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“You don’t find the icon. The icon finds you”: His conversion to Orthodoxy started with a collection of Orthodox art

Peter Peterson, a collector of Romanian sacred art, travelled the world far and wide, only to settle in Romania, where his passion for the Orthodox icon gradually turned into a spiritual journey, at the end of which he was baptised Orthodox. Recently, he offered his collection of sacred art to the Romanian Patriarchate, to be…

Nov 17, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

I was born under the curse of survival, and Jesus freed me from it, Chinese convert Kenan Dionisie Wang confesses

Journalist Cristian Curte published in the weekly Formula As an interview with Kenan Dionisie Wang, a PhD student in History at the University of Bucharest and a first-year student in Orthodox Theology. Kenan was born in China and converted to Orthodoxy in Romania. He dreams of becoming an Orthodox priest. “Priesthood is the lifestyle of…

Aug 17, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Patriarchate publishes bilingual office for receiving converts into the Orthodox Church

The Biblical and Orthodox Mission Institute recently published a bilingual Romanian-English version of the office for receiving heterodox individuals into the Orthodox Church. The publication aids parishes in the Romanian diaspora, where the number of people converting to the Orthodox faith is increasing. The new volume contains the English translation of the 2014 Romanian edition.…

Jul 3, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Jonathan Jackson: Only Christ-like humility and love for one’s enemies can fight actual ideologies

Ideologies which are in conflict with the teachings of our faith cannot be opposed by another ideology – not even one of Christian nature. It would just further division in society. Only Christ unites us. Ideologies can only be combated with Christ’s humility and love, says Jonathan Jackson, American actor and singer who has converted…

Jul 15, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

American convert Rod Dreher launched his most recent book in Bucharest, Romania

Romanian publisher Contra Mundum launched on Saturday the Romanian version of Rod Dreher’s most recent book, “Live Not By Lies”, in the presence of its author, an American convert to Orthodoxy. The event was held in the courtyard of Bucharest’s “New Merchants'” Church, where the author presented his book and answered questions from the public.…

Jun 7, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Rod Dreher: I had never felt closer to God than I have now as an Orthodox Christian

American writer Rod Dreher, who converted to Orthodoxy in 2006, spoke on Friday to Basilica.ro about his conversion, about Romanian Orthodoxy as a gift from God returned to the world by Romanians and about the lessons offered by the martyrs of the Romanian communist prisons to contemporary people – including his children. Rod Dreher has…

Jun 5, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

What writer Paul Kingsnorth found in Orthodoxy. “Buddhism is a powerful practice, but it is lacking something: God”

He first met with Orthodoxy in a little church in Bucharest. The experience stayed with him and worked inside him for four years, until it bought him into the Romanian Orthodox Church. One of the most important living English writers reveals what he found in Orthodoxy. Basilica.ro asked recently-converted Paul Kingsnorth a few questions about…

Mar 25, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Writer Paul Kingsnorth, baptized in the Romanian Orthodox Church, says he feels like arriving home

Paul Kingsnorth, one of the most important English writers alive, was baptized as a Christian Orthodox at the Romanian Monastery in Shannonbridge, Ireland. “As a Western newcomer to Orthodoxy, I have a lifetime’s learning journey ahead of me, but I already feel like I have arrived home,” said the writer. “I first discovered Christian Orthodoxy…

Feb 15, 2021Ștefana Totorcea