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Buzău Archdiocese publishes first sign language prayer book

For the first time ever, an Orthodox prayer book in Romanian sign language has been published. The book includes the Trisagion Prayers, the Jesus Prayer, and the Prayers Before Holy Communion, translated by Fr. Ionuț Mihalașcu, the priest for the community of hearing-impaired believers in Buzău. The prayers were published with the blessing of His…

Jul 13, 2021Sorin Ioniţe

Râmnic Archdiocese’s Department of Mission among Roma People celebrated its sixth anniversary

Râmnic Archdiocese’s Department of Mission among Roma People celebrated its sixth anniversary on June 9, 2021. It was established by Archbishop Varsanufie, first as a catechetical office, in 2015. In April 2019 it became an archdiocesan department. Current programs The department currently runs the following programs: “Mirro ghiozdano – my school backpack”: It offers school…

Jun 18, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

June 14, World Blood Donor Day. Around 19,000 liters of blood being harvested in Romanian Patriarchate campaign

Every year, on June 14, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day. The event serves to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood and to raise awareness of the need for regular blood donations to ensure the quality, safety, and availability of blood and blood products for patients in…

Jun 14, 2021Iulian Dumitraşcu

Oradea Diocese establishes houses for abandoned and orphaned children

The Oradea Diocese has been busy building new housing for orphaned and abandoned children. Two houses were inaugurated in April, and His Grace Bishop Sofronie of Oradea just blessed and opened another house in Oșorhei. The land for all the houses was provided for by the Church. The push is part of a larger project…

Jun 4, 2021Gheorghe Anghel

Children’s Day in the Archdiocese of Bucharest: Hundreds of children received gifts from Patriarch Daniel

Patriarch Daniel sent on Monday consistent gifts for 280 children from the Archdiocese of Bucharest. Beneficiaries were the 40 children who receive social support at the eparchy’s “St Sophia” Day Care Center and the children of clerics who serve in rural parishes of the second and third category. The packages contained sports equipment, games, sweets…

Jun 3, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

On Sunday of the Paralytic, Lower Danube’s Archbishop shares agape meal with disabled people

The fourth Sunday after Easter, when the Church remembers the healing of the paralytic at the Sheep’s Pool in Jerusalem, was dedicated to the faithful with locomotor disabilities at the Cathedral of Galați. Eighteen members of the “Sporting Club” Association for People with Disabilities in Galaţi prayed during the Divine Liturgy with His Eminence Archbishop…

May 27, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Diocese of Maramureș offers humanitarian aid and builds four houses for the victims of the floods

The Diocese of Maramureș offered food and 800 pairs of shoes last week for the victims of the floods in Satu Mare county. The eparchy will build four houses for the most affected families. Archimandrite Casian Filip of the diocese’s social-philanthropic department met with clergy and local authorities on Monday to decide what kind of…

May 25, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

A Resurrection service for the deaf: They accept their condition and sip with their eyes the priest’s signs

Reporters from Libertatea attended the Resurrection service at the old church Park 1 Rahova in Bucharest, where services are held simultaneously in two types of language: sign language for those with hearing impairments and the usual one for “those who hear.” “People with hearing impairments and the frequent parishioners of the community did not take…

May 5, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Father Dan Damaschin receives highest church award for supporting mothers, children, families

Thanks to the tireless labours of Fr. Dan Damaschin, thousands of mothers in difficult situations and needy families and children have received material assistance, including new housing for many families. On Wednesday, Fr. Dan, who serves at Cuza Vodă Maternity Church of the Clinical Hospital of Obstetrics-Gynecology in Iași, was honoured for his great love.…

Apr 24, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești visits Rahova, Jilava prisons

On April 15-16, the patriarchal auxiliary bishop Varlaam of Ploiești visited Rahova and Jilava Prisons where he officiated the akathist hymn to the Theotokos and urged the inmates to intensify prayer and spiritual readings. “The employees present at the activities and the persons deprived of liberty received from His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, prayer cards and…

Apr 19, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

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 also received 7,720 kilograms of vegetables and fruit. “I don’t have enough words of thanks and appreciation for the help…

Mar 23, 2021Ștefana Totorcea