The Romanian Orthodox Church is refusing to apologise for the Roma slavery in Romanian lands, a slavery that lasted until 1862. They were parts of the problems, as there were a whole category of Roma who were slaves of the church.
The Romanian Orthodox Church should apologize for centuries of Roma slavery. It would be a long overdue symbolic gesture, historians, sociologists and representatives of the Roma community believe.
Being threatened with a lawsuit by Roma for their involvement in Slavery, the Orthodox Church of Romania denies exclusive responsibility in the enslavement of Roma in Romania.
A leader of the Romanian Roma community, Dorin Cioaba, is planning to sue the Romanian church for its role in Roma slavery in Romania. This would be a good thing for the church to have to admit their involvement and guilt in the Romanian Roma Slavery.
Pretty usual week in France on Roma. An exhibition on the Romanian slavery of Roma in Nantes; near Paris, Roma are getting support for them to stay in a camp near Bobigny from their neighbours, an exception; also near Paris, a camp is evacuated; in Lyon, Roma finally get water; two camps closed in the South of France; and finally, several Roma were condemned for having defrauded immigration candidates from the East.
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