From the Orthodox Mission in Burundi
The Orthodox Mission in Burundi faces significant challenges, but continues its spiritual and social work with emphasis on infrastructure, catechesis, and relief for the local population.
The Voice of Orthodoxy in a Distant Land
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
Insurmountable difficulties
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…
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The Orthodox Mission in Burundi and Rwanda
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.
The harvest is long, the workers are few…
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…
Keeping the flame alive
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…
Lecture on the Mission in Burundi and Rwanda by Bishop Innocent
Sunday 13 March, 10.30 a.m.
Hall of the Orthodox Foreign Missionary Brotherhood
Two years of missionary ministry in Burundi & Rwanda
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…
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Mission in Burundi and Rwanda: a daily struggle
Excerpts from the speech of Bishop Innocentios at the Assembly of our Fraternity in February 2015
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Lecture on the Mission in Burundi and Rwanda
Sunday 8 February at 10.30 a.m.
