The Metropolis of Chisinau and of All Moldova is urging priests and the religious people to disconnect their mobile phones when entering the saint places, so that not to disturb the praying people.

Lately, there came more notifications from the people regarding the usage of the mobile phones, and even of the fixed ones, which often are in the church, Moldovan Metropolis Press Secretary, Priest Octavian Moşin has said, contacted by BASA-press. It bothers those that assist at the divine services.

“We recommend the priests to place their apparatuses of fixed telephony in the additional rooms and to post inscriptions in visible places, at the entrance of the saint places, or at the gates, forbidding the usage of the mobile phones in churches”, Moşin said.

The church is open to the evolution of the informational technologies and equipments, but they must not negatively influence on the traditional praying atmosphere for the Orthodox Church, according to the quoted source. // BASA-Press



Publication date: 10 April 2008   

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