Vor rund eineinhalb Jahren hat die rumänisch-orthodoxe Kirche den Startschuss zur Errichtung ihres ersten Klosters in Irland gegeben. Inzwischen nimmt das Projekt bereits deutliche Konturen an. Die Kirche erwarb im Dezember 2019 ein früheres katholisches Exerzitienhaus in Shannonbridge im Herzen Irlands. In der unmittelbaren Umgebung hatte im 6. Jahrhundert der Heilige Ciaran von Clonmacnoise gelebt, der auch von der orthodoxen Kirche verehrt wird. Während des ersten Jahrtausends gab es in de...

The Romanian Orthodox Church in Tokyo was consecrated on Tuesday, on the feast of the transfer of St George’s relics to his church in Lydda. The service was officiated by Romanian Metropolitan Iosif of Western Europe and Metropolitan Daniel of Tokyo and Japan. The consecration concluded the restoration works which took several years. The Romanian parish of Tokyo was established 12 years ago. In 2008, the Romanian Patriarchate sent, upon request from its faithful in Japan, priests Alexandru Ni...

Angesichts der Spannungen zwischen den beiden orthodoxen Kirchen in der Republik Moldau sucht nun das Oberhaupt der Moldauischen Orthodoxen Kirche (MolOK) den Dialog. Metropolit Vladimir (Cantarian), dessen Kirche dem Moskauer Patriarchat untersteht, schrieb am 6. März einen Brief an den rumänischen Patriarchen Daniel, um ihn zum Dialog über die kirchliche Situation in der Republik Moldau aufzurufen. Zur Rumänischen Orthodoxen Kirche (RumOK) gehört die Metropolie Bessarabien, die zweite, klei...

Die Rumänische Orthodoxe Kirche (RumOK) und das rumänische Außenministerium (Abteilung für Beziehungen zur Republik Moldau) haben ein Kooperationsabkommen unterzeichnet. Das teilte das Patriarchat in Bukarest laut dem Pro Oriente-Informationsdienst vom 18. Juli mit. Ziel ist es, die RumOK in der Republik Moldau auf vielfältige Weise zu unterstützen. Die Vereinbarung wurde von Patriarch Daniel und Außenminister Adrian Dupu unterzeichnet. Anwesend war bei der Unterzeichnung auch Metropolit Petr...

Romania’s cultural heritage includes over 1,400 wooden churches constructed before 1918, according to a report by PressOne, supported by the National Historic Cultural Tourism Program “Attractive Romania.” These wooden churches are almost evenly distributed throughout the country, although the figures might suggest otherwise. Weiterlesen auf basilica.ro (25. Juli 2024)

The Romanian Patriarchate will proclaim 2024 as a Solemn Year of the pastoral care of the sick and a Commemorative Year of all the holy unmercenary healers. The selection of these themes is motivated by the need to increase concern for those enduring spiritual and physical suffering, according to a message from Patriarch Daniel predating 2024. Simultaneously, following the solemn year dedicated to pastoral care for the elderly, the theme naturally progresses to include the care of the ill. W...

About 95% of the Romanian citizens believe in God, but only 21% go to church every week, says a survey on the religious belief in Romania, conducted by Friedrich Ebert Romania Foundation, cited by Agerpres. According to the same study, 27% of the Romanians say the referendum to re-define the family concept is necessary. The results show that there is a “significant difference” in Romania between the affirmation of faith and the actual religious activity. “Thus, although there is an active str...

In Rumänien können die Steuerzahler bis zu 3,5 Prozent der Einkommenssteuer für gemeinnützige bzw. soziale Zwecke direkt widmen. Die Rumänische Orthodoxe Kirche wirbt deshalb aktuell massiv dafür, dies zugunsten der neuen Bukarester "Kathedrale zur Erlösung des Volkes" zu tun, wie der "Pro Oriente"-Informationsdienst am Freitag berichtete. Die Kathedrale ist eine der größten orthodoxen Kirchen der Welt und wurde im Herbst 2018 eingeweiht, ist aber noch nicht zur Gänze fertiggestellt. Papst Fr...

Although he is one of the few Romanian hierarchs active on social media, Bishop Ignatie of Huși expressed his scepticism regarding the use of social platforms during the diocese’s annual monastic synaxis on 24. September. His Grace Bishop Ignatie began by referring to Saint Silouan the Athonite, commemorated on Sept. 24, who said, “A monk should not read newspapers or receive too much outside information from the world, as it scatters him inwardly.” Weiterlesen auf basilica.ro (27. September...

In a message on Monday, May 9, 2022, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel urged believers to participate in Romania’s Census of Population and Housing and to declare their religious affiliation. "This year's census is a proper time to confess our religious identity" - full text: The organisation of the Romanian Population and Housing Census in the first half of 2022 is not only a process of updating the administrative data and statistics of the population and housing in Romania (information that ...

The Romanian Orthodox Church has released a statement calling for “prayer, peace, dialogue, and social co-responsibility” against the backdrop of several days of protests in Bucharest that have left more than 450 injured. Some estimates say 100'000 people came out to the streets of the capital for several days starting on 10 August 2018 to protest what they see as government corruption and to call for new elections. The protests were largely organized by Romanian expats who returned home for ...

Vasile Banescu, a spokesman for the Romanian Patriarchate, denounced billboards depicting doctors and nurses as “saints” with coronavirus-shaped halos as a blasphemous “visual mistreatment of Christian iconography”. The posters, created by Romanian artist Wanda Hutira for the McCann Worldgroup ad agency’s “Thank you doctors” campaign and posted throughout Bucharest, have also offended the Medical Guild, Banescu said. Weiterlesen auf basilica.ro (30. April 2020)

On Bright Saturday, the Romanian Orthodox Church marked the 135th anniversary of its restored autocephaly, which was granted by Patriarchate Joachim IV of Constantinople on April 25, 1885. The Church also celebrates the 95th anniversary of the restoration of its Patriarchate this year, reports the Basilica News Agency. “After Romania gained its state independence in 1877 and was declared a Kingdom in 1881, the prestige of the Romanian Orthodox Church increased, making necessary the formal rec...

The Church has joined the ‘Let’s do it, Romania!’ campaign and summoned teams of young students from the theological seminaries across Romania to help out with the clean-up day. Over 180‘000 Romanians, most of them students but also volunteers of all ages, have said yes to this year’s national environmental action. On Saturday, Sept. 21, several Orthodox high schools, parishes and other church institutions put into practice the advice of Patriarch Daniel to express a special care towards God’...

(Radio Free Europe, www.rferl.org, 4. März 2021) The death of a 6-week-old infant after he was submerged while being baptized has sparked public outrage in Romania and led to calls for the centuries-old rite to be changed. The drama of the tragic event - which has been headline news in Romania for weeks - has been quite impersonal, with few details published about the baby or his family. But it has provided a snapshot of the divisions in contemporary Romania. The influential Romanian Orthodox...

According to survey results presented at the Romanian Academy in Bucharest on December 15, the Orthodox Church remains the most trusted institution in Romania. Overall, according to the survey carried out under the auspices of the State Secretariat for Cults, 66.3% of Romanians says they place a lot of trust in the Church, reports Ziarul Lumina. This is slightly higher than in a survey conducted in January 2021. Moreover, more than 83% of the population confesses their religiosity through con...

A poll made by the Center for Urban and Regional Sociology – CURS between January 11-15 found that the Church remains the most trusted institution in Romania. The research report showed that 62% of Romanians place a high and very high degree of trust in the Church. On the second place came local councils, trusted by 60% of Romanians. These are the only institutions trusted by more than half of the participants to the poll. Romanians showed the least of trust in Political Parties (11% of Roman...

The Church, the Army and the Romanian Academy occupy the first places in terms of the degree of trust granted by Romanians, according to the first barometer of the religious life in Romania, presented on Wednesday, December 16, in the Aula Magna of the Romanian Academy, Agerpres reports. According to the barometer, conducted by the LARICS Center for Sociological Research, in partnership with the State Secretariat for Religions and the Institute of Political Science and International Relations...

In 2017, the Romanian Orthodox Church invested approximatively 24 million Euros in charity work. 'Currently the Romanian Orthodox Church is the greatest philanthropist in terms of ist contribution to social work', said Patriarch Daniel during the meeting of the National Church Assembly (NCA) stressing that this means 'sacrifice, effort, and caring for the people'. His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel thanked those who ‘have contributed to the rich activities carried out during the 2017 solemn and c...

(Radio Free Europe, www.rferl.org, 26. Juni 2022) Romania is considering a bill that would ban minors from being exposed to so-called "gay propaganda" in schools and in public life, despite warnings from rights groups that it would "fuel Russian propaganda and disinformation campaigns" and reinstate censorship in the former communist country. Seven lawmakers from the ethnic Hungarian UDMR, a junior ruling coalition party, initiated the bill under the guise of preventing child abuse and promot...