Open AccessThe Service of the Romanian Orthodox Church to Migrants
Author(s) -
Cătălina Mititelu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ecumeny and law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2391-4327
pISSN - 2353-4877
DOI - 10.31261/eal.2021.09.1.03
Subject(s) - romanian , diaspora , state (computer science) , service (business) , political science , law , european union , sociology , history , philosophy , economy , business , economics , economic policy , linguistics , algorithm , computer science
Through the concrete steps taken by its members (clergy, believers, and monks), from 1998 until now, the Romanian Orthodox Church has carried out extensive actions to monitor and solve the migration crisis.
Thanks to this approach, initiated and improved by its current Primate, His Beatitude, Patriarch Daniel, both in the country and in the diaspora of our Church, the phenomenon of migration was not only be monitored, but also solved both in accordance with Church rules and with State laws, as well as those of the Law of the European Union, that is, of the EU Member States.
From our article, the informed reader will be also able to see that, in its actions for monitoring and solving the migration problem, our Church has taken into account both the guidelines issued by the bodies of the Ecumenical Council of Churches and the guiding principles stated by the leaders of the two Churches, Catholic and Orthodox, namely, His Holiness, Pope Francis, and His Beatitude, the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, in their joint Declarations on the issue of migration, hence the ecumenical nature of the approach to the issue of migration.