Roma people

Roma who died in camps, deportations, and slavery commemorated at Pasărea Monastery

The Romani people who died in camps, deportations, and slavery were commemorated during a memorial service at Pasărea Monastery near Bucharest on Sunday. The service was officiated after the Divine Liturgy, as February 20 marked the 166th anniversary of the Liberation of the Roma in the Romanian Principalities by the Prince Barbu Știrbei (1856). The…

Feb 21, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Râmnic Archdiocese’s Department of Mission among Roma People celebrated its sixth anniversary

Râmnic Archdiocese’s Department of Mission among Roma People celebrated its sixth anniversary on June 9, 2021. It was established by Archbishop Varsanufie, first as a catechetical office, in 2015. In April 2019 it became an archdiocesan department. Current programs The department currently runs the following programs: “Mirro ghiozdano – my school backpack”: It offers school…

Jun 18, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Archbishop Varsanufie: The Church has actively contributed to Roma liberation, social inclusion

The Church has actively contributed to Romani people’s liberation, and supports their social inclusion, the Archbishop of Râmnic said on Saturday, during a memorial service for the Roma who died in deportation and slavery. The event marked 165 years since the liberation of Roma in Romanian Principalities. Representatives of the Roma community at the national…

Feb 22, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Diocese of Covasna donates 10 tons of potatoes to Roma people affected by the fire

The Orthodox Diocese of Covasna and Harghita donated 10 tons of potatoes to the Miercurea Ciuc city council to prepare meals for the Roma people temporarily accommodated in the city sports hall. They were taken in after a fire destroyed their houses in January. Bishop Andrei of Covasna and Harghita declared for Romania’s national news…

Feb 5, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Romanian Orthodox Church top 9 pastoral care programmes for Roma people

It is estimated that approximately 621 thousand people of Roma origin live in Romania, most of whom are Orthodox Christians. The Romanian Orthodox Church has always paid attention to the mission among Roma people by intensifying its catechetical work, supporting education, and developing social assistance. Here is a list of the top nine pastoral care…

Apr 8, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Cluj Metropolitan: Roma people are our fellow Christians. We want to see them thrive

In a message sent Wednesday on the feast of Saint Moses the Black, the Orthodox Metropolitan of Cluj said that Roma people are ‘our fellow Christians, and we want to see them thrive spiritually and materially.’ His Eminence Metropolitan Andrei Andreicuț recalled that the Roma Association of the Archdiocese of Vad, Feleac and Cluj is…

Aug 30, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Iași Archdiocese’s Department for Minorities organizes summer camp for Roma youth at Zmeu

One hundred Roma children and young people participated in ‘The Camp of Joy’, organized on August 21-22 at Zmeu Parish by the Department for Minorities of the Orthodox Archdiocese of Iași. “This camp, as well as all the other camps and activities that will follow, are part of a missionary program that we want to…

Aug 26, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Cluj Metropolitan Andrei celebrates Romanian-Romani bilingual Divine Liturgy for Roma community in Turda

Marking this year’s International Romani Day, His Eminence Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj presided over a Romanian-Romani bilingual Divine Liturgy at an Orthodox parish led by a Roma priest in Turda. The Orthodox Archdiocese of Cluj includes two missionary parishes dedicated to Roma people, one in Pata Rât and the other in Turda. The 27-year old…

Jul 8, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Roma minority from slavery to freedom and hope

The message of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation of the Roma in the Romanian Principalities, an event organized by the Department for Social Inclusion and Human Rights of the Romanian Government, at the National Art Museum of Romania, February 19, 2016:…

Feb 19, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu