Romanian Pastors Issue Declaration to IL Governor

CHICAGO, IL – Romanian pastors in Illinois have issued a declaration to Gov. J.B. Pritzker announcing they are opening their churches for in-person services on May 10, with proper and extensive social distancing and safety precautions. Liberty Counsel represents these pastors and churches and will be filing a federal lawsuit against Gov. Pritzker’s unconstitutional orders. The six pastors who signed the letter, along with Horatio Mihet, Chief Litigation Counsel for Liberty Counsel, once lived under the heavy hand of a totalitarian regime in Communist Romania. They are painfully familiar with government-suppressed religious freedom and the jailing of pastors and Christians as criminals for merely following their religious teachings to meet and preach the gospel. For many, like Mihet, their first day of freedom was on December 25, 1989, when Nicolae Ceausescu‘s Communist regime was overthrown. These pastors know what it is like to not have freedom, and that is what they now see happening in the country they love.