religious freedom in Moldova: very good for the Orthodox Christians, worse for Pentecostals and Catholics and very bad for Jehovah Witnesses and Muslims...

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of the State Department has released its annual International Religious Freedom Report for the year 2011. 

In the case of Moldova the report confirms two trends:

- a significant bias of the Moldovan state in favor of the Eastern-Orthodox Christians. 

- although the Government has taken steps to improve the situation of non-Orthodox religious groups, being a Jehovah Witness, Muslim, Pentecostal or Catholic in Moldova still means that you are more likely to be abused verbally or physically, your right to build a church/kingdom hall/mosque to be denied and your property confiscated by the Soviet state not to be returned.