Bible

Over 7,500 students in Suceava read the entire Bible in one hour on Romanian Bible Day

On the occasion of Romanian Bible Day, more than 7,500 young people from Suceava County read the entire Holy Scripture as part of a project organised by the County School Inspectorate and the Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți. The reading groups from Suceava were joined by others from Bucharest and the counties of Bacău, Brașov,…

Nov 15, 2025Aurelian Iftimiu

Banat Metropolitan Ioan writes first verse of Romania’s biggest handwritten Bible

The itinerant exhibition called the Museum of the Bible, which hosts over 1000 copies of the Holy Scriptures in hundreds of languages and dialects, has returned to Timișoara. During the opening of the exhibition, a new initiative began: the handwriting of the biggest Bible in Romania. The opening of the exhibition took place on Monday,…

May 4, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Holy Bible, writings of Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae among most wanted books published by Romanian Patriarchate

The Synodal edition of the Holy Bible and the writings and translations of Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae are among the most wanted books published by the Publishing Houses of the Romanian Patriarchate in the past years. The Sales Department of the Publishing Houses of the Romanian Patriarchate was contacted by the Basilica News Agency and presented…

Jan 15, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Demand for Bibles in China Reaches a Staggering 200 Million, Despite Heavy Persecution

Despite relentless persecution, the Christian community in China is thriving. Totaling around 100 million believers, and with hundreds of thousands being baptized annually, many experts predict that China will become the world’s most Christian nation by 2030. The staggering explosion of faith is, in part, down to the mass printing of Bibles. Indeed, China’s Amity…

Nov 19, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

500 Bible editions go on display in Timisoara

During the month of April, people in Timisoara have the opportunity to glimpse a collection of 500 Bibles in multiple languages and dimensions. The exhibition titled The Museum of the Bible was opened on Tuesday, April 2, at the Theresian Bastion in Timisoara in the presence of His Eminence Metropolitan Ioan of Banat. The 500…

Apr 4, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

1,200-year-old Bible seized in southeastern Turkey’s Diyarbakır

Security forces on Tuesday seized a Bible said to be 1,200 years old in southeastern Turkey’s Diyarbakır province. According to the Diyarbakır governor’s office, local gendarmerie received intel that someone was looking to sell an ancient Bible manuscript written on leather with gold-encrusted motifs. Suspects were caught red-handed while trying to sell the 34-page manuscript,…

Feb 6, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

9 Bible Verses about Work

Colossians 3:23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise Proverbs 12:27 Diligence is man’s precious possession. Ecclesiastes 3:13 Every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.…

May 1, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

8 Bible Verses for the New Year

Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be…

Dec 29, 2017Gheorghe Anghel