The Week in Pictures: October 25 – 31, 2021
Sunsets, fall escapes, icons and pilgrim portraits are just a part of our selection of photos taken between October 25 – 31, 2021. Last week’s most-liked Instagram photo: View this post on Instagram …
Tag: Romania
Lebanese Female Chanter Ribale Wehbé: There is nothing more beautiful than to know how to praise God
She is 22. She comes from a country where Orthodox Christians are a minority and travels worldwide praising God in the millennia-old musical tradition known as Byzantine music. She invites young men and women to…
The Week in Pictures: October 11 – 17, 2021
The thoughts and prayers of the faithful went towards Saint Parascheva last week, while many pilgrims went to honour her relics in the city of Iași. Please find below our photo selection from last week.…
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: In Romania, the most affected are children
The UN international observance calendar includes, on October 17, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The most affected Romanians are children: one third live in poverty. This year’s international observance has the theme…
Bill proposes St. Stephen the Great as Romanian national hero and cultural patron
A bill submitted to the Romanian Senate last month proposes to declare the 15th-16th century leader St. Stephen the Great as a national hero and patron of Romanian culture. The 2nd of July would become…
Romanian deanery builds house for family with seven children. Six more houses to follow
The first of the seven social houses built by Onești Deanery was inaugurated on Thursday in the Mănăstirea Cașin village, Bacău county. The house was blessed and formally offered to a needy family. Six more…
US Orthodox priest documents Bucharest Orthodoxy in a short film
Father Panayiotis Papageorgiou, a Cyprus-born American Christian Orthodox priest, visited the Capital city of Romania this summer. Together with his son, Efstratios Papageorgiou, he is making a documentary series about Eastern European Orthodoxy. The short…
The Week in Pictures: October 4 – 10, 2021
Prayer, faith, love are strongly intertwined in every Orthodox Christian’s life. Please find below our selection of photos taken between October 4 and 10, 2021. Last week’s most-liked Instagram photo: View this post on…
The Week in Pictures: September 27 – October 3, 2021
Gilded icons and golden autumn leaves, vigil lamps and sunshine gleaming over saintly lives and semantron sound. This was last week’s bigger picture in our photo selection. Last week’s most-liked Instagram photo: View this…
The Week in Pictures: September 20 – 26, 2021
There were many religious events in România and the rest of the Orthodox world between September 20 and 26. Please find their story in the pictures below. Last week’s most-liked Instagram photo: View this…