ştiri religioase

Christian persecution ‘at near genocide levels’

The persecution of Christians in parts of the world is at near “genocide” levels, according to a report published by BBC.  The review estimated that one in three people suffer from religious persecution. Christians were the most persecuted religious group, it found. The interim report said the main impact of “genocidal acts against Christians is exodus”…

May 7, 2019Iulian Dumitraşcu

Archbishop Ieronymos visits 8-year-old Alexia at the hospital

Archbishop Ieronymos was found on Thursday at Aglaia Kyriakou Hospital to support and give courage to the 8-year-old’s parents, who was hit by a bullet and is now fighting for her life. The Archbishop was also informed about the 8-year-old’s health status, Romfea News reports. “We talked to the doctors, and for the first time…

May 7, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria conveyed his condolences for the train crash in Egypt

Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria expressed, from Addis Ababa where he is at the moment, his personal and all Orthodox Church of Africa’s deep sorrow for the tragic accident at the Cairo Railway Station, which eventually caused 22 deaths and injured at least 40 people. In his statements, he sent his sincere condolences to Egyptian…

Mar 1, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

Patriarch Bartholomew, Greek PM in joint call for reopening of Halki seminary

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday expressed their shared hope that the Halki Orthodox seminary, which was shut down by Turkish authorities in 1971, will soon reopen. Tsipras thanked Ecumenical Vartholomeos for the tour of the school (high school and seminary) where he went from the island of Imvros at…

Feb 10, 2019Iulian Dumitraşcu

Construction for Sümela Monastery cable car project to start in March

Construction works for a cable car planned to be built in the area where the historic Sümela Monastery in Turkey’s Black Sea province of Trabzon’s Maçka district is will start in March, authorities have announced. Companies will tender for the project on Feb. 19, Trabzon Mayor Orhan Fevzi Gümrükçüoğlu has said. The planned cable car…

Feb 6, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

Romanian Archdiocese of Timișoara invested $1 million+ in philanthropic services in 2018

In addition to its spiritual role, the Romanian Orthodox Church is a great philanthropic force in the Orthodox nation. For example, the Archdiocese of Timișoara in western Romania spent more than $1 million in social endeavors last year alone. It was reported at the diocesan assembly on January 19 that 13,725 people were helped through…

Jan 24, 2019Iulian Dumitraşcu

Bishop Prodromos ordained for Toliara and South Madagascar

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 for religious affairs, Markos Bolaris, Orthodoxia Info reports. In his address to Bishop Prodromos, Patriarch Theodoros emphasized the importance of…

Jan 15, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

First groups of young people sing Christmas carols for HB Patriarch Daniel

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Wednesday evening welcomed several groups of young people at his patriarchal residence in Bucharest to listen to their Christmas carol recitals. The first Christmas carols were sung by the female Byzantine choir of St Catherine University Chapel in Bucharest, led by Rev. Georgian Paunoiu. His Beatitude also welcomed the Romanian…

Dec 20, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Bishop Arsenin of Joensuu elected Metropolitan of Kuopio and Karelia

The assistant Bishop Arsenie of Joensuu was elected Metropolitan of Kuopio and Karelia at the previous session of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Finland. The meeting took place during November, 26-29, 2018, at New Valaam Monastery and was chaired by His Eminence Leo, Archbishop of Helsinki and all Finland, the Orthodox Church…

Dec 4, 2018Gheorghe Anghel

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel inaugurates 1918 Great Union Memorial in Alba Iulia

On Saturday, December 1, 2018, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel inaugurated a memorial dedicated to Romania’s 1918 Great Union in Alba Iulia. The ceremony was attended by Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem and other Romanian Orthodox bishops. The stone monument has the shape of four crosses joined at the top and two reversed “U” letters, meant to…

Dec 1, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

‘We thank for all benefactions of the Great Union’: Romania National Day celebrated at Alba Iulia

For all the benefactions of the Great Union, we thank today the Most Holy Trinity,’ Patriarch Daniel said after the Te Deum service officiated on Saturday on Romania’s National Day at the Coronation Cathedral in Alba Iulia. His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem and All Palestine also concelebrated. ‘We gratefully remember all Romanian heroes who…

Dec 1, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu