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Importance of Church-State cooperation in the European context

Opening address by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania at the International Conference on the relations between the State and religious denominations in the European Union, at the Palace of the Patriarchate, Friday, June 7, 2019. Importance of Church-State cooperation in the European context According to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union…

Jun 7, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

World Environment Day

World Environment Day (also called as WED) has been started celebrating as an annual event on every 5th of June since 1973 in order to raise the global awareness about the importance of the healthy and green environment in the human lives, to solve the environmental issues by implementing some positive environmental actions as well as…

Jun 5, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

Basilica Photos. The beauty of childhood in Christ

“Children are faces of light cultivated through faith and love,” Patriarch Daniel notes. This can be better observed when children are there where they have to be – in the church – close to God and His Saints so that they may gain a holy life. On the International Children’s Day, we’ve made a selection…

Jun 1, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

June 1 – Children’s Day

Children’s Day  is a national holiday celebrated in Romania and it is held on June 1 every year. Children’s Day is not just an event in Romania, it is also celebrated in many different countries and is an official UN global observance. Children’s Day is an international celebration intended to bring nations together to promote child welfare,…

Jun 1, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

Pope Francis: The ‘Our Father’ is a prayer that leaves us troubled and crying out in protest against the famine of love in our time

On the first day of his 3-day visit to Romania, Pope Francis prayed the ‘Our Father’ in Bucharest’s Orthodox People’s Salvation Cathedral and addressed the congregation. Here is the full text of his address: Your Beatitude, Dear Brother, Dear Brothers and Sisters, I am grateful and moved to be in this holy temple that brings…

May 31, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

Romanian Patriarch’s welcome address to Pope Francis: Christ is risen (full text)

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Friday welcomed Pope Francis at the Conventus Hall of the Patriarchal Palace with the Paschal greeting: Christ is risen! Meeting in the same room where their predecessors met 20 years ago, Patriarch Daniel said that Pope John Paul II’s visit to Romania in 1999 was a sign of the joy…

May 31, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

Numismatic issues and a circulation coin dedicated to Pope Francis’s visit to Romania

Pursuant to the provisions of Law No. 312/2004 on the Statute of the National Bank of Romania, as of 30 May 2019, the National Bank of Romania (NBR) will put into circulation, for numismatic purposes, gold and brass collector coins, along with a brass circulation coin, dedicated to the Apostolic journey of His Holiness Pope Francis to…

May 24, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

‘The common interest of the Church’ as seen by Archbishops of Cyprus, Athens

Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus visited Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and all Greece on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, at the Archbishop’s Palace, Romfea News reports.  Archbishop Ieronymos welcomed the primate of the Church of Cyprus, and wished his journey to be good, creative and beneficial. Archbishop Chrysostom briefed Archbishop Ieronymos on his meeting with Patriarch Irinej…

May 23, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

‘The Good to Know’ online magazine: May 2019

The May 2019 issue of ‘The Good to Know’ online magazine of the Basilica News Agency is now available for download. Containing a summary of the religious events in the entire Orthodox world, ‘The Good to Know’ online magazine can be freely printed out and distributed for more thorough information and spiritual benefit. The magazine features a selection…

May 23, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

Hundreds married in mass Georgian Church weddings

More than 500 couples who had already started families but had no Church wedding participated in mass wedding ceremonies Thursday, reports the site of the Georgian Patriarchate quoted by Orthochristian. The services were held with the blessing of His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia. The organizational work was undertaken by the Society of Chokhonetsev of…

May 18, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

Following Suqailbya terror attack, Patriarch Daniel expresses solidarity with Antioch Patriarch

Bucharest, 15 May 2019 His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East Your Beatitude, Christ is Risen! With profound sorrow, we found out about the terrorist attack on the Orthodox Christian village of Suqailbya, near the city of Hama, where four innocent children died, along with an adult, in the village church…

May 15, 2019Sorin Ioniţe