When we went to our parish churches, I noticed that they had neither baptismal fonts nor baptisteries. When we were at baptisms, another surprise awaited us. They did not have a baptismal font! Well, we ask them, where is the baptismal font? – We do not have one, they replied. We have a bucket, we…
Dear Friends of Mission, Christ is Risen! By the grace of the Risen Savior Jesus Christ, the blessings of HDB Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, and the love of His Grace Photios of Malawi , I have come to Malawi for the third time in order to contribute with my…
“My brethren, we celebrate together for the first time in this place where I have been brought by the Grace of God and the mandate of our Venerable Patriarch, whom I thank, along with you all, from the bottom of my heart. We celebrate Easter, our first common Resurrection service but in a different light;…
Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Orthodox Missionary Fraternity, Despite our great joy though, we did not have the time to rejoice as it was overshadowed by the unjust and illegal religious invasion of homodox brothers, not respecting the years-long missionary struggle of our Patriarchate, using fraudulent means to scatter the sheep of the Lord’s…
This year, the good God made us once again worthy to celebrate Easter in the diocese of Kisumu as well as in the Western Kenya Mission. Not in the majestic way it is celebrated in many places, with the full of reverence and grace church services and the melodious multi-phonic chanting, the visit to various…
Christ is Risen, my brethren! The Holy Clergy, the flock of our Holy Metropolis, and I personally are sending you all together, along with our love, our Paschal greetings. May the light of the Resurrection shine on the entire world; may it bring the coveted peace among our brothers, unity and brotherhood in our Church…
The Locomotive of Orthodoxy On January 12 the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Alexandria elected my minority as Metropolitan of the First Diocese of Kinshasa. Until that moment, my heart and my whole existence were devoted to the H.M. of Kananga. However, God’s plan and obedience to the church led me to this new…
Dear Mission Friends and Supporters, These days I am at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro on another mission of love and compassion toward our suffering brothers of the Maasai tribe: specifically, at our orphanage with these wronged little children. I spent time sitting with disabled children, blind, lame, deaf, etc. as I wanted to touch…
It is not easy to write about and explain the phenomenon of the expansion of the Orthodox faith in our country, but the truth is that God calls where no one expects, a community of Colombians seeking Orthodoxy. Very close to Bogota, the capital city of Colombia, in a municipality called Alban, a large group…
Dear Friends of Mission, The Resurrection of our Lord transforms everything. It changes and differentiates our perception of the world, our life, our soul and our purpose in life. Experiential Gratitude for our existence and constant and infinite Doxology to our Creator is the fruit of our Lord’s Resurrection and the way of experiencing Everything…
