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Although he specified that he speaks in his personal name, Mavrichi was rightly outraged by the lack of reaction from the Secretary of State for Cults (SSC), an institution that manages more than 500 million lei and transfers large sums of money to the Patriarchate. Since 2013, the director of the SCC is Victor Opaschi, a character considered to be a student of Romania’s first fesenista president: Ion Iliescu.
Contacted by HotNews.ro, Ionuț Mavrichi declined to comment.
Previously, Victor Opaschi was State Councilor for Culture and Worship in both terms of Romanian President Ion Iliescu and his personal adviser, during the period in which he was President of the PDSR.
The presence of Victor Opaschi at the head of the Secretary of State for Cults (SSC) is something strange, given that, Before 1989, he worked in the communist institution whose aim was to oppress the Romanian Orthodox Church. (BOR) and religious cults in Romania: the Department of Cults.
What Mavrichi said on HotNews.ro:
- I was very surprised to notice that we still do not have the necessary antibodies, that it took the world a long time to realize that we are witnessing a more or less legitimate interference in the life of the sects.
- Unfortunately, there is an ambivalence that we must confess. To my amazement, I found a public document, found on the website of the Chamber of Deputies and drawn up a few days after the pilgrimage from Bucharest, after having been the pilgrimage experience from Iași. In this document, the Secretary of State for Religions simply states that In Romania, no measure has banned religious practices or rituals.. And I can’t help but be surprised by this wording, which is somehow said to be a concession.
- Our critique of religious freedom is not about the fact that these measures were necessary, but rather that these measures They had to be taken in accordance with the law. who had to mention before the pandemic what to do in such situations. Otherwise, these measures become arbitrary. We must standardize the way in which the life of cults is organized in situations as dramatic as the one each of us goes through.
- In fact there were syncope, in fact there was bad communication, it was not communicated on time … What is now called dialogue is a discussion that is not institutionalized but rather informal. And it’s only now, a few months after the pandemic began.
His remarks angered Patriarch Daniel, who feared that funding for SCC could be stopped.
Who is Ionuț Mavrichi?
Doctor of sociology with studies in theology in Great Britain, Mavrichi is a speaker of 4 foreign languages, being the spokesperson for the delegation of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the Synod of Crete, a historical event for the pan-Orthodox world and representative of the Romanian Patriarchate in the Romanian Parliament for 2 years. .
The program that covered the theologian’s employment relationship can be viewed here.:
He first wrote on the same topic Stiripesurse.ro.
