Weekly overview in pictures: Palm Sunday celebration | World Bank’s president visits RO | Buzău Land gets UNESCO geopark title
This weekly overview brings you the main topics from Romania, in pictures. The Orthodox Palm Sunday feast was celebrated this past weekend, and many Romanians attended the celebrations, especially as the pandemic restrictions have been…
Irina Marica · Journalist
· Updated · 4 min read
This weekly overview brings you the main topics from Romania, in pictures. The Orthodox Palm Sunday feast was celebrated this past weekend, and many Romanians attended the celebrations, especially as the pandemic restrictions have been lifted in the country. The April 11-17 week collection also includes photos from the meetings of World Bank Group president David Malpass with the Romanian president and PM, other important meetings and visits of state officials, and a photo from Buzău Land - Romania's newest UNESCO Global Geopark.
The majority of Romanians celebrated the Orthodox Palm Sunday (DuminicaFloriilor in Romanian) on Sunday, April 17, and many gathered in cities across the country to attend the religious ceremonies. In Bucharest, for example, after two years of pandemic restrictions, thousands of believers joined hierarchs, priests, monks, and nuns for the Palm Sunday procession on Saturday. The procession started at Radu Voda Monastery and ended at the Patriarchal Cathedral, where Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church offered a prayer of blessing and addressed a word of teaching to the pilgrims. The believers were also offered blessed willow branches, which they took home and placed above holy icons. It is believed that the willow branches protect the household from evil spirits.
World Bank Group president David Malpass met with Romanian president Klaus Iohannis on Wednesday, April 13. The topics discussed by the two officials focused on the global crises affecting Romania and the world, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, COVID-19, and rising food and energy prices. Romania's implementation of EU funding under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) was also on the agenda.
During his two-day visit to Romania, World Bank Group president Malpass also met with prime minister Nicolae Ciuca and members of his Cabinet. The war in Ukraine and Romania's support to Ukrainian refugees were again among the topics discussed, in addition to Romania's assistance to Ukraine and Moldova in the energy sector, logistics, and trade, fiscal reforms, and Romania's diversified energy mix and future investment pertaining to energy security and transition.
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