The Patriarch of Romania sent a message on Monday for the National Conference of the Support Centres for Pregnant Women. The 6th edition of the biannual event is held in Bucharest, Romania, between September 12-13, 2022. Patriarch Daniel emphasised that we are all called to become the hands of God’s merciful love for unborn children.…
Patriarch Daniel sent condolences to His Majesty CHARLES III on Thursday, over death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Bucharest, 8 September 2022 His Majesty CHARLES III, King of the United Kingdom and of the Commonwealth Realms Your Majesty, We are deeply moved by the falling asleep into the Lord of the late Queen Elizabeth…
The Romanian and German ministries of education signed last month a protocol permitting the participation of Romanian children in free optional lessons of Romanian. Romanian language lessons for children are in high demand among the Romanian diaspora, according to Digi 24. Germany thus joins the other six EU countries where this protocol functions. These are…
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the passing to the eternity of the most beloved son of Transylvania, “The Prince of the Mountains” (in Romanian, “Crăişorul munţilor”), Avram Iancu, Romfilatelia introduced into circulation on Tuesday, September 6th, a commemorative issue with the generic title „Avram Iancu, 150 years since his death”, consisting of a postage stamp…
His Eminence Petru, Metropolitan of Bessarabia, consecrated on August 30, the new church of the Larga Nouă community in the Republic of Moldova. The worship place is dedicated to the feast of the “Translation of St Nicholas’ Relics” and it replaces the community church built in 1800 and destroyed in 1954, during the Soviet occupation.…
To honour the important work that many charities do, in 2012 the United Nations decided to nominate an annual International Day of Charity as an official day of recognition and celebration on September 5. The reason the date was chosen is that it is the anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. This…
The Patriarch of Romania has sent a message to all students and teachers at the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year, noting that prayer is a source of peace, joy and communion. His Beatitude stressed that today, when, under the influence of secularisation, spiritual values are neglected, and education is subject to paradigm shifts, children…
Thousands of needy children received fully loaded backpacks from several Orthodox churches in Bucharest on Monday. The recipients included 3,000 children from needy families and 1,000 from Ukrainian refugee families. The gifts were distributed at the Church of St. John the Russian in Bucharest, provided by six parishes in cooperation with the World Vision Romania…
“The respect for creation and the constant concern for its protection belong to the core of our Orthodox identity,” stressed His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in a message for the Day of the protection of creation marked annually on September 1. Patriarch Bartholomew recalls the efforts of the Patriarchate of Constantinople since 1989 to promote “the…
Last Saturday, the Metropolitan of Transylvania inaugurated a new kindergarten in Deva, honouring the late bishop Gurie Georgiu. The project initiated by Bishop Gurie was entrusted three years ago to the now Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, Nestor. The kindergarten was blessed during a service on August 27 attended by Bishop Andrei of Covasna and…
The Mono Monastery, in the Canadian province of Ontario, announced on Wednesday the completion of repairs done to the chapel roof and thanked all those who made it possible – Romanian Orthodox Bishop Ioan Casian and the benefactors. The monks also announced extension projects. The small monastic community also transmitted they are about to get…
Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia, a distinguished theologian and hierarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, reposed in the Lord on Wednesday night, around 01:00 hours. He was born with the name of Timothy in Bath, Great Britain, in 1934, and studied at Westminster School and the prestigious Magdalen College in Oxford. He discovered Orthodoxy while he…
Patriarch Daniel sent condolences to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on Wednesday, after His Eminence Kallistos, Metropolitan of Diokleia, reposed in the Lord. The Patriarch of Romania called the recently-departed hierarch “an old friend of our Church and of ours, personally”. Full text: Bucharest, 24 August 2022 His Holiness BARTHOLOMEW, Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome,…
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is looking to its assembly at the end of August in Karlsruhe to raise up the issue of climate justice and underline the need to care for the creation, says the WCC’s acting general secretary, Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca. “If we don’t change our behaviour, in 50 years…
Father Alexandru Baltaga was the representative of the Church in the House of Representatives in 1918, when he voted for the unification of Bessarabia with Romania. When the Soviets occupied Bessarabia, in 1941, aged 80, he was deported to a forced labour camp in Kazan, today’s Capital city of Tatarstan. The priest had admitted to…
Patriarch Daniel has sent a message to the Romanian diaspora marking the Romanian Migrants’ Sunday on August 21, 2022. His Beatitude urges those who left Romania to remain united through continuous prayer with God, the Creator of heaven and earth, and, simultaneously, with their loved ones who remained in Romania. At the same time, the…
A newly-found mosaic in el-Araj, on the northern shore of Lake Kinneret in Israel, shows the most probable location of the city of Bethsaida and it could also indicate the home of Apostles Peter and Andrew, who were brothers. A 1,500-year-old mosaic mentions the name of the basilica founder, Constantine, and a prayer addressed to…
After investing thirteen priests from the Archdiocese of Bucharest as spiritual fathers, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel explained why today people need more than ever prayerful priests. “Prayer that enables the mind to descend into the heart brings us peace and sets the praying reason in opposition to the rebellious reason,” Patriarch Daniel said during a…
The patronal feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos of Nicula Monastery in Cluj County gathered over 20,000 people who participated in the religious services. The 17th-century wonderworking icon of the Mother of God turned Nicula Monastery into a famous place of prayer and pilgrimage. Thousands of people participated in the pilgrimage “Uphill to Nicula”…
The martyrdom of Saint Constantine Brâncoveanu represents one of the most beautiful pages of history in the great book of Romanians, said His Grace Assistant Bishop Timotei of Prahova on Monday at the New Saint George Church in Bucharest. “We have had great rulers who loved their country. Such were Saint Stephen, Matthew Basarab, the…