The Metropolis of Cluj, Maramures, and Salaj has begun the renovation of an old music school in Bistrita. The building will be the home of a new social-educational centre in honour of Grigore Pletosu, the…
Each Orthodox family from Hunedoara County has received a Catechism on the Orthodox Faith free of charge from the local Bishop Gurie as part of his ‘soul project’ titled ‘Let us know our faith.’ More…
He was a volunteer firefighter before being ordained to the priesthood and sees a very close connection between the two missions. He says he never feared the flames, being always protected and strengthened by God,…
A collection of pictures in news, culture and spirituality taken around the Orthodox world.
The Basilica.ro photo exhibition titled ‘The Portrait of the Romanian Village’ will be opened at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm this October. The event is organised by the Basilica News Agency, in cooperation with…
Bishop Dionysius Erhan, one of the most outstanding church personalities from Bessarabia in the first half of the 20th century, will be proclaimed a Saint by Patriarch Daniel and other Romanian hierarchs in a canonization…
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople met with Pope Francis on Tuesday, Vatican News reports. The meeting between the Pope and the Patriarch was held in “a fraternal atmosphere”, according to a communiqué from the Holy…
On the day that the Orthodox Church commemorates the Elevation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross, five nuns of Căşiel Monastery in Valea Cășeielului in northern Romania bravely took up their own crosses, offering their…
On Sunday, marking the 40-day memorial of Fr Marius Bărăscu who tragically died in a car accident, leaving behind a wife and four children, a new parish priest was installed in Parava, a village in…
The collected works of the Orthodox theologian Georges Florovsky are being translated into Romanian language by the Reintregirea Publishing House of the Alba Iulia Archdiocese. The translation project is coordinated by Fr. Oliviu Botoi, cultural…