Metropolitan Laurentiu of Transylvania called Saint Parascheva “a divine gift that God sent to our country to protect us, to be our guardian and reinforcer in these difficult moments.” The Metropolitan of Transylvania addressed the…
The UN international observance calendar includes, on October 17, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The most affected Romanians are children: one third live in poverty. This year’s international observance has the theme…
The United Nations (UN) International Day of Rural Women celebrates and honours the role of rural women on October 15 each year. It recognizes rural women’s importance in enhancing agricultural and rural development worldwide. The…
A bill submitted to the Romanian Senate last month proposes to declare the 15th-16th century leader St. Stephen the Great as a national hero and patron of Romanian culture. The 2nd of July would become…
In a message on Thursday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel urged everyone to increase prayer during the pandemic. The Patriarch asked Romanians to follow the measures of sanitary protection and to listen to the advice of…
The first of the seven social houses built by Onești Deanery was inaugurated on Thursday in the Mănăstirea Cașin village, Bacău county. The house was blessed and formally offered to a needy family. Six more…
Father Panayiotis Papageorgiou, a Cyprus-born American Christian Orthodox priest, visited the Capital city of Romania this summer. Together with his son, Efstratios Papageorgiou, he is making a documentary series about Eastern European Orthodoxy. The short…
Prayer, faith, love are strongly intertwined in every Orthodox Christian’s life. Please find below our selection of photos taken between October 4 and 10, 2021. Last week’s most-liked Instagram photo: View this post on…
“Let us not wait to be invited, just as Jesus was not invited to Nain, but He went to Nain to comfort, to bring relief to that suffering mother, telling her to weep no more,”…
Believers asked the Archdiocese of Suceava to organize a procession with the relics of Suceava’s patron saint John the New “to bring peace and comfort in this time of hardship.” So, on Sunday the holy…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel visited the cemetery of Cernica Monastery on Tuesday to officiate a memorial service at the tomb of one of his mentors, Father Dumitru Staniloae, marking the 28th anniversary of the repose…
Following on a number of agreements with local probation services, the Archdiocese of Bucharest of the Romanian Orthodox Church is actively assisting convicts in the process of social reintegration. The Archdiocese signed an agreement with…
The National Bank of Romania (NBR) will put into circulation, as of October 11, 2021, for numismatic purposes, a silver coin and a coppered-tombac coin marking 100 years since the foundation of the Cantacuzino Institute. Obverse…
His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești celebrated the Divine Liturgy for the patronal feast of St. Antimos Monastery in Bucharest on Sept. 27. He spoke about the achievements of the holy hierarch Anthimos, who was…
Gilded icons and golden autumn leaves, vigil lamps and sunshine gleaming over saintly lives and semantron sound. This was last week’s bigger picture in our photo selection. Last week’s most-liked Instagram photo: View this…
Twenty-eight years have passed since Father Dumitru Stăniloae’s repose in the Lord. The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki first awarded him the title of Doctor honoris causa in 1976 on the recommendation of Athonite abbots. The…
In two years, Snagov Monastery will have a centre for protecting and promoting its cultural heritage. The announcement was made by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel during a visit to the monastery at the end of…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel reflected on Sunday on the “unusual” command that the Saviour Jesus Christ gave in the Sermon on the Mount, that of loving one’s enemies (Luke 6:35). “We have an unusual command.…