Healthcare Service in Iringa
The Iringa region, Tanzania’s poorest, faces huge health care shortages
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The monastery of Archangel Michael in Kidamali
My dear brothers, Once again I am contacting you to make you part of our activities in our Holy Diocese, where the Church has made us to minister. With God’s grace and after many efforts we are ready to operate our monastery in the Missionary Center of Kidamali, which is dedicated to Archangel Michael and…
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NEW MISSIONNARY CHALLENGES
Dear Mission Friends and Supporters It is with much emotion and infinite respect for your philanthropic hearts that I am writing these lines in order to update you about the course of missionary activity in the Holy Diocese of Arusha and Central Tanzania. By the Grace of God, we are trying to continue the construction…
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Appeal for help in Tanzania
My dear brothers, Once again I am contacting you to make you part of the missionary activities and works that with your love are being carried out in the Holy Diocese of Arusha and Central Tanzania. I am pleased to announce that the construction of the Church of Our Lady in the city of Arusha…
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At 60 years old
Words seem poor to express our gratitude for the long-standing and multidimensional offer of the Brotherhood of Orthodox Foreign Missionary Work of Thessaloniki to the missions all over the world. In the sixty years of operation, having as spiritual founder the blessed and pioneering missionary Archimandrite Fr. Chrysostomos Papasartopoulos and the blessed physician Mr. Panagiotis…
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To those near and far
Dear friends of the Mission, My beloved brothers, As it is often said, our Church life in the Mission, especially in Africa, brings memories of the first apostolic years of Church life. Although times and means have changed in the modern age we live in, the zeal and thirst of the people of Africa reminds…
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Recipients of your love
Dear friends of the Mission, In the joyful season of Easter we have been the recipients of your immense love, which supports us and gives us courage to continue the blessed struggle of the ministry of our African brothers and sisters. By the grace of God and after much effort, the much needed container that…
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Our Missionary News
My Dear Brothers in Christ, It is with great joy and with feelings of deep gratitude that I contact you again to inform you of the new blessings that the Omni-benevolent God has bestowed upon our Missionary Diocese. After the three-year pandemic, the joy of life is returning to this humble corner of our planet,…
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Clinic of bodies and souls
Dear Mission friends, On the occasion of this article, it is with great pleasure that we contact you again in order to inform you about the course of our Missionary activities in the Holy Diocese of Arusha and Central Tanzania. It is with great satisfaction that we inform you that recently the Ministry of Health…
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A New School
My Dear Brothers in Christ, By the Grace of the Most Holy God and the blessings of His Beatitude the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa Theodore II, we continue the blessed struggle of spreading the Gospel and offering to our fellow man. Recently, your gracious love has given us two new sacred…
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Patriarchal visit in Central Tanzania
Dear Friends of the Mission, From May 27 to June 3, 2022 we had the great joy and blessing of the Pastoral visit of His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, to our Missionary Diocese of Arusha and Central Tanzania, particularly to the city of Arusha, the seat of the…
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Saint Parthenios in Tanzanian Highlands
In one of our previous communications, I told you about a remote village in the Iringa region, which is perched on a 2,000-meter-high mountain, Mkombe. The panoramic view is absolutely wonderful, with the imposing mountain overlooking the green Rift Valley, which is home to Ruaha Safari, where the waters of the great namesake river linger….
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In the Ηighlands of Central Tanzania
Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, The constant miracle we experience at our every step in Africa is the strong presence of God, of the Virgin Mary and of the Saints. When things seem difficult and irrevocable, God’s providence paves the way for solutions that did not exist before. God alone shows “paths” for…
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Priority to education
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Christ is risen! It is with great joy and love that I am communicating with you, to express once again the gratitude of my heart to you for the fact that, in the great sea called the Mission of the Gentiles, you are always beside us in peace and…
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Saving lives in Tanzania
And on top of everything, we had the outbreak of the pandemic… Struggling with scorching heat, which at that moment was changing into a strong storm, she unloaded under the tufted tree the sack of coal that she was carrying on her head, and found the chance to let her imagination fly to her earthen…
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The Mission Center of Arusha
My Dear Brothers in Christ, By the grace of God and with your own constant support, the work of our Church in Central Tanzania is progressing, despite the difficulties that afflict modern society due to the corona virus pandemic. It is a fact that in the wider region of Central Tanzania, the pace of life…
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Is anyone here a doctor?
It was after the Blessing Service that we conducted for the new borehole drilled in Sasha Mambo village just outside the National Park of Ruaha when we were approached by the village President, who was holding a piece of paper. We are used to the whole ritual since every time after a charitable activity of…
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The Feast of Saint Paisios in Arusha
On July 12, at the church under construction, the first Hierarchical Divine Liturgy was held on the day our Church commemorates the memory of Holy Elder Paisios. It was at the crack of dawn that we left our Mission Center in Kindamali, Iringa, in order to arrive at the unfinished church early enough to make the necessary preparations for the Divine Liturgy. Despite the adverse weather conditions and the low temperature (3 degrees Celsius due to the winter season), the faithful came to the Divine Liturgy to honor the Holy Elder…
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The Patriarch of Alexandria in Central Tanzania
From 15 to 22 May 2019, we had the great joy and blessing of being visited by His Beatitude Theodore II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, in our Missionary Diocese of Arusha and Central Tanzania, particularly in Iringa Region, which is situated on a huge plateau at an altitude of 2,000 m….
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How Beautiful Are the Feet of Them That Preach the Gospel of Peace!
Your Beatitude, Pope and Patriarch of the Ancient Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa Theodore II, it is with great pleasure, honor and respect that we welcome you, our Father and Patriarch, carrier and leader of the earliest Christian Church in the land of Africa, the Orthodox Church, whose founder is the Apostle and Evangelist…
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Our new church in Ibongo
Dear Brothers in Christ, Lately, in the blessed field of Mission and always by the grace of God, we have experienced many and great blessings which I wish to share with you because to a great extent, we owe their realization to you. On July 30th, we conducted the service for the laying of the…
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Matthew, a Pious Maasai
One day after my return to Arusha, I see at my door a tall, thin lad in the characteristic Maasai dress and with a broad smile on his face. It was Matthew…
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Diocese of Arusha | Hero | Stories | Tanzania
Our orphans of Arusha
The great powers brag about their ability to destroy the earth not once but a dozen times, but they ignore the struggle of millions of orphaned children to stand on their feet due to weakness caused by hunger…
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Orthodoxy in Central Tanzania
“We give free medicines and your Brotherhood has taken over 24,000 euros a year for these medicines for the clinic”
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Operation of a Clinic in Iringa
With our humble means and with tentative steps, we have started the operation of the Clinic in our missionary centre of Kidamali, Iringa, to which crowds of patients come from the surrounding areas.
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Drilling in Central Tanzania
It is a very important thing for our Church to offer truth and love to our suffering brother, everywhere!
