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The Maternal Home of the Diaconia Mission celebrates nine years of existence. It hosted 130 mothers and their children

The Maternal Home “In Mother’s Arms” established by Diaconia, the Social Mission of the Metropolis of Bessarabia, celebrates nine years of existence. In this period, it was HOME for 130 mothers and their children, until they could be socially reintegrated. This centre helps mothers in pregnancy crisis and mothers of infant children who are constrained…

Sep 14, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

Bucharest parishes donate 3,500 € for Sara Nukina church volunteer suffering from brain tumour

Three parishes from Bucharest’s Sector 2 Deanery have raised 3,500 Euros for the treatment of teenager church volunteer Sara Nukina, who is fighting a brain tumour. The announcement was made on Wednesday by Fr. Mihai Christian Popescu, the dean overseeing the parishes. “Sara Nukina participated in many socio-cultural events organized in our deanery. She often…

Sep 10, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

Patriarch Daniel donates 2,000 € for Sara Nukina: “She helped many people, now it is our turn to help her”

Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church donated 2,000 Euros for Sara Nukina, a teenager suffering of brain tumour. The girl is well-known to the audience of  Radio Trinitas, the radio station of the Romanian Patriarchate, for her generous moral support of the elderly and the ill with her songs and the freshness of her…

Sep 3, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

2019 report | Diaconia Mission offered 426.000-Euro family support in the Republic of Moldova

The “Diaconia” Social Mission of the Metropolis of Bessarabia published its activity report on year 2019: the organization, which is the social arm of the Metropolis, has raised 426,000 Euros, which was redistributed as complex services of support and material donations to families, orphans and parishes. Metropolitan Petru writes in the report introduction that the most important…

Sep 1, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

Patriarch of Romania donates icon and 6,000 Euros to new crisis pregnancy center “Holy Empress Helen”

The “Holy Empress Helen” Counseling and Information Center was inaugurated on Sunday in the presence of Father Ciprian Ioniță, Patriarchal Counselor, who officiated the blessing service and offered a gift on behalf of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel: the icon of the Holy Emperors Constantine and Helen. The new centre will provide support for women in…

Aug 19, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

Diaconia Social Mission opens first Food Bank in the Republic of Moldova

‘Diaconia’ Social Mission of the Orthodox Metropolis of Bessarabia formally opened the first food bank in the Republic of Moldova on Thursday, July 23, 2020. The food bank will collect, store and distribute food to socially and materially disadvantaged people and families, non-governmental organizations, canteens and social centres. The products will be collected from economic…

Jul 24, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

20,500 Euros and the icon of the Mother of God “Protectress of the Unborn” for St Helen Pregnancy Helpcenter

The campaign to fund a new pregnancy crisis helpcenter in Bucharest has almost reached its target last week, raising 96.5% of the 20,500 Euros needed for the center to be set up and operate for two months. In addition to money, a donor offered a copy of the icon of the Mother of God “Protectress…

Jul 9, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

Timișoara Archdiocese donates house to victim of domestic violence with 5 children

Just days after the Huși Diocese of the Romanian Orthodox Church donated three houses to disadvantaged families as part of their “Joy is Home” project, the Archdiocese of Timișoara is doing the same. In the village of Babșa in Timiș County, the Archdiocese bought and donated a house to a mother with five children who…

Jun 16, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Three disadvantaged families receive new housing from Huși Diocese

International Children’s Day, June 1, was celebrated in a special way this year by the Huși Diocese of the Romanian Orthodox Church. On this day, the first three hours of a series of six were gifted to disadvantaged families as part of the “Joy is Home” project that helps needy families with many children receive…

Jun 10, 2020Sorin Ioniţe

Romanian priest donates blood plasma after recovering from COVID-19

After recovering from coronavirus almost one month ago, Father Ștefăniță Potra from Ilva Mică went to the Blood Transfusion Centre in Bistriţa to donate plasma to help critical Covid-19 patients. The priest who had officiated the funeral service for a coronavirus victim later tested positive for COVID-19 in April, reports Adevarul. The representatives of the…

May 19, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Pandemic journal, April 1-10 | New measures of support from the Romanian Orthodox Church in the COVID-19 crisis

In the second half of March and the first ten days of April 2020, the Romanian Orthodox Church invested over 2 million Euros (10 million ROL) in measures of support to combat the social effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.  Support actions continue, organized both at diocesan level and at grassroots level, in parishes who all…

Apr 19, 2020Ștefana Totorcea