The applicants, Arcadie Fusu, Petru Botezat, Tatiana Rusu, Svetlana Covalciuc, GalinaBujor, Vera Boţoc, Vladimir Ţurcanu and Iacob Ciobanu, are eight Moldovan nationals who were born in 1964, 1949, 1965, 1959, 1952, 1937, 1951 and 1930, respectively, and live in Floreşti (the Republic of Moldova). Relying in particular on Article 9 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion), the applicants complained about the authorities’ failure to register their church, a religious denomination of the Christian Orthodox Church subordinate to the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia. The applicant church’s complaint is part of an ongoing conflict with another denomination of the Orthodox Church in Floreşti, subordinate to the Metropolitan Church of Moldova. Den Rest des Beitrags lesen »