A petition has been forwarded to the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church and to the National Church Assembly regarding unity in the celebration of Easter between the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. Early in April, former Romanian foreign minister Teodor Baconschi and.
In some parts of emerging Europe, the date of Easter is becoming increasingly political. The Holy Fire Ceremony which takes place each Orthodox Easter Saturday in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, is perhaps the holiest of all Orthodox Christian rituals. Symbolising the resurrection of Christ, the tradition dates to at least 328 AD. […]
By Marcel Gascón Bucharest, Apr 10 (EFE).- The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Cyril I, has endorsed the Russian invasion of Ukraine and justified it in theological terms, a position that is weakening his Church both among the millions of Ukrainians who remained attached to it and in the rest of the Orthodox world. …