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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
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 16, 2020 | Anti-Christian persecution, Church in Europe, lead, martyrdom, News, Romania, Romanian Orthodox Church | 0 |
On Sunday Romania marked its first ever National Day of Awareness of Violence against Christians, a move intended to honor Romanian Orthodox martyrs and raise awareness about global anti-Christian persecution.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 28, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Easter, News, Orthodox Church, Romania, Romanian Orthodox Church | 0 |
Stretching the church calendar, Orthodox Easter arrived over a month late in a Romanian city on the shores of the Black Sea.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 30, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Icons, News, Orthodox Church, Romania, Romanian Orthodox Church | 0 |
Romania’s Orthodox Church on Wednesday criticized a billboard campaign showing doctors dealing with the coronavirus epidemic as saints with halos shaped like the virus.
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