The first edition of the international Orthodox photo competition “OrthPhoto Awards” concluded on Tuesday with the announcement of its winners. The ceremony was held at the Center of Orthodox Culture in Bialystok, Poland, and it…
His Eminence Metropolitan Ioan of Banat has urged clergy and believers to offer prayers for the sick and the medical staff during the Dormition Fast. He recalled that fasting consists of “estrangement from sin, self-control…
The elected Metropolitan of France, Archim. Demetrios Ploumis was ordained bishop on Sunday in St. George’s Cathedral in Phanar, Orthodox Times informs. The divine liturgy was presided over by His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. Elder…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania celebrates his 70th birthday on Thursday. He was born on 22 July 1951, to parents Alexe and Stela Ciobotea, in Dobreşti village, Bara commune, county of Timiş. He was…
After a month and a half spent in ICU, Elder Ephrem left the hospital this morning, Saturday, July 17. On the recommendation of his doctors, he will follow treatments in a recovery center. Doctors and…
Ideologies which are in conflict with the teachings of our faith cannot be opposed by another ideology – not even one of Christian nature. It would just further division in society. Only Christ unites us.…
The Romanian Orthodox Church, by the decision of the Holy Synod in 1992, set aside the second Sunday after Pentecost as a special day for the commemoration of all Romanian Saints. “The known and the…
One hundred and fifty-two Romanian saints are interceding for us in heaven, before God. The Romanian Orthodox Church has canonized these Saints during a period of seventy years. On the second Sunday after Pentecost (Synaxis…
The first wave of deportations from Soviet-occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina started on the night of June 12, 1941. Romanians were the nationality with the greatest number of victims among those deported to Siberia and…
Patriarch Daniel on Wednesday announced the establishment of a new parish for Romanians in the diaspora. The parish will be in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and will be pastored by Father Pavel Goreanu, a former parish priest…