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Submissions for Byzanfest International Orthodox Christian Film Festival are closing August 1

Submissions for Byzanfest International Orthodox Christian Film Festival are closing 1st August 2022. The organizers plan a return to cinemas after two years of lockdowns. This year, the Festival is planning one of its biggest events with several screenings scheduled for its hometown of Melbourne, Australia, as well as other cities around the globe. Operating through…

Jul 18, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Australia: Orthodoxy fastest growing church amidst general Christian decline

The Orthodox Church is the fastest growing Christian denomination in Australia according to recently published 2016-2021 census data. The Greek Orthodox Church is the fasting growing of all in Australia, while the Serbian and Antiochian Churches are also in the top 10. The Greek Church grew by 17,400 members, the Serbian by 7,300, and the…

Jul 15, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: July 4 – 10, 2022

Please find Moments of monastic life, patronal feasts and other events in Romania and the Orthodox world between July 4 – 10, 2022: the week in pictures. 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 weekly selection…

Jul 15, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: June 27 – July 3, 2022

Last week’s highlights were the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, but also the feasts of Holy Prince Stephen the Great and of St. John Maximovich, celebrated on different continents on the same day. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro) Do…

Jul 7, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

2022: International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in humanitarian crises

This year’s edition of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, marked anually on June 26, has the theme “Addressing drug challenges in health and humanitarian crises”. In 2022, the world continues to witness widespread humanitarian crises in Afghanistan, Ukraine and elsewhere, while the COVID-19 pandemic is still a major global health crisis.…

Jun 26, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Ecumenical Patriarchate adds new saint to the Orthodox calendar: Elder Bessarion the Agathonite

The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate added on Tuesday a new saint to the Orthodox calendar: Archimandrite Bessarion Korkoliakos, also called “the Merciful Elder”, abbot of the Agathonos Monastery († January 22). The saint was born in Messinia’s Petalidi, in the southwestern part of the Peloponnese Peninsula, in 1908 and was baptized Andreas. When he…

Jun 15, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

World Blood Donor Day: An act of solidarity

World Blood Donor Day is marked annually on June 14 to raise awareness of the importance of blood donation. The goal of the observance is to encourage people to donate blood, but also to celebrate those who do it voluntarily, without reward. The day was instituted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2000, with…

Jun 14, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Christ Himself awaits us in His Father’s house: Metr. Nicolae at the summer patronal feast of Middletown Monastery

“Christ, Who has ascended to the heavens and is enthroned at the right hand of the Father, is the foundation of our hope that we also will eventually arrive in the house of the Father,” where Christ Himself awaits us, said the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of the Americas on Saturday, at the summer patronal feast…

Jun 9, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: May 30 – June 5

Children portraits, moments of spiritual joy and gratitude towards the national heroes are a few of the themes in our weekly selection of pictures taken between May 30 and June 5. 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…

Jun 7, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Children from local painting group sell their works to donate for Romania’s National Cathedral

Filling the ocean one drop at a time: Children from an after-school painting group in Hârtop, Suceava county, took an important decision on International Children’s Day. They decided to sell their paintings to the highest bidders and donate the gains to Romania’s National Cathedral. “We know this is just a drop in the ocean, but…

Jun 7, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Halki Summit V hosts inter-Christian dialogue on environment protection

Orthodox and Catholic theologians and lay people will come together at the Halki Summit V in Istanbul between June 8 and 11, to dicuss on a sustainable future for our planet. The 5th edition of the summit is entitled Sustaining the Future of the Planet Together. It has been inspired by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and…

Jun 6, 2022Ștefana Totorcea