{"id":356168,"date":"2022-02-21T12:07:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=356168"},"modified":"2022-02-21T12:07:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:07:15","slug":"roma-who-died-in-camps-deportations-and-slavery-commemorated-at-pasarea-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/roma-who-died-in-camps-deportations-and-slavery-commemorated-at-pasarea-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Roma who died in camps, deportations, and slavery commemorated at Pas\u0103rea Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Romani people who died in camps, deportations, and slavery were commemorated during a memorial service at Pas\u0103rea Monastery near Bucharest on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The service was officiated after the Divine Liturgy, as February 20 marked the 166th anniversary of the Liberation of the Roma in the Romanian Principalities by the Prince Barbu \u0218tirbei (1856).<\/p>\n

The clergy included priests from Roma communities and Roma priests. A priest of Roma ethnicity from the Dormition of the Theotokos Parish in Sinte\u015fti, Fr Daniel Ganga, presided over the memorial service.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the Roma community in Romania, this memorial service is essential. It is a recognition of the fact that the Romanian Orthodox Church regards us as legitimate sons, sons who look to the Church as to their mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe event can be a start to creating new ways to meet. The Church is par excellence the space where people meet and have the same thought, the same faith,\u201d Father Daniel Ganga told Trinitas TV.<\/p>\n

The event\u2019s organizer, Aresel Civic Platform, invited Roma personalities, the Romanian Minister of Culture and representatives of foreign embassies in Romania, including:<\/p>\n