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Holy Friday becomes national holiday in Romania

Holy Friday has become an official public non-working holiday in Romania. With Romanian President Klaus Iohannis’ signature on the completion of Paragraph 1 of Article 139 of the Labor Code, Romania joined 16 other EU countries on Monday where Holy Friday is already a public holiday. The bill was initiated by Deputy Szabo Odon of…

Mar 14, 2018Gheorghe Anghel

Good deed: Orthodox villagers from Bihor County buy house for family with 9 children

At the initiative of local parish priests, faithful from the northwestern Romanian villages of Paleu and Oşorhei took up a collection over the course of the previous year to buy a home for a family with 9 children from the nearby village of Parhida. The house was blessed on Sunday by Frs. Cosmin Popa and…

Mar 3, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

‘The Romanian Orthodox Church is the greatest philanthropist in terms of its contribution to social work’ – Patriarch Daniel during NCA meeting

In 2017, the Romanian Orthodox Church invested approximatively 24 million Euros in charity work. ‘Currently the Romanian Orthodox Church is the greatest philanthropist in terms of its contribution to social work,’ said Wednesday Patriarch Daniel during the meeting of the National Church Assembly (NCA) stressing that this means ‘sacrifice, effort, and caring for the people.’…

Feb 14, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Neamț priest builds house for 9-children family

A new home worth 70,000 lei ($17,750) was built and donated to a family with nine children by the parish priest in Timișești, Neamț County, Romania. The home was recently blessed by Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bucovina. Fr. Petru Gavriloaia managed, with the support of the local faithful and authorities, to build a new…

Nov 17, 2017Andrei Pau

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary to support Pro Vita Association in Valea Plopului

This year, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary will once again participate in #GivingTuesday, scheduled for Tuesday, November 28, and it will be tithing 10% of the total funds raised to Pro Vita Association for the Born and Unborn in Valea Plopului, Romania, an organization that provides shelter, healthcare and education to orphans and family members in need. If St. Vladimir’s Seminary…

Nov 17, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

17,000+ benefit from Romanian Patriarchate’s “Table of Joy” social program in 2016 | 5 vans were purchased to streamline social services

The Romanian Patriarchate currently operates a series of social programs through which hot food and food supplies are distributed to the needy. Within the framework of this national program “Table of Joy,” 17,048 people received necessary assistance in 2016 alone. The Table of Joy program is implemented in 24 dioceses by 178 social-philanthropic institutions. In…

Sep 26, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Patriarchate provides financial support to St Mary School in Bucharest, at the beginning of the school year

The Romanian Patriarchate bought new beds for the twelve preschoolers with hearing impairment of the St Mary School in Bucharest, which opened its gates for the new school year on September 11. St Mary School is the only educational institution in Bucharest that provides special courses for children with hearing impairment. Present at the opening…

Sep 13, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Patriarchate donates ultrasonic device to the Târgu Neamț Hospital

Last week, the Romanian Patriarchate donated an ultrasonic device for cardiac and abdominal examination to St Demetrius City Hospital in Târgu Neamț. The medical device, worth 30,000 euros, was necessary for the hospital’s cardiology department, following the malfunctioning of the existing equipment, ziartarguneamt.ro reports. The physicians were presented on Aug. 31 with the new medical…

Sep 7, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți opens first hospital in Dolhasca | ‘It is a place of physical and spiritual healing’

On Sunday, the first hospital of the Suceava and Rădăuți Archdiocese was inaugurated in Dolhasca, which will provide medical services to over 10,000 inhabitants in the area. His Eminence Archbishop Pimen officiated the blessing service for the medical, social unit dedicated to St George the Victory-Bearer, after which Abp. Pimen celebrated the Divine Liturgy. The…

Aug 22, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Orthodox Church in support of Romanian gymnasts. Deva Diocese donates sports equipment worth €16,000

Wednesday, the Orthodox Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara, represented by Bishop Gurie, donated sports equipment worth €16,000 to the Olympic gymnastics team. The event took place on 9 August 2017 in the gym of the Deva Municipal Sports Club, in the presence of gymnasts and their coaches. The Deva Diocese purchased an Acrotramp Long Trampoline…

Aug 10, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

In pictures: Romanian Patriarchate donates medical equipment to twenty hospitals

On Wednesday, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, donated twenty medical devices for paediatric use to several hospitals in the country. The representatives of the twenty hospitals were presented August 9, 2017, with the medical devices at the Conventus Hall of the Palace of the Patriarchate, where they attended a seminar held…

Aug 9, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu