Thank you for the shipment of two containers of humanitarian aid from the Orthodox Missionary Fraternity. Their arrival created a festive atmosphere with dances, hymns and songs. With great enthusiasm the students of our Orthodox Theological School unloaded and filled the empty warehouses of the Metropolis…
His Eminence Metropolitan Nikiforos of Kinshasa speaks about the difficulties and the work of the Orthodox mission in Congo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahM5WEUnpJs
Our Theological School has again this year awarded new graduates from our own Metropolis and from the neighbouring Metropolis of Katanga. Nine new cadres in the Orthodox Church, nine new graduates of Theology, nine young men ready for action…
Where the priest, the catechist, where he cannot go, where he cannot enter, in homes, in people of any religion, the “Voice of Orthodoxy” enters and miracles are performed…
The children came up to me, grabbed my hands, my beard, and ran to their mothers and cried: “They’re just like us!”
Several young people with their catechist; there is no priest, there is no church. They rent a classroom in a school and there they gather every Sunday to sing and read the New Testament, so that the catechist can talk to them about God and Orthodoxy…
Our precious little clinic in the village of Samana is already housed and people are happily surrounding it and waiting for the doctor and his equipment…
The School operates on the model of the Theological School of Halki. It was founded six years ago and this year it produced twelve new graduate theologians, who will work as ecclesiastical officials for the spread of Orthodoxy.
New registrations for the educational adoption programme
The difficulties and problems we face daily in our missionary arena are many. But the Almighty God does not abandon us
He warmly thanked the Orthodox Missionary Fraternity for its fifty years of continuous work of service to the Patriarchate of Alexandria and in particular to the Holy Metropolis of Central Africa and the Orthodox Theological School in Kinshasa.
We believe that this school will become a centre of Orthodox education. It is the first orthodox school within a radius of 700 kilometers…
