June 2010 issue (#209)
The June 2010 issue of the magazine “Foreign Mission”
A monk in Tanzania
Dear Brothers, By the grace of God, for three years now I have been ministering in the Holy Metropolis of Irinople in Tanzania, at the invitation of His Eminence Metropolitan Demetrios. Tanzania is perhaps the most peaceful country in East Africa, and so its name agrees with the truth of the matter. It is seven…
March 2010 issue (#208)
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News from Loumboubassi
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ of the Foreign Missionary Brotherhood of Thessaloniki, rejoice in the Lord always! The work goes on with joys and sorrows, but the successes of our schools in the Primary and High School exams, 75% and 100% respectively, comfort us and we move on. With this letter I come to…
Reference to Panagiotis Papadimitrakopoulos
The continuer of the course of Apostle Paul in Macedonia, in our Thessaloniki and why not in all of Greece. In eternal remembrance, accept from me, too, the slightest greeting, a “Eternal memory of this”. One of the first to teach and apply the meaning of the Orthodox Foreign Mission to the nations. Constantly hearing…
Financial Report 2009
Analysis of the income and expenses of our Fraternity for the year 2009
Tour in the interior of Madagascar
We started our journey early in the morning. The sky was a pale orange with the driver loading the jeep with the bare essentials. Ready to go. Our tour was well and truly going to last a week. From what I had heard, the journey would be pleasant except that, after dark, there would be…
Award of medals by the Patriarch of Alexandria to members of the Brotherhood
On Sunday 8/11/2009 in the hall of the Brotherhood took place the ceremony of awarding honorary medals, the Holy Cross of the Apostle and Evangelist Mark and diplomas of the H.T.M. of the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Mr. Theodoros II, to two elected members of our Brotherhood, the treasurer Mr. Konstantinos Daoudakis, founding…
Appeal for food collection
The Metropolitan of Central Africa, Ignatius Ignatius, told us about the problems faced by the University of Kinshasa “St. Athanasius of Athos” and asked us to help him in feeding the students and teachers of the faculty. So we are appealing to those who are able (industries, commercial enterprises, etc.) to provide non-perishable food (flour,…
Diary from a visit to Uganda
HUNGARY Summer 2009 3/8/2009 We arrived at Entebbe airport on August 3 at noon. We were welcomed by Father John and Father Emmanuel. On the way to Kampala, we saw the first images of a beautiful country Uganda. Small houses, shacks, little shops, lots of motorbikes and cars, red dirt, red mud and people. Children…
