BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Thousands of pilgrims turned out Sunday in Romania’s capital for the consecration of religious paintings inside the world’s largest Christian Orthodox church that was being ...

CHISINAU, April 25 (Reuters) - Romania's Orthodox Church says it will keep welcoming priests bolting from Moldova's Russian-linked Orthodox Church to join a growing rival body subordinate to Bucharest ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople arrived in Bucharest on Friday to join Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church in officiating, on Sunday, the consecration service for the ...

The centennial of the Romanian Patriarchate is a moment of great joy and gratitude for all Orthodox Romanians, an opportunity to strengthen faith and remember those who, through their sacrificial love ...

Romania's Orthodox Church is under pressure to change its baptism ritual after a baby boy died following a ceremony in which he was immersed three times in water. Romania's Orthodox Church is under ...

Orthodox Church denies exclusive responsibility for the enslavement of the Roma over several centuries, after Roma leader threatens Church with a lawsuit if it does not recognise its key role.

Orthodox priests in at least 13 parishes in Moldova expect to be accepted into the local branch of a Romanian church this week, furthering a trend of dozens of defections from the local arm of the ...

Draft law backed by ruling party deputies proposes returning important assets to the Romanian-linked Metropolis of Bessarabia which were confiscated under the Soviet regime. Russian Orthodox Patriarch ...

The controversial Archdiocese of Tomis of the Romanian Orthodox Church is selling badges with the Russian national emblem in its souvenir shop; last year, Archbishop Theodosius of Tomisia praised ...