The Week in Pictures: April 27 – May 3, 2020

Beyond restrictions, life goes on with the hope that things will soon come back to normal and we will be able to glorify God for giving us the strength to overcome this difficult period. Here is our selection of pictures from the Orthodox world during the previous week. 

In the cemeteries from Galaţi and Brăila, the priests officiated memorial services to commemorate the deceased on the first day after the Sunday of Saint Thomas, a day also called Memorial Easter. Photo: Archdiocese of the Lower Danube
Orthodox Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo: Angel Karadakov
A priest lights candles at graves for Memorial Easter at Misleanu village, Ialomița county. Photo: Gheorghe Neculai
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew praying silently. Photo: Nikos-Giorgos Papachristou
After being quarantined in his native village, Metropolitan Innocentios of Burundi and Rwanda working as a farmer. Photo: Orthodox Church of Uganda
The drought is affecting crops in Ialomita. A priest offers prayers for rain in the field. Photo: Gheorghe Neculai
The church dedicated to Saint Stephen the Grea” located on “Zion Hill”, near the Putna Monastery, seems to be fairytale-like. Photo: Hierodeacon Ioan Tofan
National Cathedral – panorama. Photo: Archim. Andrei Anghel
A giant banner icon of Christ was launched into sky over the city of Serpukhov, near Moscow. The icon, with an area of several dozens of square meters, set off with the help of a hot air balloon. Photo: serpuhov.ru
The Archdiocese of Timișoara offered four diagnostic and monitoring stations to the “Victor Babeș” Infectious Diseases Hospital and the Bega Maternity Hospital in Timișoara. Photo credit: Banat Metropolis
Fr Nectarie, a Romanian missionary priest, helping a family in Uganda to renovate their house. Photo: Facebook / Fr Nectarie
Coronation Cathedral at Alba Iulia. Photo: Facebook / Sârb Vasi
Many seniors need support due to the restrictions caused by Covid-19 epidemic. The priest from Leordeni, Topoloveni, comes to the aid of seniors in his parish, offering them spiritual and material support. Photo: Archdiocese of Argeș and Muscel
Bishop Justin of Maramureș and Sătmar at Rohia Monastery. Photo: Diocese of Maramureș & Sătmar
The liturgy after the Divine Liturgy – a Romanian family dressed in folk costumes on the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women. Photo: Deacon Valeriu Mircea Vana
Monument of Saint Alexander Schmorell, the founder of the White Rose movement and the first canonized German Saint. The White Rose is the name of a group of students in Munich who formed a non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany. In February 1943 the members of the group were arrested and sentenced to death by beheading. Photo: hellas-bayern.de

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