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A memorial service was held on Thursday by the Bishop of Tulcea, His Grace Vissarion, at the notorious Periprava labor camp in the Danube Delta, which was operated by the tyrannical Romanian communist regime for decades.  

The historic Orthodox monastery of Soumela was reopened to the public on Thursday. According to press reports, some 90 percent of renovation works have been completed, with 10 chapels, an iconic bell tower, the guest house, the quarters for monks and students, as well as the cellars located north of the Church open for the…

Today marks the 12-year anniversary of the repose in the Lord of Elder Iosif of Vatopedi. One of the reposed Elder’s spiritual offspring is the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The Elder Iosif is considered as a modern-day reformer of the & Great Monastery of Vatopedi and…

The Church today venerates the memory of Cosmas & Damian, the Holy Un-mercenaries. These Saints, who are different from those celebrated on Nov. 1, were from Rome. They were physicians, freely bestowing healing, asking nothing from the healed other than that they confess and believe in Christ. They ended their life in martyrdom in the…

“Even if some slander us, gossip about us and make fun of us about our faith, calling us retrogrades, with a medieval mentality, relic-kissers, ignorant, we have a duty to make them draw closer, that they may see our lifestyle, to have the impetus to discover God,” Bishop Ignatie said during the Vespers service for…

As the day starts “earlier” in Australia due to its time zone, Romanians from this country were the first in the Romanian Diaspora to celebrate the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. The worship place has been recently restored and it was reconsecrated on July 1st, 2018, when it was also given a…

A joyous celebration was held on the Sunday of All Saints, June 27, at the Romanian Orthodox Church’s Humor Monastery in Suceava, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the rebirth of the monastery. It was also the patronal feast of the monastery’s Church of All Saints. The Divine Liturgy for the occasion was celebrated by His…

On Saint Vitus Day, 28 June 2021, when the 650th anniversary of the foundation of the city of Krusevac is marked as well, His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch visited the Diocese of Krusevac and the city of Krusevac on his return from Kosovo and Metohija. He was accompanied by Their Graces Bishops Stefan of Remesiana…