Riot police officers assist a woman after extracting her from the crowds trying to push through fences to visit the newly blessed National Cathedral, in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. Tens ...

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 ...

Worshippers wait outside as Pope Francis celebrates Mass in St. Joseph Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, May 31, 2019. Romanian officials have ordered the demolition of the tall office building, at ...

Romania will inaugurate a massive new Orthodox cathedral on Sunday, amid criticism that public funding for the project could be used to pay for hospitals and schools in one of the EU's poorest members ...

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the leader of the Romanian Orthodox Church have inaugurated a massive new cathedral in Bucharest, amid controversy over the use of public funds for the ...

Meeting with the new Romanian ambassador to the Holy See, Pope Benedict XVI expressed concern on Saturday about damage being done to St. Joseph Catholic Cathedral in Bucharest due to the nearby ...

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 ...

Bucharest, Jan 9 /Agerpres/ - The National Cathedral in Bucharest will be consecrated on Sunday, October 26, by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople and Patriarch ...

Archbishop Ioan Robu saw churches bulldozed under communism. As Christmas approaches, the archbishop of Bucharest, Romania, is fearful of his own cathedral being destroyed. Archbishop Robu served as ...

BUCHAREST, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Maria Rusu and her husband drove all night from their hometown of Cluj in western Romania to the capital Bucharest to visit the country's nearly completed national ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — 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 opened ...