f you want, my brothers, for the bell of Orthodoxy to be heard in the God-blessed country of Burundi and to the ends of the world, it is we, the Greek Missionaries, who left our comforts and reached distant and unknown places to ring them
Ten out of the eighteen parish communities that we had have been closed due to the fact that we did not have the plots required and, in general, we did not meet the new standards. Naturally, we are very concerned about the souls we have baptized, since we cannot have them gathered…
All of you who are here I want to congratulate you because you continue to sacrifice, despite the crisis, to help in your own way.
Healing, love: words that are easy to say, sound good, but translating them into action is very difficult. Close to the wounds, poverty, destitution, the difficult conditions in which they live without basic medical care, without organised education, make them unable to cope on their own and they look to us as their support and spiritual refuge. They thirst to know Orthodoxy, to be baptised, to be reborn. And we do not deny them…
Our mission and vision is to spread the light of Orthodoxy in Burundi and Rwanda, which seem to have a bright future. The love, the hospitality, the education I received from you, the Greek people, while I was a student, these are what I try to offer. Our main activity is the spreading of the Orthodox faith, which is the only true…
Sunday 13 March, 10.30 a.m.
Hall of the Orthodox Foreign Missionary Brotherhood
Both in Burundi and in Rwanda – in Rwanda more so – they embraced Orthodoxy with great love. They are simple-minded people, and for all their simplicity, their questions about the teachings of our Church are anything but simple-minded…
Excerpts from the speech of Bishop Innocentios at the Assembly of our Fraternity in February 2015
Sunday 8 February at 10.30 a.m.
Just as when a small child comes into the world, everyone leans over him with great love and care and everyone asks about his news, in the same way we feel that our brothers from Greece care about the first relative steps that the Orthodox Church is taking in Rwanda and Burundi…
