Cultural Cleansing of The Greek-Catholic Heritage in Sapanta, Romania

The Greek-Catholic church in Sapanta is systematically being destroyed by the Romanian Orthodox Church, with the approval and support of the Romanian Government, in order to erase the neo-Gothic architectural signs that show the church as catholic. There is a court order that mandates the stoppage of any demolition or other type of work performed by the Orthodox parish to the Greek-Catholic church in Sapanta, but the Romanian authorities are declining any responsibility in applying that court order so the destruction of the church continues.

The destruction of the greek-catholic church in Sapanta, adjacent to the Merry Cemetery, is part of the cultural and the religious cleansing that the Romanian Government is perpetuating against the Greek-Catholic community and Greek-Catholic heritage from Romania.

Please access http://www.rogca.org for more information and help us stop these violations of human rights in Romania.

Romanian Greek-Catholic Association

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• greek-catholic church
• catholic church
• romania
• sapanta
• merry cemetery
• hate crime
• violation human rights
• cultural cleansing
• religious cleansing
• orthodox
• catholic
• ecumenism

[Chichiri520]

Really sad. When one starts living a hateful way of life, their actions too are guided by hatred. They become hateful and worse, an object of hatred.

[tHeWasTeDYouTh]

I feel very sad about this but the Orthodox are weak and cannot compete with Catholics

lol we took all their holy stuff from Constantinople and I guess they are still angry

[LiturgicalChants]

I don't think Greek Catholic Churches should look neo gothic.. For that matter I consider the entire gothic architecture to be a frankish crusaders reaction from a confused encounter with abbasid islamic or armenian christian architecture which tended to make use of the pointed arch. That was the one of the features that brought the change from romanesque into gothic, another was scholastic/humanistic sculpture. Be happy to make your church look genuinely Roman as your country is named from.