{"id":537243,"date":"2025-08-12T15:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=537243"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:14:53","slug":"presidents-romania-moldova-visit-orthodox-parish-chisinau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/presidents-romania-moldova-visit-orthodox-parish-chisinau\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidents of Romania, Republic of Moldova visit Orthodox parish near Chi\u0219in\u0103u"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Romanian President Nicu\u0219or Dan and Moldovan President Maia Sandu visited on Sunday the \u201cProtection of the Mother of God\u201d Church in the village of Ghidighici, near Chi\u0219in\u0103u.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parish priest Maxim Melinti presented to them the old church, the new church currently under construction\u2014dedicated to the \u201cTransfiguration of the Lord\u201d\u2014and the \u201cIsland of Happiness\u201d Social Centre, where catechetical, charitable, and social projects are carried out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI express my deep gratitude to the distinguished guests for their love and for taking the time from their schedules to make this historic visit to the Orthodox Parish of Ghidighici!\u201d the cleric wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpreotulmaximmelinti%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02fnFJYX3EpGWw3iz2CVQhTs3GH9fTVoif3pLYZuY2n6aYyFMexZvCNBpMkav4rj7ul&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"787\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Romanian President Nicu\u0219or Dan spent the past weekend on a private visit to the Republic of Moldova, where he went on a hike with his family on the Condri\u021ba estate, near Chi\u0219in\u0103u, and, together with President Maia Sandu, attended the Wolves Festival in the Orheiul Vechi nature reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook \/ Preotul Maxim Melinti<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasilicaNews\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-495171\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-889x148.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-889x148.gif 889w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-1024x171.gif 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-1536x256.gif 1536w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-2048x341.gif 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian President Nicu\u0219or Dan and Moldovan President Maia Sandu visited on Sunday the \u201cProtection of the Mother of God\u201d Church in the village of Ghidighici, near Chi\u0219in\u0103u. Parish priest Maxim Melinti presented to them the old church, the new church currently under construction\u2014dedicated to the \u201cTransfiguration of the Lord\u201d\u2014and the \u201cIsland of Happiness\u201d Social Centre,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":537213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[9780,27774,35803,4977,2199],"class_list":["post-537243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-metropolis-of-bessarabia","tag-president-maia-sandu","tag-president-nicusor-dan","tag-president-of-romania","tag-republic-of-moldova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}