{"id":225675,"date":"2019-01-24T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=225675"},"modified":"2019-01-24T18:25:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:25:37","slug":"romanian-archdiocese-of-timisoara-invested-1-million-in-philanthropic-services-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/romanian-archdiocese-of-timisoara-invested-1-million-in-philanthropic-services-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Archdiocese of Timi\u0219oara invested $1 million+ in philanthropic services in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In addition to its spiritual role, the Romanian Orthodox Church is a great philanthropic force in the Orthodox nation. For example, the Archdiocese of Timi\u0219oara in western Romania spent more than $1 million in social endeavors last year alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was reported at the diocesan assembly on January 19 that 13,725 people were helped through the diocese\u2019s various programs.<\/p>\n<p>Among the activities highlighted at the assembly were work in the field of the protection of the rights of children, people with disabilities, people living with HIV\/AIDS, the elderly with no one to take care of them, families with high social risk, and religious assistance in hospitals, prisons, children\u2019s homes, old folks\u2019 homes, and the army.<\/p>\n<p>The total amount invested in the Archdiocese\u2019s philanthropic work was $1,110,000 (4,644, 620 lei).<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the case of a family from Satchinez with 7 children that received a house with 3 rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, and all necessary amenities from the Archdiocese just before Nativity last year, and the Archdiocese\u2019s work in purchasing and delivering medical equipment to remote villages was presented at the assembly.<\/p>\n<p>OrthoChristian also reported\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/orthochristian.com\/111173.html\">in March<\/a>\u00a0about a Romanian family with 9 children that was given a house in the village of Parhida bought with funds collected from local villagers at the initiative of the local priests.<\/p>\n<p>Tr by orthochristian.com<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of\u00a0Archdiocese of Timi\u0219oara<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to its spiritual role, the Romanian Orthodox Church is a great philanthropic force in the Orthodox nation. For example, the Archdiocese of Timi\u0219oara 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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":225676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[13540,18234,15621],"class_list":["post-225675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-en","tag-archdiocese-of-timisoara","tag-philanthropic-services","tag-stiri-religioase-en"],"better_featured_image":{"id":225676,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1024,"height":576,"file":"2019\/01\/mitrop-ioan.x71918.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"mitrop-ioan.x71918-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mitrop-ioan.x71918-360x360.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"mitrop-ioan.x71918-890x501.jpg","width":890,"height":501,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mitrop-ioan.x71918-890x501.jpg"},"large":{"file":"mitrop-ioan.x71918-1024x576.jpg","width":1024,"height":576,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mitrop-ioan.x71918-1024x576.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":225675,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mitrop-ioan.x71918.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225675\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=225675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225675\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225676\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=225675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=225675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=225675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}