Four frescoes stolen from monasteries of the island were delivered for repatriation to the Republic of Cyprus, Romfea reports. According to CNA, the frescoes were delivered to the Minister of Transport, Vasiliki Anastasiadou, by the…
The old small Church of Bucur the Shepherd, which formerly served as the chapel for the Radu Voda Monastery, marked on Friday, Jan. 18, its patronal feast in honour of Saints Athanasios and Cyril of…
The Romanian Academy on Tuesday held a festive session at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest to mark the National Culture Day, which was attended by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis. Introduced…
Bishop Prodromos of Toliara and South Madagascar was ordained to the episcopate Sunday in a service presided over by Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria and All Africa and attended by the Greek deputy foreign minister responsible…
‘Repentance is an effort for inner change, not a simple regret,’ His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said in his Sunday homily at St Gregory the Enlightener Chapel of his Patriarchal Residence. His Beatitude noted that repentance…
We released Basilica.ro December 2018 monthly review. The December 2018 edition is now available in colour pdf format for downloading and local distribution. Each monthly edition will feature select articles that had been published on the Basilica News Agency website during…
She is 85 and has been living in a monastery since the age of 8. On Thursday, January 10, 2019, the abbess of Vorona Monastery, Eldress Teofana Scântei was honoured with the highest distinction in…
Engineer Eugeniu Iordăchescu, whose building relocation method rescued 12 churches that would have been otherwise slated for demolition by order of Nicolae Ceauşescu in the 80s, died on January 4 at the age of 89.…
His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch celebrates on 01 January 2019 his 63th birthday. Patriarch John X of Antioch His Beatitude John X was born in 1955 in the city of Lattakia, Syria. His…
One of the places where Christmas was celebrated on Tuesday is Maaloula, a small town near Damascus, where residents still speak Aramaic, the language used by Jesus Christ. Maaloula is located in a mountainous area…