The Orthodox Mission in Burundi and Rwanda
Speech by the Most Reverend Bishop Innocent of Burundi and Rwanda
Speech by the Most Reverend Bishop Innocent of Burundi and Rwanda
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
With great agonies and much struggle and anguish in the 20 years of the life of the Orthodox Diocese of Nigeria, new parishes and communities were created
“The people welcome us with great joy and sitting under a tree, where there is no Holy Church, they watch the catechist with great attention and silence.”
Today the Orthodox Church has 40 priests in Tanzania
On Sunday 27 January, volunteers at our Brotherhood’s warehouses loaded another container with humanitarian aid for Ivory Coast. Twenty-five tons of food, clothing, household equipment, church supplies, etc. left Thessaloniki and have already started their journey to West Africa. His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria visited our facilities in Filiro and blessed the volunteers who…
“This year, we reached the limit of not opening the theological school, we had no money to pay the priests, we had problems with children in schools and illnesses.”