{"id":35737,"date":"2020-08-19T10:35:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T10:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=35737"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:35:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T10:35:20","slug":"romania-marks-first-national-day-honoring-persecuted-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2020\/08\/19\/romania-marks-first-national-day-honoring-persecuted-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania marks First National Day honoring Persecuted Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday the Orthodox-majority nation of Romania marked its first ever National Day of Awareness of Violence against Christians, a move intended to honor Romanian martyrs and raise awareness about global anti-Christian persecution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In June, the Romanian government approved a law put forward by Daniel Gheorghe, a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, instituting Aug. 16 as the National Day of Awareness of Violence against Christians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an explanatory note that accompanied the news, Gheorghe said he drafted the law in order to inform the public, particularly young people, of the role Christianity has played in Romania\u2019s history and to highlight the nature and extent of Christian persecution in modern times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The choice of Aug. 16 coincides with the Orthodox feast commemorating the Br\u00e2ncoveanu Martyrs \u2013 Prince Constantine Br\u00e2ncoveanu, his four sons and one of his advisers \u2013 who were canonized by the Romanian Orthodox Church in 1992.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tradition holds that Br\u00e2ncoveanu, who ruled Wallachia at the time, his sons Constantin, Radu, \u015etefan and Matei, and his treasurer Ianache Vacarescu were captured when Muslim Ottoman Turks invaded Romania in 1714 and taken to Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were then tortured and, on Aug. 15 \u2013 Br\u00e2ncoveanu\u2019s 60th birthday and the Orthodox Feast of the Dormition \u2013 they were brought before Sultan Ahmed III of Turkey and told that if they renounced their Christian faith and converted to Islam,\u00a0 Br\u00e2ncoveanu\u2019s family would survive. They refused and were each beheaded, and their bodies thrown into the Bosphorus. It is said that Christian fisherman later recovered their bodies and buried them at a monastery close to the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an Aug. 13 statement, the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate, led by Patriarch Daniel, voiced appreciation for the move, saying the Br\u00e2ncoveanu Martyrs \u201cillustrated martyrdom as the ultimate proof of love for Christ in the history of the Romanian Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThat is why the proclamation of a national commemoration day for their martyrdom should be for us an opportunity to become more aware of today\u2019s violence against Christians,\u201d the patriarchate said, noting that this violence \u201ctakes different forms of persecution today, from the Christophobia of the new ideologies to the filmed executions of those whose only guilt is that of being Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn this context, the Romanian Patriarchate advocates for the memorial recovery of Christian martyrdom and for the protection and promotion of religious freedom as a fundamental right of every human person,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Credit: Crux<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/donate\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35565 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-300x44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-300x44.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-580x85.jpg 580w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday the Orthodox-majority nation of Romania marked its first ever National Day of Awareness of Violence against Christians, a move intended to honor Romanian martyrs and raise awareness about global anti-Christian persecution. 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