The International Children’s Day was adopted by dozen of states as a celebration of children and childhood in 1925 and it was later established by the United Nations as the Global Day of Parents. In…
The European Commission and Europa Nostra have announced the 2021 winners of the European cultural heritage awards. A Romanian 18th-century wooden church in the Carpathian foothills that was destroyed by fire and carefully restored in…
The Saint Maximos the Greek Institute, with the support of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, is introducing the ‘Evyenios Voulgaris’ Scholarship Programme. Evyenios Voulgaris (1716-1806) served as principal of the Athoniada School, which…
The fourth Sunday after Easter, when the Church remembers the healing of the paralytic at the Sheep’s Pool in Jerusalem, was dedicated to the faithful with locomotor disabilities at the Cathedral of Galați. Eighteen members…
His Grace Bishop Antonie celebrated on Monday three years since the re-establishment of the Balti Diocese and seven years of episcopal ministry. The Bishop of Bălți celebrated the Divine Liturgy and a Te Deum service…
There are currently ten monks and twenty-four nuns (and sisters) of Romanian origin in the Holy Land. Of these, five hieromonks and nine nuns serve at the Romanian Settlements in Jerusalem and Jericho, Archimandrite Teofil…
The third house built by The Romanian Orthodox Christian Students Association (ASCOR) of Iaşi for a large family was inaugurated on May 21, 2021, the feast of Holy Emperors Constantine and his mother Helen. The…
The Diocese of Maramureș offered food and 800 pairs of shoes last week for the victims of the floods in Satu Mare county. The eparchy will build four houses for the most affected families. Archimandrite…
Please see below our photo selection from May 17-23, 2021: sunsets, young people dressed in national costumes and faithful participating to various Orthodox activities. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post: View this post on Instagram…
On the 129th anniversary of Bp. Melchisedec’s repose, His Eminence Archbishop Ioachim of Roman and Bacău spoke about the possibility of his canonization in 2025, noting that the file for his canonization is being prepared.…
Patriarch Daniel on Wednesday called for an end to clashes in the Holy Land. Stating that any prolonged armed conflict causes much suffering to the innocent, the Patriarch of Romania said that the Romanian Orthodox…
In an interview for life.ro, Journalist and Digi24 reporter Ioana Ciurlea spoke about her father, a priest for thirty years in Conop, Arad, and who passed away in September 2018. Ioana Ciurlea confessed that as…
Italy hosts the largest community of Romanians outside Romania. The first Romanian parish appeared on the peninsula in 1940. Still, it was not until May 8, 2008, that Orthodox Romanians in Italy had their own…
Pro Vita Iași, the Pro-Life Department of the Archdiocese of Iași, is building a regional maternity home for pregnant women from the eparchy. The Church will compensate the lack of support from families or from…
Tuesday, May 11, 2021, marked 17 years since the blessed repose of Hieroschemamonk Dionisie Ignat, abbot of the Cell of Saint George at Colciu Skete, Mount Athos. The disciples prayerfully remembered the Athonite Elder of…
The Myrrh-bearing women are icons of courage and “serve in humility and silence the holy work of Christ,” Patriarch Daniel said Sunday, May 16, 2021. They, like today’s Christian women, “are present discreetly, without pretending…
In a message for the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women, May 16, 2021, the Patriarch of Romania stressed the importance of women’s work in society. Last year, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church…
Photos from the Orthodox world shot between May 10 and 16, 2021. Here is our selection for The Week in Pictures. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post: View this post on Instagram A post…