By Niki Papageorgiou, Professor, School of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki With the blessings of His Eminence Metropolitan Constantine of Singapore, I had the opportunity to visit the missionary community of West Bengal in India recently. The missionary community that has been established there for the last 40 years is slowly but steadily being strengthened
More than 70 people gathered outside the doctor’s office every day for examination, even from distant areas, which forced us to set up a secretariat-reception, in order to separate the urgent from the cold cases, which were shared by appointments in the following days, and to enable the patients to be examined with care and diligence…
Many were our impressions and experiences. We experienced the miracle of the birth of a Church. We saw how the Grace of God, without the human material means used by other denominations, draws souls to the only true Church, Orthodoxy, overcomes all obstacles and opens ways to spread the Gospel…
Kids are dying, the kids I met this year this year I will never see again. It’s great the outreach of Orthodoxy that the clinic has done
The first week we went to Congo, we organized the clinic and at the same time organized a laboratory for blood tests.
People who consciously come to Orthodoxy are seeking the Truth, as they are tired of the lies of heresies. In fact, some of them ask us.
Before leaving for Sierra Leone I filled my overweight luggage with icons, crosses, books, toothpaste, school supplies, balloons and the bread my mother had brewed for the Mass…
History teaches us that all the missionaries sprang from the monasteries, and the missionaries, wherever they went, founded monasteries” (Archimandrite George Kapsanis)
In the Iziro area they ask to be baptized. They have been sending letters to adults, young people and children for seven years, but so far it has been impossible…
Previously, these children never had anything, never went to school. They didn’t know how to hold a pencil or wear their clothes properly. The transition from their previous life can be difficult for them…
