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St. Mary's Romanian Festival in Portland feels like going home to Romanian community [Sep 05, 2011] Ana Varvaroi, visiting from Romania, keeps an eye on her nine-year-old granddaughter Melanie Varvaroi, center, family friend David Bejenaru, 9 months, and other parish children before they go on stage at Saint Mary's Romanian Festival Sunday. Theodore Manu, 9, front, holds the American flag as he and other children from Saint Mary's Romanian Orthodox Church, and Father Cosmin Antonescu sing both ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian church defends controversial cathedral [Aug 01, 2011] BUCHAREST - THE Romanian Orthodox Church has defended a controversial and costly cathedral calling it 'a necessity and a symbol' for the nation. The church responded on Monday to criticism that the 'Salvation of the Nation' cathedral, which will costs hundreds of millions of euros, was too extravagant. It will be funded from public and private funds. Interior decoration alone will cost at least ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian Orthodox church attracts cyber-followers [Jun 27, 2011] BUCHAREST (AFP) - The Romanian Orthodox Church, known as a bastion of conservatism, has broken a taboo by embracing the Internet and tending to its flock via cyberspace. [via YahooNews] More >>

Top Romanian Orthodox bishop dies of heart failure [Feb 01, 2011] CLUJ, Romania - The church says a senior Orthodox bishop who was imprisoned by the Communists and decades later narrowly missed out on being elected the leader of the Romanian Orthodox Church has died. He was 89. [via YahooNews] More >>

United States Museum Slams Romania for 'Anti-Semitic' Coin [Aug 21, 2010] A coin, depicting a former Romanian orthodox church patriarch who also served as prime minister, is seen after a press conference by the governor of Romania's central bank Mugur Isarescu, in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says the refusal of Romania's central bank to withdraw a coin with an image of a prime minister who stripped Jews of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

United States Museum Slams Romania for 'Anti-Semitic' Coin [Aug 20, 2010] A coin, depicting a former Romanian orthodox church patriarch who also served as prime minister, is seen after a press conference by the governor of Romania's central bank Mugur Isarescu, in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says the refusal of Romania's central bank to withdraw a coin with an image of a prime minister who stripped Jews of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania rules on disputed coin [Aug 06, 2010] BUCHAREST (Romania) - THE governor of Romania's central bank said on Friday that it was not anti-Semitic despite minting a coin commemorating a prime minister who stripped Jews of their citizenship before World War II. Governor Mugur Isarescu set up a commission to analyze the coin depicting late Patriarch Miron Cristea, who led the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1925 to 1939 and was prime ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian Orthodox Church refuses full burial service for singer because she committed suicide [Jul 16, 2010] BUCHAREST, Romania - The Romanian Orthodox Church said Friday as thousands mourned the death of a popular singer that it would not give her a full burial service because she committed suicide. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian suicide singer won't get full burial [Jul 16, 2010] BUCHAREST, ROMANIA (AP) - The Romanian Orthodox Church said Friday as thousands mourned the death of a popular singer that it would not give her a full burial service because she committed suicide. A single priest will perform a simple service for Madalina Manole in a church courtyard, the church said, ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian Orthodox Church refuses full burial service for singer because she committed suicide [Jul 16, 2010] BUCHAREST, Romania - The Romanian Orthodox Church said Friday as thousands mourned the death of a popular singer that it would not give her a full burial service because she committed suicide. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian suicide singer won't get full burial [Jul 16, 2010] BUCHAREST, Romania - The Romanian Orthodox Church said Friday as thousands mourned the death of a popular singer... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian suicide singer won't get full burial [Jul 16, 2010] The Romanian Orthodox Church said Friday as thousands mourned the death of a popular singer that it would not give her a full burial service because she committed suicide. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian suicide singer won't get full burial [Jul 16, 2010] The Romanian Orthodox Church will not give a full burial service for a popular singer because she committed suicide. [via YahooNews] More >>

Guests from Russia, Romania Honor Head of Bulgarian Church [Jul 04, 2010] Guests from the Russian and Romanian Orthodox Church attended on Sunday the mass served at Alexander Nevsky Cathedral on the occasion of the 39th year since the enthronement of Maxim, Patriarch of the Bulgarians and Bishop of Sofia. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian Orthodox Church to borrow 200 million ($245 million) for cathedral [Jun 03, 2010] BUCHAREST, Romania - A church official says the Romanian Orthodox Church will borrow 200 million ($245 million) from banks to build a controversial cathedral. [via YahooNews] More >>