Dioceses

Three families with 19 children receive new homes for Pascha from Iași parish

Three struggling families from Iași, Romania, will spend Pascha in new homes thanks to the missionary priest Fr. Dan Damaschin and the Voice of Life association from the Church of Sts. Cosmas and Damian at the Cuza Voda Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in Iași. Together, the three families have a total of 19 children. Fr.…

Apr 10, 2020Sorin Ioniţe

Covid-19 | Romanian Orthodox Church initiates dozens of support measures for hospitals and people (March 16-31)

During the state of emergency, the Romanian Orthodox Church has intensified its presence both online and in society respecting all the required sanitary precautions. Even before the state of emergency being declared in Romania, just as the authorities raised the level of alert regarding the coronavirus epidemic, the Church had started preparations to prevent a…

Apr 3, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

Metropolitan Petru calls for prayer for founders of Bessarabia’s Union with Romania

The Metropolitan of Bessarabia urged ‘all those who feel Romanian to intensify their prayers’ and remember the founders of the historical event of March 27, 1918, when the region united with the Kingdom of Romania. In his message marking the 102nd anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania, Metropolitan Petru recalled the important role…

Apr 2, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Roman & Bacau Archbishop donates his March 2020 salary to help combat coronavirus

Celebrating his 66th birthday on Sunday, the Archbishop of Roman and Bacau announced that he will donate his March 2020 salary to the hospitals in Bacau County to help alleviate the array of adverse effects stemming from the coronavirus epidemic. Archbishop Ioachim urged the clergy to join forces with the Archdiocese to show solidarity as…

Mar 31, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Bishop Benedict of Bistrita urges faithful to bear the pain of not going to church services with humility, without despair

The assistant bishop of the Archdiocese of Vad, Feleac and Cluj has called on the faithful who cannot attend church services due to the restrictions adopted to fight against the new coronavirus epidemic to accept the measures ‘with a spirit of repentance,’ without giving in to resentment. The Assistant Bishop Benedict of Bistrița posted a…

Mar 31, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Wonderworking Icon of Theotokos carried through the streets of Craiova to ward off coronavirus

After the Divine Liturgy on the Feast of Annunciation, Metropolitan Irineu of Oltenia led a procession through the streets of Craiova carrying a wonderworking icon of the Mother of God known as Madonna Dudu and the relics of Saint Nephon of Constantinople to help fight the coronavirus outbreak. ‘In these difficult moments of trial, our…

Mar 31, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Bishop Ignatie believes sharing fake news on coronavirus creates panic and exploits people’s fears

His Grace Bishop Ignatie thinks that fake news is a ‘true plague’ in times of crisis because by sharing false information, people’s fears are exploited. Fake news ‘do nothing but create panic. (…) We become even more panicked, more stressed and anxious about what is being conveyed.’ The Bishop of Husi warned that ‘if we…

Mar 31, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Târgoviște Archdiocese donates vital sign measuring device to county hospital

The Orthodox Archdiocese of Târgoviște Thursday announced that it has purchased a vital sign measuring device that will be donated to the County Emergency Hospital. Fukuda Denshi’s latest patient monitor DS-8100N cost about 4,343 Euros and will serve the coronavirus patients in Targoviste. The archdiocese’s statement notes that the action “contributes to the national and…

Mar 27, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Nine Romanian monasteries are sewing bed linen sets for hospitals amid Covid-19 outbreak

In the new medical crisis which has reached Romania, nine monasteries from the Archdiocese of Iaşi, in the northeastern part of the country, offered to help hospitals. They have started making bed linen sets to be donated to local hospitals which are treating or prepare to treat Covid-19 patients. In addition to the cotton linen…

Mar 26, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

Cluj Archdiocese gives food, accommodation for quarantined people

The four social canteens in the Archdiocese of Cluj can provide, upon request, free food for the elderly and the sick in self-isolation, the Archdiocese has announced. The Archdiocese is also ready to provide isolation spaces for those in need. The quarantine facilities are at the “Ioan Bunea” social missionary center in Sângeorz Băi city,…

Mar 20, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

Metropolitan Ioan of Banat donates two oxygen concentrators to the Railway company’s Clinical Hospital in Timișoara

Metropolitan Ioan of Banat has donated two oxygen concentrators to the Railway company’s Clinical Hospital in Timișoara. The devices are useful in the treatment of patients with respiratory problems. The metropolitan has made the donation at the request of the hospital, reports the Metropolis of Banat. The devices supply oxygen at a higher concentration than the…

Mar 19, 2020Ștefana Totorcea