Clergy who wish to leave the country to participate in religious meetings have to apply for permission from state authorities.
Proselytism is forbidden by law.
The decision of the Appeal Court to order the government to register the Besarabian Orthodox Church was overridden by the Supreme Court that cited procedural errors on the side of the Besarabian Church in the registration procedure. In late 1998 the church again tried to register, but was refused. Local authorities hinder them form practicing their religion through bans on peaceful assembly and distribution of literature in public places, harass and humiliate them. Members of both communities have been arrested for the distribution of religious literature, questioned and harassed by the police, and their meeting places searched. Based on information received from the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in the Republic of Moldova.