{"id":278731,"date":"2020-05-04T21:42:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=278731"},"modified":"2020-05-04T21:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:42:44","slug":"the-week-in-pictures-april-27-may-3-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/the-week-in-pictures-april-27-may-3-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Pictures: April 27 – May 3, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the cemeteries from Gala\u0163i and Br\u0103ila, 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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Orthodox Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo: Angel Karadakov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A priest lights candles at graves for Memorial Easter at Misleanu village, Ialomi\u021ba county. Photo: Gheorghe Neculai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew praying silently. Photo: Nikos-Giorgos Papachristou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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After being quarantined in his native village, Metropolitan Innocentios of Burundi and Rwanda working as a farmer. Photo: Orthodox Church of Uganda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The drought is affecting crops in Ialomita. A priest offers prayers for rain in the field. Photo: Gheorghe Neculai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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National Cathedral – panorama. Photo: Archim. Andrei Anghel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Archdiocese of Timi\u0219oara offered four diagnostic and monitoring stations to the \u201cVictor Babe\u0219\u201d Infectious Diseases Hospital and the Bega Maternity Hospital in Timi\u0219oara. Photo credit: Banat Metropolis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fr Nectarie, a Romanian missionary priest, helping a family in Uganda to renovate their house. Photo: Facebook \/ Fr Nectarie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Coronation Cathedral at Alba Iulia. Photo: Facebook \/ S\u00e2rb Vasi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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 Arge\u0219 and Muscel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bishop Justin of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar at Rohia Monastery. Photo: Diocese of Maramure\u0219 & S\u0103tmar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We would gladly include one of your photos depicting Orthodox life in our weekly selection. All you have to do is send the picture(s) you have taken to our email address [info @ basilica.ro] along with a short description. Please mention WIP (Week in Pictures) in the email subject line. Please note that every WIP article will include photos taken in the previous week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 Follow us on Twitter: @BasilicaNews and on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":278677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[878],"tags":[2350,19033,12479,16461,20105,16388],"class_list":["post-278731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-galleries","tag-orthodox-church","tag-orthodox-photography","tag-orthodox-world","tag-saptamana-in-imagini-en","tag-the-news-in-pictures","tag-the-week-in-pictures"],"better_featured_image":{"id":278677,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1900,"height":1080,"file":"2020\/05\/3-mai-wip.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"3-mai-wip-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3-mai-wip-360x360.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"3-mai-wip-890x506.jpg","width":890,"height":506,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3-mai-wip-890x506.jpg"},"large":{"file":"3-mai-wip-1024x582.jpg","width":1024,"height":582,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3-mai-wip-1024x582.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":278731,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3-mai-wip.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278731\/"}],"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\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=278731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278731\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278677\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=278731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=278731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=278731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}