{"id":207071,"date":"2018-09-18T16:54:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=207071"},"modified":"2018-09-18T16:54:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:54:21","slug":"metropolitan-of-transylvania-urges-believers-to-attend-romanian-referendum-for-the-definition-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/metropolitan-of-transylvania-urges-believers-to-attend-romanian-referendum-for-the-definition-of-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan of Transylvania urges believers to attend Romanian referendum for the definition of marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Metropolitan Lauren\u0163iu of Transylvania has urged believers of all confessions to attend the referendum for the definition of marriage,\u00a0Agerpres<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The referendum, scheduled for October 7, aims to change the definition of marriage in the Constitution from the current marriage between spouses to the marriage between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n

The metropolitan argued that turnout is very important and, if six million people do not show up, the referendum will not be validated.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we don\u2019t double the three million who signed [e.n. for the initiative to redefine marriage], if we are not six million to vote, then it is pointless, it has no value; the referendum is not approved, it is not valid [\u2026] This is why, we ask you, this is an exam, the most difficult exam we take now, in freedom,\u201d said Metropolitan Lauren\u021biu at the sermon he delivered on September 14 at S\u0103dinca Monastery in Sibiu county.<\/p>\n

His Eminence also referred to those whom \u201cthe Church will never marry\u201d and argued these will later ask for the right to marry and they \u201cwill take our children because they cannot have children.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have asked our priests to go together with you and we will do the same. We will deliver the service on Sunday at the cathedral and then accompany the entire cathedral [congregation],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In 2016, the Coalition for Family (CpF) group of NGOs gathered three million signatures to change the definition of marriage.<\/p>\n

On Monday, September 17, the Constitutional Court gave its approval on\u00a0the law to revise the Constitution in order to change the definition of family.<\/p>\n

In order for the referendum to be validated, 30% of all citizens with a voting right need to cast their ballot.<\/p>\n

The Permanent Electoral Authority announced last week that 18.9 million voters were listed in the Electoral Registry. Over 5.6 million voters need to turn up for the referendum to be validated.<\/p>\n

Photo credit: Basilica.ro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Metropolitan Lauren\u0163iu of Transylvania has urged believers of all confessions to attend the referendum for the definition of marriage,\u00a0Agerpres\u00a0reported. The referendum, scheduled for October 7, aims to change the definition of marriage in the Constitution from the current marriage between spouses to the marriage between a man and a woman. The metropolitan argued that turnout…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":206719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34],"tags":[2008,4559,10313,17002,6184,15620,13703],"class_list":["post-207071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","category-social-en","tag-family","tag-marriage","tag-metropolitan-laurentiu","tag-permanent-electoral-authority","tag-referendum","tag-stiri-ortodoxe-en","tag-transylvania"],"better_featured_image":{"id":206719,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1920,"height":1548,"file":"2018\/09\/IPS_LAURENTIU.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"IPS_LAURENTIU-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IPS_LAURENTIU-360x360.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"IPS_LAURENTIU-890x718.jpg","width":890,"height":718,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IPS_LAURENTIU-890x718.jpg"},"large":{"file":"IPS_LAURENTIU-1024x826.jpg","width":1024,"height":826,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IPS_LAURENTIU-1024x826.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"4","credit":"Ziarul Lumina al Patriarhiei Rom","camera":"NIKON D4S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1486555094","copyright":"Ziarul Lumina, 2015. Toate drepturile rezervate.","focal_length":"44","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":207071,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IPS_LAURENTIU.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207071\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=207071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207071\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206719\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=207071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=207071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=207071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}