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Romanian Orthodox Church rejects demands to change infant baptism
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Romanian Orthodox Church rejects demands to change infant baptism
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Romanian Orthodox Church Rejects Calls For Baptism Changes After Baby s Tragic Death
March 04, 2021 10:40 GMT
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BUCHAREST The death of a 6-week-old infant after he was submerged while being baptized has sparked public outrage in Romania and led to calls for the centuries-old rite to be changed.
The drama of the tragic event which has been headline news in Romania for weeks has been quite impersonal, with few details published about the baby or his family. But it has provided a snapshot of the divisions in contemporary Romania.
The influential Romanian Orthodox Church has resisted calls to reform the ceremony and has stayed true to its roots, pitting it against those in Romania who are demanding that some church traditions be altered or modernized as other Christian denominations have done in recent decades.
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Drafting and submitting a public petition addressed to an institution is perfectly legal and democratic, and the manner in which a religious service is held depends exclusively on the huge responsibility, at the individual level and at the level of the community, of the members of the Church, the Romanian Patriarchy s spokesman Vasile Banescu told AGERPRES on Monday.
Vasile Banescu s reaction came after the submission by the members of the Declic Community to the Romanian Patriarchy of a petition entitled Change the christening ritual that says baby need to be immersed in the font!.
According to this petition, initiated by Vladimir Dumitru, a member of Declic, the christening ritual should be made only by symbolically watering the baby with the water from the font.
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The death of an infant during a christening ceremony in Romania has prompted tens of thousands of Christians to call on the country’s Orthodox Church to end the ancient practice of full-immersion baptism of babies.
“We do not demand the [end] of the practice of baptism but its modification so [babies] are prevented from unnecessary and even absurd risks!” reads an online petition that had gathered over 64,000 names as of Sunday
The petition was launched by teacher Vladimir Dumitru, who argues that the tradition involves brutality and should be abolished.
On Feb. 1, a baby died after suffering cardiac arrest while being baptized in a church in the northern town of Suceava.
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