Sunday, September 22, marks World Car Free Day in cities around the world, an older initiative that gained popularity in the 1990s. Car-free days were established in some Western countries during an oil crisis in…
Patriarch Daniel of Romania sends an irenic letter to the leaders of Christian communities celebrating the Resurrection of the Lord on March 31, 2024. Full text: Bucharest, 31 March 2024 Your Holiness/Eminence, Christ is Risen!…
The President and First Lady of Malta, George and Miriam Vella, attended the Agape Vespers celebrated on Resurrection Sunday at the Romanian Orthodox Parish in Valletta. The high officials were welcomed by the children of…
During his speech on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel announced that the icon of Saint Joseph the Hesychast will be included in the iconographic program of Romania’s National Cathedral. The mosaic icon…
Israeli cultural authorities have recently presented one of the most impressive burial caves discovered in the country, more than two millennia old. The site was identified as the tomb of midwife Salome from Bethlehem and…
The Romanian and German ministries of education signed last month a protocol permitting the participation of Romanian children in free optional lessons of Romanian. Romanian language lessons for children are in high demand among the…
Patriarch Daniel sent condolences to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on Wednesday, after His Eminence Kallistos, Metropolitan of Diokleia, reposed in the Lord. The Patriarch of Romania called the recently-departed hierarch “an old friend of our…
This year, the Fast of the Holy Apostles begins on Monday, June 20, and lasts for nine days. The commemoration day of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul is celebrated every year on June 29.…
While Romanians in Cancun, Mexico, have decided to form an Orthodox parish, the local Catholic Archdiocese offered them a chappel to use for religious service. “God has made the first step toward us,” said Father…
The Serbian and North-Macedonian Orthodox Primates and hierarchs concelebrated on Thursday at “St. Sava” Cathedral in Belgrade to mark the end of a 55-year liturgical and canonical separation. Patriarch Porfirije concelebrated the Divine Liturgy with…