The Week in Pictures: July 8 – 14, 2019
The news in pictures. A selection of photographs from around the Orthodox world, covering a variety of topics from church celebrations to national holidays and spiritual life.
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The ‘Evyenios Voulgaris’ Scholarship Programme for Advanced Studies in Orthodox Spiritual Life and Theology
The Saint Maxim 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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…