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The Week in Pictures: February 5 – 11, 2024

Last week’s retrospective in pictures includes moments from the liturgical life of several sister Orthodox churches, bright children’s faces or details of church architecture. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro) Do you want to be featured in our weekly selection of photos? We…

Feb 14, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

World Day of the Sick: Prayer for the suffering and their carers

World Day of the Sick is marked in institutions and communities from all over the world on February 11. The observance of this day aims to raise awareness in society of the need to support the sick and their carers. One way to support them is to pray for them. Spiritual and charitable events can…

Feb 11, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: January 29 – February 4, 2024

The previous week’s photo selection includes a variety of images, from spectacular landscape shots to expressive portraits and poignant moments. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro)   Do you want to be featured in our weekly selection of photos? We would gladly include…

Feb 5, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

World Cancer Day 2024: Recognising the power of working together

World Cancer Day is marked every 4 February as a global initiative led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), the largest and oldest international cancer organisation. The 2022-2024 theme is “Close the Care Gap”, with an emphasis this year on the power of working together. Every single one of us has the ability…

Feb 4, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: January 22-28, 2024

Join us on a virtual visit to monasteries, churches and other significant places of the Orthodox world. Your guide for this photographic pilgrimage is our week-in-picture photo feature for the week of January 22-28, 2024. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro) Do you…

Feb 1, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: January 15-21, 2024

As usual, every week we take you on a virtual journey through the Orthodox world with images taken by professional and amateur photographers. Today we present our Week-in-Pictures feature for the week of 15-21 January 2024. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro) Do…

Jan 25, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: January 8-14, 2024

We invite you to a virtual journey through last week, when falling snow took us back to the words of the psalmist: “Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow”. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro) Do you want to be featured…

Jan 16, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

In 2023, Food Bank Moldova recovered food for 250,000 meals offered to the needy

In 2023, Bank of Food Moldova recovered more than 124,480 kg of foods. According to the standards of the European Food Banks Federation – FEBA, they represented 248,960 hot meals, which were distributed by 51 social services throughout the Republic of Moldova. The number of beneficiaries assisted by these centres was approximately 5,000 socially vulnerable…

Jan 11, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

Old calendar Christmas: Ukrainians in Romania celebrate with prayers for peace, carols and folk traditions

The communities from the Ukrainian Orthodox Vicariate of the Romanian Patriarchate celebrated Christmas according to the old calendar on January 7. It was a wonderful opportunity to continue the tradition, pray for world peace and be reunited with natives of the area who currently serve in other dioceses. “The prayers for world peace were read…

Jan 11, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

Metropolitan Ioan of Banat celebrates his name day among homeless people, pledges to find jobs for them

Metropolitan Ioan of Banat celebrated his name day among homeless people from Timișoara, on January 7, St John the Baptist day in the Romanian Orthodox Church calendar. “These are some of my friends from Timișoara. There was nowhere I could have felt better after church than among these people whose only hope is God,” said…

Jan 11, 2024Ștefana Totorcea

Over 70,000 people assisted by the social-philanthropic sectors of the Romanian Patriarchate in 2023

Father Ciprian Ioniță, Patriarchal Counsellor, and President of the Filantropia Federation of the Romanian Patriarchate, explained to Trinitas TV the activity of the Social-Philanthropic Sector of the Romanian Patriarchate in the past year. In the Solemn Year of the pastoral care of the elderly, the Social-Philanthropic Sector of the Romanian Patriarchate organized numerous activities, campaigns,…

Jan 9, 2024Ștefana Totorcea