MPs vote to allow state to pay Church for Social Care Projects

1/4/2011

Romania will pay the Orthodox Church to run social care projects, as MPs have voted for a law establishing state and church partnership for social assistance. The Church will be able to receive 80 per cent financing from the state for social projects, as long as it will bring the remaining 20 per cent from its own funds. Local authorities will become partners in these projects by providing land, buildings and money to the Church.

“The Church’s involvement offers a complementary solution of social support, given the scarcity of resources available to the state budget, especially due to the economic crisis,” said Sibiu county Democratic Liberal (PDL) deputy Raluca Turcan, this law’s initiator. However critics argue this is a blurring of the division between State and Church, while there are concerns that the Church will use its running of social care projects as a platform for proselytizing.

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