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Patriarch Daniel: Centenary of “King Ferdinand I” National Military Museum, opportunity to reflect on honouring our heroes

“The Centenary of the ‘King Ferdinand I’ National Military Museum is an opportunity to reflect on honouring Romanian heroes,” transmitted the Patriarch Daniel on Thursday. “The exhibition concept of the National Military Museum makes us contemporary with many of the events through which the Romanian people passed with bravery, courage and faith in God,” His…

Dec 8, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: November 27 – December 3 2023

Orthodoxy plays a significant role in the spiritual life of the Romanian people. With a rich religious tradition, Orthodox believers celebrate National Day in churches throughout the country and hold memorial services for the heroes who died in defence of their homeland. Below is our Week-in-Pictures photo feature for November 27 – December 3, 2023.…

Dec 4, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

#RedWeek campaign raises awareness of Christian persecution worldwide

The #RedWeek campaign of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), a 70-year-old Catholic initiative, unfolds between November 19 and 26, 2023: churches and famous monuments around the world are lit with red lights to draw attention to the persecution of Christians. The first edition of the #RedWeek campaign was in 2015, when the statue…

Nov 22, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: November 13 – 19, 2023

The photos taken in the first week of the Nativity Fast capture the transition from autumn to winter and the joy of the first snowfall in Moldova and Bukovina. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro) Do you want to be featured in our…

Nov 20, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

“You don’t find the icon. The icon finds you”: His conversion to Orthodoxy started with a collection of Orthodox art

Peter Peterson, a collector of Romanian sacred art, travelled the world far and wide, only to settle in Romania, where his passion for the Orthodox icon gradually turned into a spiritual journey, at the end of which he was baptised Orthodox. Recently, he offered his collection of sacred art to the Romanian Patriarchate, to be…

Nov 17, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: November 6 – 12, 2023

Please find our weekly selection of photos from the Orthodox world. The second week of November was embellished by the feast of Holy Hierarch Nektarios and the colours of autumn.   Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro) Do you want to be featured…

Nov 13, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: October 30 – November 5, 2023

Please find below a selection of photos from the Orthodox world: from several areas of Romania, but also from religious events in Bulgaria, Israel, Poland, USA, Serbia or Greece. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro) Do you want to be featured in our…

Nov 8, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

International Day for Preventing Exploitation of Environment in War: Every war is a humanitarian and ecological catastrophe

Monday marks the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, observed yearly on November 6. The environment has often been a victim of war. Water sources have been polluted, crops burned, forests cut down, soils poisoned and animals killed. Last year, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I mentioned the devastating…

Nov 6, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

One of the oldest iconostases in Poland was discovered in an Orthodox church

Polish researchers announced last month that they discovered one of the oldest iconostases in Poland. it was found in a church from Nowoberezowo, the district of Hajnówka, and presented in an event held in Białystok, the city where the most numerous Polish Orthodox faithful live at present. The discovery was made in the attic of…

Nov 2, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

International Day against Bullying at School: For healthy mind and better school results

In 2019, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) established the International Day against Violence and Bullying at School, including Cyberbullying to be observed on the first Thursday ov November. The goal was to increase social awareness on the fact that bullying in schools and cyberbullying is an infringement of children’s and adolescents’…

Nov 2, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

Who was Protos. Iraclie Flocea: Survivor of the Stalinist Gulag proposed for canonization

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church approved, in its working session from October 25, 2023, the proposal of the Diocese of Southern Bessarabia for the canonization of Protosyncellus Iraclie Flocea (May 11, 1893 – August 16, 1964). The proposal had previously been approved by the Metropolitan Synod of the Metropolis of Bessarabia. The…

Nov 1, 2023Ștefana Totorcea