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STRASBOURG, France, December 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) dismissed the legal challenge of a Christian Pentecostal family in Norway whose children were unlawfully seized in 2015 for their Christian beliefs. The decision to throw out the case came after four painstaking years of international litigation.
ADF International recorded that the Bodnariu family filed their case with the ECHR on the basis of a violation by the Norwegian government under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects “the right to private and family life,” and Article 9, which protects “the family’s freedom of religion.” The Bodnariu family claimed that the lead investigator had “prejudices against the family’s Pentecostal faith” and failed to “properly investigate the matter before taking steps to separate the family.”
A report from the Christian Legal Centre, which documented the plight of the Bodnarius, an immigrant family from Romania, noted that the ECHR dismissed the case “on the basis that the family had not availed themselves of possible domestic remedies for damages” within Norway’s own legal system. The family had
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