PREVEDERI ALE CONSTITUȚIEI REPUBLICII MOLDOVA PRIVIND LIBERTATEA RELIGIOASĂ ȘI PROTECȚIA EI JURIDICĂ
Provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova on religious freedom and its legal protection

Summary/Abstract: In the Republic of Moldova, the right to freedom of religion, one of the fundamental human rights, is enshrined both in the Constitution and in the Law of religious denominations, the text of which was the subject of our legal study. From the hermeneutic analysis of the text of the two sources, the Constitution and the Law of religious denominations, we have been able to ascertain that the legislator wished to remain within the country’s constitutional tradition, which he adapted to the requirements of today’s times in the spirit of international legislation on human rights and freedoms, which also brought with it some inherent clarifications both in terms of the definition of human rights and freedoms and of the relationship between the Church and the State, which was ultimately declared “neutral”. Undoubtedly, the process of constitutionalization, which the Republic of Moldova will also go through when it becomes a Member State of the European Union, will also bring new clarifications regarding the way in which the norms of European legislation are applied, and implicitly also regarding the ways in which the legal protection of the right to religious freedom is implemented.

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