Brussels

Metropolitan Iosif joins patronal feast in Brussels: Fasting restores our place in Paradise

On Sunday, His Eminence Metropolitan Iosif of Western and Southern Europe celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the “Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and Saint Gertrude of Nivelles” Parish in Uccle, Brussels. “When we fast, we reclaim our place in Paradise, for Adam and Eve ate the fruits that God provided for them in Eden. When…

Mar 18, 2025Aurelian Iftimiu

The European Green Deal – How can faith-based actors contribute to a greener Europe?

The European Parliament in Brussels hosted, on Tuesday, 28 Jan 2020, a dialogue seminar on the European Grean Deal (EGD) – the flagship environmental policy programme of the current European Commission, which, if fully implemented, will hugely impact on the EU’s approach to environmental issues, over the next few decades. Representatives of churches and other faith-based actors in Europe…

Feb 3, 2020Sorin Ioniţe

Concert of Orthodox Church Music in Brussels

The Representation of the Romanian Orthodox Church to the European Institutions and Les Grands Heures de la Cambre invite you to the classical music concert  “La spiritualité roumaine dans la création musicale religieuse” by the Nicolae Lungu Choir of the Romanian Patriarchate. The event will take place on January 24, 2020, at 20:00, in Abbaye de la Cambre,…

Jan 17, 2020Iulian Dumitraşcu

Commission Vice-President Katainen: “We need more Christian values in Europe!”

Addressing an event on common European values, in Brussels, which was marking the upcoming Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU (July-December 2019), European Commission Vice-President, Jyrki Katainen emphasised that the discussion on this topic is becoming of utmost importance. He deplored the fact that many of the EU’s Member States seem to have forgotten some of…

Jun 25, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

Ethical concerns about A.I. in the European Parliament

A dialogue meeting, between MEPs, representatives of the European Commission and representatives of Churches, Religious and Humanitarian Organizations, on “Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Concerns”, chaired by Vice-President Mairead McGuinness, was held on Tuesday, March 19, in the building of the European Parliament in Brussels, Romfea News reports. The dialogue was held with a view to presenting,…

Mar 27, 2019Iulian Dumitraşcu

20 religion journalists from Romania visit ROC Representation to the European Institutions

A group of twenty religion journalists from Romania visited the Representation of the Romanian Orthodox Church to the European Institutions headquartered in Brussels on the first day of a three-day trip to Belgium beginning on Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The journalists were welcomed by Rev. Sorin Selaru, director, Rev. George Valcu, secretary, and Rev. Gabriel…

Mar 12, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu