The passage to another season and the start of the New Church Year were opportunities for prayer and thanksgiving offered to God by the Orthodox faithful. Please see below our Week in Pictures feature for…
To honour the important work that many charities do, in 2012 the United Nations decided to nominate an annual International Day of Charity as an official day of recognition and celebration on September 5. The…
The Patriarch of Romania has sent a message to all students and teachers at the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year, noting that prayer is a source of peace, joy and communion. His Beatitude stressed…
Thousands of needy children received fully loaded backpacks from several Orthodox churches in Bucharest on Monday. The recipients included 3,000 children from needy families and 1,000 from Ukrainian refugee families. The gifts were distributed at…
“The respect for creation and the constant concern for its protection belong to the core of our Orthodox identity,” stressed His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in a message for the Day of the protection of creation…
Please join us in a virtual stroll through the Orthodox world by watching our weekly selection of pictures taken between August 22 and 28. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post: View this post on Instagram…
Last Saturday, the Metropolitan of Transylvania inaugurated a new kindergarten in Deva, honouring the late bishop Gurie Georgiu. The project initiated by Bishop Gurie was entrusted three years ago to the now Bishop of Deva…
The Mono Monastery, in the Canadian province of Ontario, announced on Wednesday the completion of repairs done to the chapel roof and thanked all those who made it possible – Romanian Orthodox Bishop Ioan Casian…
Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia, a distinguished theologian and hierarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, reposed in the Lord on Wednesday night, around 01:00 hours. He was born with the name of Timothy in Bath, Great…
Patriarch Daniel sent condolences to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on Wednesday, after His Eminence Kallistos, Metropolitan of Diokleia, reposed in the Lord. The Patriarch of Romania called the recently-departed hierarch “an old friend of our…
Please see below our weekly selection of Orthodox snapshots – this time captured in the period between the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God and the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost. Which one…
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is looking to its assembly at the end of August in Karlsruhe to raise up the issue of climate justice and underline the need to care for the creation,…
Father Alexandru Baltaga was the representative of the Church in the House of Representatives in 1918, when he voted for the unification of Bessarabia with Romania. When the Soviets occupied Bessarabia, in 1941, aged 80,…
Patriarch Daniel has sent a message to the Romanian diaspora marking the Romanian Migrants’ Sunday on August 21, 2022. His Beatitude urges those who left Romania to remain united through continuous prayer with God, the…
A newly-found mosaic in el-Araj, on the northern shore of Lake Kinneret in Israel, shows the most probable location of the city of Bethsaida and it could also indicate the home of Apostles Peter and…
After investing thirteen priests from the Archdiocese of Bucharest as spiritual fathers, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel explained why today people need more than ever prayerful priests. “Prayer that enables the mind to descend into the…
The patronal feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos of Nicula Monastery in Cluj County gathered over 20,000 people who participated in the religious services. The 17th-century wonderworking icon of the Mother of God turned…
The martyrdom of Saint Constantine Brâncoveanu represents one of the most beautiful pages of history in the great book of Romanians, said His Grace Assistant Bishop Timotei of Prahova on Monday at the New Saint…