During a ceremony held at the Patriarchal Cathedral on January 1, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel proclaimed 2021 as a Solemn Year of the pastoral care of the Romanians outside Romania and a Commemorative Year of the reposed in the Lord. The Romanian diaspora is the fifth largest in the world, in relation to the total…

“Epiphany Holy Water is a cleanser of spiritual and bodily sins, a sanctifier of the soul and body, but also of the space in which the Christian lives. It is a deliverer from evil passions, evil spirits and difficult situations,” Patriarch Daniel said on Epiphany Day. Therefore, Christians take this holy water on an empty…

Inspired by the words of St Basil the Great, Romanian Bishop of Canada Ioan Casian invites us at the beginning of the year ‘to have the right compass and the true inspiration in decision-making as we confess through the word that we are Christians.’ “ Let the foundation of all our words and deeds be the…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel ended the Commemorative Year of the Romanian Orthodox Philanthropists by signing, on the last day of the year, diplomas of merit for 27 public and private medical units in Bucharest and Ilfov and Prahova counties, which treat COVID-19 patients. The gesture of the Patriarch of Romania is one of honour and…

Whether they are part of the Romanian communities in the vicinity of the country’s borders, or whether they have gone to work, study or settled permanently in other places than their homeland, Romanian Orthodox believers are in the care of the Church on all meridians of the globe. “Romanians outside Romania” are generically named by…

Bishop of Budva-Niksic, Joanikije, says that the claims that the Church imposes its own staff choices on the new Montenegrin government are completely unfounded He stated that the people won the elections, and that the clergy contributed to that victory to some extent. “It is clear to every normal person why we do not do…

The traditional Epiphany water blessing ceremony of the battle and sacred flags of the Bulgarian army was held in front of the monument to the Uknown Soldier in Sofia. Patriatch Neophyte, the President and commander-in-chief of the Bulgarian army Rumen Radev, Chief of Defence Admiral Emil Eftimov and Minister of Defence Krasimir Karakachanov took part…

Religious tourism is of great importance for the development of Bulgaria as an year-round tourist destination, this country’s Minister of Tourism Mariana Nikolova said. Earlier today, Minister Nikolova attended the Sunday liturgy at St. Forty Martyrs church in the town of Sapareva Banya, together with the Mayor of Sapareva Banya municipality Kalin Gelev, BTA reported….

On January 3, 2021, on the Sunday before the Nativity of the Lord, Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Nativity of the Lord Metropolitan Cathedral. Archpriest Vadim Cheibas, Cathedral Dean and Metropolitan Secretary, assisted the arch-pastor in the Divine Service. The metropolitan prayed together with the clergy of…