January 6, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Norway’s Barnevernet, or child welfare service, has begun the process of adopting out the five Bodnariu children it seized from their Pentecostal parents Marius and Ruth in November, according to the children’s uncle, Daniel Bodnariu.
Bodnariu told LifeSiteNews that Barnevernet intends to adopt out the children, who range in age from nine years to four months, but that the agency must first “take away the parents’ rights” in a “fylkesnemdna,” or county council hearing, the date of which has not been set. Continue reading “Five children seized by Norwegian gov’t to be adopted out, as protests grow”
All of Marius and Ruth Bodnariu’s young children were taken into custody in November following a concern cited by the principal of the middle school attended by their two oldest daughters — a concern based on the children being taught at home that God punishes sin. 






