A Response to the Diplomatic Visit and the Proposal for Dialogue or . . . "The Gallbladder Attack of Moscow Patriarchate"?

What happened after the Visit of the Russian Ambassador to Patriarch Daniel? Can we say it is a deepening of the crisis? Indeed, someone had a gallbladder attack and as a consequence used strange methods of nurturing the dialogue between the two sister Churches.

For the moment we know very few only from the news:

1. After celebrating Christmas according to the New Calendar in Iasi, Romania, and celebrating the Christmas Liturgy with Patriarch Daniel, Metropolitan Petru of Balti [he is under Romanian Patriarchate juristdiction] at his return at home, in the Republic of Moldova, was kept by the cusomers and accused of trafficking drugs.

The press agencies said that, while kepping Metropolitan Petru, the whole acitvity of the Custom of the Republic of Moldova were suspended in order to create the feeling that he is a high risk infractor.

2. Other New Calendar Priests in the Republic of Moldova were arreseted, declared illegal and few expeled.

3. This extended intimidation action targeting the Metropolitanate of Bessarabia and its parishes follows after the expel of two Romanian Diplomats.

For the moment we do not have any officially published reaction from the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affaires or from the Romanian Patriarchate