Category: Romania

Bucharest Archdiocese welcomes order to demolish building near cathedral

by bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, News, Romania | 0 |

Romanian officials have ordered the demolition of a 23-story office building overshadowing Bucharest’s Catholic cathedral, 10 years after a ruling that it was built illegally and endangers the historic landmark.

Martyrs of Communism from Romania

by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2022 | Blessed Alexandru Rusi, Blessed Ioan Balan, Blessed Ioan Suciu, Blessed Iuliu Hossu, Blessed Tit Liviu Chinezu, Blessed Valeriu Traian Frențiu, Blessed Vasile Aftenie, Greek Catholic, News, Nicolae Ceausescu, Pope Francis, Pope Paul VI, Romania, The Dispatch | 0 |

Fifty years from now, which of our current political and Church leaders will be remembered and honored by Catholics in the U.S.? Perhaps the Catholics of Romania can help us form an answer to that […]

Honor your roots, but don’t ‘hide’ there, pope tells Romanian priests

by bcadmin | May 19, 2022 | Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, Romania, Vatican | 0 |

Catholics must draw inspiration and strength from the roots of their faith and the traditions and experiences of their faith communities, but without trying “to hide there because they are afraid of growth,” Pope Francis said.

One in 10 Ukrainians is a refugee, half are children, U.N. agencies say

by bcadmin | Mar 31, 2022 | Bosnia Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Featured, Hungary, Moldova, News, Pax Christi, Peace caravan, Pope John XXIII Community, Ptak Warsaw Expo center, Refugees, Romania, Sarajevo, Slovakia, the Focolare movement, U.N., U.N. Refugee Agency, U.S. & World News, Ukraine, UNHCR, UNICEF | 0 |

More than 4 million people have fled Ukraine in the past five weeks, and half of them are children, said two U.N. agencies.

Polish Catholic says it’s her ‘human duty’ to help Ukrainian refugees

by bcadmin | Mar 15, 2022 | Featured, Hungary, Medical care, Moldova, News, Polish Catholic, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, U.S. & World News, Ukraine, Ukrainian refugees, United Nations | 0 |

Nearly 3 million people have been forced to flee Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of that nation, prompting the United Nations to declare the mass exodus the largest refugee crisis in Europe since the end of World War II.

Romania’s biggest Catholic service offers faith, vaccines

by bcadmin | May 22, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Romania, Vaccinations | 0 |

More than 35,000 Catholic pilgrims congregated Saturday at an open-air shrine in Romania for a centuries-old procession that was canceled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Rome’s got a new bishop – no, not the pope, but cut from his cloth

by bcadmin | May 7, 2021 | Auxiliary Bishop Benoni Ambrus, Bishop of Rome, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, Caritas, Immigration, lead, News, News Analysis, Parishes, Romania, Vicariate of Rome | 0 |

We’re not talking about the Bishop of Rome, but a bishop, specifically the most recent Auxiliary Bishop of Rome serving under Italian Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, the pope’s vicar for the eternal city: Bishop Benoni Ambarus, who’s almost universally known around town as “Don Ben.”

Dwindling Armenians show Easter faith in Romania

by bcadmin | May 6, 2021 | Apostolic Armenian Church, Associated Press, Church in Europe, Easter, News, Romania, Romanian Orthodox Church | 0 |

BUCHAREST, Romania — The ethnic Armenian population in Romania numbered more than 40,000 at the beginning of World War II but rapidly plunged during the country’s communist era, especially during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. The latest available census data shows a little over 1,300 people in Romania today identify

Romania OKs holding Easter celebrations despite virus surge

by bcadmin | Mar 26, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Easter, News, Romania, Romanian Orthodox Church | 0 |

Romanian authorities announced Thursday that Easter celebrations in the deeply Christian country will go ahead in person this year, even though Romania is battling a surge of COVID-19 infections that is threatening to overwhelm its hospitals.

Holy Father’s Thoughts with Hospital Fire Victims in Romania

by bcadmin | Nov 15, 2020 | Angelus, Coronavirus, Feature2, Feature3, hospital fire, News, Romania | 0 |

Calls for Prayers

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Pandemic tempers patron saint festival in Romania

by bcadmin | Oct 31, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, News, Orthodox Church, Romania, Romanian Orthodox Church, Saints | 0 |

The feast of St. Dimitrie of Basarabov, the patron saint of Bucharest, is a show of Orthodox Christianity’s strength in Romania, where a weeklong festival devoted to the former hermit typically draws up to 100,000 people from all over the country to the capital every October.

Toward World Mission Sunday 2020 in Romania

by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Church and World, Feature3, News, Romania, world mission sunday | 0 |

‘Every Baptized Person is Responsible for Evangelization in the World’

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