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May 2018 Basilica.ro Review available for download

We released this year’s fifth issue of the Basilica.ro monthly review. The May 2018 edition is now available in colour pdf format for downloading and local distribution. Basilica.ro Review available for download Each monthly edition will feature select articles that had been published on the Basilica News Agency website during the previous month. Feel free to download, read and distribute the…

Jun 8, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

Three reasons why the Church established the Sunday of all Saints: Patriarch Daniel

During his Sunday homily at Samurcasesti Monastery, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel listed three reasons why the Church established a special day to celebrate the Synaxis of All Saints. Patriarch Daniel said that the first reason was to indicate that humans can become Saints, ‘to show that the fruit or consequence of the coming of the…

Jun 5, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

World Environment Day on 5 June

World Environment Day (also called as WED) has been started celebrating as an annual event on every 5th of June since 1973 in order to raise the global awareness about the importance of the healthy and green environment in the human lives, to solve the environmental issues by implementing some positive environmental actions as well as…

Jun 5, 2018Gheorghe Anghel

Patriarch Daniel says children are God’s gifts for family, Church, and society in Children’s Day Message 2018

Patriarch Daniel in this year’s Children’s Day message said that children are God’s gifts for the family, the Church, and society. The Romanian Patriarch reflected on the importance of family education for children, calling for ‘generous love and responsibility’ on behalf of parents. ‘Children born in the family and baptized in the Church in the…

May 31, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

20th anniversary of HB Metr. Sawa’s enthronement

His Beatitude Sawa (Hrycuniak), Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland, celebrates Thursday his 20th enthronement anniversary. His Beatitude Sawa is the current head of the autocephalous Church of Poland. He is the eighth hierarch to head the Polish church since it was granted autocephaly by the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1924. As Archbishop…

May 31, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

The Holy Spirit wants to dwell inside the human soul: Patriarch Daniel on Pentecost

‘The Holy Spirit wants to dwell in the human soul to make every human being an image of Christ,’ His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said Sunday at the Divine Liturgy celebrated on Pentecost at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. Concelebrants for the Divine Liturgy included the Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Ieronim of Sinai and the Assistant Bishop…

May 29, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Patriarchate’s Basilica Media Centre celebrates 11th anniversary

The Basilica Media Centre of the Romanian Patriarchate celebrated Monday its 11th anniversary of media ministry. The Basilica Media Centre has two patronal feasts, namely the feast of the Holy Trinity aka the Day of the Holy Spirit, and the Feast of Saint Demetrius the New, Protector of Bucharest, celebrated on October 27. The Basilica…

May 29, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

April 2018 Basilica.ro Review available for download

We released this year’s fourth issue of the Basilica.ro monthly review. The April 2018 edition is now available in colour pdf format for downloading and local distribution. Basilica.ro Review available for download Each monthly edition will feature select articles that had been published on the Basilica News Agency website during the previous month. Feel free to download, read and distribute the…

May 3, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

March 2018 Basilica.ro Review available for download

We released this year’s third issue of the Basilica.ro monthly review. The March 2018 edition is now available in colour pdf format for downloading and local distribution. Basilica.ro Review available for download Each monthly edition will feature select articles that had been published on the Basilica News Agency website during the previous month. Feel free to download, read and distribute the…

Apr 6, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

February 2018 Basilica.ro Review available for download

We released this year’s second issue of the Basilica.ro monthly review. The February 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 the previous month. Feel free to download, read and distribute the Good to Know.

Mar 6, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

12 Years since the enthronement of HB Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece

His Beatitude Hieronymos II celebrates on 16 February his 12th anniversary as Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. His Beatitude Hieronymos II born Ioannis Liapis in Oinofyta, Boeotia, in 1938, is a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy and of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Athens and holds degrees in Archaeology, Byzantine…

Feb 16, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu