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Work progresses on Romania’s largest hearing-impaired support center

Significant progress is being made on the largest center for hearing-impaired individuals in Romania, with the roof installation set to begin soon. The Archdiocese of Bucharest launched the project in 2022, and it is expected to be completed by the end of this year. The center is located in Bucharest’s Sector 5, at 7 Doina…

Jan 28, 2025Aurelian Iftimiu

Timișoara Archdiocese builds philanthropic multiplex including youth centre, gym, maternity home, kindergarten and chapel

The Archdiocese of Timisoara starts its most important project next year. A multifunctional complex for social services and educational, cultural and physical activities will be built in Timisoara. The AfiOM project – Timișoara Philanthropic Multiplex will include a youth centre, a gym, a maternity home for women in pregnancy crisis, a kindergarten and an Orthodox…

Dec 15, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

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

Romanian student fulfills vow to God with donation to Church care center

Elena Bianca Voica from Prahova county donated on Tuesday the equivalent of 600 Euros for the patients of “St. Nektarios” Palliative Care Center of the Archdiocese of Bucharest. She fulfilled a promise she had made to God when she asked Him to help her get admitted to the university. She promised Him to donate to…

Oct 1, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Metropolitan Serafim and Romanians from Germany met hundreds of children they sponsor in Romania

The Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Germany and 47 donors from the Romanian diaspora visited on Friday Romania’s most impoverished town, Negrești, in Vaslui county, where they offer monthly scholarships for 450 children. The financial support is offered through the eparchial Programme “Scholarships for the Poor Children of Moldavia”. “I was glad to meet many of…

Sep 7, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Metropolitan Ioan offers 8 tons of food to local hospitals

Metropolitan Ioan visited last Thursday the Psychiatry Hospitals of Jebel and Gătaia, in the Archdiocese of Timișoara, where he offered almost eight tons of food. Thus, in addition to comfort and prayer, staff and patients also received 7,720 kilograms of vegetables and fruit. “I don’t have enough words of thanks and appreciation for the help…

Mar 23, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

A new kind of care for the elderly down on the farm: The Polish model

In Poland, more than 2 million elderly people live in rural areas – many of them alone. This in turn leads to isolation, social exclusion and declining health. Population ageing, migration of young people to cities and structural changes within families are just some of the things that have brought this situation about. To tackle isolation…

Oct 30, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

Banat Metropolitan celebrates his name day with homeless people

His Eminence Metropolitan Ioan of Banat honoured his spiritual protector, Saint John the Forerunner, by joining several homeless people at one of Timișoara’s housing charity shelter on Monday. ‘There is nothing exceptional. This is normality for me and we should do such actions as often as possible, because, you see, these people are abandoned, they…

Jan 8, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

118 tons of goods collected for needy by Romanian Church in Moldova

The Metropolis of Bessarabia, also known as the Bessarabian Orthodox Church, an autonomous bishopric of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Moldova established the “Banca de Haine” charitable project under its “Diaconia” social mission two years ago. In that time, 118 tons of material goods for the needy have been collected by the Orthodox faithful in…

Jul 31, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

Romanian is second most common non-British nationality in UK

Number of Romanian nationals living in UK in 2017 estimated to be 411,000, up 25% on 2016, The Guardian reports. There are now more Romanians living in the UK than there are Irish nationals or Indians, official figures reveal. Romania has overtaken the Republic of Ireland and India to move from fourth to second most-common…

May 29, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

In new interview Alexandra Nadane speaks about the March for Life. ‘We do not plead for a ban on abortion, but for changing our hearts’

In an interview with the Basilica News Agency, Alexandra Nadane, the young woman who has dedicated almost her entire life to the pro-life cause, spoke about the real purpose of the March for Life and about its message to today’s society. “We do not plead for a ban on abortion, but for changing people’s hearts…

Mar 22, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu