the eve of Easter. It is a moral downfall of the regime, for which there can be no justifications,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the statement read. It claimed that the incident amounted to\u00a0\u201ca declaration of war against the Orthodox majority\u201d<\/em>\u00a0by an\u00a0\u201canti-national regime.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Moldova, where more than 90% of the population identify as Orthodox Christians, is home to two major branches of the Church: the Moldovan Orthodox Church, under the Moscow Patriarchate, and the Metropolis of Bessarabia, under the Romanian Orthodox Church. Tensions between the two, while multifaceted, have deepened in recent years amid President Sandu\u2019s pro-EU stance and criticism of Moscow. While Sandu earlier claimed her government\u00a0\u201chas relationships\u201d<\/em>\u00a0with both metropolises, critics have accused Chisinau of pressuring the Moscow-affiliated church.<\/p>\n

The Russian Orthodox Church has also condemned the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe advisers to the Moldovan authorities, who are clearly far from Christianity, believe they are achieving some kind of a political goal,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said the Moscow Patriarchate spokesman Vladimir Legoyda.\u00a0\u201cThis is a completely outrageous decision by the Moldovan authorities, a deliberate mockery of the faithful of the Orthodox Church of Moldova,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n

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