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The Week in Pictures: January 22-28, 2024

Join us on a virtual visit to monasteries, churches and other significant places of the Orthodox world. Your guide for this photographic pilgrimage is our week-in-picture photo feature for the week of January 22-28, 2024. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro) Do you…

Feb 1, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: January 15-21, 2024

As usual, every week we take you on a virtual journey through the Orthodox world with images taken by professional and amateur photographers. Today we present our Week-in-Pictures feature for the week of 15-21 January 2024. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro) Do…

Jan 25, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: January 8-14, 2024

We invite you to a virtual journey through last week, when falling snow took us back to the words of the psalmist: “Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow”. 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…

Jan 16, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

Old calendar Christmas: Ukrainians in Romania celebrate with prayers for peace, carols and folk traditions

The communities from the Ukrainian Orthodox Vicariate of the Romanian Patriarchate celebrated Christmas according to the old calendar on January 7. It was a wonderful opportunity to continue the tradition, pray for world peace and be reunited with natives of the area who currently serve in other dioceses. “The prayers for world peace were read…

Jan 11, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

Metropolitan Ioan of Banat celebrates his name day among homeless people, pledges to find jobs for them

Metropolitan Ioan of Banat celebrated his name day among homeless people from Timișoara, on January 7, St John the Baptist day in the Romanian Orthodox Church calendar. “These are some of my friends from Timișoara. There was nowhere I could have felt better after church than among these people whose only hope is God,” said…

Jan 11, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

Over 70,000 people assisted by the social-philanthropic sectors of the Romanian Patriarchate in 2023

Father Ciprian Ioniță, Patriarchal Counsellor, and President of the Filantropia Federation of the Romanian Patriarchate, explained to Trinitas TV the activity of the Social-Philanthropic Sector of the Romanian Patriarchate in the past year. In the Solemn Year of the pastoral care of the elderly, the Social-Philanthropic Sector of the Romanian Patriarchate organized numerous activities, campaigns,…

Jan 9, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: January 1-7, 2024

Please find below the first week of 2024 in memorable images capturing the beauty of Orthodox life and one of the most important Christian holidays, the Epiphany. 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…

Jan 8, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: December 25 – 31, 2023

Photos from Romania, Greece, France or Scotland give you an overview of the Orthodox world in the last week of the year 2023. 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 of photos? We would…

Jan 5, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

More than 5,000 socially-vulnerable children received Christmas gifts from the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău

During Lent, the Social-Philanthropic and Missionary Sector of the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău ran the program “Do you want to be good for Christmas?” – the fourth edition which brought joy to over 5,000 children at risk of social exclusion. All these gifts and surprises were possible through the involvement of all deaneries, eparchial…

Jan 3, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: December 11 – 17, 2023

Please find some unique images from the Orthodox world in our week-in-Pictures photo feature for December 11-17, 2023. 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 of photos? We would gladly include one of your…

Dec 21, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

Basilica News Agency Director ordained a hierodeacon at National Cathedral’s Chapel

A few days after taking his monastic vows, Monk Nicolae Iftimiu, Director of the Basilica News Agency, was ordained a hierodeacon. Auxiliary Patriarchal Bishop Paisie of Sinaia officiated the ordination on Saturday, Dec. 16, at the National Cathedral Chapel. “We have good hope that he will respond properly to this call,” the hierarch said at…

Dec 20, 2023Ștefana Totorcea