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Others, and not very few, proved to be spokesmen of a strange
religious mixture between theophisycal value system and the promotion of
the ’curing through miracles’ cult, a fact which very often, was
overcoming the religious field, entering the political one.
More than that, some of the foreign preachers, following their aim
on disparaging the Romanian denominations, especially the Romanian
Orthodox Church, were asking, in public, for Romanian religious
reconversion, as well as for changes in the Romanian policy.
Often, some of these situations displeased the Romanian authorities
and believers, knowing the fact that those ’preachers’ were not invited
to Romania by the Romanian religious denominations or associations. This
kind of attitude could explain certain opinions which were set forth in
the religious and lay press, towards the presence in Romania of some
obscure ’preachers’ promoting a religious propaganda which is not in the
spirit of the Gospel, most of them unknown, even by the religious
denominations or organizations of their own country.
In this specific context, the Romanian authorities were asked to
permit the entrance into the country only of those preachers which had
been invited by the Romanian religious denominations and associations more than 250 - and under the condition of not promoting any religious
propaganda or proselytizing activities which could offend the religious
faith of the Romanian believers.
At present, with the participation of the representatives of all
the 15 religious denominations in Romania, the Draft Law regarding the
religious denominations in Romania has been elaborated and submitted to
the Parliament.
Article 4 of the Draft Law provides that ’the religious
denominations are equal between themselves, before the public authorities
without any privilege or discrimination. The State will not promote or
stimulate any privileges or discriminations among religious
denominations, through administrative measures, domestic or international
law’."
Rwanda
In a communication dated 31 August 1994, the Special Rapporteur
transmitted the following information to the Government of Rwanda:
"According to information received, several massacres of clergymen
have allegedly been committed in Rwanda. The following cases have been
brought to the attention of the Special Rapporteur:
(a)
At Ruhuha, the Belgian Father André Caloone was killed on
7 April 1994 within the precincts of the parish church;
(b)
At Kigali, in the district of Nyamirambo, 9 priests and
63 other persons were murdered and grenades exploded at St. André’s
College in early June 1994;