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Priest renovating house for disabled women raising young girl

Fr. Alexandru Balaban, the parish priest of Dăeni, a village in Dobrudja, between River Danube and the Black Sea, is coordinating efforts to renovate a house inhabited by a little girl, eight-year-old Iulica, and by her mother and her aunt. The sisters are both disabled and struggling to raise the child and the rain was…

Nov 18, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: November 8 – 14, 2021

November 8 – 14 was the saints’ week. A week full of divine services and events showing the love of the Church for the angels and for saints Nektarios, Menas, John Chrysostom, Gregory Palamas and the Năsăud Confessors. Last week’s most-liked Instagram photo:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica…

Nov 18, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Metropolitan Teofan visits Covid-19 patients at St Parascheva Hospital ICU

Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina officiated on Wednesday the sacrament of the Holy Unction in the courtyard of “St Parascheva” Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases in Iași. Afterwards, the Romanian hierarch dressed in full sanitary protective equipment and went to bless and encourage the Covid-19 ICU patients. Florin Roșu, the hospital manager, described the…

Nov 18, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Dream home makeover: Parish priest makes young man return from abroad to be with his siblings

A young Romanian returned from Germany to his native country after a village priest told him on the phone that his abandoned siblings needed him. This story of personal transformation, responsibility and solidarity culminated when the Bishop of Tulcea blessed the reunited family’s new home, built by the team of the Dream Home Makeover television…

Nov 18, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

President of Heartbeat, the largest network of pregnancy help centers, to open pro-life conference in Romania

Jor-El Godsey, President of Heartbeat International, USA, is a keynote speaker at the fourth edition of Romania’s National Conference of Pregnant Women Support Centers. The event is organized on November 19-20 by the Association for the Support of Families and Pregnant Women and is open to all interested parties. The theme of the current edition…

Nov 17, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

EU Commission: 2022 to be the European Year of Youth

The European Commission adopted on Sunday the proposal to make 2022 the European Year of Youth. This proposal will be discussed by the EU Parliament and Council. Europe needs the vision, engagement and participation of all young people to build a better future, that is greener, more inclusive and digital, transmitted the European Commission in…

Nov 16, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Romanian Orthodox Church: Day of Bible promotes better knowledge of the Holy Scriptures

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church established in 2006 the Day of the Bible, to be marked yearly on November 13. The goal was to remind the faithful of their duty to read the Holy Scriptures. The Church celebrates on the same day St. John Chrysostom, who is considered the greatest interpreter of the…

Nov 13, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Romanian Parishes in Austria take steps to protect the environment

The General Assembly of the Romanian Orthodox Community in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, presided by Metropolitan Serafim, voted on Sunday a project whose goal is to raise awareness on ecological issues and increase the accountability of the faithful regarding God’s Creation. The project was unanimously voted and it provides that each parish implement eco-awareness…

Nov 12, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Dostoevsky’s 200th birth anniversary: The Philokalic dimension of an Orthodox writer’s work

Great Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky’s work decisively marked the literature, philosophy, psychology and theology of the 20th century. He was born in Moscow two centuries ago, on November 11, 1821. Dostoevsky was born in a Lithuanian family. His grandfather was a priest, his father was a military doctor and his mother came from a…

Nov 11, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Romania’s National Cathedral Volunteers renovate oncology hospital ward in Bucharest

Bucharest’s “Dr Al. Trestioreanu” Oncology Institute inaugurated on Tuesday its Medical Oncology Ward No. 2, renovated by Romania’s National Cathedral Volunteers. In record time – only 60 days – they provided over 200,000-Euros refurbishing works. His Eminence Varlaam of Ploiești, Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop, was Patriarch Daniel’s delegate to the event. Among the participants were Archimandrite…

Nov 11, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: November 1 – 7, 2021

The joy of Orthodox life is the same in distant Africa and Romania. Please see our selection of photos taken between November 1 and 7. Last week’s most-liked Instagram photo:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica News Agency (@basilica.ro) Do you want to be featured in our weekly selection…

Nov 9, 2021Ștefana Totorcea