On 3 June, the Bodnariu family website reported that the Naustdal Municipality of Norway had agreed terms with Marius and Ruth Bodnariu for the return home of all five of their children.
The message on the website – from Pastor Cristian Ionescu, the family’s spokesman – gave thanks for all the prayers and support the family had received, but also requested that the family’s privacy be respected in coming days so that ‘the children resettle and reintegrate themselves in their natural family home and environment’.
The message ended with words from Revelation 7.12: ‘Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honour and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!’