Cultural

OrthPhoto Awards international photo competition announces its winners

The first edition of the international Orthodox photo competition “OrthPhoto Awards” concluded on Tuesday with the announcement of its winners. The ceremony was held at the Center of Orthodox Culture in Bialystok, Poland, and it was live-streamed on different platforms. More than 650 photographers from almost 30 countries took part and over 4,500 photos presenting…

Aug 11, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Ashdod: The Patriarch of Jerusalem participates in historical liturgy at the ruins of a 6th century Byzantine church

The Patriarch of Jerusalem and clerics from the Holy Land participated on Thursday in an open-air Liturgy officiated at the ruins of a Byzantine basilica near Ashdod. The patriarch officiated a Trisagion for the repose of those mentioned on a recently found mosaic on the site – among them, a bishop who participated in two…

Jul 31, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

The Byzanfest 2021 Orthodox Film Festival is organized in partnership with an Orthodox American university

The sixth edition of the Byzanfest 2021 Orthodox Film Festival is organized in partnership with the University of St Katherine’s, in the state of California, a higher education institution based on Christian Orthodox values. Since the slogan of the Californian university is “Inquiry Seeking Wisdom”, this year’s festival theme is “Seeking”. August 22 is the…

Jul 26, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

HG Bishop Damaschin blesses the first monument to anti-communist Resistance in Bucovina

His Grace Damaschin of Dorna, Auxiliary Bishop to the Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți, blessed on Thursday the first monument commemorating the anti-communist Resistance in Bukovina. It is located in Vicovu de Jos, on the spot where Lt. Vladimir Macoveiciuc was shot by orders of the Soviets. He was the leader of the most important…

Jul 9, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

80 years from the deportation of the Romanians from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

The first wave of deportations from Soviet-occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina started on the night of June 12, 1941. Romanians were the nationality with the greatest number of victims among those deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan: over 70,000 persons. At the first wave, 29,839 Romanians were sent to Siberia and Kazakhstan. The second wave was…

Jul 3, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Australia: Orthodox Children’s Short Film Competition announces its winners

The “Creative for Christ” Orthodox Children’s Short Film Competition announced its winners on Sunday at Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia. Two Orthodox schools placed themselves equal first. The children from “St Sophia & Three Daughters” Greek Orthodox Church in Sidney and from “St Euphemia” College in Bankstown were awarded by His Grace Bishop Emilianos of…

Jun 23, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Romfilatelia: Bicentenary of Tudor Vladimirescu’s Revolution

Romfilatelia introduces into circulation, on Tuesday, June 22nd this year, the postage stamps issue entitled “Tudor Vladimirescu’s Revolution, 200 Years”, dedicated to a historical moment and an exceptional personality: the Revolution of 1821 and its leader, Tudor Vladimirescu. The postage stamps issue Tudor Vladimirescu’s Revolution, 200 Years, consisting of a stamp, a perforated souvenir sheet, a special anniversary block…

Jun 19, 2021Iulian Dumitraşcu

Romania’s first Righteous Among the Nations, who saved 20,000 Jews during Holocaust, commemorated in Suceava

Priests from Colacu village, Fundu Moldovei commune, Suceava county, officiated on June 4 a memorial service for the rest of the soul of lawyer Traian Popovici, a former mayor of Chernivtsi and the first Romanian to receive the title of Righteous Among the Nations. The memorial service marking Traian Popovici’s 75th death anniversary was attended…

Jun 17, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

12 archaeological sites in Dobrudja will become accessible for online tours

Ancient fortresses Tomis, Callatis, Histria, Adamclisi, Capidava, Carsium, Ibida, Argamum, Noviodunum, Halmiris, Ulmetum and Enisala, situated in Dobrudja, by the Black Sea, will become accessible for online tours starting from July 1.  “The website will be bilingual (Romanian – English), accessible also on mobile devices, and it will present an interactive map of 12 of…

Jun 8, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

American convert Rod Dreher launched his most recent book in Bucharest, Romania

Romanian publisher Contra Mundum launched on Saturday the Romanian version of Rod Dreher’s most recent book, “Live Not By Lies”, in the presence of its author, an American convert to Orthodoxy. The event was held in the courtyard of Bucharest’s “New Merchants'” Church, where the author presented his book and answered questions from the public.…

Jun 7, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Rod Dreher: I had never felt closer to God than I have now as an Orthodox Christian

American writer Rod Dreher, who converted to Orthodoxy in 2006, spoke on Friday to Basilica.ro about his conversion, about Romanian Orthodoxy as a gift from God returned to the world by Romanians and about the lessons offered by the martyrs of the Romanian communist prisons to contemporary people – including his children. Rod Dreher has…

Jun 5, 2021Ștefana Totorcea