Prison Fellowship Romania
The Christian Mission for Prisons

Who we are

Prison Fellowship Romania (The Christian Mission for Prisons), a non-governmental organization, a member of the Prison Fellowship International (affiliated to the UNO), came into existence in 1993 with the purpose of mobilizing and assisting the Christian community in its ministry to prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families, and also of promoting and sustaining the improvement of the correctional system in Romania.

At the beginning the main goal of Prison Fellowship Romania was just the activity in prisons (the preaching of the gospel, Bible study, spiritual counseling) charitable acts for the prisons in Romania (logistics, infrastructure, medical equipment, medicines), training and educational courses for prisoners and also study-visits for the experts of the National Administration of Prisons and for the directors of prisons in over 35 countries.

The lack of a postdetention activity and of a direct interaction with the person who was deprived of liberty determined Prison Fellowship Romania to develop and implement the first practical model of probation in Romania, the need for this activity being enormous.

Prison Fellowship's logo has its correlation in Isaiah 42:3 "A bruised reed shall not be broken, and the smoking flax be not quenched: he shall be bring forth judgment unto truth."

The symbol of the bruised reed illustrates the vocation of the Prison Fellowship of receiving people who are otherwise rejected by society and considered useless and not worthy of love, offering them the possibility of receiving restoration and the forgiveness of God.