Three new boreholes in Congo (DRC)
Three new boreholes with electric pump and tank, the Brotherhood’s offering for the people of Bunia
Three new boreholes with electric pump and tank, the Brotherhood’s offering for the people of Bunia
In the 1760s, a Hieromonk of Mount Athos, with simplicity in faith, with great fervor and love for his enslaved brothers of our nation, would open another chapter in the modern Ecclesiastical History of Greece, introducing the presence of monasticism in contemporary missionary work. It was that ascetic yet simultaneously filled with boundless love, figure…
“Following CODECO’s massacre of 17 civilians in Djugu, ADF terrorists in turn killed mercilessly 11 Congolese in Irumu. Faced with the silence of the state authorities, Ituri continues its descent into hell. Mined by local and foreign militias, the area has become a real site of bloody raids, as has North Kivu. … …
When the Gadarenes were running in awe to see the healing of their brother-in-law by Jesus, they probably never expected that they would be in for two great surprises. The first, that they would see their formerly possessed countryman, who until yesterday had been wandering the deserts, naked, with the chains that held him back…
Within the boundaries of the newly established Diocese of Kisangani, in what is otherwise known as Upper Zaire (Congo) or Stanleyville District, on the Eastern border of the Congo with Uganda, in a district that traditionally also bears the name of the “Great East” of the Congo, lies one of the three largest cities in…
If you ever arm yourself against a passion, ally with this virtue.” Because “Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet”(psalm 90:13), that is , as I myself would say, this virtue is stronger than sin and despair and treads down the devil and…
Thus saith the Lord, ‘The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest? All these things My hand has made, and so all these things came to me, declares the Lord; but this is the one…
“O Lord, support Your Holy Church, which You have purchased with Your most precious blood”. Each one of us could agree that the foundation of a Sacred Church is a universal event. This is so because every Sacred Church is to become the center of the Church gatherings especially of those future Eucharistic congregations, which…
“Wherefore, children, let us not faint, nor deem that the time is long, or that we are doing something great, for the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us… Nor let us think, as we look at the world, that we have…
“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;…