The Week in Pictures: April 19 – 25, 2021
The last week of the Great Lent and the feast of the Entrace of the Lord to Jerusalem are reflected in our selection of photos captured between April 19 and 25, 2021. Last week’s most-liked…
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In pictures | Palm Sunday on Bucharest’s Patriarchate Hill
His Eminence Varlaam of Ploiești celebrated the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at the open-air altar on Bucharest’s Patriarchate Hill. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Easter 2021: Holy Fire from Jerusalem to arrive at the Patriarchal Palace on Holy Saturday
The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate made an announcement on Tuesday, April 27, on the arrival of the Holy Fire from Jerusalem to Bucharest, where Patriarch Daniel will receive it in a solemn procession…
What writer Paul Kingsnorth found in Orthodoxy. “Buddhism is a powerful practice, but it is lacking something: God”
He first met with Orthodoxy in a little church in Bucharest. The experience stayed with him and worked inside him for four years, until it bought him into the Romanian Orthodox Church. One of the…
Metropolitan Ioan offers 8 tons of food to local hospitals
Metropolitan Ioan visited last Thursday the Psychiatry Hospitals of Jebel and Gătaia, in the Archdiocese of Timișoara, where he offered almost eight tons of food. Thus, in addition to comfort and prayer, staff and patients…
“We want to feel at home at the sources of Mureș and Olt rivers”: Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș counties
The Civic Forum of the Romanians from Covasna, Harghita and Mureș Counties (FCRCHM) and the “Covasna-Harghita” European Centre of Research (CESCH) organized on Sunday, March 14, the third edition of the event “Romanians for Romanians”.…
The Week in Pictures: March 15 – 21, 2021
The Orthodox faithful have entered the Great Lent, a time of spiritual preparation for the great feast of the Lord’s Resurrection. Please see below our selection of Orthodox photography from March 15 – 21, 2021.…
Scroll fragments with the texts of prophets Zachariah and Nahum found in the Judean Desert
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has discovered in some desert caves 80 new fragments of a 1,900-year-old Biblical scroll with texts from prophets Zachariah and Nahum. Marcello Fidanzio, the Director of the Archaeological and Cultural…
Photo competition inspired by the Hagia Sophia basilica highlights the concept of “Wisdom of God”
The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) and Orthphoto.net launched last week a photography competition inspired by Constantinople’s Hagia Sophia Basilica (“The Church of the Holy Wisdom of God”). Participants are invited to send images of…
Egypt: Team led by Romanian archaeologist discover world’s oldest known monastery
A Franco-Norwegian team led by Romanian archaeologist Victor Ghica discovered the oldest archaeologically attested monastic site in the world. The site is 370 kilometers south-west of Cairo, Egypt, and it dates back to the 4th…