Churchgoers and most clerics wore face masks as they attended an Orthodox Easter Vigil at the Trinity Cathedral in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi…An Orthodox priest used a microphone to involve a neighborhood in an Easter Vigil. People stood in their windows with candles lit to the sound of litanies and church bells in the city of Cluj-Napoca on the night of April 18-19
Pope Francis arrived in Bucharest on May 31 at the beginning of a three-day pilgrimage to Romania. Thousands of people gathered along the main boulevards of the capital, Bucharest, to see Francis as he made his way to the presidential palace. After meeting with President Klaus Iohannis and the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Daniel, the pontiff performed a mass at St. Joseph’s Cathedral.Tens of thousands of believers attended an open-air mass led by Pope Francis at the Sumuleu Ciuc shrine on June 1