Recently, many accounts have appeared on social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram) pretending to represent Orthodox missionaries, mainly from African countries. The Orthodox Missionary Fraternity, the oldest missionary association in the world, feels obliged to inform you that many of these accounts have nothing to do with the Orthodox Mission, they come from people who are…
Many people ask many times, what could be the greatest qualification one could have to do a mission. And we all struggle to be trained with the appropriate education, to learn languages, to do planning, calculations, savings, to fortify ourselves in general from all sides in order to “succeed”. But we forget to ask the…
Α΄. The creation of the local clergy The great missionaries of our Orthodoxy, Cyril and Methodius in the past and Saint Cosmas in more recent times, taught us that in order for the mission of the Church to be able to progress, it must have a local pastor. The leaders of the missionary teams organize…
Dear friends of the Mission, Honestly, every time I write a piece for your publication, I hope and pray that it will be the last time I fill the page with human pain. After an unprecedentedly arid four years, for the entire territory of Southern Madagascar, the majority of the indigenous people are facing the…
Dear brothers and sisters, “my joy and my crown” as the great Apostle of the Gentiles Paul writes, My heart is full of feelings of praise and thanksgiving to the Holy God, the true God, who has merited us in His infinite mercy, to know and, though undeservedly, to serve with the highest rank of…
The Church of God seems to many of us to be a given that it is right next to us, close to us, and at any moment it is easy to leave our home and in a few steps we can be in the Temple, to worship and receive the grace of God and the…
Dear friends of the Mission, Rejoice in the Lord always! With your help, we continue the work of the mission in Uganda. We always hope that our Lord Jesus Christ will grant you health and joy. May you always be happy with all the good things, spiritual and material, that the giving Lord gives you….
My dear brothers, It is with great emotion and feelings of great gratitude that I hasten to communicate with you once again. With you who have been our true supporters from the very first moment of our move to Central Tanzania. With the grace of God and the care and the ardent blessings of His…
I am currently on a pastoral visit to the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. It is a beautiful day, as it seems to have rained the previous days. So today we are enjoying the green landscape with the variegated flowers and plants, the trees and even the huge stones that really remind us of the days…
Dear friends of the Mission, I greet you warmly! With God’s help and even with your prayers we are well and we hope you are all well. The situation in Indonesia is very terrible. We have a curfew from 4 p.m. to 6 a.m. every day. Unfortunately, the epidemic is very widespread. The country’s economy…
Dear brothers, rejoice in the Lord. The Church of Christ in the Pacific Islands sends you its love and gratitude. In these difficult times for the whole of humanity, you, our brothers in Christ from Greece, who have contributed and assisted in a very decisive way for almost 15 years in the foundation, development and…
“…And the LORD said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy land, and out of thy kindred, and out of thy father’s house, and go second unto the land, which I shall show thee…” A voice sent from heaven, a sign given by God, was sent suddenly, but unexpectedly and uniquely in the life of…
