Kishinev, September 3, 2013
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"After 2009, when parties, financially and politically supported by the European Union, came into power, there have been insistent attempts by the state authorities to change the Moldavian people’s way of life, especially regarding their attitude to the Church," writes the Bishop in his article published on Interfax-Religion website on Tuesday.
The Bishop noted that the state, under the insistent pressure from the EU, wishes to undermine the authority of the Church, to depreciate its historical role in eyes of the people, and to minimize its influence in society, limiting its functions in every possible way.
"The rhetoric of the Moldavian bureaucrats, who are not supported or trusted by the population at all, is directed utterly against the Orthodox Church, the institution trusted by the overwhelming majority of Moldavian citizens. Isn't it strange? Doesn't it indicate that they are waging a war against their own people?" asking the author.
According to him, on the legislative, administrative-executive levels and on the level of everyday life, "The most impertinent and pernicious experiment is being carried out with the people: to eradicate the image of the Church of Christ from its historical memory and to transform the spiritual and moral foundation of the Moldavian ethnos, based on Christian values, confessed throughout the centuries, to the level of brute, ‘animal’ instincts and vices".
The hierarch mentioned "the authorities’ pushing of an extremist version of Islam" in the registration of the League of Islam and the "shameful adoption by the parliament of the scandalous law "On equality of chances" that gives the sexual minorities unprecedented rights to propaganda of perversions and corruption in the upcoming generation".
Besides, as Bishop Markell stated, under pressure from the non-governmental organizations sponsored by the West, the Orthodox Church, to which, according to his information, 94% of the population of the republic belong, now shares equal rights with other religious organizations, "including destructive and totalitarian ones".
"Any unwillingness to base society on Western values, any open expression of sympathy with Russia, Russian language and culture, or any willingness to establish closer relations with the Eurasian Union are interpreted by the authorities as an attempt to prevent the process of the country's European integration. The administration is pursuing a dirty anti-Russian policy and is persecuting (specifically persecuting) dissenters," write Bishop Markell in the article.