Our collection of photos from the Orthodox world covering a variety of topics from church feasts, youth ministry programs, official meetings and many more. Read more: Basilica.ro marks 1st anniversary of weekly news in pictures…
The former Romanian football player Mihai Neșu held a teleconference call about success from a Christian perspective with the over 1,400 young people who gathered in Iași at the end of August for a local…
On the Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John, His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and all East, celebrates his name day. His Beatitude John X was born in 1955 in the city…
The Church has joined the ‘Let’s do it, Romania!’ campaign and summoned teams of young students from the theological seminaries across Romania to help out with the clean-up day. Over 180,000 Romanians, most of them…
50,000 Slovaks gathered in the European country’s capital of Bratislava this weekend to call for an end to legal abortion, Life Site reports. The predominantly-Catholic country currently allows abortions for any reason up to 12…
On Monday, Sept. 30, 2019, the Romanian Orthodox Church will celebrate the 12th enthronement anniversary of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. On this occasion, beginning with 9.00 a.m. His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel will preside over the…
At the start of the new academic year 2019/20, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a message to all the students and professors stressing that ‘integral education promotes scientific knowledge and the cultivation of spiritual values.’…
Pursuant to the provisions of Law No. 312/2004 on the Statute of the National Bank of Romania (NBR), as of 30 September 2019, the National Bank of Romania will put into circulation, for numismatic purposes, a…
A joyful event marked the first day of school in Lovech, Bulgaria last Monday, as the Orthodox Church opened its first school in the country. The moleben for the beginning of the school year with…
A 100-year-old building in the city of Haugesund in southwestern Norway was given new life on Sunday, as it was consecrated as a parish church of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The new church, the first…
During the first ever conference on the mission of presbyteras in the Diocese of Huși, His Grace Bishop Ignatie noted that a presbytera is the guardian angel of the priest and of their home. The…
The person who enters the monastery and wishes to become a monastic must first go through two stages: the novitiate and the rasophoria. The novitiate is a trial period, in which the brother or sister…
Archbishop Elpidophoros convened the first ever Monastic Assembly of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in the US to promote the value and importance of monasticism in the Orthodox Christian tradition and the spiritual life of the…
To the Most Reverend Archbishop of America Elpidophoros, most-honorable Exarch of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, beloved brother in the Holy Spirit and co-celebrant of our modesty, grace to your eminence and peace from God.…
International Day of Sign Languages (IDSL) is celebrated annually across the world on 23 September every year. According to the World Federation of the Deaf, there are approximately 72 million deaf people worldwide. More than 80%…
One week after officially taking over as Georgia’s new Prime Minister, Giorgi Gakharia met with the Georgian Patriarch Ilia II at the Patriarchate in Tbilisi. His Beatitude Patriarch Ilia blessed the PM and wished him…
The Patriarch of Romania on Sunday officiated the re-consecration of a church in the Aparatorii Patriei neighbourhood in Bucharest, saying that in that place ‘the village and the city gather in the joy of communion.’…
The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the Day as a period of non-violence and cease-fire. 2019 Theme:…